Richard Burton

Acting · 2.2 popularity

Age

100

Movies

100

Born: November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984
From: Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK

Biography

Richard Burton CBE (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his mellifluous baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable performance of Hamlet in 1964. He was called "the natural successor to Olivier" by critic Kenneth Tynan. A heavy drinker, Burton's perceived failure to live up to those expectations disappointed some critics and colleagues and added to his image as a great performer who had wasted his talent. Nevertheless, he is widely regarded as one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation. Burton was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never won an Oscar. He was a recipient of BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Tony Awards for Best Actor. In the mid-1960s, Burton ascended into the ranks of the top box office stars. By the late 1960s, Burton was one of the highest-paid actors in the world, receiving fees of $1 million or more plus a share of the gross receipts. Burton remained closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor. The couple's turbulent relationship, in which they were married twice and divorced twice, was rarely out of the news.

Works

100 films

Where Eagles Dare

19687.5

The Longest Day

19627.6

Candy

19685.1

Cleopatra

19637.0

Nineteen Eighty-Four

19846.8

The Robe

19536.8

Exorcist II: The Heretic

19774.5

Zulu

19647.4

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

19667.7

The Wild Geese

19786.8

The Taming of the Shrew

19676.9

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

19657.1

The Night of the Iguana

19647.2

Anne of the Thousand Days

19697.1

Alexander the Great

19566.1

What's New Pussycat?

19656.0

Becket

19647.2

All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra

19836.0

Breakthrough

19795.8

The Sandpiper

19656.4

The Medusa Touch

19786.8

Bluebeard

19725.4

To Be Hamlet

1985

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

20246.9

Lionpower from MGM

19676.3

Equus

19777.0

Boom!

19685.9

Circle of Two

19814.9

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

20257.5

My Cousin Rachel

19526.7

The Assassination of Trotsky

19725.3

Massacre in Rome

19736.3

The V.I.P.s

19636.1

The Battle of Sutjeska

19736.5

The Desert Rats

19536.3

Raid on Rommel

19715.9

The Klansman

19745.6

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

20037.0

Absolution

19786.5

Look Back in Anger

19596.7

The Comedians

19676.1

Hamlet

19646.9

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

19886.0

Under Milk Wood

19927.0

Julie Andrews Forever

20197.8

Borrowed Pasture

19606.0

Bitter Victory

19576.4

On Location: Where Eagles Dare

19686.0

Villain

19716.1

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

19886.0

The Big Sur

19657.3

Lovespell

19815.0

Ice Palace

19606.3

The Rains of Ranchipur

19555.4

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

19999.0

Under Milk Wood

19726.1

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

19714.8

Sea Wife

19575.6

The Voyage

19745.2

Guilty Rebel

2024

The Gathering Storm

19748.2

Alice in Wonderland

19836.8

March to Aldermaston

19598.0

Wuthering Heights

19588.0

On the Trail of the Iguana

19646.5

Thursday's Children

19546.9

The Comedians in Africa

19675.8

The Violent Universe

1969

Staircase

19695.7

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live

20066.9

The Woman with No Name

19508.0

Brief Encounter

19764.9

Doctor Faustus

19675.3

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

19886.0

A Statue for "The Sandpiper"

19657.3

CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years

19767.3

The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe

1962

Mystery of the Sacred Shroud

1978

Hammersmith Is Out

19725.9

Prince of Players

19555.5

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

20017.2

A Subject of Scandal and Concern

19608.0

Green Grow the Rushes

19516.0

The Bramble Bush

19605.3

Robert Kennedy Remembered

19686.8

Waterfront

19506.5

The Tempest

19607.5

I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind

198310.0

The Man with No Name

19777.0

The Fifth Column

19608.3

This Is Joan Collins

20227.5

Now Barabbas

19496.5

Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry

19765.7

The Last Days of Dolwyn

19496.9

To the Ends of the Earth

19837.0

Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

1978

A Tribute to Dylan Thomas

19626.3

For Florence

19667.7

A Wall in Jerusalem

19688.0

Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton

1967