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

Candy

19685.1

Where Eagles Dare

19687.5

The Longest Day

19627.6

Cleopatra

19637.0

Nineteen Eighty-Four

19846.8

The Robe

19536.8

Exorcist II: The Heretic

19774.5

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

19667.7

The Wild Geese

19786.8

Zulu

19647.4

The Taming of the Shrew

19676.9

Becket

19647.2

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

19657.1

The Night of the Iguana

19647.2

Anne of the Thousand Days

19697.1

What's New Pussycat?

19656.0

Alexander the Great

19566.1

To Be Hamlet

1985

All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra

19836.0

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

20246.9

The Medusa Touch

19786.8

Bluebeard

19725.4

Breakthrough

19795.8

The V.I.P.s

19636.1

Equus

19777.0

The Sandpiper

19656.4

Massacre in Rome

19736.3

Circle of Two

19814.9

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

20257.5

My Cousin Rachel

19526.7

Boom!

19685.9

The Battle of Sutjeska

19736.5

The Desert Rats

19536.3

Raid on Rommel

19715.9

The Klansman

19745.6

The Assassination of Trotsky

19725.3

The Comedians

19676.1

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

20037.0

Look Back in Anger

19596.7

Under Milk Wood

19726.1

Absolution

19786.5

Lionpower from MGM

19676.3

Julie Andrews Forever

20197.8

Villain

19716.1

Under Milk Wood

19927.0

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

19886.0

The Woman with No Name

19508.0

The Rains of Ranchipur

19555.4

Hamlet

19646.9

Sea Wife

19575.6

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

19999.0

Lovespell

19815.0

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

19886.0

Bitter Victory

19576.4

The Gathering Storm

19748.2

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

19714.8

March to Aldermaston

19598.0

The Voyage

19745.2

Brief Encounter

19764.9

Ice Palace

19606.3

Borrowed Pasture

19606.0

The Violent Universe

1969

On Location: Where Eagles Dare

19686.0

Thursday's Children

19546.9

The Big Sur

19657.3

CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years

19767.3

On the Trail of the Iguana

19646.5

Wuthering Heights

19588.0

Doctor Faustus

19675.3

The Bramble Bush

19605.3

Staircase

19695.7

Waterfront

19506.5

Hammersmith Is Out

19725.9

A Statue for "The Sandpiper"

19657.3

Alice in Wonderland

19836.8

The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe

1962

Robert Kennedy Remembered

19686.8

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

19886.0

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

20017.2

Prince of Players

19555.5

Guilty Rebel

2024

Green Grow the Rushes

19516.0

The Last Days of Dolwyn

19496.9

This Is Joan Collins

20227.5

The Comedians in Africa

19675.8

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

20066.9

The Man with No Name

19777.0

I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind

198310.0

A Subject of Scandal and Concern

19608.0

A Wall in Jerusalem

19688.0

Mystery of the Sacred Shroud

1978

The Tempest

19607.5

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

19765.7

Now Barabbas

19496.5

Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

1978

The Fifth Column

19608.3

To the Ends of the Earth

19837.0

Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton

1967

For Florence

19667.7

A Tribute to Dylan Thomas

19626.3