
Richard Burton
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Burton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1925-11-10
Place of Birth
Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
19667.7 / 10
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
19885.9 / 10
To Be Hamlet
19850.0 / 10
What's New Pussycat?
19656.0 / 10
The Assassination of Trotsky
19725.1 / 10
Breakthrough
19795.8 / 10
Villain
19716.3 / 10
Anne of the Thousand Days
19697.1 / 10
The Medusa Touch
19786.8 / 10
Julie Andrews Forever
20198.4 / 10
The Taming of the Shrew
19676.9 / 10
The Longest Day
19627.6 / 10
Nineteen Eighty-Four
19846.8 / 10
Bluebeard
19725.3 / 10
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
19657.1 / 10
The Desert Rats
19536.3 / 10
The Night of the Iguana
19647.2 / 10
Alexander the Great
19565.9 / 10
Equus
19777.0 / 10
The V.I.P.s
19636.1 / 10
Massacre in Rome
19736.0 / 10
Under Milk Wood
19726.2 / 10
Becket
19647.1 / 10
Candy
19685.2 / 10
Ice Palace
19605.8 / 10
The Rains of Ranchipur
19554.9 / 10
Bitter Victory
19576.2 / 10
Look Back in Anger
19596.7 / 10
Raid on Rommel
19715.8 / 10
Boom!
19686.1 / 10
Hammersmith Is Out
19725.7 / 10
My Cousin Rachel
19526.7 / 10
Absolution
19786.5 / 10
The Comedians
19676.1 / 10
The Klansman
19745.7 / 10
Doctor Faustus
19675.2 / 10
The Sandpiper
19656.4 / 10
Staircase
19695.7 / 10
Sea Wife
19575.4 / 10
Circle of Two
19814.9 / 10
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
19990.0 / 10
Waterfront
19506.4 / 10
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
19646.5 / 10
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
20017.2 / 10
Lovespell
19813.7 / 10
The Gathering Storm
19747.0 / 10
The Battle of Sutjeska
19736.3 / 10
The Tempest
19606.0 / 10
The Voyage
19745.0 / 10
Brief Encounter
19744.9 / 10
The Last Days of Dolwyn
19496.8 / 10
Now Barabbas
19496.5 / 10
The Woman with No Name
19506.0 / 10
Green Grow the Rushes
19515.8 / 10
The Bramble Bush
19605.5 / 10
The Fifth Column
19609.5 / 10
Prince of Players
19554.7 / 10
Exorcist II: The Heretic
19774.5 / 10
Cleopatra
19637.0 / 10
Where Eagles Dare
19687.5 / 10
A Tribute to Dylan Thomas
19615.7 / 10
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
19600.0 / 10
Paris Hilton, Inc.
200910.0 / 10
Thursday's Children
19546.7 / 10
Alice in Wonderland
19836.8 / 10
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
19767.3 / 10
The Robe
19536.8 / 10
The Wild Geese
19786.9 / 10
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
19836.0 / 10
To the Ends of the Earth
19836.0 / 10
A Wall in Jerusalem
19680.0 / 10
The Man with No Name
19770.0 / 10
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
20246.9 / 10
Zulu
19647.4 / 10
Under Milk Wood
19924.0 / 10
Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton
19670.0 / 10
The Big Sur
19656.0 / 10
The Comedians in Africa
19675.3 / 10
On the Trail of the Iguana
19646.0 / 10
A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
19656.0 / 10
For Florence
19668.0 / 10
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
19620.0 / 10
March to Aldermaston
19598.0 / 10
Wuthering Heights
19580.0 / 10
Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese
19780.0 / 10
On Location: Where Eagles Dare
19685.3 / 10
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
19714.7 / 10
Borrowed Pasture
19606.0 / 10
The Violent Universe
19690.0 / 10
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
19886.0 / 10
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
19830.0 / 10
Guilty Rebel
TBA0.0 / 10
Crew
Doctor Faustus
19675.2 / 10
The Taming of the Shrew
19676.9 / 10
The Caretaker
19647.2 / 10
Richard Burton's Christmas Story
19910.0 / 10