Richard Burton
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.
118 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 118
Great Performances
1971
Tony Awards
1956
Bambi
1948
Here's Lucy
1968
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Spécial cinéma
1974
Dinah!
1974
Film '72
1971
Entertainment Tonight
1981
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Cleopatra
1963
The Longest Day
1962
Where Eagles Dare
1968
Candy
1968
Talking Pictures
2013
The Wild Geese
1978
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984
The Robe
1953
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977
Zulu
1964
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966
Ellis Island
1984
Wagner
1983
The Medusa Touch
1978
The Taming of the Shrew
1967
Becket
1964
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965
The Night of the Iguana
1964
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
Alexander the Great
1956
Villain
1971
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
The Battle of Sutjeska
1973
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
2024
The Desert Rats
1953
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
Equus
1977
The V.I.P.s
1963
Breakthrough
1979
Massacre in Rome
1973
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001
What's New Pussycat?
1965
Bluebeard
1972
Lionpower from MGM
1967
Sphinx – Secrets of the History
1994
Raid on Rommel
1971
Now Barabbas
1949
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999
Boom!
1968
Hamlet
1964
The Rains of Ranchipur
1955
Wuthering Heights
1958
The Klansman
1974
Circle of Two
1981
Under Milk Wood
1972
The Voyage
1974
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
Green Grow the Rushes
1951
Absolution
1978
Ice Palace
1960
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
1976
Divorce His, Divorce Hers
1973
Hammersmith Is Out
1972
My Cousin Rachel
1952
Waterfront
1950
Bitter Victory
1957
The Sandpiper
1965
Brief Encounter
1976
Look Back in Anger
1959
Staircase
1969
The Comedians
1967
The Last Days of Dolwyn
1949
To Be Hamlet
1985
Alice in Wonderland
1983
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971
A Wall in Jerusalem
1968
The Assassination of Trotsky
1972
This Is Joan Collins
2022
Sea Wife
1957
Doctor Faustus
1967
Thursday's Children
1954
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
1983
The Fifth Column
1960
The Gathering Storm
1974
Prince of Players
1955
A Statue for "The Sandpiper"
1965
A Tribute to Dylan Thomas
1962
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live
2006
The Tempest
1960
The Big Sur
1965
The Woman with No Name
1950
To the Ends of the Earth
1983
The Bramble Bush
1960
Lovespell
1981
Julie Andrews Forever
2019
On Location: Where Eagles Dare
1968
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
1976
Under Milk Wood
1992
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
1960
The Man with No Name
1977
March to Aldermaston
1959
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978
The Comedians in Africa
1967
The Violent Universe
1969
Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton
1967
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
1962
For Florence
1966
Borrowed Pasture
1960
Guilty Rebel
2024
Sketch For Dawn
2025
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
1983
Robert Kennedy Remembered
1968
Mystery of the Sacred Shroud
1978