Richard Burton
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1925-11-10
Deathday 1984-08-05 (58 years old)
Place of Birth Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK
Also Known As Dick Burton, Richard Walter Jenkins
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.
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as George Herbert, The Journalist (archive sound)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Marc Antony (archive footage)
as First Voice (voice) (archive sound)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (Archive Footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as O'Brien
as Sen. Phipps Ogden
as Self
as White Knight
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Richard Wagner
as King Mark of Cornwall
as Ashley St. Clair
as Self
as Sergeant Steiner
as Col. Allen Faulkner
as Father Goddard
as John Morlar
as Martin Dysart
as Father Philip Lamont
as Self
as Malcolm Lowry (voice)
as Winston Churchill
as Alec Harvey
as Breck Stancill
as Cesare Braggi
as Self (archive footage)
as SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler
as Josip Broz Tito
as Martin Reynolds
as Baron von Sepper
as Hammersmith
as Leon Trotsky
as First Man
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
as Vic Dakin
as Capt. Alex Foster
as White Knight
as King Henry VIII
as Harry Leeds
as Narrator - Verse Spoken
as MacPhisto
as Maj. Smith
as Narrator (English version) (voice)
as Self
as Chris Flanders
as Richard Burton
as Brown
as Doctor Faustus
as Self (uncredited)
as Self - Interviewee
as Petruchio
as Self - Narrator
as George
as Alec Leamas
as Edward Hewitt
as Man In Strip Club
as Self / Narrator
as Self
as Hamlet
as Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon
as Self
as Becket / Thomas Becket
as Narration spoken (voice)
as Paul Andros
as Marcus Antonius
as Flying Officer David Campbell
as Self / Arthur
as Self
as George Holyoake
as Dr. Guy Montford
as Caliban
as Zeb Kennedy
as Self - Narrator
as Jimmy Porter
as Narrator (voice)
as Heathcliff
as Capt. Leith
as Biscuit
as Alexander
as Arthur (archive footage)
as Self - Co-Host/Special Award Recipient/Presenter
as Self - Co-Host
as Self - Nominee / Award Accepter
as Self - Host
as Dr. Major Rama Safti
as Edwin Booth
as Narrator (voice)
as Marcellus Gallio
as Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts
as Philip Ashley
as Robert 'Bob' Hammond
as Caliban
as Alec Harvey
as Winston Churchill
as Nick Chamerd
as Ben Satterthwaite
as Paddy
as Gareth
as Self
as Self
Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Associate Producer
Director
as Director