Actor
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 ...

Known For
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Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

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Julie Andrews Forever

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Paris Hilton, Inc.

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

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

Acting
2024 -- Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes | Self (archive footage)
2019 -- Julie Andrews Forever | Self (archive footage)
2009 -- Paris Hilton, Inc. | Self (archive footage)
2006 -- Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live | George Herbert, The Journalist (archive sound)
2003 -- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self (archive footage)
2001 -- Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood | Self (archive footage)
1999 -- Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1992 -- Under Milk Wood | First Voice (voice) (archive sound)
1988 -- John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Self (archive footage)
1988 -- In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton | Self (Archive Footage)
1988 -- Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC | Self (archive footage)
1985 -- To Be Hamlet | Self
1984 -- Nineteen Eighty-Four | O'Brien
1983 -- All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra | Self
1983 -- Alice in Wonderland | White Knight
1983 -- I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind | Self - Narrator (voice)
1983 -- To the Ends of the Earth | Narrator
1981 -- Lovespell | King Mark of Cornwall
1981 -- Circle of Two | Ashley St. Clair
1979 -- Breakthrough | Sergeant Steiner
1978 -- The Wild Geese | Col. Allen Faulkner
1978 -- Absolution | Father Goddard
1978 -- The Medusa Touch | John Morlar
1978 -- Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese | Self
1977 -- Equus | Martin Dysart
1977 -- Exorcist II: The Heretic | Father Philip Lamont
1977 -- The Man with No Name | Self
1976 -- CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years | Self
1976 -- Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry | Malcolm Lowry (voice)
1974 -- The Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill
1974 -- Brief Encounter | Alec Harvey
1974 -- The Klansman | Breck Stancill
1974 -- The Voyage | Cesare Braggi
1973 -- Massacre in Rome | SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler
1973 -- The Battle of Sutjeska | Josip Broz Tito
1972 -- Bluebeard | Baron von Sepper
1972 -- Hammersmith Is Out | Hammersmith
1972 -- The Assassination of Trotsky | Leon Trotsky
1972 -- Under Milk Wood | First Man
1971 -- Mooch Goes to Hollywood | Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1971 -- Villain | Vic Dakin
1971 -- Raid on Rommel | Capt. Alex Foster
1969 -- Anne of the Thousand Days | King Henry VIII
1969 -- Staircase | Harry Leeds
1969 -- The Violent Universe | Narrator - Verse Spoken
1968 -- Candy | MacPhisto
1968 -- Where Eagles Dare | Maj. Smith
1968 -- A Wall in Jerusalem | Narrator (English version) (voice)
1968 -- On Location: Where Eagles Dare | Self
1968 -- Boom! | Chris Flanders
1967 -- The Comedians | Brown
1967 -- Doctor Faustus | Doctor Faustus
1967 -- The Comedians in Africa | Self (uncredited)
1967 -- Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton | Self - Interviewee
1967 -- The Taming of the Shrew | Petruchio
1966 -- For Florence | Self - Narrator
1966 -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | George
1965 -- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold | Alec Leamas
1965 -- The Sandpiper | Edward Hewitt
1965 -- What's New Pussycat? | Man In Strip Club
1965 -- The Big Sur | Self / Narrator
1965 -- A Statue for 'The Sandpiper' | Self
1964 -- Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre | Hamlet
1964 -- The Night of the Iguana | Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon
1964 -- On the Trail of the Iguana | Self
1964 -- Becket | Thomas Becket
1964 -- Zulu | Narration spoken (voice)
1963 -- The V.I.P.s | Paul Andros
1963 -- Cleopatra | Marcus Antonius
1962 -- The Longest Day | Flying Officer David Campbell
1962 -- The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe | Self / Arthur
1961 -- A Tribute to Dylan Thomas | Self
1960 -- A Subject of Scandal and Concern | George Holyoake
1960 -- The Bramble Bush | Dr. Guy Montford
1960 -- The Tempest | Caliban
1960 -- The Fifth Column |
1960 -- Ice Palace | Zeb Kennedy
1960 -- Borrowed Pasture | Self - Narrator
1959 -- Look Back in Anger | Jimmy Porter
1959 -- March to Aldermaston | Narrator (voice)
1958 -- Wuthering Heights | Heathcliff
1957 -- Bitter Victory | Capt. Leith
1957 -- Sea Wife | Biscuit
1956 -- Alexander the Great | Alexander
1955 -- The Rains of Ranchipur | Dr. Major Rama Safti
1955 -- Prince of Players | Edwin Booth
1954 -- Thursday's Children | Narrator (voice)
1953 -- The Robe | Marcellus Gallio
1953 -- The Desert Rats | Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts
1952 -- My Cousin Rachel | Philip Ashley
1951 -- Green Grow the Rushes | Robert 'Bob' Hammond
1950 -- The Woman with No Name | Nick Chamerd
1950 -- Waterfront | Ben Satterthwaite
1949 -- Now Barabbas | Paddy
1949 -- The Last Days of Dolwyn | Gareth
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