Birthday
1925/11/10
Day of death
1984/08/05 (58 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK
Also know as
Dick Burton, Richard Walter Jenkins
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 ...Read more
(1966) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
as George
(1988) John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage)
(1985) To Be Hamlet
as Self
(1965) What's New Pussycat?
as Man In Strip Club
(1972) The Assassination of Trotsky
as Leon Trotsky
(1979) Breakthrough
as Sergeant Steiner
(1971) Villain
as Vic Dakin
(1969) Anne of the Thousand Days
as King Henry VIII
(1978) The Medusa Touch
as John Morlar
(2000) Julie Andrews Forever
as Self (archive footage)
(1967) The Taming of the Shrew
as Petruchio
(1962) The Longest Day
as Flying Officer David Campbell
(1984) Nineteen Eighty-Four
as O'Brien
(1972) Bluebeard
as Baron von Sepper
(1965) The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
as Alec Leamas
(1953) The Desert Rats
as Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts
(1964) The Night of the Iguana
as Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon
(1956) Alexander the Great
as Alexander
(1977) Equus
as Martin Dysart
(1963) The V.I.P.s
as Paul Andros
(1973) Massacre in Rome
as SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler
(1972) Under Milk Wood
as First Man
(1964) Becket
as Becket / Thomas Becket
(2006) Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live on Stage!
as George Herbert, The Journalist (archive sound)
(1968) Candy
as MacPhisto
(1960) Ice Palace
as Zeb Kennedy
(1955) The Rains of Ranchipur
as Dr. Major Rama Safti
(1957) Bitter Victory
as Capt. Leith
(1959) Look Back in Anger
as Jimmy Porter
(1971) Raid on Rommel
as Capt. Alex Foster
(1968) Boom!
as Chris Flanders
(1972) Hammersmith Is Out
as Hammersmith
(1952) My Cousin Rachel
as Philip Ashley
(1978) Absolution
as Father Goddard
(1967) The Comedians
as Brown
(1974) The Klansman
as Breck Stancill
(1967) Doctor Faustus
as Doctor Faustus
(1965) The Sandpiper
as Edward Hewitt
(1969) Staircase
as Harry Leeds
(1957) Sea Wife
as Biscuit
(1981) Circle of Two
as Ashley St. Clair
(1999) Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1950) Waterfront
as Ben Satterthwaite
(1964) Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
as Hamlet
(2001) Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(1988) Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage)
(1981) Lovespell
as King Mark of Cornwall
(1974) The Gathering Storm
as Winston Churchill
(1973) The Battle of Sutjeska
as Josip Broz Tito
(1960) The Tempest
as Caliban
(1974) The Voyage
as Cesare Braggi
(1974) Brief Encounter
as Alec Harvey
(1949) The Last Days of Dolwyn
as Gareth
(1976) Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
as Malcolm Lowry (voice)
(1949) Now Barabbas
as Paddy
(1950) The Woman with No Name
as Nick Chamerd
(1951) Green Grow the Rushes
as Robert 'Bob' Hammond
(1960) The Bramble Bush
as Dr. Guy Montford
(1960) The Fifth Column
as ---
(1955) Prince of Players
as Edwin Booth
(1977) Exorcist II: The Heretic
as Father Philip Lamont
(1963) Cleopatra
as Marcus Antonius
(1968) Where Eagles Dare
as Maj. Smith
(1961) A Tribute to Dylan Thomas
as Self
(1960) A Subject of Scandal and Concern
as George Holyoake
(2009) Paris Hilton Inc.: The Selling of Celebrity
as Self (archive footage)
(1954) Thursday's Children
as Narrator (voice)
(1983) Alice in Wonderland
as White Knight
(1976) CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
as Self
(1953) The Robe
as Marcellus Gallio
(1978) The Wild Geese
as Col. Allen Faulkner
(1983) All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
as Self
(1983) To the Ends of the Earth
as Narrator
(1968) A Wall in Jerusalem
as Narrator (English version) (voice)
(1977) The Man with No Name
as Self
(2024) Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
as Self (archive footage)
(1964) Zulu
as Narration spoken (voice)
(1992) Under Milk Wood
as First Voice (voice) (archive sound)
(1967) Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton
as Self - Interviewee
(1965) The Big Sur
as Self / Narrator
(1967) The Comedians in Africa
as Self (uncredited)
(1964) On the Trail of the Iguana
as Self
(1965) A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
as Self
(1966) For Florence
as Self - Narrator
(1962) The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
as Self / Arthur
(1959) March to Aldermaston
as Narrator (voice)
(1958) Wuthering Heights
as Heathcliff
(1978) Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese
as Self
(1968) On Location: Where Eagles Dare
as Self
(1971) Mooch Goes to Hollywood
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1960) Borrowed Pasture
as Self - Narrator
(1969) The Violent Universe
as Narrator - Verse Spoken
(1988) In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
as Self (Archive Footage)
(2003) Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
(1983) I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1968) Here's Lucy
as Richard Burton
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Caliban
(1983) Wagner
as Richard Wagner
(1973) The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
(2013) Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
(1956) Tony Awards
as Arthur (archive footage)
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Co-Host/Special Award Recipient/Presenter
(1994) Sphinx – Secrets of the History
as Marc Antony (archive footage)
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Co-Host
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1984) Ellis Island
as Sen. Phipps Ogden
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Alec Harvey
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Winston Churchill
(1974) Spécial cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
(1948) Bambi Awards
as Self
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee / Award Accepter
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Host
(1981) Entertainment Tonight
as Self
(1973) Divorce His, Divorce Hers
as Martin Reynolds
(1971) Great Performances
as White Knight