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Richard Burton

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

10/11/1925

Day of Death

05/08/1984
(59) years old

Place of Birth

Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK

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 n... Read More

Known For

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

Guilty Rebel

Julie Andrews Forever

Paris Hilton, Inc.

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

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

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

Under Milk Wood

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Filmography

Cast

2025

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

as Self (archive footage)

2024

Guilty Rebel

as Narrator (archive footage)

2019

Julie Andrews Forever

as Self (archive footage)

2009

Paris Hilton, Inc.

as Self (archive footage)

2006

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War ...

as George Herbert, The Journalist (archive ...

2003

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends...

as Self (archive footage)

2001

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywo...

as Self (archive footage)

1999

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1992

Under Milk Wood

as First Voice (voice) (archive sound)

1988

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Ma...

as Self (archive footage)

1988

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard ...

as Self (Archive Footage)

1988

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute You...

as Self (archive footage)

1985

To Be Hamlet

as Self

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

as O'Brien

1983

All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra

as Self

1983

Alice in Wonderland

as White Knight

1983

I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1983

To the Ends of the Earth

as Narrator

1981

Lovespell

as King Mark of Cornwall

1981

Circle of Two

as Ashley St. Clair

1979

Breakthrough

as Sergeant Steiner

1978

Mystery of the Sacred Shroud

as Self - Narrator

1978

The Wild Geese

as Col. Allen Faulkner

1978

Absolution

as Father Goddard

1978

The Medusa Touch

as John Morlar

1978

Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese

as Self

1977

Equus

as Martin Dysart

1977

Exorcist II: The Heretic

as Father Philip Lamont

1977

The Man with No Name

as Self

1976

CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years

as Self

1976

Brief Encounter

as Alec Harvey

1976

Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and De...

as Malcolm Lowry (voice)

1974

The Gathering Storm

as Winston Churchill

1974

The Klansman

as Breck Stancill

1974

The Voyage

as Cesare Braggi

1973

Massacre in Rome

as SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler

1973

The Battle of Sutjeska

as Josip Broz Tito

1972

Bluebeard

as Baron von Sepper

1972

Hammersmith Is Out

as Hammersmith

1972

The Assassination of Trotsky

as Leon Trotsky

1972

Under Milk Wood

as First Man

1971

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1971

Villain

as Vic Dakin

1971

Raid on Rommel

as Capt. Alex Foster

1969

Anne of the Thousand Days

as King Henry VIII

1969

Staircase

as Harry Leeds

1969

The Violent Universe

as Narrator - Verse Spoken

1968

Candy

as MacPhisto

1968

Where Eagles Dare

as Maj. Smith

1968

A Wall in Jerusalem

as Narrator (English version) (voice)

1968

On Location: Where Eagles Dare

as Self

1968

Robert Kennedy Remembered

as Narrator

1968

Boom!

as Chris Flanders

1967

The Comedians

as Brown

1967

Doctor Faustus

as Doctor Faustus

1967

The Comedians in Africa

as Self (uncredited)

1967

Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton

as Self - Interviewee

1967

The Taming of the Shrew

as Petruchio

1967

Lionpower from MGM

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1966

For Florence

as Self - Narrator

1966

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

as George

1965

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

as Alec Leamas

1965

The Sandpiper

as Edward Hewitt

1965

What's New Pussycat?

as Man In Strip Club

1965

The Big Sur

as Self / Narrator

1965

A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'

as Self

1964

Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

as Hamlet

1964

The Night of the Iguana

as Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon

1964

On the Trail of the Iguana

as Self

1964

Becket

as Thomas Becket

1964

Zulu

as Narration spoken (voice)

1963

The V.I.P.s

as Paul Andros

1963

Cleopatra

as Marcus Antonius

1962

The Longest Day

as Flying Officer David Campbell

1962

The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe

as Self / Arthur

1962

A Tribute to Dylan Thomas

as Self

1960

A Subject of Scandal and Concern

as George Holyoake

1960

The Bramble Bush

as Dr. Guy Montford

1960

The Tempest

as Caliban

1960

The Fifth Column

1960

Ice Palace

as Zeb Kennedy

1960

Borrowed Pasture

as Self - Narrator

1959

Look Back in Anger

as Jimmy Porter

1959

March to Aldermaston

as Narrator (voice)

1958

Wuthering Heights

as Heathcliff

1957

Bitter Victory

as Capt. Leith

1957

Sea Wife

as Biscuit

1956

Alexander the Great

as Alexander

1955

The Rains of Ranchipur

as Dr. Major Rama Safti

1955

Prince of Players

as Edwin Booth

1954

Thursday's Children

as Narrator (voice)

1953

The Robe

as Marcellus Gallio

1953

The Desert Rats

as Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts

1952

My Cousin Rachel

as Philip Ashley

1951

Green Grow the Rushes

as Robert 'Bob' Hammond

1950

The Woman with No Name

as Nick Chamerd

1950

Waterfront

as Ben Satterthwaite

1949

Now Barabbas

as Paddy

1949

The Last Days of Dolwyn

as Gareth

Crew

1991

Richard Burton's Christmas Story

as Novel

1967

Doctor Faustus

as Director

1967

Doctor Faustus

as Producer

1967

The Taming of the Shrew

as Producer

1964

The Caretaker

as Associate Producer