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Richard Burton

Richard Burton

Birthday: 1925-11-10 | Place of Birth: Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK

Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award, six of which were for Best Actor in a Leading Role (without ever winning), and was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. He remains closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor; the couple's turbulent relationship was rarely out of the news.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2006
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live on Stage!

as    George Herbert, The Journalist (archive sound)

1988
Absolution

as    Father Goddard

1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four

as    O'Brien

1984
Ellis Island

as    Sen. Phipps Ogden

1983
Wagner

as    Richard Wagner

1979
Breakthrough

as    Sergeant Steiner

1978
The Wild Geese

as    Col. Allen Faulkner

1978
The Medusa Touch

as    John Morlar

1977
The Voyage

as    Cesare Braggi

1977
Exorcist II: The Heretic

as    Father Philip Lamont

1977
Equus

as    Martin Dysart

1974
The Klansman

as    Breck Stancill

1973
Under Milk Wood

as    First Man

1972
Bluebeard

as    Baron von Sepper

1972
The Assassination of Trotsky

as    Leon Trotsky

1971
Raid on Rommel

as    Capt. Alex Foster

1971
Villain

as    Vic Dakin

1969
Anne of the Thousand Days

as    King Henry VIII

1969
Where Eagles Dare

as    Maj. Smith

1968
Boom!

as    Chris Flanders

1968
Candy

as    MacPhisto

1967
The Comedians

as    Brown

1967
Doctor Faustus

as    Doctor Faustus

1967
The Taming of the Shrew

as    Petruchio

1965
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

as    Alec Leamas

1965
The Sandpiper

as    Edward Hewitt

1964
Becket

as    Becket / Thomas Becket

1964
The Night of the Iguana

as    Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon

1963
Cleopatra

as    Marcus Antonius

1963
The V.I.P.s

as    Paul Andros