Richard Burton
Acting
Born 1925-11-10
Died 1984-08-05
Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK
119 credits
Golden Globe Awards 1
Grammy Awards 1
Tony Awards 2
Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Theatre World Award 1
Awards
Nominated for 7 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 7 nominated
- 1978 Best Actor Nominated Equus
- 1970 Best Actor Nominated Anne of the Thousand Days
- 1967 Best Actor Nominated Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 1966 Best Actor Nominated The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- 1965 Best Actor Nominated Becket
- 1954 Best Actor Nominated The Robe
- 1953 Best Supporting Actor Nominated My Cousin Rachel
Golden Globe Awards 1 won
- — Golden Globe Awards Won
Grammy Awards 1 won
- — Grammy Awards Won
Tony Awards 2 won · 2 nominated
- 1976 Special Tony Award Won
- 1964 Best Actor in a Play Nominated
- 1961 Best Actor in a Musical Won Camelot
- 1958 Best Actor in a Play Nominated
Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1 won
- — Commander of the Order of the British Empire Won
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
Theatre World Award 1 won
- 1951 Theatre World Award Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
60 credits
Great Performances
Tony Awards
Spécial cinéma
Bambi
Film '72
The Ed Sullivan Show
Dinah!
Here's Lucy
Candy
Where Eagles Dare
The Longest Day
Cleopatra
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Entertainment Tonight
Exorcist II: The Heretic
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
The Robe
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Wild Geese
Talking Pictures
Becket
The Taming of the Shrew
Zulu
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
What's New Pussycat?
Anne of the Thousand Days
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years
The Night of the Iguana
Alexander the Great
Equus
Ellis Island
The Medusa Touch
The Sandpiper
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Bluebeard
Boom!
Wagner
Breakthrough
Circle of Two
Divorce His, Divorce Hers
To Be Hamlet
Raid on Rommel
The Comedians
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
The V.I.P.s
Hamlet
The Desert Rats
Sphinx – Secrets of the History
Absolution
Massacre in Rome
The Battle of Sutjeska
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Look Back in Anger
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
The Assassination of Trotsky
The Klansman
My Cousin Rachel
Julie Andrews Forever
Borrowed Pasture
Producing
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