Richard Burton

Known for ActingBorn 1925-11-10Died 1984-08-05Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK

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.Read more

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I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind

Spécial cinéma

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

Bambi

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years

Julie Andrews Forever

The Gathering Storm

The Fifth Column

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

This Is Joan Collins

A Wall in Jerusalem

A Subject of Scandal and Concern

March to Aldermaston

Wuthering Heights

The Woman with No Name

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

For Florence

The Big Sur

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

The Longest Day

Where Eagles Dare

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

The Tempest

Zulu

The Caretaker

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

CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years

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

A Statue for "The Sandpiper"

Under Milk Wood

The Night of the Iguana

To the Ends of the Earth

Becket

Anne of the Thousand Days

Equus

The Man with No Name

Dinah!

Cleopatra

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Alice in Wonderland

The Taming of the Shrew

The Medusa Touch

The Wild Geese

Wagner

Hamlet

Robert Kennedy Remembered