Richard Burton
Birthday: 1925-11-10
Deathday: 1983-10-27
Birthplace: Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK
Gender: Male
Drafted: 0
Drafted By: Unowned
Owned By: Unowned
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 0
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0
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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Career Statisics
| Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
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| 1953 | 28 | My Cousin Rachel (1952) | Supporting Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| 1954 | 29 | The Robe (1953) | Leading Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| 1965 | 40 | Becket (1964) | Leading Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| 1966 | 41 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) | Leading Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| 1967 | 42 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) | Leading Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| 1970 | 45 | Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) | Leading Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| 1978 | 53 | Equus (1977) | Leading Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| Career | 0 |
Transaction History
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Credits
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Guilty Rebel | ||
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2006-11-06 | Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live | George Herbert, The Journalist (archive sound) |
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1992-04-19 | Under Milk Wood | First Voice (voice) (archive sound) |
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1984-11-09 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | O'Brien |
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1983-10-03 | Alice in Wonderland | White Knight |
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1981-12-31 | Lovespell | King Mark of Cornwall |
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1981-05-07 | Circle of Two | Ashley St. Clair |
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1979-03-01 | Breakthrough | Sergeant Steiner |
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1978-06-28 | The Wild Geese | Col. Allen Faulkner |
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1978-06-05 | Absolution | Father Goddard |
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1978-04-13 | The Medusa Touch | John Morlar |
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1977-10-16 | Equus | Martin Dysart |
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1977-06-17 | Exorcist II: The Heretic | Father Philip Lamont |
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1976-01-01 | Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry | Malcolm Lowry (voice) |
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1974-11-29 | The Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill |
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1974-11-12 | Brief Encounter | Alec Harvey |
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1974-10-25 | The Klansman | Breck Stancill |
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1974-03-11 | The Voyage | Cesare Braggi |
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1973-10-04 | Massacre in Rome | SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler |
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1973-07-03 | The Battle of Sutjeska | Josip Broz Tito |
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1972-09-01 | Bluebeard | Baron von Sepper |
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1972-05-12 | Hammersmith Is Out | Hammersmith |
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1972-04-20 | The Assassination of Trotsky | Leon Trotsky |
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1972-01-27 | Under Milk Wood | First Man |
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1971-05-26 | Villain | Vic Dakin |
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1971-02-12 | Raid on Rommel | Capt. Alex Foster |
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1969-12-18 | Anne of the Thousand Days | King Henry VIII |
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1969-08-20 | Staircase | Harry Leeds |
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1968-12-17 | Candy | MacPhisto |
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1968-12-04 | Where Eagles Dare | Maj. Smith |
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1968-05-26 | Boom! | Chris Flanders |
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1967-10-31 | The Comedians | Brown |
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1967-10-10 | Doctor Faustus | Doctor Faustus |
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1967-03-08 | The Taming of the Shrew | Petruchio |
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1966-06-22 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | George |
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1965-12-16 | The Spy Who Came In from the Cold | Alec Leamas |
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1965-06-23 | The Sandpiper | Edward Hewitt |
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1965-06-22 | What's New Pussycat? | Man In Strip Club |
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1964-09-23 | Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre | Hamlet |
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1964-08-06 | The Night of the Iguana | Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon |
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1964-03-11 | Becket | Thomas Becket |
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1964-01-22 | Zulu | Narration spoken (voice) |
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1963-09-01 | The V.I.P.s | Paul Andros |
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1963-06-12 | Cleopatra | Marcus Antonius |
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1962-09-25 | The Longest Day | Flying Officer David Campbell |
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1960-11-06 | A Subject of Scandal and Concern | George Holyoake |
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1960-02-24 | The Bramble Bush | Dr. Guy Montford |
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1960-02-13 | The Tempest | Caliban |
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1960-01-29 | The Fifth Column | |
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1960-01-02 | Ice Palace | Zeb Kennedy |
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1959-09-15 | Look Back in Anger | Jimmy Porter |
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1958-05-09 | Wuthering Heights | Heathcliff |
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1957-08-28 | Bitter Victory | Capt. Leith |
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1957-08-20 | Sea Wife | Biscuit |
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1956-03-28 | Alexander the Great | Alexander |
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1955-12-14 | The Rains of Ranchipur | Dr. Major Rama Safti |
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1955-01-11 | Prince of Players | Edwin Booth |
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1953-09-16 | The Robe | Marcellus Gallio |
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1953-05-20 | The Desert Rats | Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts |
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1952-12-25 | My Cousin Rachel | Philip Ashley |
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1951-11-06 | Green Grow the Rushes | Robert 'Bob' Hammond |
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1950-10-31 | The Woman with No Name | Nick Chamerd |
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1950-07-26 | Waterfront | Ben Satterthwaite |
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1949-05-24 | Now Barabbas | Paddy |
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1949-04-13 | The Last Days of Dolwyn | Gareth |