11/10/1925
Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK:
Actor inglés, su verdadero nombre era Richard Walter Jenkins, conocido por sus interpretaciones teatrales de Shakespeare y las colaboraciones con Elizabeth Taylor, con la que se casó en dos ocasiones. Nació en Pontrhydyfen, Gales, estudió en Oxford y sirvió en la RAF. Tuvo gran éxito tanto en el cine como en el teatro. Destacan sus representaciones en el teatro londinense Old Vic de Hamlet, Noche de reyes, La Tempestad y Otelo (1953-1954), de Shakespeare, aparte de sus intervenciones en obras de otros autores. Su filmografía incluye Mi prima Raquel (1952), La túnica sagrada (1953), ambas dirigidas por Henry Koster, Mirando hacia atrás con ira (1959, Tony Richardson), Becket (1963, Peter Glenville) y La noche de la iguana (1964, John Huston). Estuvo casado cinco veces, dos de ellas con Liz Taylor (1964-1974 y 1975-1976), con quien compartió protagonismo en Cleopatra (1963, Josehp Leo Mankiewicz), La fierecilla domada (1967, Franco Zeffirelli), y ¿Quién teme a Virginia Woolf? (1966, Mike Nichols). En 1983 haría su última aparición en los escenarios neoyorquinos, junto a Liz Taylor, en Vidas privadas. Su último papel cinematográfico fue en 1984 (1984, Michael Radford), sobre la novela homónima de George Orwell.
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Sketch For Dawn (2025) as Narrator (voice) (Archive footage) |
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Richard Burton: Wild Genius (2025) as Self (archive footage) |
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Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes (2024) as Self (archive footage) |
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Guilty Rebel (2024) as Narrator (archive footage) |
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Julie Andrews, la mélodie d’une vie (2019) as Self (archive footage) |
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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live (2006) as George Herbert, The Journalist (archive sound) |
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) as Self (archive footage) |
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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood (2001) as Self (archive footage) |
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Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Under Milk Wood (1992) as First Voice (voice) (archive sound) |
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988) as Self (archive footage) |
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In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton (1988) as Self (Archive Footage) |
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988) as Self (archive footage) |
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To Be Hamlet (1985) as Self |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) as O'Brien |
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All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra (1983) as Self |
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Alice in Wonderland (1983) as White Knight |
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I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind (1983) as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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To the Ends of the Earth (1983) as Narrator |
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Circle of Two (1981) as Ashley St. Clair |
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Lovespell (1981) as King Mark of Cornwall |
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Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz Teil II (1979) as Sergeant Steiner |
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Mystery of the Sacred Shroud (1978) as Self - Narrator |
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The Wild Geese (1978) as Col. Allen Faulkner |
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Absolution (1978) as Father Goddard |
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The Medusa Touch (1978) as John Morlar |
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Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese (1978) as Self |
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Equus (1977) as Martin Dysart |
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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) as Father Philip Lamont |
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The Man with No Name (1977) as Self |
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CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years (1976) as Self |
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Brief Encounter (1976) as Alec Harvey |
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Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976) as Malcolm Lowry (voice) |
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The Gathering Storm (1974) as Winston Churchill |
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The Klansman (1974) as Breck Stancill |
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Il viaggio (1974) as Cesare Braggi |
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Rappresaglia (1973) as SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler |
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Sutjeska (1973) as Josip Broz Tito |
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Bluebeard (1972) as Baron von Sepper |
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Hammersmith Is Out (1972) as Hammersmith |
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L'Assassinat de Trotsky (1972) as Leon Trotsky |
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Under Milk Wood (1972) as First Man |
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Mooch Goes to Hollywood (1971) as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
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Villain (1971) as Vic Dakin |
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Raid on Rommel (1971) as Capt. Alex Foster |
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Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) as King Henry VIII |
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Staircase (1969) as Harry Leeds |
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The Violent Universe (1969) as Narrator - Verse Spoken |
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Candy (1968) as MacPhisto |
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Where Eagles Dare (1968) as Maj. Smith |
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Un mur à Jérusalem (1968) as Narrator (English version) (voice) |
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On Location: Where Eagles Dare (1968) as Self |
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Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968) as Narrator |
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Boom! (1968) as Chris Flanders |
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The Comedians (1967) as Brown |
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Doctor Faustus (1967) as Doctor Faustus |
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The Comedians in Africa (1967) as Self (uncredited) |
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Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton (1967) as Self - Interviewee |
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The Taming of the Shrew (1967) as Petruchio |
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Lionpower from MGM (1967) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Per Firenze (1966) as Self - Narrator |
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) as George |
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) as Alec Leamas |
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The Sandpiper (1965) as Edward Hewitt |
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What's New Pussycat? (1965) as Man In Strip Club |
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The Big Sur (1965) as Self / Narrator |
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A Statue for 'The Sandpiper' (1965) as Self |
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Hamlet (1964) as Hamlet |
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The Night of the Iguana (1964) as Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon |
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On the Trail of the Iguana (1964) as Self |
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Becket (1964) as Thomas Becket |
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Zulu (1964) as Narration spoken (voice) |
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The V.I.P.s (1963) as Paul Andros |
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Cleopatra (1963) as Marcus Antonius |
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The Longest Day (1962) as Flight Officer David Campbell |
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The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe (1962) as Self / Arthur |
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A Tribute to Dylan Thomas (1962) as Self |
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A Subject of Scandal and Concern (1960) as George Holyoake |
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The Bramble Bush (1960) as Dr. Guy Montford |
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The Tempest (1960) as Caliban |
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The Fifth Column (1960) as |
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Ice Palace (1960) as Zeb Kennedy |
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Borrowed Pasture (1960) as Self - Narrator |
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Look Back in Anger (1959) as Jimmy Porter |
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March to Aldermaston (1959) as Narrator (voice) |
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Wuthering Heights (1958) as Heathcliff |
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Bitter Victory (1957) as Capt. Leith |
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Sea Wife (1957) as Biscuit |
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Alexander the Great (1956) as Alexander |
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The Rains of Ranchipur (1955) as Dr. Major Rama Safti |
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Prince of Players (1955) as Edwin Booth |
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Thursday's Children (1954) as Narrator (voice) |
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The Robe (1953) as Marcellus Gallio |
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The Desert Rats (1953) as Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts |
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My Cousin Rachel (1952) as Philip Ashley |
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Green Grow the Rushes (1951) as Robert 'Bob' Hammond |
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The Woman with No Name (1950) as Nick Chamerd |
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Waterfront (1950) as Ben Satterthwaite |
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Now Barabbas (1949) as Paddy |
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The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949) as Gareth |
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Richard Burton's Christmas Story (1991) Novel |
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Doctor Faustus (1967) Director |
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Doctor Faustus (1967) Producer |
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The Taming of the Shrew (1967) Producer |
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The Caretaker (1964) Associate Producer |