Biography: life and films
Richard Burton was a Welsh actor, film director and producer whose birth name was Richard Walter Jenkins. He was born in Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK on 10th November 1925 and died in Céligny, Geneva, Switzerland on 5th August 1984, aged 58.His best films as an actor include Peter Glenville's Becket (1964), Martin Ritt's thriller The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), Franco Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew (1967), Charles Guggenheim's Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968) and Charles Jarrott's Anne of the Thousand Days (1969).
Richard Burton appeared in 56 films and directed 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Peter Glenville (2 films), Joseph Losey (2), Henry Koster (2) and Andrew V. McLaglen (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (43 films), War (9), Thriller (9), history (8), romance (7), comedy-drama (4), Documentary (4), Fantasy (3), Biography (3), comedy (2) and Horror (2).
Our average rating for Richard Burton over all films is: 3.3
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director
Now Barabbas (1949) [a]
The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949) [a]
The Woman with No Name (1950) [a]
Waterfront (1950) [a]
Green Grow the Rushes (1951) [a]
The Desert Rats (1953) [a]
The Robe (1953) [a]
Prince of Players (1955) [a]
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955) [a]
Alexander the Great (1956) [a]
Sea Wife (1957) [a]
Ice Palace (1960) [a]
The Bramble Bush (1960) [a]
Cleopatra (1963) [a]
The V.I.P.s (1963) [a]
Becket (1964) [a]
Hamlet (1964) [a]
The Night of the Iguana (1964) [a]
The Sandpiper (1965) [a]
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) [a]
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) [a]
Doctor Faustus (1967) [a,d]
The Comedians (1967) [a]
The Taming of the Shrew (1967) [a]
Boom (1968) [a]
Candy (1968) [a]
Where Eagles Dare (1968) [a]
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) [a]
Staircase (1969) [a]
Raid on Rommel (1971) [a]
Villain (1971) [a]
Bluebeard (1972) [a]
Hammersmith Is Out (1972) [a]
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) [a]
Under Milk Wood (1972) [a]
Il Viaggio (1974) [a]
The Klansman (1974) [a]
America at the Movies (1976) [a]
Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976) [a]
Equus (1977) [a]
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) [a]
Absolution (1978) [a]
The Wild Geese (1978) [a]
Steiner - Das eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil (1979) [a]
Circle of Two (1981) [a]
Lovespell (1981) [a]
To the Ends of the Earth (1983) [a]
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) [a]
Animal Factory (2000) [a]
Kafka's tortuous trial of love
The silent era of French cinema
The best French war films ever made
