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Richard Burton (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor who had an extensive career primarily on stage and in film.
Known for his powerful presence and mellifluous baritone voice he starred in numerous notable films. He made his feature film debut in the British drama The Last Days of Dolwyn in 1949. Burton gained attention for his role as Philip Ashley, the protagonist in the romantic mystery My Cousin Rachel (1952) earning his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[1] Burton's stardom grew earning Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for portraying a history professor in a troubled marriage in the Mike Nichols directed drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) opposite his wife Elizabeth Taylor.[2] He also starred in 10 other films opposite Taylor including The V.I.P.s (1963), Cleopatra (1963), The Sandpiper (1965), The Taming of the Shrew (1967), Doctor Faustus (1967), The Comedians (1967), Boom! (1968), Under Milk Wood (1971), Hammersmith is Out (1972).[3][4]
Burton received further Oscar nominations for playing a Roman officer in the Biblical epic The Robe (1953), Henry II of England in the historical drama Becket (1964), a British MI6 agent in spy thriller The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965), King Henry II again in historical drama Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), and a psychiatrist treating a young patient in psychological drama Equus (1977). During this time Burton also starred in Alexander the Great (1956), The Longest Day (1962), and The Night of the Iguana (1965). His final film role was in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984).
On stage, Burton gained prominence as a Shakespearean actor acting in numerous works of William Shakespeare. He portrayed roles such as Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part 1 (1951) and Henry IV, Part 2 (1951), Henry V of England in Henry V (1951), Ferdinand in The Tempest (1951), Prince Hamlet in Hamlet (1953), Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night (1953), Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus in Coriolanus (1953), and Othello in Othello (1955). Burton originated the role as King Arthur in the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot from 1960 to 1961 acting opposite Julie Andrews on Broadway.[5]
Date | Programme | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1952 | Celanese Theatre | Mat Burke | Episode: "Anna Christie" | [44] |
1958 | DuPont Show of the Month | Heathcliff | Episode: "Wuthering Heights" | [45] |
1960 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Caliban | Episode: "The Tempest" | [46] |
1960 | A Subject of Scandal and Concern | George Holyoake | Television film by BBC Television | [47] |
1961 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Himself | Episode: "Salute to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe" | [48] |
1961 | Camera Three | Himself | Episode: "A Child's Christmas in Wales" | [49] |
1963 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Himself | Episode: "Richard Burton, Morecombe and Wise, Arthur Worsley, Dave Madden" | [50] |
1969 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Himself | Episode: "The Swinging, Soulful Sixties" | [51] |
1970 | Here's Lucy | Himself | Episode: "Lucy Meets the Burtons" | [52] |
1971 | Mooch Goes to Hollywood | Narrator | Television film by Jim Backus — Jerry Devine Productions | [53] |
1973 | Divorce His, Divorce Hers | Martin Reynolds | Television film by the American Broadcasting Company | [54] |
1974 | The Merv Griffin Show | Himself | Episode: "May 15, 1974" | [55] |
1974 | Film... | Himself | Episode: "Film '74 Special, Richard Burton: If it Stops, I'm Dead" | [56] |
1974 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Alec Harvey | Episode: "Brief Encounter" | [57] |
1974 | Parkinson | Himself | Episode: "Richard Burton" | [58] |
1974 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Winston Churchill | Episode: "The Gathering Storm" | [54][59] |
1977 | The Hollywood Greats | Himself | Episode: "Humphrey Bogart" | [60] |
1977 | Film... | Himself | Episode: "Film 77 Episode 8" | [61] |
1977 | Good Morning America | Himself | Episode: "October 11, 1977" | [62] |
1977 | Good Morning America | Himself | Episode: "October 12, 1977" | [63] |
1977 | Good Morning America | Himself | Episode: "October 13, 1977" | [64] |
1977 | Dinah! | Himself | Episode: "October 17, 1977" | [65] |
1977 | Dinah! | Himself | Episode: "November 18, 1977" | [66] |
1978 | Good Morning America | Himself | Episode: "March 28, 1978" | [67] |
1978 | Film... | Himself | Episode: "Film '78 Episode 11" | [68] |
1979 | The Bob Hope Salute to 1920s and '30's | Himself | Television special | [69] |
1981 | Good Morning America | Himself | Episode: "July 27, 1981" | [70] |
1982 | Entertainment Tonight | Himself | Episode: "February 1, 1982" | [71] |
1982 | Entertainment Tonight | Himself | Episode: "February 4, 1982" | [72] |
1982 | Bob Hope's Star-Studded Spoof of the New TV Season, G-Rated, with Glamour, Glitter and Gags |
Himself | Television special | [73] |
1982 | The Fall Guy | Himself | Episode: "Reluctant Traveling Companion" | [74][75] |
1983 | Great Performances | White Knight | Episode: "Alice in Wonderland" | [74][76] |
1984 | Entertainment Tonight | Himself | Episode: "July 31, 1984" | [77] |
1984 | Ellis Island | Phipps Ogden | Main role; 2 episodes | [74] |
Date | Programme | Ref(s) |
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27 January 1945 | The Corn Is Green | [94] |
September 1948 | In Parenthesis | [94] |
10 July 1949 | The Last Days of Dolwyn | [94] |
7 November 1949 | Nightmare Abbey | [94] |
20 November 1949 | New Judgement | [94][95] |
March 1950 | Hippolytus | [94] |
1950 | The Lady's Not for Burning | [94] |
1 May 1950 | Sea Flood | [94][95] |
15 July 1951 | Men of Steel, the Birth of a Giant | [94] |
19 September 1951 | Night Birds | [94] |
13 October 1951 | Taffy was a Welshman | [94] |
November 1953 | Good for the Boy | [94] |
December 1953 | Younger Generation | [94] |
13 January 1954 | Night Must Fall | [95][96] |
25 January 1954 | Under Milk Wood | [97] |
16 May 1954 | The Duchess of Malfi | [95][98] |
June 1954 | The Old Vic Comes North | [94] |
22 April 1956 | Henry of Agincourt | [99] |
14 May 1956 | The Dark Tower | [100][101] |
11 October 1963 | Under Milk Wood | [95][102] |
25 December 1965 | A Christmas Story | [94] |
13 February 1977 – 9 August 1977 | Vivat Rex | [95][96] |
Year | Title | Label | Type | Ref(s) |
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1954 | Homage to Dylan Thomas | Argo Records PLP 1060 | Solo | [103] |
1954 | Under Milk Wood | Spoken Arts SA 791 SA 792, 791-792 | Cast Recording | [104] |
1954 | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Argo Records RG 41 | Solo | [105] |
1955 | Richard Burton Reads 15 Poems By Dylan Thomas | Argo Records SW 503 | Solo | [96][106] |
1958 | Love Poems Of John Donne | Caedmon Audio TC 1141 | Solo | [107] |
1960 | Camelot | Columbia Masterworks KOL 5620 | Cast Recording | [108] |
1961 | The Poetry of Thomas Hardy | Caedmon Audio TC 1140 | Solo | [109] |
1962 | Coriolanus | Caedmon Audio SRS M 226 | Cast Recording | [110][111] |
1964 | Richard Burton's Hamlet | Columbia Masterworks DOL 302 | Cast Recording | [112][113] |
1964 | Famous Scenes From Sir John Gielgud's Production Of William Shakespeare's Hamlet | Columbia Masterworks OL 8020 | Cast Recording | [114] |
1964 | The Night of the Iguana | MGM Records PR 4 | Cast Recording | [115] |
1965 | The English Poets — Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Argo Records RG 438 | Solo | [116] |
1966 | The Days of Wilfred Owen | Warner Bros. Records B 1635 | Solo | [117] |
1969 | Doctor Faustus | His Master's Voice ALP 2270 | Cast Recording | [118] |
1971 | The World Of Dylan Thomas | Argo Records PA/A 166 | Cast Recording | [119] |
1975 | The Little Prince | P.I.P. Records PIP 6813 | Cast Recording | [120][121] |
1978 | A Personal Anthology | Argo Records ZDSW 714 | Solo | [122] |
1978 | Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds | CBS Records S CBS 96000 | Cast Recording | [123] |
Year | Title | Label | Billed as | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1964 | "Married Man" | DRG Records DARC 2100/B | Richard Burton | Part of the Broadway musical Baker Street. | [124] |
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