The Fresh Films: Actors: Richard Burton

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Richard Burton

BIRTH NAME	Richard Walter Jenkins
BORN	10 November 1925, Pontrhydyfen, Wales
DIED	5 August 1984 (aged 58), Céligny, Switzerland (brain haemorrhage)
ASSOCIATION	Actor
NATIONALITY	Welsh/British
HEIGHT	178 cm
REVIEWED ENTRIES	16
MAX. RATING
MIN. RATING
AVERAGE RATING	3.88

ACTOR FILMOGRAPHY (ONLY REVIEWED ENTRIES)

YEAR	TITLE	ROLE	RATING
1952	My Cousin Rachel	Philip Ashley	½
1953	The Robe	Marcellus Gallio
1963	Cleopatra	Mark Antony	½
1963	The V.I.P.s	Paul Andros
1964	Becket	Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury	½
1964	The Night of the Iguana	Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon	½
1965	The Spy Who Came In from the Cold	Alec Leamas
1966	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	George
1967	The Comedians	Brown
1968	Where Eagles Dare	Smith	½
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	King Henry VIII
1971	Raid on Rommel	Capt. Alex Foster
1977	Exorcist II: The Heretic	Father Philip Lamont
1977	Equus	Dr. Martin Dysart	½
1981	Circle of Two	Ashley St. Clair	½
1984	1984	O'Brien	½

BIO

Few actors are more known for what they didn't achieve than what they actually did achieve, but the talented Welshman Richard Burton was one of those. His first love was for books, his second for the theatre, and although he became world famous as a film star and for his highly publicized personal life, he arguably remained both more devoted to and - in my opinion - more talented as a writer and theater actor then he ever was as a filmatic actor.

TRIVIA

I first fell in love with Burton's suave, cool persona through his performance as Major Schmidt in the war-action movie Where Eagles Dare.

AWARDS

The Academy Awards (Oscars)
1953		Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for My Cousin Rachel
1954		Nominated for Best Actor for The Robe
1965		Nominated for Best Actor for Becket
1966		Nominated for Best Actor for The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1967		Nominated for Best Actor for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1970		Nominated for Best Actor for Anne of the Thousand Days
1978		Nominated for Best Actor for Equus

WHAT DO THE CRITICS SAY?

The Night of the Iguana (1964)

"You see a pot-bellied scarecrow flapping erratically. And in his ridiculous early fumbling with the Lolitaish Sue Lyon (whose acting is painfully awkward), he is farcical when he isn't grotesque." - Bosley Crowther

CHARACTER QUOTES

Where Eagles Dare (1968)

Major Smith (Burton): "Broadsword calling Danny Boy."