Richard Burton
Gender: Male
Born: 10th November 1925
Died: 5th August 1984
Nationality: Wales
TV programs: Wagner, Ellis Island
Movies: 1984, Candy, Cleopatra, Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Desert Rats, The Klansman, The Night of the Iguana, The Robe, Where Eagles Dare, Look Back in Anger, The Comedians, Circle of Two, The Longest Day, My Cousin Rachel, The V.I.P.s, The Gathering Storm, Alexander the Great, Villain, Doctor Faustus, The Medusa Touch, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Sandpiper, Equus, Prince of Players, The Rains of Ranchipur, Becket, The Taming of the Shrew, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Hamlet, Boom!, The Assassination of Trotsky, Massacre in Rome, Sea Wife, Raid on Rommel, Wild Geese, Brief Encounter, Hammersmith is Out, Ice Palace, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Absolution, Staircase, Green Grow the Rushes, Bitter Victory, Bluebeard, Sutjeska, The Woman with No Name, Under Milk Wood, Divorce His, Divorce Hers, Alice in Wonderland, The Voyage, The Last Days of Dolwyn, Waterfront, Lovespell, Now Barabbas, Breakthrough
Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award, six of which were for Best Actor in a Leading Role (without ever winning), and was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. He remains closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor; the couple's turbulent relationship was rarely out of the news.
Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village of Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales. He grew up in a working class, Welsh-speaking household, the twelfth of thirteen children. His father, Richard Walter Jenkins, was a short, robust coal miner, a "twelve-pints-a-day man" who sometimes went off on drinking and gambling sprees for weeks. Burton later claimed, by family telling, that "He looked very much like me...That is, he was pockmarked, devious, and smiled a great deal when he was in trouble. He was, also, a man of extraordinary eloquence, tremendous passion, great violence."
Burton was less than two years old in 1927 when his
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