Richard Burton CBE (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his mellifluous baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable performance of Hamlet in 1964. He was called "the natural successor to Olivier" by critic Kenneth Tynan. A heavy drinker, Burton's perceived failure to live up to those expectations disappointed some critics and colleagues and added
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⭐ 5.9To Be Hamlet
⭐ 0What's New Pussycat?
⭐ 6The Assassination of Trotsky
⭐ 5.15Breakthrough
⭐ 5.8Villain
⭐ 6.22Anne of the Thousand Days
⭐ 7.088The Medusa Touch
⭐ 6.799Julie Andrews Forever
⭐ 8.4The Taming of the Shrew
⭐ 6.9The Longest Day
⭐ 7.59Nineteen Eighty-Four
⭐ 6.806Bluebeard
⭐ 5.31The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
⭐ 7.1The Desert Rats
⭐ 6.3The Night of the Iguana
⭐ 7.176Alexander the Great
⭐ 5.915Equus
⭐ 7.033The V.I.P.s
⭐ 6.132Massacre in Rome
⭐ 5.979Under Milk Wood
⭐ 6.2Becket
⭐ 7.148Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live
⭐ 6.9Candy
⭐ 5.188Ice Palace
⭐ 5.8The Rains of Ranchipur
⭐ 4.9Bitter Victory
⭐ 6.2Look Back in Anger
⭐ 6.7Raid on Rommel
⭐ 5.8Boom!
⭐ 6.029Hammersmith Is Out
⭐ 5.7My Cousin Rachel
⭐ 6.7Absolution
⭐ 6.5The Comedians
⭐ 6.1The Klansman
⭐ 5.7Doctor Faustus
⭐ 5.313The Sandpiper
⭐ 6.4Staircase
⭐ 5.7Sea Wife
⭐ 5.4Circle of Two
⭐ 4.9Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
⭐ 0Waterfront
⭐ 6.409Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
⭐ 6.5Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
⭐ 7.167Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
⭐ 6Lovespell
⭐ 5.25The Gathering Storm
⭐ 7The Battle of Sutjeska
⭐ 6.3The Tempest
⭐ 6The Voyage
⭐ 5Brief Encounter
⭐ 4.9The Last Days of Dolwyn
⭐ 6.8Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
⭐ 5.7Now Barabbas
⭐ 6.5The Woman with No Name
⭐ 6Green Grow the Rushes
⭐ 5.8The Bramble Bush
⭐ 5.5The Fifth Column
⭐ 9.5Prince of Players
⭐ 4.7Exorcist II: The Heretic
⭐ 4.54Cleopatra
⭐ 7.044Where Eagles Dare
⭐ 7.514A Tribute to Dylan Thomas
⭐ 5.714A Subject of Scandal and Concern
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⭐ 10Thursday's Children
⭐ 6.667Alice in Wonderland
⭐ 6.8CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
⭐ 7.333The Robe
⭐ 6.766The Wild Geese
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⭐ 6To the Ends of the Earth
⭐ 6A Wall in Jerusalem
⭐ 0The Man with No Name
⭐ 0Zulu
⭐ 7.388Under Milk Wood
⭐ 4Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton
⭐ 0The Big Sur
⭐ 6The Comedians in Africa
⭐ 5.3On the Trail of the Iguana
⭐ 6A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
⭐ 6For Florence
⭐ 8The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
⭐ 0March to Aldermaston
⭐ 8Wuthering Heights
⭐ 0Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
⭐ 0On Location: Where Eagles Dare
⭐ 5.3Mooch Goes to Hollywood
⭐ 4.667Borrowed Pasture
⭐ 6The Violent Universe
⭐ 0In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
⭐ 6Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
⭐ 7I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
⭐ 0Guilty Rebel
⭐ 0Lionpower from MGM
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