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Richard Burton
One of the leading lights on the British stage during the 1950's and 60's, Richard Burton, the son of a miner from Wales, became one of Hollywood's highest paid leading men, particularly after his marriage to Elizabeth Taylor, whom he met and fell in love with on the set of ' Cleopatra'.
His personal life, especially with Taylor, was seldom absent from the front pages of the world's press, up to his premature death at the age of 58 in 1984.
Burton's somewhat casual approach to the movies that he undertook to act in has left a filmography of many unremarkable roles, but his strongest performances ( 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf', ' The Spy Who Came In From The Cold', ' 1984', 'Night of the Iguana' etc ) still reveal Burton's charisma and often the powerful screen presence that made him so legendary on both stage and screen.
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Scorsese to direct Taylor/Burton love story? -
2 June 2011
-Director Martin Scorsese is in talks to turn Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's love story into a Hollywood movie, according to reports.-Taylor, who died in March (11), initially embarked on a romance with Burton after the two stars met on the set of Cleopatra in 19
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Taylor blamed Marvin for Burton's drinking -
4 April 2011
-Dame Elizabeth Taylor blamed Oscar winner Lee Marvin for introducing her husband Richard Burton to alcohol, according to her close pal Sir Roger Moore.-Burton struggled with alcoholism for years and it is believed his addiction contributed to the breakdown of his first
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Taylor still longs for Burton -
20 September 2009
-Dame Elizabeth Taylor surrounds herself with pictures of Richard Burton - and would marry her ex-husband for a third time if he was still alive.-
-The pair fell in love while filming 1963's Cleopatra and wed just 12 months later before Burton's drinking eventually led
Richard Burton - what members say
review by from LIVERPOOL
20 March 2004
review by from Middlesex
Burton &Taylor make a great team 14 June 2004
review by RJNeb2 from London
Pretty worn at the seams 23 July 2006
Richard Burton - filmography
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Under Milk Wood
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Richard Burton, richard burton (narr.)
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This ambitious film, based on a radio play by poet Dylan Thomas, tells of the lives of a number of colourful characters living in the small Welsh village of Llareggub. Throughout the movie, a background voice (that of native Welshman Richard Burton) narrates the day-in-the-life action.
 
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1984
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack
Director: Michael Radford
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A fine and stunning screen adaptation of Orwell's prophetic 1948 novel about a world in which the government completely controls the masses by controlling their thoughts, altering history and even changing the meaning of words to suit its needs. This was Richard Burton's final film.
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from 6,574 members
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Wagner - Movie
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud
Director: Tony Palmer
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A seven-hour epic film of the life of the composer Richard Wagner. The musical score is performed by the London, Vienna and Budapest Philharmonic Orchestras, conducted by Sir Georg Solti.
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from 268 members
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Lovespell
(1981)
Starring: Richard Burton, Kate Melgrew
Director: Tom Donovan
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Set in the ninth century, Lovespell is the story of Isolt, daughter of the Irish king, and the men who loved her; Mark, King of Cornwall and Tristan, Mark's nephew. It is the classic medieval love story often known as Tristan and Isolt.
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Circle Of Two
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Richard Burton, Tatum O'Neal, Robin Gammell
Director: Jules Dassin
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In 1980, on one of the rare occasions that he returned from exile in Europe to work in North America, Jules Dassin made OBSESSION. He shot the movie in and around Toronto with a largely Canadian crew. As Dassin and scriptwriter Thomas Hedley develop this story of the attraction between a sixty-year-..read more »
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from 47 members
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Obsession
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Richard Burton, Tatum O' Neil, Norma Dell'Agnese
Director: Jules Dassin
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This is a story about a young woman coming of age and finding a deeper love with a man who just happens to be somewhat older. Tatum O'Neal plays the part perfectly as a young teenage girl falling in love with a man, Richard Burton who showed and gave her respect, love, honesty and trust. Richard ..read more »
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from 14 members
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The Wild Geese
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Hardy Kruger
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
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A British industrialist recruits a group of mercenaries to penetrate the African wilderness and rescue a deposed political leader awaiting execution at the hands of a military despot. While the prisoner is a man with noble visions of racial reform, the industrialist who's financing the operation ..read more »
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from 2,172 members
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Absolution
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley
Director: Anthony Page
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Father Goddard (Richard Burton) hears confessions at a catholic school. In confession, student Benjamin Stanfield tells Goddard that he has accidentally murdered his friend (Billy Connolly) and buried him in the forest. Goddard investigates the matter and finds a buried scarecrow.
Shortly after, ..read more »
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from 235 members
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The Wild Geese - Blu-ray
(1978)
Starring: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Hardy Kruger
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
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A British industrialist recruits a group of mercenaries to penetrate the African wilderness and rescue a deposed political leader awaiting execution at the hands of a military despot. While the prisoner is a man with noble visions of racial reform, the industrialist who's financing the operation ..read more »
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from 20 members
Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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Equus
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Sidney Lumet directed this film version of Peter Shaffer's dramatic play, transforming theatrical symbolism into cinematic realism. Richard Burton received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance as Martin Dysert, a psychiatrist determined to unravel the disturbed mind of ..read more »
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from 1,194 member
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The Medusa Touch
(1977)
Starring: Harry Andrews, Alan Badel, Robert Lang
Director: Jack Gold
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Novelist John Morlar is a man with the unique power to cause disaster at will. Detective Brunel investigates an assault on Morlar and discovers he possesses mysterious powers. From his hospital bed, Morlar gives a small clue to his next target for destruction... the Windscale Nuclear Plant...
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from 947 members
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Exorcist 2 - The Heretic
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Richard Burton, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher
Director: John Boorman
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Four years after Regan (Linda Blair) has a demon exorcised by a Catholic priest, flying reveries and visions continue to pervade her dreams. Father Lamont (Richard Burton) is released from the Vatican to discover the truth behind Regan's problems, little knowing that the search will take him to ..read more »
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from 2,003 members
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CBS Salutes Lucy - The First 25 Years
(1976)
Starring: Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Milton Berle
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The Funniest Woman on Television, Lucille Ball, first received her due at this 1976 celebration of her first 25 years on television. CBS TV wanted to show their appreciation for the legendary comedienne, so this tribute was organized featuring cast members and other favorites of early television, ..read more »
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Battle Of Sutjeska
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Richard Burton, Ljuba Tadic, Milena Dravic
Director: Stipe Delic
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This Yugoslavian epic was made for the 30th anniversary of Battle of Sutjeska, the toughest battle Yugoslav Partisans had to fight in WWII. Portraying the struggle of the Partisans against the might of the German army and the military exploits of Marshall Tito (Richard Burton) who is instrumental ..read more »
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from 41 members
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The Voyage
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, Ian Bannen
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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Adriana De Mauro (Sophia Loren) finds herself unable to be with the man she loves, as his father decreed that his brother should be the one to marry her. So her love Cesar Braggi (Richard Burton) steps aside to allow his sibling Antonio (Ian Bannen), to take her hand. But when fate intervenes in ..read more »
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from 32 members
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Massacre in Rome
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Richard Burton, Leo McKern, Peter Vaughan
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
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Adapted from Robert Katz's book DEATH IN ROME, this chilling tale is based on a true story of the Ardentine Massacre that took place in Italy during the German occupation of World War II. It occurred when the Italian Resistance attacked a squad of German storm troopers and killed 33 of them, ..read more »
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from 212 members
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Under Milk Wood
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole
Director: Andrew Sinclair
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Hollywood icons Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O'Toole star in the screen adaptation of Dylan Thomas's classic play. A celebration of life and death, the film follows the people and events in a small Welsh harbour village, from one spring to the next. Captain Cat, the blind sea captain, ..read more »
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from 621 members
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Raid On Rommel
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn
Director: Henry Hathaway
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Posing as a Nazi officer, Allied commando Captain Foster (Richard Burton) infiltrates the heavily armed ranks of General Rommel (Wolfgang Preiss) as part of a desperate plan to destroy the heavy German artillery at Tobruk in North Africa.
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Where Eagles Dare
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Richard Burton, Patrick Wymark, Mary Ure
Director: Brian G. Hutton
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Two soldiers are parachuted into the Bavarian Alps to rescue an American General from an almost impregnable Nazi fortress, which can be reached only by cable car. Based on the successful Alistair MacLean novel.
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Where Eagles Dare - Blu-ray
(1969)
Starring: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Patrick Wymark
Director: Brian G. Hutton
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Richard Burton stars as Major John Smith, a British agent during WWII who is in charge a group of six Allied soldiers given the task of rescuing an American general--who is reportedly in possession of the plans for D-Day--from a seemingly impregnable German fortress located high in the Bavarian ..read more »
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from 517 members
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Boom!
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Director: Joseph Losey
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Based on Tennessee Williams' play, 'The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More', BOOM! stars real-life husband and wife Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in this story of an incredibly wealthy woman who retires to a her isolated island estate, with the intent of producing an autobiography. ..read more »
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from 134 members
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The Comedians
(1967)
Starring: James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Richard Burton
Director: Peter Glenville
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Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a ..read more »
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The Taming Of The Shrew
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Michael York, Natasha Pyne
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
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Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a zesty version of the classic comedy, highlighted by performances by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and Nino Rota's score. Instead of simply filming a play, Zeffirelli turned Shakespeare's text into a lively, ..read more »
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from 829 members
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
Director: Mike Nichols
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You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games. Thus read the ad copy for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which in 1966 went farther than any previous big-studio film in its use of profanity and sexual implication. George (Richard Burton) is an alcoholic college ..read more »
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from 1,766 member
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Becket
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, Donald Wolfit
Director: Peter Glenville
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A historical costume drama of the grandest order, "Becket" is the true story of the friendship between King Henry II and Thomas à Becket, a royal courtier and confidant whom Henry appoints as Archbishop of Canterbury. Once proposed for the office, Becket immediately perceives what the King does not:..read more »
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from 842 members
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Cleopatra
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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This epic, spectacular love story of Egyptian queen Cleopatra and the Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Marc Antony has dazzled audiences with its elaborate sets, daring costumes, and thrilling sea battle since its release, but these can't compare with Elizabeth Taylor as the mesmerizing Cleopatra, ..read more »
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from 1,107 member
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Cleopatra - Blu-ray
(1963)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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This epic, spectacular love story of Egyptian queen Cleopatra and the Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Marc Antony has dazzled audiences with its elaborate sets, daring costumes, and thrilling sea battle since its release, but these can't compare with Elizabeth Taylor as the mesmerizing Cleopatra, ..read more »
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from 12 members
Not available for rental
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The Longest Day
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: John Wayne, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda
Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki
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An all-star cast has been enlisted for this epic recreation of the Allied invasion of Normandy that took place on June 6, 1944. This spectacular film noisily dramatises the viewpoints of the French, British, German, and American soldiers. Featuring Oscar winning special effects and cinematography, ..read more »
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from 6,177 members
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Look Back In Anger
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Richard Burton, Gary Raymond, Mary Ure
Director: Tony Richardson
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Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton), the archetypal "angry young man" is a university graduate living with his wife Allison (Mary Ure) in squalor. He reviles society, the upper classes, the State, the Church and everything else that he sees as governed by hypocrisy. For a living, the disgruntled Jimmy ..read more »
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from 307 members
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Alexander The Great
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Barry Jones
Director: Robert Rossen
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The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde wig, Richard Burton stars as the Grecian warrior who conquered the known world while only in his twenties, then wept because there were no more worlds left to conquer. While ..read more »
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The Robe
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Jeff Morrow, Jay Robinson, Ernest Thesiger
Director: Henry Koster
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THE ROBE is one of the finest Biblical epics of all time, based on a best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas. The film tells the story of a Roman, played by Richard Burton, who was in charge of the Crucifixion of Christ and who later is converted to Christianity. This was the first movie to be ..read more »
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from 648 members
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My Cousin Rachel
(1952)
Starring: Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Olivia de Havilland
Director: Henry Koster
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When Philip Ashleys much-loved and rich cousin Ambrose dies, he is convinced that Ambrose was murdered by his new wife Rachel to inherit his wealth. But when he meets Rachel and falls in love with her, he knows that his suspicions must have been unfounded. But were they, or is Rachel just trying to ..read more »
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The Desert Rats
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton
Director: Robert Wise
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Richard Burton stars in this exciting film directed by Robert Wise about the courageous men who held off German Field Marshall Erwin Rommell, despite being hopelessly outnumbered. The year is 1941, and all that stands between Rommel and the Suez Canal is the fortress of Tobruk, which is manned only ..read more »
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Richard Burton facts
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...Richard Burton doing what he does best. When he's on screen he is very captivating and put's his telekinetic character (Morlar) across in a very disturbing and sinister way....
