Acting
Richard Burton
- Titles
- 98movies16TV showsmovies and TV shows
- Career
- 19492006
- Leading roles
- 62top three billing
- Average score
62/100
- Highest rated
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?78/100
What stands out
Compared with the average well-known movie, over 49 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.
- Historical6.5average 2.6
- Politics5.0average 2.6
- Melancholy5.9average 4.7
- Pathos6.3average 5.2
- Social Commentary5.8average 4.9
- Psychological6.5average 5.6
- Class & Capitalism4.0average 3.3
- Romance4.5average 3.8
Rarely in their work
- Contemporary Realism1.4, average 5.2
- Pop Culture0.8, average 2.2
- Situational Comedy1.3, average 2.7
- Coming of Age1.6, average 2.9
Main genres
Select a genre to see those titles.
Recurring tags
- Historical Drama 10
- Character Study 10
- Political Intrigue 9
- Social Commentary 5
- Character-Driven 4
- World War II 4
- Psychological Thriller 3
- Psychological Drama 3
- Period Piece 3
- Moral Ambiguity 3
- Historical Epic 3
- Classic Adaptation 2
Works often with
People in at least two of their main titles.
Elizabeth TaylorActorCleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Taming of the Shrew, The Sandpiper, The V.I.P.s, +6 more
Michael HordernActorWhere Eagles Dare, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The Taming of the Shrew, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Medusa Touch
Cyril CusackActorNineteen Eighty-Four, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The Taming of the Shrew, Lovespell
John GielgudActorWagner, Becket, Wagner, Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Oswald MorrisCinematographerThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The Taming of the Shrew, Look Back in Anger, Equus- AArthur IbbetsonCinematographerWhere Eagles Dare, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Medusa Touch, Brief Encounter
Torin ThatcherActorThe Robe, The Sandpiper, The Desert Rats
John ColicosActorAnne of the Thousand Days, Raid on Rommel, Wuthering Heights
Claire BloomActorThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Alexander the Great, Look Back in Anger
Harry AndrewsActorAlexander the Great, The Medusa Touch, Equus
Ennio MorriconeComposerExorcist II: The Heretic, Massacre in Rome, Bluebeard
Miguel Herz-KestranekActorWagner, Wagner
Movies and TV shows
812000s
1 titles
as George Herbert, The Journalist (archive sound)
1990s
3 titles
TV show · as Marc Antony (archive footage)
as First Voice (voice) (archive sound)
1980s
8 titles · average score 64
69
as O'Brien
61
TV show · as Sen. Phipps Ogden
75
as Richard Wagner
69
TV show · as Richard Wagner
as Narrator
77
as White Knight
53
as Ashley St. Clair
44
as King Mark of Cornwall
1970s
22 titles · average score 59
53
as Sergeant Steiner
68
as John Morlar
65
as Father Goddard
41
as Father Philip Lamont
70
as Martin Dysart
55
as Breck Stancill
62
as SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler
65
as Josip Broz Tito
54
as Leon Trotsky
54
as Baron von Sepper
56
as Capt. Alex Foster
64
as Vic Dakin
1960s
27 titles · average score 65
59
as King Henry VIII
75
as Maj. Smith
70
as Petruchio
62
as Brown
53
as Doctor Faustus
73
as Alec Leamas
63
as Edward Hewitt
74
as Thomas Becket
73
as Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon
70
as Marcus Antonius
62
as Paul Andros
1950s
18 titles · average score 64
68
as Jimmy Porter
as Heathcliff
64
as Capt. Leith
58
as Alexander
47
as Dr. Major Rama Safti
56
as Edwin Booth
69
as Narrator (voice)
67
as Marcellus Gallio
65
as Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts
69
as Philip Ashley
59
as Robert 'Bob' Hammond
as Nick Chamerd
1940s
2 titles · average score 69
69
as Gareth
as Paddy