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Acting

Richard Burton

Career: Active from 1949 to 2024, with a break from 2007 to 2023, busiest in 1960 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 65
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
84/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 54 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Richard Burton Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.0, average 5.4
Coming of Age
1.6, average 3.0
Situational Comedy
1.3, average 2.7
Pop Culture
0.8, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 10
Character Study 9
Political Intrigue 8
Character-Driven 5
Social Commentary 4
Period Piece 4
Psychological Thriller 3
World War II 3
Classic Adaptation 3
Power Dynamics 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Grand Scale Production 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

83

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title

Guilty Rebel

as Narrator (archive footage)

2000s

1 title

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live

as George Herbert, The Journalist (archive sound)

1990s

3 titles

Sphinx – Secrets of the History

TV show · as Marc Antony (archive footage)

Under Milk Wood

as First Voice (voice) (archive sound)

Richard Burton's Christmas Story

Novel

1980s

7 titles · average score 60

Nineteen Eighty-Four

69

as O'Brien

Ellis Island

61

TV show · as Sen. Phipps Ogden

Wagner

71

TV show · as Richard Wagner

To the Ends of the Earth

as Narrator

Alice in Wonderland

as White Knight

Lovespell

53

as King Mark of Cornwall

Circle of Two

47

as Ashley St. Clair

1970s

23 titles · average score 56

Breakthrough

54

as Sergeant Steiner

The Wild Geese

72

as Col. Allen Faulkner

The Medusa Touch

59

as John Morlar

Absolution

59

as Father Goddard

Exorcist II: The Heretic

30

as Father Philip Lamont

Equus

71

as Martin Dysart

Divorce His, Divorce Hers

59

TV show · as Martin Reynolds

Massacre in Rome

56

as SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler

The Battle of Sutjeska

67

as Josip Broz Tito

Bluebeard

42

as Baron von Sepper

The Assassination of Trotsky

48

as Leon Trotsky

Raid on Rommel

48

as Capt. Alex Foster

1960s

29 titles · average score 61

Anne of the Thousand Days

59

as King Henry VIII

Where Eagles Dare

75

as Maj. Smith

Boom!

38

as Chris Flanders

The Taming of the Shrew

75

as Petruchio

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

84

as George

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

81

as Alec Leamas

The Sandpiper

39

as Edward Hewitt

The Night of the Iguana

75

as Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon

Becket

74

as Thomas Becket

Hamlet

73

as Hamlet

Cleopatra

64

as Marcus Antonius

The V.I.P.s

33

as Paul Andros

1950s

17 titles · average score 63

Look Back in Anger

66

as Jimmy Porter

March to Aldermaston

as Narrator (voice)

Wuthering Heights

as Heathcliff

Bitter Victory

72

as Capt. Leith

Sea Wife

54

as Biscuit

Alexander the Great

30

as Alexander

The Rains of Ranchipur

47

as Dr. Major Rama Safti

Thursday's Children

70

as Narrator (voice)

The Robe

70

as Marcellus Gallio

The Desert Rats

83

as Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts

My Cousin Rachel

65

as Philip Ashley

Green Grow the Rushes

60

as Robert 'Bob' Hammond

1940s

2 titles · average score 67

Now Barabbas

65

as Paddy

The Last Days of Dolwyn

69

as Gareth