Acting
Richard Burton
- Titles
- 102movies18TV shows
- Career
Active from 1949 to 2024, with a break from 2007 to 2023, busiest in 1960 with 5 main titles.
- Leading roles
- 65top three billing
- Average score
59/100
- Highest rated
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?83/100
What stands out
Compared with the average well-known movie, over 54 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.
- Historical6.4average 2.6
- Politics4.5average 2.6
- Melancholy5.9average 4.7
- Pathos6.3average 5.2
- Psychological6.6average 5.6
- Social Commentary5.9average 4.9
- Class & Capitalism4.0average 3.3
- Wit & Wordplay4.3average 3.7
Rarely in their work
- Contemporary Realism2.0, average 5.4
- Coming of Age1.6, average 3.0
- Pop Culture0.8, average 2.2
- Situational Comedy1.4, average 2.7
Main genres
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Recurring tags
- Historical Drama 10
- Character Study 9
- Political Intrigue 8
- Character-Driven 5
- Period Piece 4
- Social Commentary 4
- Moral Ambiguity 3
- Classic Adaptation 3
- Psychological Thriller 3
- Power Dynamics 3
- World War II 3
- Melancholy Drama 2
Works often with
People in at least two of their main titles.
Elizabeth TaylorActorCleopatra, The Sandpiper, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Taming of the Shrew, Divorce His, Divorce Hers, +7 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- AArthur IbbetsonCinematographerWhere Eagles Dare, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Medusa Touch, Brief Encounter
Oswald MorrisCinematographerThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The Taming of the Shrew, Look Back in Anger, Equus
Harry AndrewsActorAlexander the Great, The Medusa Touch, Equus
John ColicosActorAnne of the Thousand Days, Raid on Rommel, Wuthering Heights
Torin ThatcherActorThe Sandpiper, The Robe, The Desert Rats
Claire BloomActorAlexander the Great, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Look Back in Anger
John GielgudActorWagner, Becket, Hamlet
Cathleen NesbittActorVillain, Wuthering Heights, Staircase
Ronald RaddActorDivorce His, Divorce Hers, Divorce His - Divorce Hers, The Tempest
Movies and TV shows
832020s
1 title
as Narrator (archive footage)
2000s
1 title
as George Herbert, The Journalist (archive sound)
1990s
3 titles
TV show · as Marc Antony (archive footage)
as First Voice (voice) (archive sound)
1980s
7 titles · average score 60
as O'Brien
TV show · as Sen. Phipps Ogden
TV show · as Richard Wagner
as Narrator
as White Knight
as Ashley St. Clair
as King Mark of Cornwall
1970s
23 titles · average score 56
as Sergeant Steiner
as Col. Allen Faulkner
as John Morlar
as Father Philip Lamont
as Martin Dysart
as Breck Stancill
as SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler
as Josip Broz Tito
TV show · as Martin Reynolds
as Baron von Sepper
as Leon Trotsky
as Capt. Alex Foster
1960s
29 titles · average score 61
as King Henry VIII
as Maj. Smith
as Chris Flanders
as Petruchio
as Edward Hewitt
as Alec Leamas
as Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon
as Thomas Becket
as Marcus Antonius
as Paul Andros
as Flight Officer David Campbell
1950s
17 titles · average score 62
as Jimmy Porter
as Heathcliff
as Capt. Leith
as Biscuit
as Alexander
as Dr. Major Rama Safti
as Edwin Booth
as Narrator (voice)
as Marcellus Gallio
as Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts
as Philip Ashley
as Robert 'Bob' Hammond
1940s
2 titles · average score 67
as Paddy
as Gareth