Richard Burton

1925–1984 | British actor

Welsh leading actor whose dark, brooding good looks did not bring him immediate film success either in Britain or Hollywood

Mini Biography

Burton’s 1963 marriage to Elizabeth Taylor helped him climb to the crest of what these days passes for stardom, as did their subsequent divorces and reunions. High living and a kind of contempt for his work kept him from the heights of both serious achievement and popular acclaim.

Latest Richard Burton Pictures

Richard Burton and Jean Simmons (as Marcellus Gallio and Diana) in the finale of The Robe (1953) — Richard Burton and Jean Simmons in the finale of The Robe (1953)

Jean Simmons (as Diana) and Richard Burton (as Marcellus Gallio) in a DVD cover of The Robe (1953) (2) — The Robe (1953) DVD cover (2) | Jean Simmons, Richard Burton

Richard Burton (as Richard Wagner) in a Dutch DVD cover of Wagner (1983) (3) — Wagner (1983) Dutch DVD cover (3) | Richard Burton

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Personal Details

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Died

Born

Richard Burton was born in Pontrhydyfen, Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot on 10^th November, 1925.
Died

Richard Burton died in Céligny, Switzerland on 5^th August, 1984, aged 58.

Watch Richard Burton on British television

- Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
- Saturday at 12pm on TCM HD
- Saturday at 1pm on TCM Plus 1
- Henry VIII divorces his wife to marry Anne Boleyn, but soon finds evidence of adultery.
- Raid on Rommel (1971)
- 26^th August at 9pm on Movies4Men
- 26^th August at 10pm on Movies4Men
- 1^st September at 9pm on Movies4Men
- In North Africa during World War II, a British officer releases prisoners of war and leads them in an assault on Tobruk.
- Massacre in Rome (1973)
- 26^th August at 10.55pm on Movies4Men
- 1^st September at 10.55pm on Movies4Men
- In 1944, after partisans blow up a detachment of SS troops in a Rome street, a German colonel makes an ineffectual attempt to resist an order to shoot 330 Italians in retaliation.