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Richard Burton
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Green Grow the Rushes (1951)- Dir. Derek Twist
Feat. Richard Burton, Honor Blackman, Roger Livesey… - Minor comedy, of the English variety, set in a brandy–soaked Kent village.
Desert Rats, The (1953)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Richard Burton - No–nonsense British Army officer Richard Burton assumes command of an Australian platoon, but struggles to win their respect. Sequel to The…
Robe, The (1953)- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Richard Burton - Richard Burton acquires Jesus' robe after supervising his crucifixion and becomes wreaked with fear and guilt. A lavish biblical epic, the first film…
Alexander the Great (1956)- Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom - Earnest epic follows the life and early death of the Greek warrior who conquered the entire known world. This seismic production has Richard Burton…
Bitter Victory (1957)- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Richard Burton, Curt Jurgens, Ruth Roman… - Superior war drama is set around a WW2 mission by British commandos in North Africa, trying to retrieve vital papers from a German HQ before…
Sea Wife (1957)- Dir. Bob McNaught
Feat. Richard Burton, Joan Collins, Basil Sydney… - Melodramatic adventure tale with Burton and Collins adrift on a raft after their ship is sunk by the Japanese. Clunky, but oddly compelling, though…
Look Back in Anger (1958)- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure - Richard Burton plays the angry–young–man to the hilt in this grimly realistic slice of British life in the '50s. Based on John Osborne's…
Longest Day, The (1962)- Dir. Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki
Feat. John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum… - One the great WW2 films, with over 40 international stars. The large scale battle scenes have taken some outdoing.
Cleopatra (1963)- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Rex Harrison, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton - Magnificent sets and Rex Harrison's dynamic Caesar are the saving graces of this, Hollywood's most extravagant turkey. Both Liz Taylor and Richard…
Night of the Iguana, The (1964)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon… - Tennessee Williams–scripted brew of melodrama, old–style religion and sexual repression sees defrocked priest/alcoholic Richard Burton…
Becket (1964)
- Dir. Peter Glenville
Feat. Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud… - Stinging, fact–based epic turns the trusted relationship between King Henry II (O’Toole) and his best friend, the Archbishop of Canterbury…
Hamlet (1964)- Dir. Bill Colleran, John Gielgud
Feat. Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn - Highly successful Richard Burton Broadway production of "Hamlet", deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of…
Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom… - Stark yet gripping adaptation of John Le Carre's espionage novel. Richard Burton plays the dispossessed spy reluctantly engaged in the most dangerous…
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor - High powered melodrama with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in peak form as a married couple whose dinner party turns into a violent debacle.…
Taming of the Shrew (1966)- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor - Famous couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star as Petruchio and Katharina in this spirited parody of gender role plays. Zeffirelli succeeds…
Boom! (1968)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Sir Noel Coward… - Thud: Only film buffs who admire Losey's very original directorial style are likely to appreciate fuzzy adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Milk…
Candy (1968)- Dir. Christian Marquand
Feat. Ewa Aulin, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton… - Sixties sex farce that satirizes pornographic stories through the adventures of its naive eponymous heroine, played by Swedish model, Ewa Aulin.…
Where Eagles Dare (1969)- Dir. Brian G. Hutton
Feat. Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure… - Exciting adaptation of Alistair MacLean's WW2 novel concerning British paratroopers rescue mission from an impregnable castle.
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)- Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, Irene Papas… - Opulent recounting of the doomed romance between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn with a gallery of fine performances and stunning costume design.
Staircase (1969)- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Cathleen Nesbitt - Sitting somewhere between farce and melancholy, a pair of aging barbers bicker over the possibility of ending their loving but often volatile…
Under Milkwood (1971)- Dir. Andrew Sinclair
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole… - Celebrated radio play by Dylan Thomas gets a surprisingly successful visual rendering, though some will always prefer the original format for Thomas'…
Raid on Rommel (1971)- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Richard Burton, John Colicos, Wolfgang Preiss - In 1942 Libya, a German–speaking British Intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret…
Klansman, The (1974)- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Richard Burton, Lee Marvin, Cameron Mitchell… - Samuel Fuller co–wrote this trashy Southern potboiler, graced with the acting chops of Richard Burton and Lee Marvin as landowner and sheriff…
Voyage, The (Il Viaggio) (1974)- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, Ian Bannen - Melodrama from Italian master De Sica sees an incurably ill Sophia Loren torn between the love of two brothers (Richard Burton and Ian Bannen, both…
Brief Encounter (1974)- Dir. Alan Bridges
Feat. Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Jack Hedley… - The BBC revisit David Lean's classic unrequited romance, with Richard Burton and Sophia Loren excellent as would–be lovers who meet on a train…
Equus (1977)- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Peter Firth, Richard Burton, Joan Plowright… - Straightforward adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s play concerning a disturbed stablehand (Peter Firth) with an equine fixation who has blinded some…
Medusa Touch, The (1978)- Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Derek Jacobi… - Garbled but entertaining thriller stars Burton as a paranormally–gifted writer who psychiatrist (Remick) tries to wean him from his murderous…
Wild Geese, The (1978)- Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris… - Trashily entertaining adventure yarn has a gaggle of middle–aged mercenaries drawn into a rescue job for a kidnapped politician in deepest…
Absolution (1978)- Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Richard Burton, Billy Connolly 
Wagner (1983)- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud… - Epic tele–production with Richard Burton as the manic German composer. Includes the Tony Palmer documentaries "In From the Cold? A Portrait of…
Alice in Wonderland (1983)- Dir. Kirk Browning
Feat. Kate Burton, Richard Burton, Eve Arden… - From the Broadway Theatre Archive series, this is a filmed version of the 1970s revival of a 1932 Broadway version. Distinguished by extraordinary…
1984 (1984)- Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. John Hurt, Richard Burton - Adaptation of George Orwell's novel remains faithful to his book and is thus a despairing experience. John Hurt and Richard Burton represent the…
John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship (2006)- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. John Osborne, Tony Richardson, Laurence Olivier… - Exemplary presentation traces the life and works of groundbreaking British playwright John Osborne, whose 1956 play 'Look Back in Anger' changed the…
In From The Cold? The World Of Richard Burton (2010)- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. Richard Burton - Tony Palmer’s portrait of actor Richard Burton, featuring interviews with his family members and fellow acting legends Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren…
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