Birthday:
11-10-1925
Deathday:
08-05-1984 (58 years)
Birthplace:
Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK
Biography
Richard Burton CBE (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his mellifluous baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable performance of Hamlet in 1964. He was called "the natural successor to Olivier" by critic Kenneth Tynan. A heavy drinker, Burton's perceived failure to live up to those expectations disappointed some critics and colleagues and added to his image as a great performer who had wasted his talent. Nevertheless, he is widely regarded as one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation.
Burton was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never won an Oscar. He was a recipient of BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Tony Awards for Best Actor. In the mid-1960s, Burton ascended into the ranks of the top box office stars. By the late 1960s, Burton was one of the highest-paid actors in the world, receiving fees of $1 million or more plus a share of the gross receipts. Burton remained closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor. The couple's turbulent relationship, in which they were married twice and divorced twice, was rarely out of the news.
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Burton was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never won an Oscar. He was a recipient of BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Tony Awards for Best Actor. In the mid-1960s, Burton ascended into the ranks of the top box office stars. By the late 1960s, Burton was one of the highest-paid actors in the world, receiving fees of $1 million or more plus a share of the gross receipts. Burton remained closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor. The couple's turbulent relationship, in which they were married twice and divorced twice, was rarely out of the news.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Act like George
event1966 star_border 7.7
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A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Act like Self (archive footage)
event1988 star_border 5.9
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Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.
To Be Hamlet
Act like Self
event1985
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Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's play, and the enduring popular fascination it has inspired. The actors interviewed are Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Nicol Williamson, Ben Kingsley, Jean Louis Barrault, Vittorio Gassman, Maximilian Schell, Innocenti Smoktunovsky, and Mandy Patinkin. Includes excerpts from various film and television versions of Hamlet, featuring these actors and others.
What's New Pussycat?
Act like Man In Strip Club
event1965 star_border 6
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A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
The Assassination of Trotsky
Act like Leon Trotsky
event1972 star_border 5.2
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A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
Breakthrough
Act like Sergeant Steiner
event1979 star_border 5.8
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Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
Villain
Act like Vic Dakin
event1971 star_border 6.2
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In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Anne of the Thousand Days
Act like King Henry VIII
event1969 star_border 7.1
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Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
The Medusa Touch
Act like John Morlar
event1978 star_border 6.8
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A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
Julie Andrews Forever
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2000 star_border 8.4
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Julie Andrews starred in Hollywood productions that have become iconic movies, winning an Oscar for her performance as Mary Poppins, a symbol of the magic of musicals from the 1960s. And yet, behind the squeaky-clean image hides a much more tortuous career, with its moments of glory and tough times, all of which explain the longevity of a story that is still being written.
The Taming of the Shrew
Act like Petruchio
event1967 star_border 6.9
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Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
The Longest Day
Act like Flying Officer David Campbell
event1962 star_border 7.6
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Act like O'Brien
event1984 star_border 6.8
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George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Bluebeard
Act like Baron von Sepper
event1972 star_border 5.4
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Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Act like Alec Leamas
event1965 star_border 7.1
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British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
The Desert Rats
Act like Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts
event1953 star_border 6.3
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In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
The Night of the Iguana
Act like Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon
event1964 star_border 7.2
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A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Alexander the Great
Act like Alexander
event1956 star_border 5.9
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An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of thinking will bring enlightenment to people. The son of the barbaric and ruthless King Philip of Macedonia, Alexander achieved glory in his short but remarkable life.
Equus
Act like Martin Dysart
event1977 star_border 7
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A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
The V.I.P.s
Act like Paul Andros
event1963 star_border 6.2
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Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
Massacre in Rome
Act like SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler
event1973 star_border 6.1
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In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.
Under Milk Wood
Act like First Man
event1972 star_border 6.2
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The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" in which we meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain Cat.
Becket
Act like Thomas Becket
event1964 star_border 7.1
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Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live on Stage!
Act like George Herbert, The Journalist (archive sound)
event2006 star_border 6.9
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The live version of Jeff Wayne's 1978 bestselling album was brought to the stage in 2006 as part of a sell-out tour of the UK. Filmed at London's Wembley Arena, and using a blend of theatre, music and visual imagery, the production incorporates performers from the original recording, including Justin Hayward, Chris Thompson and Wayne himself. There's also audio and visual elements featuring Richard Burton, as well as the ten-piece Black Smoke Band and the 48-piece Ulladubulla Strings.
Candy
Act like MacPhisto
event1968 star_border 5.2
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A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.
Ice Palace
Act like Zeb Kennedy
event1960 star_border 5.8
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Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy and rugged activist leader Thor Storm, two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.
The Rains of Ranchipur
Act like Dr. Major Rama Safti
event1955 star_border 4.9
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India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also meets an old friend of hers, the alcoholic Tom Ransome. An awful earthquake is followed by days of rain.
Bitter Victory
Act like Capt. Leith
event1957 star_border 6.2
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During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.
Look Back in Anger
Act like Jimmy Porter
event1959 star_border 6.7
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A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Raid on Rommel
Act like Capt. Alex Foster
event1971 star_border 5.8
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Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.
Boom!
Act like Chris Flanders
event1968 star_border 6.2
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Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.
Hammersmith Is Out
Act like Hammersmith
event1972 star_border 6.2
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The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he'll help him escape.
My Cousin Rachel
Act like Philip Ashley
event1952 star_border 6.7
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A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.
Absolution
Act like Father Goddard
event1978 star_border 6.4
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At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.
The Comedians
Act like Brown
event1967 star_border 6.1
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American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
The Klansman
Act like Breck Stancill
event1974 star_border 5.7
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A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the Ku Klux Klan's violent retaliation against his innocent friend, Garth declares a one-man war on the Klan and hunts them down one-by-one.
Doctor Faustus
Act like Doctor Faustus
event1967 star_border 5.3
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Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.
The Sandpiper
Act like Edward Hewitt
event1965 star_border 6.4
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A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
Staircase
Act like Harry Leeds
event1969 star_border 5.7
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An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.
Sea Wife
Act like Biscuit
event1957 star_border 5.4
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In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men reveal their true selves under the hardships of survival. Told in a too-long flashback frame.
Circle of Two
Act like Ashley St. Clair
event1981 star_border 4.9
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A 60-year-old artist shares a secret, platonic romance with a 16-year-old girl.
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Act like Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1999
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Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the best screen tests are from the early years of legends. See some of Hollywood's top names and greatest talents in their very first appearances on celluloid. From Dustin Hoffman's 1966 stock and personality tests to Raquel Welch and James Coburn cavorting for Our Man Flint, from The Three Stooges to Rock Hudson, see stars trying to get on film.
Waterfront
Act like Ben Satterthwaite
event1950 star_border 6.5
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When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Act like Hamlet
event1964 star_border 6.5
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A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2001 star_border 7.2
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Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Act like Self (archive footage)
event1988 star_border 6
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Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
Lovespell
Act like King Mark of Cornwall
event1981 star_border 3.7
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Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.
The Gathering Storm
Act like Winston Churchill
event1974 star_border 7
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Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
The Battle of Sutjeska
Act like Josip Broz Tito
event1973 star_border 6.3
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The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
The Tempest
Act like Caliban
event1960 star_border 6
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Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his powers to shipwreck his usurper brother on the island.
The Voyage
Act like Cesare Braggi
event1974 star_border 5
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The charming Adriana gets sick after her husband's death. Her brother-in-law takes her on a journey to meet a doctor, while love overwhelms them.
Brief Encounter
Act like Alec Harvey
event1974 star_border 4.8
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Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
The Last Days of Dolwyn
Act like Gareth
event1949 star_border 6.8
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An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
Act like Malcolm Lowry (voice)
event1976 star_border 5.7
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This feature-length Oscar®-nominated documentary focuses on Malcolm Lowry, author of one of the major novels of the 20th century, Under the Volcano. But while Lowry fought a winning battle with words, he lost his battle with alcohol. Shot on location in four countries, the film combines photographs, readings by Richard Burton from the novel and interviews with the people who loved and hated Lowry, to create a vivid portrait of the man.
Now Barabbas
Act like Paddy
event1949 star_border 6.5
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A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
The Woman with No Name
Act like Nick Chamerd
event1950 star_border 6
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This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia.
Green Grow the Rushes
Act like Robert 'Bob' Hammond
event1951 star_border 5.8
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Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
The Bramble Bush
Act like Dr. Guy Montford
event1960 star_border 5.5
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A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.
The Fifth Column
event1960 star_border 9.5
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A TV film made as part of The Buick-Electra Playhouse.
Prince of Players
Act like Edwin Booth
event1955 star_border 4.7
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Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Act like Father Philip Lamont
event1977 star_border 4.5
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Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a research specialist free her from its grasp?
Cleopatra
Act like Marcus Antonius
event1963 star_border 7
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Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
Where Eagles Dare
Act like Maj. Smith
event1968 star_border 7.5
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World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
A Tribute to Dylan Thomas
Act like Self
event1961 star_border 5.7
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An atmospheric tribute to the genius of Welsh poet and dramatist Dylan Thomas, using many of the windswept locations where Thomas himself grew up and found his inspiration. The film is hosted/presented by Richard Burton, Thomas's friend, who narrates the story and appears from time to time amidst the Welsh landscape. Burton had already appeared in Douglas Cleverdon's acclaimed BBC radio dramatization of Thomas's 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood in the 1950s and, in the early Seventies, would appear in director Andrew Sinclair's film version as First Voice. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation and National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales in 2000.
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Act like George Holyoake
event1960
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A dramatized account of a Victorian cause célèbre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.
Paris Hilton Inc.: The Selling of Celebrity
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2009 star_border 10
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We are drowning in celebrity culture and certainly no tabloid topic has been as big as Paris Hilton. Her incarceration and subsequent release, then re-incarceration and her ultimate release once again-left us submerged knee-deep in the twists and turns of her life. Famous for doing nothing, she's the ultimate manifestation of our obsession with celebrity culture and the massive profits that it wields. As long as we are willing to watch and read, who can resist feeding our habit?
Thursday's Children
Act like Narrator (voice)
event1954 star_border 6.6
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Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with British Film Institute in 2005.
Alice in Wonderland
Act like White Knight
event1983 star_border 8
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From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
Act like Self
event1976 star_border 7
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CBS honors Lucille Ball with this celebration of her three CBS series: I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy.
The Robe
Act like Marcellus Gallio
event1953 star_border 6.8
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Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions. Convinced that destroying the robe will cure him, Marcellus sets out to find Demetrius — and discovers his Christian faith along the way.
The Wild Geese
Act like Col. Allen Faulkner
event1978 star_border 6.8
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A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
Act like Self
event1983 star_border 6
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A Celebration of the great life of Frank Sinatra with song, dance, and many famous guests.
To the Ends of the Earth
Act like Narrator
event1983 star_border 6
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The story of the three year expedition led by British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, which ended in August 1982, and which was man's first and only land and sea voyage around the world crossing both poles, without leaving the Earth's surface.
A Wall in Jerusalem
Act like Narrator (English version) (voice)
event1968
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A brilliant documentary about the growth of Israel into the Jewish homeland. Seventy-three years of struggle for religious freedom is vividly recorded using rare archive film footage and photographs of historic events in the development of 20th century Israel. Beginning with the Dreyfus Affair in 1894, the film covers Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism; the earliest immigration and settlements; the formation of kibbutzim; the Balfour Declaration; the rise of European anti-Semitism; the British occupation of Palestine; Arab confrontations; the United Nations resolution; the "Exodus" incident, and the Six Day War.
The Man with No Name
Act like Self
event1977
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Profile of Clint Eastwood.
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2024 star_border 6.9
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Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star’s personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerability of the groundbreaking icon.
Zulu
Act like Narration spoken (voice)
event1964 star_border 7.4
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In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
Under Milk Wood
Act like First Voice (voice) (archive sound)
event1992 star_border 4
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A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.
Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton
Act like Self - Interviewee
event1967
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Richard Burton is interviewed by film critic Kenneth Tynan
The Big Sur
Act like Self / Narrator
event1965 star_border 6
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This MGM short film narrated by Richard Burton promotes its upcoming major release "The Sandpiper" (1965), starring Burton and his then wife Elizabeth Taylor. Panoramic shots of the ocean, the seashore, and the desert segue into the artistic community with various of its well-known artists at work and play. It all leads to clips from the film being made.
The Comedians in Africa
Act like Self (uncredited)
event1967 star_border 5.3
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Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians.
On the Trail of the Iguana
Act like Self
event1964 star_border 6
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Behind the scenes documentary of the filming of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana.
A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
Act like Self
event1965 star_border 6
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Promotional short for the film "The Sandpiper".
For Florence
Act like Self - Narrator
event1966 star_border 8
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A dramatic, solemn and refined work, "Per Firenze" spread throughout the world the cry for help that was rising in those hours from the city of Dante and Brunelleschi, giving rise to one of the greatest phenomena of solidarity that has gone down in history under the name of the "mud angels."
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
Act like Self / Arthur
event1962
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A musical special celebrating the fruitful collaboration of Broadway lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Stars from the current Broadway hit "Camelot" and from past triumphs such as "My Fair Lady," and the film "Gigi" perform the romantic, sophisticated songs of Lerner and Loewe.
March to Aldermaston
Act like Narrator (voice)
event1959 star_border 6
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Collaborative documentary (credited to a committee rather than to individual filmmakers) detailing the CND march from London to Aldermaston at Easter 1958.
Wuthering Heights
Act like Heathcliff
event1958
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Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation. [Originally aired on CBS's DuPont Show of the Month.]
Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese
Act like Self
event1978
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Promotional short film about the making of the 1978 film The Wild Geese.
On Location: Where Eagles Dare
Act like Self
event1968 star_border 5.3
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A behind-the-scenes look at the difficulties of shooting a movie on location in the Austrian Alps.
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
Act like Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
event1971 star_border 5.1
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A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Borrowed Pasture
Act like Self - Narrator
event1960 star_border 6
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Richard Burton narrates this stunning film of two Polish soldiers struggling to make a living from a derelict farm in Carmarthenshire.
The Violent Universe
Act like Narrator - Verse Spoken
event1969
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Thirty distinguished astronomers are visited at their observatories throughout the world in this comprehensive report of astronomical theories, research, and discoveries.
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Act like Self (Archive Footage)
event1988 star_border 6
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Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2003 star_border 7
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Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
Act like Self - Narrator (voice)
event1983
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The story of Leonardo da Vinci: his life, his thoughts, his times, his art and inventions and the individuals who had an influence on his life.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Act like Caliban (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 8.7
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Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones.
The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Wagner
Act like Richard Wagner (10 ep.)
event1983 star_border 6.3
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A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth.
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1973 star_border 6.3
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In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent has fundamentally advanced the film art; whose accomplishments have been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time.
Talking Pictures
Act like Self (archive footage) (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 5
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A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
Tony Awards
Act like Arthur (archive footage) (1 ep.)
event1956 star_border 4.6
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
Sphinx – Secrets of the History
Act like Marc Antony (archive footage) (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 4
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This German format is not a series properly speaking, as it has no permanent cast or script continuity, but presents each time a 45 minutes documentary, usually in part presented as a docudrama (not faction, as close to scientific knowledge as possible, but visually attractive), elaborating a specific historical theme, widely varied, often exotic in the sense of a far time (as far back as prehistoric times) and/or place (around the globe), although some episodes fit together well, chronologically or thematically, but always fit to be watched separately. Usually authentic locations are used, as well as scenes from and/or interviews about the scientific research it is based upon.
The Ed Sullivan Show
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event1948 star_border 6.6
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The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows.
In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Ellis Island
Act like Sen. Phipps Ogden (3 ep.)
event1984 star_border 5
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Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 1800s until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. Ellis Island highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.
Bambi Awards
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1948 star_border 9
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The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Entertainment Tonight
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 3.9
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Daily tabloid television news show on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, exclusive behind-the-scenes looks at upcoming film and television projects, as well as the real story behind Hollywood's latest news.
Divorce His, Divorce Hers
Act like Martin Reynolds (2 ep.)
event1973 star_border 5
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The dissolution of an 18-year marriage, seen first from his point-of-view and then from hers.
Great Performances
Act like White Knight (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 5.4
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The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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