Richard Burton filmography

This is a list of performances of Welsh actor Richard Burton.

Filmography

The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949)
Now Barabbas (1949)
The Woman with No Name (1950)
Waterfront (1950)
Green Grow the Rushes (1951)
My Cousin Rachel (1952)
The Desert Rats (1953)
The Robe (1953)
Thursday's Children (1954) (short subject) (narrator)
Prince of Players (1955)
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Alexander the Great (1956)
Bitter Victory (1957)
Sea Wife (1957)
Look Back in Anger (1958)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959) (narrator)
Ice Palace (1960)
The Bramble Bush (1960)
Dylan Thomas (1962) (short subject) ( narrator)
The Longest Day (1962)
Cleopatra (1963)
The V.I.P.s (1963)
Zulu (1964) (narrator)
Becket (1964)
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Hamlet (1964)
What's New Pussycat? (1965) (Cameo)
The Sandpiper (1965)
Big Sur (1965) (documentary short) (narrator)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Florence: Days of Destruction (1966) (documentary short) (narrator)
The Taming of the Shrew (1967) (also producer)

Doctor Faustus (1967) (also producer and director)
The Comedians (1967)
The Comedians in Africa (1967) (documentary short) (as himself)
Boom! (1968)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Candy (1968)
Staircase (1969)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Raid on Rommel (1971)
Villain (1971)
Under Milk Wood (1972)
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
Bluebeard (1972)
Hammersmith Is Out (1972)
Massacre in Rome (Italian: Rappresaglia) (1973)
Sutjeska (1973), also known as The Fifth Offensive and The Battle of Sutjeska
The Voyage (1974)
The Klansman (1974)
The Gathering Storm (1974)
Brief Encounter (1974)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Equus (1977)
Absolution (1978), also known as Murder by Confession
The Wild Geese (1978)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Breakthrough (1979)
Circle of Two (1980)
Lovespell (1981)
Alice in Wonderland (1983)
Wagner (1983)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Ellis Island (1984)

Stage

For a list of Burton's stage performances see Richard Burton

Television

Here's Lucy – episode, "Lucy Meets the Burtons" (1970) (as himself)
The Fall Guy – episode, "Reluctant Travel Companion" (1982) (as himself)

Soundtrack

Camelot (musical) (1960)
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978) (the journalist/protagonist)
Poems by Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood, Fern Hill, And death shall have no dominion, Lament, Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
Other poems by: John Donne – The Good-Morrow, Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Frost at Midnight
Richard Burton at the BBC

Box office ranking

At the peak of his career, Richard Burton was regularly voted by exhibitors as one of the top stars at the box office.^[1]

1963 – 25 (US)^[2]
1964 – 10th (US)
1965 – 9th (US), 8th (Britain)^[3]
1966 – 5th (US)
1967 – 9th (US)
1970 – 5th (Britain)^[4]
1971 – 1st (Britain)^[5]

Honors

For his contributions to cinema, Burton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6336 Hollywood Boulevard.^[6] For his contributions to theater, Burton was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.^[7] For a full list of awards and nominations see Richard Burton.

References

↑ "Quigley's Annual List of Box-Office Champions, 1932–1970", ReelClassics.com, October 23, 2003 accessed July 12, 2012
↑ 'Doris Day Heads Top 10' The Washington Post, Times Herald (1959–1973) [Washington, D.C] 14 Jan 1964: A27.
↑ "Most Popular Film Star." Times [London, England] 31 Dec. 1965: 13. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 July 2012.
↑ Staff Reporter. "Paul Newman Britain's favourite star." Times [London, England] 31 Dec. 1970: 9. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 July 2012.
↑ Peter Waymark. "Richard Burton top draw in British cinemas." Times [London, England] 30 Dec. 1971: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 July 2012.
↑ http://www.walkoffame.com/richard-burton
↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/05/arts/broadway-s-best.html

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