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Welsh actor Richard Burton poses indoors with his hand resting on his chin, wearing a dark blazer and light pants, London, 1970. Movie poster for Look Back in Anger (1959) directed by Tony Richardson, showing Richard Burton in profile beside a bed, with a red tint over the scene and film credits below. Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra and Richard Burton as Mark Antony gaze at each other closely in a dramatic scene from the 1963 film Cleopatra. Richard Burton in Cleopatra Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Elizabeth Taylor as Katharina, holding a book and looking at Richard Burton as Petruchio, who leans toward her, in a scene from the 1967 film The Taming of the Shrew. Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, with a bandaged head, clings to the Berlin Wall during the climactic scene in the film The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Ava Gardner and Richard Burton in The Night of the Iguana Clint Eastwood as Lieut. Morris Schaffer, Richard Burton as Major John Smith, and Mary Ure as Mary Ellison in military uniforms and winter clothing in a tense scene from Where Eagles Dare.
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Paul Ferris, Richard Burton (1981); Penny Junor, Burton: The Man Behind the Myth (1985); Melvyn Bragg, Rich: The Life of Richard Burton (also published as Richard Burton: A Life, 1988).

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Modified link of Web site: Dictionary of Welsh Biography - Richard Burton (1925-1984), stage and film actor. Sep 26, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 01, 2026
Add new Web site: Masterworks Broadway - Richard Burton. Jul 29, 2026
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Robert Osborne on Richard Burton. Jan 20, 2026
Anniversary information added. Nov 06, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Overnights - Richard Burton. Jun 19, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 21, 2025
Add new Web site: National Museum Wales - Becoming Richard Burton. Feb 07, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC News - Richard Burton diaries reveal actor's passion and shame. Oct 29, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Feb 19, 2024
Add new Web site: BFI Screenonline - Richard Burton. Sep 05, 2023
Add new Web site: Dictionary of Welsh Biography - Richard Burton (1925-1984), stage and film actor. Nov 11, 2022
Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Biography of Richard Burton. Mar 16, 2022
Added cross-references. Feb 19, 2020
Media added. Apr 28, 2017
Article thoroughly revised. Jan 26, 2017
Add new Web site: AllMusic - Richard Burton. Nov 26, 2013
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Richard Burton. Nov 26, 2013
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Robert Osborne on Richard Burton. Nov 26, 2013
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Biography of Richard Burton. Nov 26, 2013
Add new Web site: International League of Antiquarian Booksellers - Biography of Richard Francis Burton. Dec 13, 2012
Added photograph. May 24, 2012
Added new Web site: Official Site of Richard Burton. Jul 18, 2008
Media added. Nov 21, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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