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Richard Burton

Highest Rated:: 97% Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Lowest Rated:: 0% Alexander the Great (1956)

Birthday:: Nov 10, 1925
Birthplace:: Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK
Bio:: Probably more frequently remembered for his turbulent personal life and multiple marriages, however Richard Burton was truly one of the great UK actors of the post WW2 period. The young Richard Jenkins was the son of a Welsh coal miner, and he received a scholarship to Oxford University to study…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 97%

Number of Movies: 64

Box Office Since 2001: --

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2006		Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of 'The War of the Worlds'	Actor	--
2006		Tony Palmer's Classic Film of John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship	Actor	--
1995		Burning Cross	Actor	--
1984	79%	1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)	O'Brien	--
1983		Wagner	Actor	--
1980		Circle of Two	Ashley St. Clair	--
1979		Absolution (Murder by Confession)	Father Goddard	--
1979		Lovespell	Mark King of Cornwall	--
1978		Steiner - Das eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil (Sergeant Steiner) (Breakthrough)	Sgt. Steiner	--
1978	60%	The Wild Geese	Col. Allen Faulkner	--
1978		The Medusa Touch	John Morlar	--
1978		A.F.I. Life Achievement Awards - Henry Fonda	Actor	--
1977	24%	Exorcist II - The Heretic	Father Lamont	--
1977	63%	Equus	Dr. Martin Dysart	--
1976		Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry	Actor	--
1974		The Gathering Storm	Winston Churchill	--
1974		The Klansman	Breck Stancill Director	--
1974		Il Viaggio	Cesar	--
1973		Massacre in Rome	Actor	--
1973		Sutjeska (The Fifth Offensive)	Tito	--
1972	43%	Bluebeard	Bluebeard (Baron von Sepper)	--
1972		The Assassination of Trotsky	Leon Trotsky	--
1972		Divorce His Divorce Hers	Martin Reynolds	--
1972	40%	Hammersmith is Out	Hammersmith	--
1971	56%	Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood	First Voice	--
1971		Raid on Rommel	Foster	--
1971		Villain	Vic Dakin	--
1969	88%	Where Eagles Dare	John Smith	--
1969	50%	Anne of the Thousand Days	Henry VIII	--
1969		Staircase	Harry	--
1968	8%	Boom!	Chris Flanders	--
1968	80%	Candy	McPhisto	--
1967	30%	The Comedians	Brown	--
1967	13%	Doctor Faustus	Dr. Faustus Director	--
1967	85%	The Taming of the Shrew	Petruchio	--
1966	97%	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	George	--
1965	11%	The Sandpiper	Dr. Edward Hewitt	--
1965	83%	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	Alec Leamas	--
1964	75%	Becket	Thomas Becket	--
1964		Hamlet	Hamlet	--
1964	71%	The Night of the Iguana	Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon	--
1964	92%	Zulu	Narrator	--
1963		Midsummer Night's Dream	Narrator	--
1963		The V.I.P.s (International Hotel)	Paul Andros	--
1963	38%	Cleopatra	Marc Antony	--
1962	92%	The Longest Day	Downed R.A.F. Pilot	--
1962		Merv Griffin Show - 40 of the Most Interesting People of Our Time	Actor	--
1960		Bramble Bush	Guy	--
1960		Ice Palace	Zeb Kennedy	--
1959		Sen noci svatojanske (A Midsummer Night's Dream)	Actor	--
1958	88%	Look Back in Anger	Jimmy Porter	--
1957	80%	Bitter Victory	Capt. Leith	--
1957		Sea Wife	Biscuit	--
1956	0%	Alexander the Great	Alexander the Great	--
1955		The Rains of Ranchipur	Dr.Safti	--
1955		Prince Of Players	Edwin Booth	--
1954		Thursday's Children	Actor	--
1954		Demetrius and the Gladiators	In Clip from "The Robe"	--
1953	80%	The Desert Rats	Capt. MacRoberts	--
1953	35%	The Robe	Marcellus Gallio	--
1952		My Cousin Rachel	Philip Ashley	--
1951		Green Grow the Rushes	Robert "Bob" Hammond	--
1949		The Last Days of Dolwyn (Women of Dolwyn)	Gareth	--
		Brief Encounter	Actor	--

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1. John Smith: Lieutenant, in the next 15 minutes we have to create enough confusion to get out of here alive.
2. Lt. Morris Schaffer: Major, right now you got me about as confused as I ever hope to be.
From Where Eagles Dare. Submitted by Francis L (12 days ago)