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Richard Burton Acting Filmography (100)

Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025·Self (archive footage)
Sketch For Dawn
2025·Narrator (voice) (Archive footage)
Guilty Rebel
2024·Narrator (archive footage)
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
2024·Self (archive footage)
Julie Andrews Forever
2019·Self (archive footage)
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live
2006·George Herbert, The Journalist (archive sound)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003·Self (archive footage)
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001·Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Under Milk Wood
1992·First Voice (voice) (archive sound)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988·Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988·Self (archive footage)
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988·Self (Archive Footage)
To Be Hamlet
1985·Self
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984·O'Brien
Alice in Wonderland
1983·White Knight
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
1983·Self
To the Ends of the Earth
1983·Narrator
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
1983·Self - Narrator (voice)
Circle of Two
1981·Ashley St. Clair
Lovespell
1981·King Mark of Cornwall
Breakthrough
1979·Sergeant Steiner
The Medusa Touch
1978·John Morlar
Absolution
1978·Father Goddard
The Wild Geese
1978·Col. Allen Faulkner
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978·Self
Mystery of the Sacred Shroud
1978·Self - Narrator
Equus
1977·Martin Dysart
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977·Father Philip Lamont
The Man with No Name
1977·Self
Brief Encounter
1976·Alec Harvey
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
1976·Malcolm Lowry (voice)
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
1976·Self
The Klansman
1974·Breck Stancill
The Gathering Storm
1974·Winston Churchill
The Voyage
1974·Cesare Braggi
Massacre in Rome
1973·SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler
The Battle of Sutjeska
1973·Josip Broz Tito
The Assassination of Trotsky
1972·Leon Trotsky
Bluebeard
1972·Baron von Sepper
Under Milk Wood
1972·First Man
Hammersmith Is Out
1972·Hammersmith
Villain
1971·Vic Dakin
Raid on Rommel
1971·Capt. Alex Foster
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971·Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969·King Henry VIII
Staircase
1969·Harry Leeds
The Violent Universe
1969·Narrator - Verse Spoken
Candy
1968·MacPhisto
Boom!
1968·Chris Flanders
Where Eagles Dare
1968·Maj. Smith
A Wall in Jerusalem
1968·Narrator (English version) (voice)
On Location: Where Eagles Dare
1968·Self
Robert Kennedy Remembered
1968·Narrator
The Taming of the Shrew
1967·Petruchio
The Comedians
1967·Brown
Doctor Faustus
1967·Doctor Faustus
Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton
1967·Self - Interviewee
The Comedians in Africa
1967·Self (uncredited)
Lionpower from MGM
1967·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966·George
For Florence
1966·Self - Narrator
What's New Pussycat?
1965·Man In Strip Club
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965·Alec Leamas
The Sandpiper
1965·Edward Hewitt
The Big Sur
1965·Self / Narrator
A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
1965·Self
The Night of the Iguana
1964·Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon
Becket
1964·Thomas Becket
Hamlet
1964·Hamlet
Zulu
1964·Narration spoken (voice)
On the Trail of the Iguana
1964·Self
The V.I.P.s
1963·Paul Andros
Cleopatra
1963·Marcus Antonius
The Longest Day
1962·Flight Officer David Campbell
A Tribute to Dylan Thomas
1962·Self
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
1962·Self / Arthur
Ice Palace
1960·Zeb Kennedy
The Tempest
1960·Caliban
The Fifth Column
1960
The Bramble Bush
1960·Dr. Guy Montford
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
1960·George Holyoake
Borrowed Pasture
1960·Self - Narrator
Look Back in Anger
1959·Jimmy Porter
March to Aldermaston
1959·Narrator (voice)
Wuthering Heights
1958·Heathcliff
Bitter Victory
1957·Capt. Leith
Sea Wife
1957·Biscuit
Alexander the Great
1956·Alexander
The Rains of Ranchipur
1955·Dr. Major Rama Safti
Prince of Players
1955·Edwin Booth
Thursday's Children
1954·Narrator (voice)
The Desert Rats
1953·Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts
The Robe
1953·Marcellus Gallio
My Cousin Rachel
1952·Philip Ashley
Green Grow the Rushes
1951·Robert 'Bob' Hammond
Waterfront
1950·Ben Satterthwaite
The Woman with No Name
1950·Nick Chamerd
The Last Days of Dolwyn
1949·Gareth
Now Barabbas
1949·Paddy