AKA Richard Walter Jenkins, Jr.

Born: 10-Nov-1925
Birthplace: Pontrhydyfen, Wales
Died: 5-Aug-1984
Location of death: Celigny, Geneva, Switzerland
Cause of death: Cerebral Hemorrhage
Remains: Buried, Protestant Churchyard, Celigny, Switzerland

Gender: Male
Religion: Presbyterian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: Wales
Executive summary: Nineteen Eighty Four

Father: Philip H. Burton (adoptive)
Wife: Sybil Williams (m. 1948, div. 1963, two daughters)
Daughter: Kate Burton (actress, b. 10-Sep-1957)
Daughter: Jessica (b. 1961, autistic)
Wife: Elizabeth Taylor (m. 15-Mar-1964, div. 1974)
Wife: Elizabeth Taylor (m. 10-Oct-1975, div. 1-Aug-1976)
Wife: Susan Hunt (m. 1976, div. 1982)
Wife: Sally Hay (m. 1983)

    University: Oxford University

    Adopted
    Jewish Ancestry Maternal grandfather
    Risk Factors: Insomnia, Epilepsy, Alcoholism

    FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
    Doctor Faustus (10-Oct-1967)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Nineteen Eighty-Four (10-Oct-1984)
    Circle of Two (1980)
    The Medusa Touch (22-Nov-1978)
    The Wild Geese (11-Nov-1978)
    Absolution (1978)
    Equus (16-Oct-1977)
    Exorcist II: The Heretic (17-Jun-1977)
    The Klansman (25-Oct-1974)
    Massacre in Rome (4-Oct-1973)
    The Assassination of Trotsky (13-Oct-1972)
    Bluebeard (18-Aug-1972)
    Hammersmith Is Out (12-May-1972)
    Under Milk Wood (27-Jan-1972) Narrator
    Raid on Rommel (12-Feb-1971)
    Anne of the Thousand Days (18-Dec-1969)
    Staircase (20-Aug-1969)
    Candy (17-Dec-1968)
    Where Eagles Dare (4-Dec-1968)
    Boom (26-May-1968)
    The Comedians (31-Oct-1967)
    Doctor Faustus (10-Oct-1967)
    The Taming of the Shrew (27-Feb-1967)
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (21-Jun-1966)
    The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (16-Dec-1965)
    The Sandpiper (23-Jun-1965)
    Hamlet (23-Sep-1964)
    The Night of the Iguana (6-Aug-1964)
    Becket (11-Mar-1964)
    Zulu (22-Jan-1964) Narrator [VOICE]
    The V.I.P.'s (1-Sep-1963)
    Cleopatra (12-Jun-1963)
    The Longest Day (Sep-1962)
    The Bramble Bush (24-Feb-1960)
    Ice Palace (2-Jan-1960)
    Look Back in Anger (15-Sep-1959)
    Sea Wife (16-Oct-1957)
    Bitter Victory (1957)
    Alexander the Great (28-Mar-1956)
    The Rains of Ranchipur (14-Dec-1955)
    Prince of Players (11-Jan-1955)
    The Robe (16-Sep-1953)
    The Desert Rats (8-May-1953)
    My Cousin Rachel (25-Dec-1952)

Appears on the cover of:
Time, 26-Apr-1963, DETAILS: Richard Burton

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