| Richard Burton  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) · O'Brien
Wagner (Dec-1983)
Lovespell (Dec-1981)
Circle of Two (1980)
Breakthrough (1-Mar-1979)
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) · Fr. Lamont
Brief Encounter (12-Nov-1974)
The Klansman (25-Oct-1974)
The Voyage (11-Mar-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)
Villain (26-May-1971)
Raid on Rommel (12-Feb-1971)
Anne of the Thousand Days (18-Dec-1969) · King Henry VIII
Staircase (20-Aug-1969)
Candy (17-Dec-1968)
Where Eagles Dare (4-Dec-1968)
Boom (26-May-1968) · Chris Flanders
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) · George
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (16-Dec-1965)
The Sandpiper (23-Jun-1965) · Dr. Edward Hewitt
Hamlet (23-Sep-1964)
The Night of the Iguana (6-Aug-1964) · Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon
Becket (11-Mar-1964)
Zulu (22-Jan-1964) · Narrator [VOICE]
The V.I.P.'s (1-Sep-1963)
Cleopatra (12-Jun-1963) · Marc Antony
The Longest Day (Sep-1962)
The Bramble Bush (24-Feb-1960)
The Tempest (3-Feb-1960)
Ice Palace (2-Jan-1960)
Look Back in Anger (15-Sep-1959) · Jimmy Porter
Sea Wife (16-Oct-1957)
Bitter Victory (1957)
Alexander the Great (28-Mar-1956) · Alexander
The Rains of Ranchipur (14-Dec-1955) · Dr. Major Rama Safti
Prince of Players (11-Jan-1955)
The Robe (16-Sep-1953) · Marcellus Gallio
The Desert Rats (8-May-1953) · Capt. MacRoberts
My Cousin Rachel (25-Dec-1952)
Green Grow the Rushes (6-Nov-1951)
Waterfront Women (26-Jul-1950)
The Last Days of Dolwyn (13-Apr-1949)
Appears on the cover of:
Time, 26-Apr-1963, DETAILS: Richard Burton
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