Richard Burton, roles and awards

Richard Burton in 1956

The following is a complete list roles performed as well as the awards and nominations received by the Welsh stage and film actor, Richard Burton.

Awards and nominations

Year	Title of Project	Award
1951	The Lady's Not for Burning	Theatre World Award
1952	My Cousin Rachel	Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actor Nominated-Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1953	The Robe	Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actor
1958	Time Remembered (play)	Nominated-Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
1959	Look Back in Anger	Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best British Actor Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
1961	Camelot	Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
1964	Becket	Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
1964	Hamlet	Nominated-Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
1965	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	BAFTA Award for Best British Actor (also for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actor
1966	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	BAFTA Award for Best British Actor (also for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold) Bambi Award for Best International Actor Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor (2nd place, tied with Max von Sydow for Hawaii (film)) New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor (2nd place) Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
1967	The Taming of the Shrew	David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor (tied with Peter O'Toole for The Night of the Generals) Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best British Actor Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
1973	Massacre in Rome	Taormina International Film Festival Award for Best Actor
1976	The LIttle Prince (vinyl record)	Grammy Award for Best Album for Children (shared with Jonathan Winters and Billy Simpson)
1977	Equus	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actor
1984	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Valladolid International Film Festival Award for Best Actor (shared with John Hurt)
1984	Ellis Island	Nominated-Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie

For his contribution to motion pictures, Richard Burton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6336 Hollywood Boulevard.^[1] Due to his theater work, Burton is also a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.^[2]

Filmography

The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949)
Now Barabbas (1949)
The Woman with No Name (1950)
Waterfront (1950)
Green Grow the Rushes (1951)
My Cousin Rachel (1952)
The Desert Rats (1953)
The Robe (1953)
Thursday's Children (1954) (short subject) (narrator)
Prince of Players (1955)
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Alexander the Great (1956)
Bitter Victory (1957)
Sea Wife (1957)
Look Back in Anger (1959)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959) (narrator)
Ice Palace (1960)
The Bramble Bush (1960)
Dylan Thomas (1962) (short subject) ( narrator)
The Longest Day (1962)
Cleopatra (1963)
The V.I.P.s (1963)
Zulu (1964) (narrator)
Becket (1964)
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Hamlet (1964)
What's New Pussycat? (1965) (Cameo)
The Sandpiper (1965)
Big Sur (1965) (documentary short) (narrator)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Florence: Days of Destruction (1966) (documentary short) (narrator)
The Taming of the Shrew (1967) (also producer)

Doctor Faustus (1967) (also producer and director)
The Comedians (1967)
The Comedians in Africa (1967) (documentary short) (as himself)
Boom! (1968)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Candy (1968)
Staircase (1969)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Raid on Rommel (1971)
Villain (1971)
Under Milk Wood (1972)
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
Bluebeard (1972)
Hammersmith Is Out (1972)
Massacre in Rome (Italian: Rappresaglia) (1973)
Sutjeska (1973), also known as The Fifth Offensive and The Battle of Sutjeska
The Voyage (1974)
The Klansman (1974)
The Gathering Storm (1974)
Brief Encounter (1974)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Equus (1977)
Absolution (1978), also known as Murder by Confession
The Wild Geese (1978)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Breakthrough (1979)
Circle of Two (1980)
Lovespell (1981)
Alice in Wonderland (1983)
Wagner (1983)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Ellis Island (1984)

Stage productions

Measure for Measure (1944)
Druid's Rest (1944)
Castle Anna (1948)
The Lady's Not for Burning (1949)
The Lady's Not for Burning (1950)
A Phoenix Too Frequent (1950)
The Boy With A Cart (1950)
Legend of Lovers (1951)
The Tempest (1951)
Henry V (1951)
Henry IV (1951)
Montserrat (1952)
The Tempest (1953)
King John (1953)
Hamlet (1953)
Coriolanus (1953)
Hamlet (1953)
Twelfth Night (1953)
Henry V (1955)
Othello (1956)
Time Remembered (1957)
Camelot (1960)
Hamlet (1964)
A Poetry Reading (1964)
Doctor Faustus (1966)
Equus (1976)
War of the Worlds (1978)
Camelot (1980)
Private Lives (1983)

Television

Here's Lucy – episode, "Lucy Meets the Burtons" (1970) (as himself)
Mooch Goes to Hollywood - television movie (1971) (as narrator)
The Fall Guy – episode, "Reluctant Travel Companion" (1982) (as himself)

Soundtrack

Camelot (musical) (1960)
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978) (the journalist/protagonist)
Poems by Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood, Fern Hill, And death shall have no dominion, Lament, Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
Other poems by: John Donne – The Good-Morrow, Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Frost at Midnight

References

↑ http://www.walkoffame.com/richard-burton.
↑ "Broadway's Best". New York Times. Retrieved 15 February 2014.