Richard Burton — Actor (25)
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) [Movie] ReviewDB NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
9.0 (5 ratings) director: Mike Nichols actor: Elizabeth Taylor / Richard Burton …
other title: Chi ha paura di Virginia Woolf? / Hvem er bange for Virginia Woolf? …
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
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What's New Pussycat? (1965) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
What's New Pussycat?
director: Clive Donner actor: Peter Sellers / Peter O'Toole …
other title: Ciao Pussycat / Hva' nyt, Pussycat? …
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
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Candy (1968) [Movie] TMDB
Candy
director: Christian Marquand actor: Ewa Aulin / Charles Aznavour …
other title: Candy e il suo pazzo mondo
A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.
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The Desert Rats (1953) [Movie] TMDB
The Desert Rats
director: Robert Wise actor: Richard Burton / James Mason …
other title: I topi del deserto / Die Wüstenratten …
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
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Absolution (1978) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Absolution
director: Anthony Page actor: Richard Burton / Dominic Guard …
other title: Absolución / L'assoluzione
At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.
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The Medusa Touch (1978) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Medusa Touch
director: Jack Gold actor: Richard Burton / Lino Ventura …
other title: Il tocco della medusa / Der Schrecken der Medusa …
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
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Villain (1971) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Villain
director: Michael Tuchner actor: Richard Burton / Ian McShane …
other title: Il mascalzone / Skurken …
In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
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The V.I.P.s (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The V.I.P.s
director: Anthony Asquith actor: Elizabeth Taylor / Richard Burton …
other title: International Hotel / Gente Muito Importante …
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
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Staircase (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Staircase
director: Stanley Donen actor: Rex Harrison / Richard Burton …
other title: Quei due / Unter der Treppe …
An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.
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A Subject of Scandal and Concern (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
director: Tony Richardson actor: Richard Burton / George Devine …
A dramatized account of a Victorian cause célèbre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.
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The Tempest (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Tempest
director: George Schaefer actor: Maurice Evans / Richard Burton …
Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his powers to shipwreck his usurper brother on the island.
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Green Grow the Rushes (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Green Grow the Rushes
director: Derek N. Twist actor: Roger Livesey / Honor Blackman …
other title: Whisky, cognac e libertà / Donde los juncos son verdes
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.