Richard Burton (1925-1984)
68.0 TOPICAL actor score · #250 of 1,977 actors
Richard Burton (1925-1984) has a TOPICAL actor score of 68.0 - ranked 250 of the 1,977 actors TOPICAL ranks. Their strongest parts are career standing and prime. They've won 1 acting honour from 4 nominations, including the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Their best ten-year run was 1962-1971. Best films: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), The Longest Day (1962), Becket (1964).
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.
Acting honours73
Prime90
Their movies69
Credits62
Career standing93
- Acting honours1 win, 4 nominations - incl. Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
- Prime1962-1971
- Credits63 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 16 scored films (15 as a lead)
- Known inWikipedia articles in 90 languages
“Burton's perceived failure to live up to those expectations disappointed some critics and colleagues; his heavy drinking added to his reputation as a great performer who had wasted his talent.”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 8/10
Richard Burton's scored films
| TOPICAL rank | Film | Year | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 237 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | 2 |
| 401 | The Longest Day | 1962 | 4 |
| 1,093 | Cleopatra | 1963 | 2 |
| 1,190 | Becket | 1964 | 1 |
| 2,233 | The Night of the Iguana | 1964 | 1 |
| 2,334 | Where Eagles Dare | 1968 | 1 |
| 2,431 | The Taming of the Shrew | 1967 | 2 |
| 2,446 | Anne of the Thousand Days | 1969 | 1 |
| 2,544 | The Spy Who Came In from the Cold | 1965 | 1 |
| 2,833 | The Robe | 1953 | 1 |
| 2,997 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | 1984 | 2 |
| 3,366 | Equus | 1977 | 1 |
| 3,560 | My Cousin Rachel | 1952 | 2 |
| 3,931 | The Desert Rats | 1953 | 1 |
| 5,404 | The V.I.P.s | 1963 | 2 |
| 5,453 | The Rains of Ranchipur | 1955 | 2 |