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Quick Facts
- NAME: Sir Richard Burton
- OCCUPATION: Film Actor
- BIRTH DATE: November 10, 1925
- DEATH DATE: August 05, 1984
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Pontrhydyfen, Wales
- PLACE OF DEATH: Céligny, Switzerland
- Originally: Richard Walter Jenkins
Best Known For
Welsh actor Richard Burton is best known for his career in cinema and his turbulent affair with actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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Welsh actor Richard Burton, legend of American cinema, was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actor but didn't win once. He was one of Hollywood's highest paying actors at one point and took roles in such classics as Cleopatra, The Robe and The Taming of the Shrew. His affair and two marriages to Elizabeth Taylor kept him in the media's spotlight for much of his life.
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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
View groupHollywood's leading lady Elizabeth Taylor was married eight times—and two of them were to Richard Burton. The two fell in love on the set of the 1963 film Cleopatra, and though both were married at the time, by March 1964 they divorced their previous spouses and married each other. Their turbulent relationship kept them in the papers, and they divorced in 1974 and remarried in 1975, only to split again a year later.
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