[1] Michael Munn, Richard Burton: Prince of Players (2008), p25: "It might be assumed that women were the only ones who ever provided Richard with his greatest of pleasure. But that didn't stop him from experimenting. In Winchester, during a discussion about how he perceived acting to be a primarily homosexual craft, he told me out of the blue: I gave it a try once... Intimacy with a man. How can you know you don't like caviar if you never tried it?" Burton's experience was during his time in the RAF, in 1944. Explaining later, "I was scared to try it again... because what terrified me most was that I might have come to like it."
Father: Philip H. Burton (adoptive)
Wife: Sybil Christopher ("Sybil Williams", m. 1948, div. 1963, d. 9-Mar-2013, 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
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6336 Hollywood Blvd.
Risk Factors: Insomnia, Epilepsy, Alcoholism, Sciatica
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) · Martin Dysart
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) · Foster
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) · Smith
Boom (26-May-1968) · Chris Flanders
The Comedians (31-Oct-1967) · Brown
Doctor Faustus (10-Oct-1967)
The Taming of the Shrew (27-Feb-1967) · Petruchio
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) · Paul Andros
Cleopatra (12-Jun-1963) · Marc Antony
The Longest Day (Sep-1962) · RAF Pilot
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. 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)
AKA Richard Walter Jenkins, Jr.