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Richard Burton

Burton in 1955
Burton in 1955
Janam
Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.

10 November 1925(1925-11-10)
Maut5 August 1984 (aged 58)
Céligny, Switzerland
Burial placeOld Cemetery ("Vieux Cimetière")
of Céligny
ShikshaExeter College, Oxford
KaamActor
Sakriya warsh1943–1984
Jivan Saathis
Larrkan3, including Kate Burton
InaamFull list

Richard Burton (/ˈbɜːrtən/; janam Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 19255 August 1984) ek Welsh actor rahaa.[1]

Burton ke uske awaaj ke khaatir jaana jaawat rahaa.[2] 1950s me, Burton apne ke ek formidable Shakespearean actor banais aur 1964 me Hamlet me ek yaad kare waala performance karis rahaa.[3] Critic Kenneth Tynan, uske "the natural successor to Olivier" batais rahaa. Jab Burton ii expectation ke sahi nai kare paais[4] tab kuch critics aur colleagues disappointed rahin; uske jaada daaru piye ke kaaran log sochat rahin ki uu ek barra actor hoe sakat rahaa agar uu pita nai.[5] Fir bhi Burton ke uske generation ke sab se achchhaa actor maana jaae hae. [6]

Burton ke saat dafe Academy Award khaatir nominate karaa gais rahaa lekin uu kabhi nai jiitis. Uske nominate karaa gais rahaa ii film me performance ke khaatir; My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Robe (1953), Becket (1964), The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) aur Equus (1977). Uske dher sabaasi, jisme ek BAFTA Award, ek Golden Globe Award aur ek Grammy Award hae. Uske Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical dewa gais rahaa uske King Arthur ke role khaatir Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot (1960) me.

Mid-1960s me, Burton top box-office star banaa.[7] Late 1960s talak, uu sab se jaada paisa kamae waala actors me se ek rahaa, jab uske $1 million se jaada fees aur gross receipts ke ek share milat rahaa.[8] Burton, public me aapan duusra aurat, Elizabeth Taylor ke nagiich rahaa. Duuno, dui dafe saadi aur dui dafe ek duusre se divorce kare rahin aur sab time news me rahin.[9]

  1. Obituary Variety, 8 August 1984
  2. Clarke, Gerald (20 August 1984). "Show Business: The Mellifluous Prince of Disorder". Time 124 (8). Archived from the original on 16 May 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240516104741/https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,954366,00.html. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
  3. "The death of Richard Burton", BBC. “In the 1950s and early 60s Burton was the darling of the theatre circuit and his 1964 interpretation of Hamlet was outstanding. He was, many felt, the natural successor to Olivier.”
  4. Kalfatovic, Mary C. (2005). American National Biography: Supplement 2. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0195222029.
  5. Sellers, Robert (2009). Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed. New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books. p. 145. ISBN 978-0312553999. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312553999/page/145.
  6. Lesley Brill (13 October 1997). John Huston's Filmmaking. Cambridge University Press. pp. 94. ISBN 978-0-521-58670-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=TzDKvgMUzToC&pg=PA94.
  7. "Quigley's Top Ten Box-Office Champions (1932–Present)". Tony Barnes Journal. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  8. "Biography for Richard Burton (I)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  9. "Richard Burton: Life, 1957–1970". The Official Richard Burton Website. 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2014.