Альбомы исполнителя
Reaching Beats
2023 · сингл
Stairway To Heaven (Nigel Lowis Remixes)
2018 · сингл
Stairway to Heaven (Remastered)
2017 · сингл
Stairway To Heaven
2017 · альбом
Bad Luck
2016 · Мини-альбом
Richard Burton Reads 15 Poems By Dylan Thomas
2014 · альбом
Richard Burton Reads John Donne
2014 · альбом
Becket (Dialogue Highlights)
2013 · альбом
Ghostly Poetry
2012 · альбом
Legendary Scenes from Shakespeare
2012 · альбом
Richard Burton Poetry Collection - Volume 2
2012 · альбом
Richard Burton Reads The Rape of Lucrece
2011 · сингл
The Poetry Of Thomas Hardy
2011 · альбом
Fat Samba
2011 · альбом
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
2011 · альбом
The Richard Burton Poetry Collection
2010 · альбом
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
2010 · сингл
Richard Burton Reads the Poetry of John Donne
2009 · альбом
Richard Burton Reads the Poetry of Thomas Hardy
2009 · альбом
Simple Major Simple Minor
2006 · альбом
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Биография
b. Richard Walter Jenkins, 10 November 1925, Pontrhydyfen, near Neath, Wales, d. 5 August 1984, Céligny, Geneva, Switzerland. Between leaving school and going up to Oxford University Burton appeared on stage in Liverpool, England. This was in 1943 and after service in the Royal Air Force, 1944-47, he returned to the stage and also made his first appearance in films. Almost always in straight dramatic roles, he built a secure reputation in the UK and also appeared on Broadway in 1950. In the early 50s he made his first Hollywood film and was in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. He continued to appear on stage and in films in both the UK and the USA. His first role in a musical came in 1960 with Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe’s Camelot. Opening at New York’s Majestic Theatre on 3 December 1960, the show ran with moderate success for a few months before a segment was performed on television on The Ed Sullivan Show. This boosted box-office bookings and the show ran for more than two years. Burton won a Tony Award as Best Actor In A Musical. Although not a singer, Burton’s mellifluous speaking voice allowed him to do wonders with the songs ‘Camelot’ and ‘How To Handle A Woman’, and his duet, with Julie Andrews, ‘What Do The Simple Folk Do?’. The original cast album was in the US charts for almost three years and spent six weeks at number 1. Through the 60s and 70s, Burton’s film career was dominant and as an international superstar he enjoyed celebrity. Elizabeth Taylor’s role in his divorce from his first wife was the subject of the song ‘After Burton, Who?’, by Louis Botto and Arthur Siegel. Celebrated he might have been, but he was rarely offered good dramatic roles in worthwhile films. In 1980 Burton reprised his role in an American touring production of Camelot, which went to Broadway in July that year.