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Richard Burton

Actor · 83 credits · 43 in highly-rated films

Best known for Where Eagles Dare (1968)

Frequent collaborators: Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Hordern, Clint Eastwood, Cyril Cusack, John Huston

Best Richard Burton movies by genre

Movies (82 total, ranked by score)

  1. Where Eagles Dare

    1968 · ★ 7.5 (1,019 votes)

    Adventure, War

    1

  2. The Longest Day

    1962 · ★ 7.6 (1,048 votes)

    War, Action, Drama

    2

  3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    1966 · ★ 7.7 (928 votes)

    Drama

    3

  4. Cleopatra

    1963 · ★ 7.1 (867 votes)

    Drama, History, Romance

    4

  5. Nineteen Eighty-Four

    1984 · ★ 6.8 (1,686 votes)

    Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

    5

  6. Anne of the Thousand Days

    1969 · ★ 7.1 (132 votes)

    Drama, History, Romance

    6

  7. The Taming of the Shrew

    1967 · ★ 6.9 (185 votes)

    Comedy, Romance

    7

  8. The Wild Geese

    1978 · ★ 6.8 (292 votes)

    Action

    8

  9. The Night of the Iguana

    1964 · ★ 7.2 (167 votes)

    Drama, Romance

    9

  10. Equus

    1977 · ★ 7.0 (144 votes)

    Drama, Mystery, Thriller

    10

  11. The Robe

    1953 · ★ 6.8 (292 votes)

    Drama, History

    11

  12. Look Back in Anger

    1959 · ★ 6.7 (78 votes)

    Drama

    12

  13. Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live

    2006 · ★ 6.9 (16 votes)

    Music

    13

  14. The Medusa Touch

    1978 · ★ 6.8 (202 votes)

    Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction

    14

  15. The Sandpiper

    1965 · ★ 6.4 (56 votes)

    Drama, Romance

    15

  16. The Last Days of Dolwyn

    1949 · ★ 6.8 (6 votes)

    Drama

    16

  17. Bitter Victory

    1957 · ★ 6.4 (55 votes)

    Drama, War

    17

  18. Waterfront

    1950 · ★ 6.4 (11 votes)

    Drama

    18

  19. My Cousin Rachel

    1952 · ★ 6.7 (52 votes)

    Mystery, Romance, Drama

    19

  20. The Desert Rats

    1953 · ★ 6.3 (101 votes)

    War, Action

    20

  21. Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

    2024 · ★ 6.9 (15 votes)

    Documentary

    21

  22. Alexander the Great

    1956 · ★ 6.1 (109 votes)

    Adventure, History, Drama

    22

  23. The Fifth Column

    1960 · ★ 9.5 (1 votes)

    TV Movie, Drama

    23

  24. The Bramble Bush

    1960 · ★ 5.5 (4 votes)

    Drama

    24

  25. I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind

    1983

    TV Movie, Drama

    25

  26. In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

    1988 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    26

  27. On Location: Where Eagles Dare

    1968 · ★ 5.3 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    27

  28. Julie Andrews Forever

    2019 · ★ 7.6 (7 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    28

  29. To the Ends of the Earth

    1983 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    29

  30. Villain

    1971 · ★ 6.1 (48 votes)

    Crime, Drama, Thriller

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.