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#BOTD 1925 – 1984 Richard Burton, (b. Jenkins), 58, Welsh actor. Oscar nominated seven times, never won.

My Cousin Rachel (1952 OscarNom) * The Robe (OscarNom) * Alexander the Great * Look Back in Anger * Cleopatra * Becket (OscarNom) * Spy Who Came in from the Cold (OscarNom)

#BOTD 1925 – 1984 Richard Burton, 58, Welsh actor.

"From the first time I saw you, entering Rome on that monstrous stone beast, shining in the sun like a little gold toy, how I envied Caesar. Not his conquests or his triumphs. Not his titles. I envied him you."

Cleopatra (1963)

#BOTD 1925 – 1984 Richard Burton, 58, Welsh actor.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (OscarNom) * Taming of the Shrew * Where Eagles Dare * Anne of Thousand Days (OscarNom) * Assassination of Trotsky * Massacre in Rome * Equus (OscarNom) * Medusa Touch * Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

#BOTD 1925 – 1984 Richard Burton, 58, Welsh actor.

“This is a war! It's graphic, unpleasant, it's fought on a tiny scale, at close range; fought with innocent life sometimes, I admit. But it's nothing, nothing besides other wars - the last or the next.” Alec Leamas

#JohnLeCarre