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

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"A British Army colonel in a Japanese PoW camp, co-operates with the enemy and oversees his men's construction of the Burma Railway to supply Japanese troops -oblivious to Allies plan to destroy it."

Bridge on River Kwai (1957)
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#OTD 1979 – Dimitri Tiomkin, 85, Ukrainian-US composer. (b. 1894)

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#OTD 1979 – Dimitri Tiomkin, 85, Ukrainian-US composer. (b. 1894)

OscarNom: Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Corsican Brothers * The Moon and Sixpence * Bridge of San Luis Rey * Champion * High Noon (Oscar + Song) The High and Mighty (Oscar) Giant * Friendly Persuasion (1957) ImageImage
#OTD 1979 – Dimitri Tiomkin, 85, Ukrainian-US composer. (b. 1894)

OscarNom: Wild Is the Wind (1957 Song) Old Man and Sea (Oscar) Young Land (Song) Alamo (+ Song) Guns of Navarone * Town Without Pity (+ Song) 55 Days at Peking (+ Song) Fall of Roman Empire * Tchaikovsky (1969) ImageImage
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#BOTD 1928 – 2020 Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian trumpet player, composer.

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#BOTD 1928 – 2020 Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian trumpet player, composer.

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#BOTD 1928 – 2020 Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian trumpet player, composer, conductor.

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#OTD 2006 – Jack Palance, (b. Volodymyr Palahniuk), 87, US actor (b. 1919)

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#OTD 2006 – Jack Palance, 87, US actor (b. 1919)

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#OTD 2006 – Jack Palance, 87, US actor (b. 1919)

Panic in the Streets (1950) * Halls of Montezuma * Sudden Fear (OscarNom) * Shane (OscarNom) * Second Chance * Man in the Attic * The Sign of Pagan * The Big Knife * Attack * The Man Inside * Ten Seconds to Hell * The Barbarians ImageImage
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#BOTD 1931 – 2014 Mike Nichols, (b. Igor Mikhail Peschkowsky), 83, German-born US performer, filmmaker, writer.

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#BOTD 1931 – 2014 Mike Nichols, 83, German-born US performer, director, writer.

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#BOTD 1931 – 2014 Mike Nichols, 83, US director, writer.

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