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Good and bad roles
Richard Burton discusses the good and bad roles he took during his career. This clip was taken from the programme Kane on Friday: Richard Burton, which was broadcast in 1977.
In this clip Burton describes living through a 'male menopause' in which he drank heavily and "didn't really care what he did" in his film career, adding that he was more careful in choosing his stage roles.
During his stage career he received a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway performance in Time Remembered (1958), and won a Tony for playing King Arthur in the 1960 musical Camelot. In 1964 he gained a third nomination for reprising the role of Hamlet, in a 1964 production directed by John Gielgud, and he won the 1976 Special Award Tony.
Throughout his long film career Burton was nominated on six occasions for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and once for Best Supporting Actor. Despite this he never won. However, he won two Golden Globes, for My Cousin Rachel as most promising newcomer in 1953 and in 1978 for best actor for Equus.
