How old was Richard Burton in the movie Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Richard Burton was 57 in Nineteen Eighty-Four when he played the character 'O'Brien'.
That was over 40 years ago in 1984.
In 1984 he died aged just 58, starring in 89 films in his career, 9 of those after Nineteen Eighty-Four was first released. If he were alive today he would be 98.
How old do you think he looks in the movie?
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, I think Richard Burton looks:
Did you know?
- Director Michael Radford has worked with Richard Burton just once in his career.
- Richard Burton's first movie was as 'Gareth' in The Last Days of Dolwyn, released in 1949 when he was 22
- Nineteen Eighty-Four scores 6.84 out of 10 on TMDB.
