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The film stars Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature and Michael Rennie, and co-stars Jay Robinson, Dean Jagger, Torin Thatcher, Richard Boone, Betta St. John, Jeff Morrow, Ernest Thesiger, and others. A sequel, Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954), continues from where The Robe ends. [5]
The Robe is a 1942 historical novel about the Crucifixion of Jesus, written by Lloyd C. Douglas.The book was one of the best-selling titles of the 1940s. It entered the New York Times Best Seller list in October 1942, four weeks later rose to No. 1, and held the position for nearly a year.
Burton received further Oscar nominations for playing a Roman officer in the Biblical epic The Robe (1953), Thomas Becket in the historical drama Becket (1964), a British MI6 agent in spy thriller The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965), King Henry VIII in the historical drama Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), and a psychiatrist treating a ...
A perceptive letter from a Canton woman is said to have inspired both a book – "The Robe" by Lloyd C. Douglas was published in 1942 and sold more than two million copies – and the 1953 film by ...
Richard Burton in 1965. This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Richard Burton.. Richard Burton was a noted Shakespearean actor of stage and screen. He received numerous accolades including a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for seven Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. on 10 November 1925 in a house at 2 Dan-y-bont in Pontrhydyfen, Glamorgan, Wales. [11] [12] He was the twelfth of thirteen children born into the Welsh-speaking family of Richard Walter Jenkins Sr. (5 March 1876– 25 March 1957), [13] and Edith Maude Jenkins (née Thomas; 28 January 1883 - 31 October 1927).
Victor John Mature (January 29, 1913 – August 4, 1999) was an American stage, film, and television actor who was a leading man in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. . His best known film roles include One Million B.C. (1940), My Darling Clementine (1946), Kiss of Death (1947), Samson and Delilah (1949), and The Robe (19
The Robe, the first movie filmed in CinemaScope, starring Richard Burton and Jean Simmons; Rogue's March, starring Peter Lawford, Janice Rule; Roman Holiday, directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning first leading role; Rosanna (La Red) –