Dr. Zhivago
Dolores Neese
Burton had two cameo appearances, well, really only one, since the second
one was a voice off camera. In one scene Laura is confessing to a priest
that she has had an affair. The priest's voice was Richard Burton! He was
in heavy makeup with a full beard, and was looking sideways, so he
couldn't be recognized. I would know that voice anywhere!
Can someone verify this?????
Dolores
Gloria Bond
No..not Richard Burton. I think the voice of the priest is the sort of
voice with a similar British accent to Burton. But Burton wasn't in
the film. And I doubt that in 1965 Burton would have taken a
role where he wasn't even recognized. He was too big a celebrity
for that.
But I hadn't noticed the voice before...that's something I'll be
listening
to more carefully!
gloria
ps...great film,isn't it??!!!!!!!
Bob Morris
>I saw Dr. Zhivago for the first time (!) last week and I swear Richard
>Burton had two cameo appearances, well, really only one, since the second
>one was a voice off camera. In one scene Laura is confessing to a priest
>that she has had an affair. The priest's voice was Richard Burton! He was
>in heavy makeup with a full beard, and was looking sideways, so he
>couldn't be recognized. I would know that voice anywhere!
>Can someone verify this?????
Stephen Silverman's book says that the Priest was played by Jose Nieto.
Incredibly, if it's the same guy, he became a musician and there is a double
CD in which one is Maurice Jarre playing Lean stuff and the other Jose Nieto!
(varese sarabande VSD2-5319) I'll bet it is! The CD was done in Spain and so
was much of Zhivago.
BTW, Kevin Brownlow's book David Lean: a biography is out in April
probably in UK only at cost of 25 pounds. It will have 950 pages.
There is also a new book entitled Lawrence of Arabia: the lost Epics
coming out in the UK in April, as is Peter O'Toole's bio vol II.
There is a web UK book site that I am checking on for ordering these.
LRM
Trawby
> I saw Dr. Zhivago for the first time (!) last week and I swear Richard
> Burton had two cameo appearances, well, really only one, since the second
> one was a voice off camera. In one scene Laura is confessing to a priest
> that she has had an affair. The priest's voice was Richard Burton! He was
> in heavy makeup with a full beard, and was looking sideways, so he
> couldn't be recognized. I would know that voice anywhere!
I saw Zhivago when it first came out twice, and a number of times on the tube.
Regardless of the name of the actor that is credited with playing the priest, I
have always been convinced it is Richard Burton. I ran the film recently and
paid particularly close attention. The priest even looks like Burton. You
have to see the film widescreen because the standard tv print cuts the priest's
image for the most part.
Despite his stellar status in those days, Burton did do a couple of cameos,
recorded the narration for "Zulu", and did Churchill's voice in the tv series
"The Valiant Years." My vote goes to Burton for the priest's part. Too bad
both Burton and Lean are dead.
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Ralph
> I would bet loads of money that the confessor priest is definitely Richard Burton.
It’s definitely José Nieto (1903-1982) as the priest in “Doctor Zhivago.”
Though he spoke English well, it isn’t altogether impossible to believe his
voice was dubbed, but to my ear while playing the Blu-ray version it’s
Burtonesque and not Burton, who, during 1964, was filming “The Sandpiper”
and “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,” and in 1965 was heavy into
making “Virginia Woolf.” Since trivia matters so much, he would have
eventually confirmed if he had, maybe to someone like Dick Cavett, to whom he
gave one of his best TV interviews. And certainly after his death his
biographers would have; the best of them, Melvyn Bragg, has nothing to say
about it.
As for the musician stuff, there’s a José Nieto, the composer, born in Madrid
in 1942 and still living.
Michael Pendragon
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Don't you think, on a "Doctor Zhivago" board, that people would have investigated by checking the film credits before asking such a puzzling question?
We're not all Millennials. Especially in a "Doctor Zhivago" thread.