“I was fairly sloshed for five years. I was up there with John Barrymore and Robert Newton. The ghosts of them were looking over my shoulder.”
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Richard Burton
Richard Walter Burton was a Welsh actor.
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entertainment · Welsh actor (1925–1984) · film actor · diarist · stage actor · actor · film director · film producer · producer · director · musician · also Richard Burton, Richard Walter Jenkins, Jr., Richard Jenkins, Burton
Born 10 November 1925 · Died 5 August 1984 · Q151973
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2026· 8 entries
“There would be times when he couldn”
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“I believe that everyone should pay them — except actors.”
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“Has anyone ever told you that you”
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“In a wretched part, Richard Burton showed exceptional ability.”
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“would rather have played for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at The Old Vic”
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Public attention spiked: 17,160 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.1× the usual 3,346, with 0 article edits.
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The Guardian: Boom! A melodrama fit for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s doomed love affair
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2025· 7 entries
The Guardian: The Wild Geese review – Richard Burton and Roger Moore lead cast of amigos in preposterous African caper
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The Guardian: Richard Burton: Wild Genius review – zero analysis, but loads of euphemisms for extreme hotness
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The Guardian: Mr Burton review – Toby Jones excels as Richard Burton’s inspirational teacher in drab biopic
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The Guardian: Mr Burton review – the teacher who inspired and encouraged screen legend Richard Burton
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The Guardian: ‘His genius is elusive’: Harry Lawtey and Toby Jones on bringing Richard Burton back to the screen
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The Guardian: ‘A beloved figure’: Welsh village ready for tourists as Richard Burton biopic opens
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Mr Burton, a British biographical drama film starring Harry Lawtey as a young Richard Burton and Toby Jones as Philip Burton, was released
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: The hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor – as seen by her son: ‘Her love for Richard Burton never went away’
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The Guardian: From Bennifer to Burton-Taylor: why some couples can’t stop making and breaking up
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The Guardian: Ian McShane: ‘When I was about to get it on with Richard Burton, he said I reminded him of Elizabeth’
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Erotic Vagrancy: Everything About Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor review – an epic hymn to a ‘joyously vulgar’ pair
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2013· 1 entry
With a motion pictures star located at 6336 Hollywood Boulevard
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2012· 1 entry
Yale University Press published The Richard Burton Diaries
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2011· 1 entry
However, Liam Neeson was cast in the part for a "New Generation" re-recording, and replaced Burton as the hologram character in the stage show
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2000· 1 entry
Ellis Amburn's biography of Elizabeth Taylor suggested that Burton had an affair with Olivier and tried to seduce Eddie Fisher, although this was strongly denied by Burton's younger brother Graham Jenkins
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1984· 3 entries
Died 1984-08-05.
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“Richard Burton is now my epitaph, my cross, my title, my image. I have achieved a kind of diabolical fame. It has nothing to do with my talents as an actor. That counts for little now. I am the diabolically famous Richard Burton.”
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Burton was married to a freelance production assistant Sally Hay
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1976· 3 entries
Awarded Special Tony Award (1976).
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“they say we generate more business activity than one of the smaller African nations”
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Burton received a Grammy Award in the category of Best Recording for Children for his narration of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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1974· 2 entries
Burton spent six weeks in a clinic to recuperate from a period during which he had drunk three bottles of vodka a day
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Between his divorce from and remarriage to Taylor, he was briefly engaged to Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia
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1972· 1 entry
Burton played Leon Trotsky in The Assassination of Trotsky
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1968· 2 entries
Burton's elder brother, Ifor, slipped and fell, breaking his neck, after a lengthy drinking session with Burton in Céligny
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Burton enjoyed a commercial blockbuster with Clint Eastwood in the World War II action film Where Eagles Dare; he received a $1 million fee plus a share of the film's box office gross
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1966· 1 entry
Burton and Taylor enjoyed their greatest on-screen success in Mike Nichols's film version of Edward Albee's black comedy play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
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1964· 1 entry
Burton portrayed Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury who was martyred by Henry II of England, in the film adaptation of Jean Anouilh's historical play Becket
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1962· 1 entry
Burton appeared as Flying Officer David Campbell, an RAF fighter pilot in The Longest Day, which included a large ensemble cast featuring: McDowall, George Segal, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Mel Ferrer, Robert Mitchum, Rod
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for Camelot (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
Burton appeared in two films for Warner Bros
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1958· 2 entries
Released album “Love Poems Of John Donne”.
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Burton appeared with Yvonne Furneaux in DuPont Show of the Month's 90-minute television adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff
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1957· 1 entry
Burton had earned a total of £82,000 from Prince of Players, The Rains of Ranchipur and Alexander the Great, but only managed to keep £6,000 for personal expenses due to taxation imposed by the then-ruling Conservative g
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1956· 1 entry
Released album “Richard Burton Reads 15 Poems By Dylan Thomas”.
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1951· 3 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1951).
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Was as a musician named Orphée in Jean Anouilh's Eurydice opposite Dorothy McGuire and fellow Welsh actor Hugh Griffith
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At the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon to mixed reviews, but Burton received acclaim for his role as Prince Hal, with many critics dubbing him "the next Laurence Olivier"
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1948· 1 entry
Burton moved to London to make contact with H
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1943· 2 entries
That Richard qualified for admission into a university after excelling in the School Certificate Examination
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Burton played Professor Henry Higgins in a school production of another Shaw play directed by Philip, Pygmalion
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1939· 1 entry
Richard was bolstered by winning a certificate at Maesteg Town Hall during a local eisteddfod and wanted to repeat his success
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-11-10.
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