His transformation, as this "affecting" but flawed biopic has it, was down to the man who gave him his surname: an ...

And I became sort of briefly obsessed with Richard Burton for a week or two after that," he said. Three weeks later he got ...

Richard Burton never got around to writing an official set of memoirs before his untimely, alcohol-hastened death in 1984, though the star’s posthumously published diaries are among the great volumes ...

Richard Jenkins’ teacher, PH Burton, having already taken his prodigy under his wing (indeed, under his roof) pulls strings ...

But until now, few had ever heard of Philip Burton. Philip was Richard's school teacher who spotted his potential, became his ...

A new film dramatizes the life of hard-drinking, bed-hopping Hollywood Lothario Richard Burton – and how a lonely homosexual schoolmaster mentored him. He even paid his father, dubbed Daddy Ni ...

Nicely acted and neatly packaged, Mr Burton is more than just a Richard Burton biopic. The title refers not only to the iconic Welsh actor, whose voice could crack the world in half, but also the ...

They are there for work. They’re on time.” Jones’ next venture is Mr Burton, an upcoming movie about the early life of Welsh actor Richard Burton, who was born Richard Jenkins, the son of an ...

Many know that the actor Richard Burton began life as a miner’s son called Richard Jenkins. Not so many are aware of the reason he changed his name. This film directed by Marc Evans explains how it ...

A big fan of his work, Steven Spielberg once outlined his favourite Richard Burton roles, include one that inspired one of his own films.

The actor playing a young Richard Burton in a new biographical film has described how much of a privilege it was to take on such an "iconic" role. Harry Lawtey said he was aware of the pressure of ...