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

Long before Richard Burton became a star ... a nondescript miner's boy", one of 13 motherless children, who almost dropped out of school. His transformation, as this "affecting" but flawed ...

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 ...

As Richard Jenkins, the 12th of 13 children, Burton was brought up ... and met frustrated actor and BBC producer Philip Burton, who became his producer, mentor and guardian. Recognising his ...

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He would have been one of 13 children, but two died in ... taking full responsibility for him, and then Richard Jenkins changed his name to Richard Burton. "That happened for several reasons ...