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Richard Burton was a global icon - famed for his powerful, baritone voice and passionate yet tumultuous relationship with ...

And now, as the star of a new biopic of the Welsh film star Richard Burton, Lawtey slurs, stumbles and punches his way through a booze addiction. “I’m not a big drinker, really,” the 28-year-old muses ...

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 ...

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 National Portrait Gallery in London is due to close its doors starting 29 June 2020.

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 was born at home in Pontrhydyfen, near Port Talbot, and was buried under the world’s gaze in Celigny, near Geneva. That alone hints at the extraordinary path his life took ...

Film critic Antonia Quirke visited Richard Burton's South Wales birthplace – Pontrhydyfen – to discover how the actor developed his cinematic voice. As Richard Jenkins, the 12th of 13 children ...