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

The ‘Industry’ star has left the small screen behind to play a real-life Welsh legend in the new film ‘Mr Burton’. He speaks ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 writing is on the wall: “There is one place you belong to, and in my case it’s Pontrhydyfen.” The quote sings out from a ...

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 ...

Before Richard Burton became the most famous actor Wales has ever produced, he was Richard Jenkins, a nondescript miner’s boy from Port Talbot, who nearly didn’t finish school in the early 1940s.