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

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

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

Philip Burton lent his young protégé his name and helped him on his way to international stardom.

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

The aspiring actor took the man’s surname ... "I absolutely think Richard had a sexual relationship with Philip Burton, because of what he said to me, and how he said it. "If he’d just been ...

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.

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

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 ...

Richard Burton won the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for Camelot and the Theatre World Award for Performance in The Lady's Not For Burning.

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 ...