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 ...

Two actors starring in a new movie about Richard Burton starring Toby Jones both have strong Oxfordshire connections.

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

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor had strong links with Oxford in the 1960s. One of the highlights of 1966 in the city was when the renowned actors turned up to star in Oxford University ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

The actor playing a young Richard Burton in a new biographical film has ... information and kind of nuance about the guy". Born in Oxford, Lawtey had to put on a Welsh accent and learn some ...

Born in Oxford, Lawtey had to put on a Welsh accent ... Warren Orchard/Icon Film Distribution Toby Jones and Harry Lawtey, as Philip Burton and Richard Burton, in Mr Burton Bafta-winning actor ...