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

The actor playing a young Richard Burton in a new biographical film has described how much of a privilege it was to take on ...

Richard Burton was born at home in Pontrhydyfen, near Port Talbot, and was buried under the world's gaze in Celigny, near ...

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 ...

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

As the hardscrabble early life of Richard Burton comes under the spotlight in a new film starring Toby Jones and Lesley ...

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 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 ...