Richard Burton
Mr Burton review – Toby Jones excels as Richard Burton’s inspirational teacher in drab biopic
Jones plays the schoolmaster who spotted the Welsh actor’s raw potential in Marc Evans’s sluggish drama
Wendy Ide
06, Apr, 2025 @10:00 AM
Mr Burton review – the teacher who inspired and encouraged screen legend Richard Burton
Toby Jones plays the spaniel-eyed schoolmaster setting Harry Lawtey’s needy young pupil on course for haughty international stardom
Peter Bradshaw
02, Apr, 2025 @10:00 AM
‘His genius is elusive’: Harry Lawtey and Toby Jones on bringing Richard Burton back to the screen
In new film Mr Burton, the Industry star plays a young Richard Burton, with Jones as the mentor who helped him find his acting chops. The duo discuss trying to understand a cultural icon – and how to nail that voice
Laura Barton
29, Mar, 2025 @11:55 AM
‘A beloved figure’: Welsh village ready for tourists as Richard Burton biopic opens
Events planned in Pontrhydyfen for centenary of actor’s birth, as many recall his visits home with Elizabeth Taylor
Steven Morris
28, Mar, 2025 @12:00 PM
The hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor – as seen by her son: ‘Her love for Richard Burton never went away’
She despised hypocrisy and was fiercely loyal to her friends, while navigating the pressures and pleasures of being the world’s biggest star. Chris Wilding discusses the legend and legacy of the mother he loved
Simon Hattenstone
23, Sep, 2024 @4:00 AM
‘I hope this changes perceptions’: documentary focuses on the real Elizabeth Taylor
The ‘rebel superstar’ was decades ahead of her time, a new three-part series produced by her protégé Kim Kardashian shows
Michael Hogan
22, Sep, 2024 @11:00 AM
From Bennifer to Burton-Taylor: why some couples can’t stop making and breaking up
As Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck go their separate ways again, why won’t some just call time on doomed affairs?
Andrew Anthony
24, Aug, 2024 @3:00 PM
Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint! Her best films – ranked
Born on 4 July, one of the last true stars of Hollywood’s golden age celebrates her centenary next week. We look back at the landmark roles of a 75-year career
Anne Billson
27, Jun, 2024 @11:37 AM
Chris Williams obituary
Other lives: Historian who specialised in research on Welsh radical traditions and edited Richard Burton’s diaries
Jeremy Morris
15, May, 2024 @4:33 PM
Ian McShane: ‘When I was about to get it on with Richard Burton, he said I reminded him of Elizabeth’
The actor on the fate of Lovejoy’s leather jacket, appearing nude on the cover of Cosmo and how to make a perfect cup of tea
As told to Rich Pelley
09, May, 2024 @11:00 AM
Dylan Thomas: The BBC Radio Collection audiobook review – a spellbinding homage
Richard Burton’s reading of Under Milk Wood is the centrepiece of a collection of works written about and by the ‘rock star author’
Fiona Sturges
16, Feb, 2024 @12:00 PM
Erotic Vagrancy: Everything About Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor review – an epic hymn to a ‘joyously vulgar’ pair
Drink-fuelled fights, tantrums, fratricide… Roger Lewis’s exhaustive but exhausting study of the Burton-Taylor partnership is as extravagant and uncompromising as its badly behaved stars
Anthony Quinn
22, Oct, 2023 @6:00 AM
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