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Susan Hunt. Married in August 1976; divorced in 1982. He began life as Richard Walter Jenkins in Pontrhydyfen, a mining town in South Wales, on Nov. 10, 1925, the twelfth of 13 children born to Richard "Dic" Jenkins and his wife Edith, who died at the age of 44 while giving birth to the thirteenth child. Because his father was a heavy drinker ...
May 19, 2019 · Richard Walter Jenkins was a Welsh coal miner, short & robust , a "twelve-pints-a-day man" who sometimes went off on drinking and gambling sprees for weeks. Burton later claimed, by family telling, that "He looked very much like me ...
Jul 13, 2016 · Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins on November 10, 1925, in Pontrhydyfen, three miles north of Port Talbot. Today, it’s just a few minutes’ drive from the M4 motorway, but you’re quickly plunged into the narrow Afan Valley and no little sense of a time warp.
Born Richard Walter Jenkins on Nov. 10, 1925, in Pontrhydyfen, Wales, he was the 12th of 13 children of a hard-drinking Welsh coal miner and his wife. It is said that he began to smoke at age 8 and drink at 12, and eventually he was taken under the wing of his schoolmaster and tutor Philip H. Burton, who recognized the young man's acting talent.
Aug 5, 1984 · Name: Richard Walter Jenkins [Richard Walter Burton] ; Death Date: 5 Aug 1984; Death Place: Pays de Galles Celigny Geneva Switzerland; Probate Date: 13 May 1985; Registry: London Obituary Index - Ancestry.com. Web: Tacoma, Washington, Obituary Index, 1882-2015 [database on-line].
The man we know as Richard Burton was born under the name of Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. on 10th November 1925 in Pontrhydyfen, a small village in West Glamorgan, Wales. As can be discerned from the name, he was the son of Richard Walter Jenkins Sr. and his wife Edith. Richard Jr. was the twelfth child of Richard Sr. and Edith.
May 13, 2024 · Richard Burton (born November 10, 1925, Pontrhydyfen, Wales—died August 5, 1984, Geneva, Switzerland) was a Welsh stage and motion-picture actor noted for his portrayals of highly intelligent and articulate men who were world-weary, cynical, or self-destructive. Jenkins was the 12th of 13 children born to a Welsh coal miner.
