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Richard Burton (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor who had an extensive career primarily on stage and in film. He was known for his powerful presence and mellifluous baritone voice.
Dec 6, 2021 · However, it’s indisputable that when it came to stage and screen there was one person whose vocal ability stood out above all others. Richard Burton, a Welshman whose mellifluous baritone voice and majestic acting talent, marked him out as one of the greatest actors of his generation, was a rarified one-off.
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To go to secondary school, he moved to Port Talbot to live with his sister and met frustrated actor and BBC producer Philip Burton, who became his producer, mentor and guardian. Recognising his potential as an actor, Philip Burton knew that Richard’s voice and accent would have to change and that this would require huge amounts of methodical hard w...
Theatre microphones were unheard of, and remarkably Richard’s voice was relatively weak, so Philip Burton would take the teenager walking into the mountains and make him shout Shakespearean speeches for hours and hours. It was a residential vocal boot-camp that went on every day for three years.
Once he’d made "the voice" louder, Philip Burton then had to train him out of his Welsh accent. He taught him to remove the long vowels of the Welsh accent and introduced received pronunciation.
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Sep 2, 2009 · Burton's theatre career was running in tandem with his appearances on the silver screen. He played Coriolanus and Hamlet at the Old Vic in 1953; during the latter he embarked on a turbulent...
Richard Burton’s captivating voice became as famous as his face. It was at its finest when recorded for radio. In January 1954 Richard’s voice became part of broadcasting history when he played the part of First Voice in Dylan Thomas’ ‘Play for Voices’, Under Milk Wood.
Richard Burton (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor who had an extensive career primarily on stage and in film. He was known for his powerful presence and mellifluous baritone voice.
Nov 17, 2020 · Becoming Richard Burton, opening at National Museum Cardiff on Saturday 21 November, follows the remarkable story of how Richard Jenkins, the boy from Pontrhydyfen and Taibach, Port Talbot, became Richard Burton, the international star of stage and screen.
