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Jan 7, 2022 · On August 5, 1984, Burton died of a cerebral hemorrhage in his adopted country of Switzerland, a sudden ailment caused indirectly by his years of abusive drinking. He was 58 years old. Richard Burton was widely regarded as an almost supernaturally gifted actor on both stage and screen. Born in Wales, he died in Switzerland at 58 years old.
Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in 1925 into a Welsh (Cymraeg)-speaking family in Pontrhydyfen to Edith Maude (Thomas) and Richard Walter Jenkins, a coal miner. The twelfth of thirteen children, his mother died while he was a toddler and his father later abandoned the family, leaving him to be raised by an elder sister, Cecilia.
Richard Burton. Richard Walter Burton CBE (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh stage and cinema actor. He appeared in more than 40 movies and received 7 Academy Award nominations. He was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. In the mid-1960s, Burton went up into the ranks of the top box office stars [1 ...
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.
Richard Burton once shot a steamy scene with Ian McShane — and the resemblance between the Deadwood star and Burton’s then-wife made it an easy sequence. In a Q&A with The Guardian, the John ...
Aug 6, 1984 · Mr. Burton was born Richard Jenkins on Nov. 10, 1925, the 12th of 13 children of a hard-drinking but charming coal miner in the village of Pontrhydfen, South Wales, whose chief possessions were a ...
Jan 19, 2024 · Elizabeth and Richard did not dawdle, as it was already ten thirty a.m. and Mike Nichols was expecting them on Stage Two. On the way over, Burton told Lehman how excited he was about the script.
