A film telling the story of actor Richard Burton's formative years in a Welsh mining village is to be released during the centenary year of his birth. Mr Burton stars Harry Lawtey as a young Burton ...

"Welsh superstar" Richard Burton and his mentor have been honoured in the actor's home town, 100 years since his birth. Blue plaques were unveiled in Port Talbot to commemorate the film star and ...

Matthew Rhys is starring in the Welsh National Theatre’s production of Mark Jenkins’s 1994 one-man play, Playing Burton - Robby Klein/Getty Images for IMDb On screen, the draw of Rhys’s performances ...

Emmy Award-winning Matthew Rhys says it was "pretty terrifying" stepping onto a stage for the first time in 16 years to play Welsh icon Richard Burton. Rhys, who grew up in Cardiff and now lives in ...

The centenary of Welsh actor Richard Burton is recognized with two new self-guided trails tracing his birthplace and childhood in south Wales. Richard Burton is often associated with his relationship ...

"This is the chance to establish yourself as a classical actor in the most prestigious theater in the world." Icon Films has revealed an official UK trailer for an indie drama titled Mr Burton, made ...

Richard Burton was that rarest of beasts - a British actor equally acclaimed on stage and screen, a bona fide Hollywood star and an A list celebrity who lived pretty much the whole of his adult life ...

Years before becoming a hell-raising Hollywood icon, Richard Burton was hard-up miner's son Richie Jenkins — Marc Evans' sentimentalized but enjoyable biopic shows what's in a name change. Indeed, for ...