query: who all was richard burton married to?

title: Richard Burton

text: was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. Selected works, based on award nominations |- !colspan="3" style="background:#C1D8FF;"| Husband of Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton Richard Burton, CBE (; born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 19255 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his mellifluous baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable performance of Hamlet in 1964. He was called "the natural successor to Olivier" by critic and dramaturge Kenneth Tynan. An alcoholic, Burton's failure to live up to those expectations disappointed critics and colleagues and fuelled his legend

title: Sally Burton

text: Sally Burton Sally Burton ("née" Hay), also known as Sally Hay Burton (born 21 January 1948), is an author and theatre producer, and was the fourth and last wife of actor Richard Burton. She was born in Braintree, Essex, the daughter of journalist Jack Hay. Burton worked as a freelance production assistant on the set of the TV mini-series "Wagner" when Richard Burton met her. During a seven-month tour of the United States with Noël Coward's play "Private Lives", in which Elizabeth Taylor was Richard Burton's co-star, Burton and Hay married on 3 July 1983 in Las Vegas; it was

title: Richard Burton

text: a recipient of BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Tony Awards for Best Actor. In the mid-1960s, Burton ascended into the ranks of the top box office stars. By the late 1960s, Burton was one of the highest-paid actors in the world, receiving fees of $1 million or more plus a share of the gross receipts. Burton remains closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor. The couple's turbulent relationship was rarely out of the news. Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. on 10 November 1925 in a house at 2 Dan-y-bont in Pontrhydyfen, Glamorgan, Wales.

title: Richard Burton

text: courted further controversy in 1976 when he wrote an unsolicited article for "The Observer" about his friend and fellow Welsh thespian Stanley Baker, who had recently died from pneumonia at the age of 48; the article upset Baker's widow with its depiction of her late husband as an uncultured womaniser. Melvyn Bragg, in the notes of his "Richard Burton: A Life", says that Burton told Laurence Olivier around 1970 of his (unfulfilled) plans to make his own film of "Macbeth" with Elizabeth Taylor, knowing that this would hurt Olivier because he had failed to gain funding for his own cherished

title: Richard Burton

text: Hedda Hopper considered Burton's success in his first three films in Hollywood to be "the most exciting success story since Gregory Peck's contracts of ten years back". At a party held at Simmons' residence in Bel Air, Los Angeles to celebrate the success of "The Robe", Burton met Elizabeth Taylor for the first time. Taylor, who at the time was married to actor Michael Wilding and was pregnant with their first child, recalled her first impression of Burton being "rather full of himself. I seem to remember that he never stopped talking, and I had given him the cold fish

title: Richard Burton

text: Edward Fox, and the character changed to Faulkner's younger brother. Burton was married five times, twice consecutively to Taylor. From 1949 until 1963, he was married to Sybil Williams, with whom he had two daughters, Kate (born 1957) and Jessica Burton (born 1959). His marriages to Taylor lasted from 15 March 1964 to 26 June 1974 and from 10 October 1975 to 29 July 1976. Their first wedding was at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal. Of their marriage, Taylor proclaimed, "I'm so happy you can't believe it. This marriage will last forever." Their second wedding took place sixteen months after

title: Burton & Taylor

text: Burton & Taylor Burton & Taylor is a BBC Four TV film directed by Richard Laxton, and based on the legendary acting duo and former husband and wife, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, during their preparation for a 1983 theatrical production of the play, "Private Lives". The film stars Helena Bonham Carter and Dominic West in the title roles. In 1983, ageing movie stars Richard Burton (Dominic West) and Elizabeth Taylor (Helena Bonham Carter) are in New York City preparing to perform the Noël Coward play, "Private Lives". The pair have been married and divorced twice before, but remain friends

title: Richard Burton

text: Williams wrote especially for him, and was subsequently selected when Williams sent him a telegram that quoted a line from "The Corn Is Green" "You have won the scholarship." This led to Burton making his mainstream film debut. Filming took place during the summer and early autumn months of 1948. It was on the sets of this film that Burton was introduced by Williams to Sybil Williams, whom he married on 5 February 1949 at a register office in Kensington. "The Last Days of Dolwyn" opened to generally positive critical reviews. Burton was praised for his "acting fire, manly bearing

title: Richard Burton

text: as Mark Antony in director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's magnum opus "Cleopatra". Burton was paid $250,000 for four months work in the film. The gigantic scale of the film's troubled production, Taylor's bouts of illness and fluctuating weight, Burton's off-screen relationship with the actress, (which he gave the sardonic nickname "Le Scandale") all generated enormous publicity; "Life" magazine proclaimed it the "Most Talked About Movie Ever Made". Fox's future appeared to hinge on what became the most expensive movie ever made until then, with costs reaching almost $40 million. During filming, Burton met and fell in love with Elizabeth Taylor, who

title: Richard Burton

text: him paralysed from the neck down. His younger brother Graham Jenkins opined it may have been guilt over this that caused Burton to start drinking very heavily, particularly after Ifor died in 1972. In a February 1975 interview with his friend, David Lewin, he said he "tried" homosexuality. He also suggested that perhaps all actors were latent homosexuals, and "we cover it up with drink". In 2000 Ellis Amburn's biography of Elizabeth Taylor suggested that Burton had an affair with Olivier and tried to seduce Eddie Fisher, although this was strongly denied by Burton's younger brother Graham Jenkins. Burton was

title: Sally Burton

text: Burton's fifth marriage and her first. After the tour, they went to rest in Hawaii for several months before returning to their home in Céligny where Burton died on 5 August 1984; Sally Burton was then 36. In 2012 Burton published the diaries of Richard Burton. She said her motivation was to show Burton's "love for words". In her review of the book, Barbara Ellen in "The Guardian" wrote The suspicion forms that Sally's unspoken motivation was to derail, once and for all, the Liz-Dickie show. To demonstrate that, despite all those tales of Burton's sending secret final love letters

title: Philip Burton (theatre director)

text: the time it reached Broadway. The only time the two fell out was when Richard cheated on his first wife, Sybil, with the actress Elizabeth Taylor. Sybil was Richard Burton's first wife, and Philip Burton saw Sybil and their two children as his family. They reconciled four years later when Taylor approached Burton to help Richard who was struggling in the buildup to John Gielgud's 1964 production of "Hamlet". After the war Burton was disappointed not to get the headship at his school, which led him to look for other employment. He took a role as a producer of radio

title: Kate Burton (actress)

text: Kate Burton (actress) Katherine "Kate" Burton (born September 10, 1957) is a Swiss-born British-American actress, daughter of actor Richard Burton and Sybil Burton. On television, Burton received critical acclaim for performances in Shonda Rhimes's drama series as Ellis Grey on "Grey's Anatomy", and as Vice President Sally Langston on "Scandal". She has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Tony Awards. Burton was born in Geneva, Switzerland, the daughter of producer Sybil Burton (née Williams; 1929–2013) and actor Richard Burton (1925–1984). She was thus the stepdaughter of Elizabeth Taylor and of Sybil's second husband Jordan Christopher, both actors.

title: Burton & Taylor

text: brilliant. She got the spirit of her and sounded like her." Burton & Taylor Burton & Taylor is a BBC Four TV film directed by Richard Laxton, and based on the legendary acting duo and former husband and wife, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, during their preparation for a 1983 theatrical production of the play, "Private Lives". The film stars Helena Bonham Carter and Dominic West in the title roles. In 1983, ageing movie stars Richard Burton (Dominic West) and Elizabeth Taylor (Helena Bonham Carter) are in New York City preparing to perform the Noël Coward play, "Private Lives". The

title: Richard Burton

text: Richard III. Shortly after the release of "Prince of Players", Burton met director Robert Rossen, who was well-known at the time for his Academy Award-winning film, "All the King's Men" (1949). Rossen planned to cast Burton in "Alexander the Great" (1956) as the eponymous character. Burton accepted Rossen's offer after the director reassured him he had been studying the Macedonian king for two years to make sure the film was historically accurate. Burton was loaned by Fox to the film's production company United Artists, which paid him a fee of $100,000. "Alexander the Great" was made mostly in Spain during

title: Richard Francis Burton

text: of a wealthy English squire, Richard Baker (1762–1824), of Barham House, Hertfordshire, for whom he was named. Burton had two siblings, Maria Katherine Elizabeth Burton (who married Lt.-General Sir Henry William Stisted) and Edward Joseph Netterville Burton, born in 1823 and 1824, respectively. Burton's family travelled considerably during his childhood. In 1825, they moved to Tours, France. Burton's early education was provided by various tutors employed by his parents. He first began a formal education in 1829 at a preparatory school on Richmond Green in Richmond, Surrey, run by Rev. Charles Delafosse. Over the next few years, his family travelled

title: Richard Burton Phillipson

text: colonel in the 3rd Dragoon Guards in 1785 and was made Lieutenant-General in 1787. Burton Phillipson died unmarried on 18 August 1792 at his home Spring Gardens and buried in St Helen's church, Ipswich where there is a memorial tablet on the north wall. Richard Burton Phillipson Richard Burton Phillipson (c. 1723–1792) was a British soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1762 and 1792. Burton was the son of William Burton of Herringswell, Suffolk and his wife Grace Phillipson. He was educated at Eton College in 1732 and was admitted at Middle Temple in 1741

title: Richard Burton Phillipson

text: Richard Burton Phillipson Richard Burton Phillipson (c. 1723–1792) was a British soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1762 and 1792. Burton was the son of William Burton of Herringswell, Suffolk and his wife Grace Phillipson. He was educated at Eton College in 1732 and was admitted at Middle Temple in 1741 and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge aged 18 on 28 January1742. He joined the army in the 1st The Royal Dragoons, being a cornet in 1744, lieutenant in 1746, captain in 1751, major in 1759 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1761. Burton was returned as Member of

title: Richard Burton

text: Richard Burton Richard Burton, CBE (; born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 19255 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his mellifluous baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable performance of Hamlet in 1964. He was called "the natural successor to Olivier" by critic and dramaturge Kenneth Tynan. An alcoholic, Burton's failure to live up to those expectations disappointed critics and colleagues and fuelled his legend as a great thespian wastrel. Burton was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never won an Oscar. He was

title: Richard Burton

text: 1943, and later premiered in St Martin's Theatre, London in January 1944. Burton thought the role was "a nothing part" and that he "hardly spoke at all". He was paid ten pounds a week for playing the role, which was "three times what the miners got". Alpert states that the play garnered mixed critical reviews, but James Redfern of the "New Statesman" took notice of Burton's performance and wrote: "In a wretched part, Richard Burton showed exceptional ability." Burton noted that single sentence from Redfern changed his life. During his tenure at Exeter College, Burton featured as "the complicated sex-driven

title: Richard Burton

text: their divorce, in Chobe National Park in Botswana. Taylor and Eddie Fisher adopted a daughter from Germany, Maria Burton (born 1 August 1961), who was re-adopted by Burton after he and Taylor married. Burton also re-adopted Taylor and producer Mike Todd's daughter, Elizabeth Frances "Liza" Todd (born 6 August 1957), who had been first adopted by Fisher. The relationship Burton and Taylor portrayed in the film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" was popularly likened to their real-life marriage. Burton disagreed with others about Taylor's famed beauty, saying that calling her "the most beautiful woman in the world is absolute nonsense.

title: Richard Burton (cricketer, born 1955)

text: Richard Burton (cricketer, born 1955) Richard Leslie Burton (born 29 January 1955) is a former English cricketer. Burton was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Thealby, Lincolnshire. Despite having not played any form of minor counties cricket, Burton made his List A debut for Minor Counties North against Lancashire in the 1974 Benson & Hedges Cup, scoring 5 runs in the match before he was dismissed by Clive Lloyd. Two years later he madehis debut for Lincolnshire against Staffordshire in the 1976 Minor Counties Championship. He played minor counties cricket for Lincolnshire to 1991,

title: Richard Burton (comics)

text: magazine "Fun Online", and has since made a career in computers and digital cameras. Richard Burton (comics) Richard Burton is a British comic editor who worked on "2000 AD". However, he is possibly better known to readers as Tharg the Mighty's bumbling assistant Burt who appeared in a number of strips with him. Along with Mike Conroy, he started the Eagle Awards in 1977 and, with Dez Skinn, created the character "Night Raven". When Fleetway merged with London Editions in the early 1990s, he took the opportunity to start up the very successful videogame tie-in Sonic the Comic, which lasted

title: Richard Burton (comics)

text: Richard Burton (comics) Richard Burton is a British comic editor who worked on "2000 AD". However, he is possibly better known to readers as Tharg the Mighty's bumbling assistant Burt who appeared in a number of strips with him. Along with Mike Conroy, he started the Eagle Awards in 1977 and, with Dez Skinn, created the character "Night Raven". When Fleetway merged with London Editions in the early 1990s, he took the opportunity to start up the very successful videogame tie-in Sonic the Comic, which lasted an impressive nine years (three with him as editor). He then worked on computer

title: Richard Burton (cricketer, born 1955)

text: making 60 Minor Counties Championship appearances, the last of which came against Staffordshire. He also made ten MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances. At the time, Lincolnshire were also permitted to take part in the NatWest Trophy, whose matches held List A status. Burton played two List A matches for Lincolnshire, against Surrey in the 1983 NatWest Trophy, and Lancashire in the 1986 NatWest Trophy. Richard Burton (cricketer, born 1955) Richard Leslie Burton (born 29 January 1955) is a former English cricketer. Burton was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Thealby, Lincolnshire. Despite having not played

title: Richard Henry Burton

text: Richard Henry Burton Richard Henry Burton VC (29 January 1923 – 11 July 1993) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Burton was 21 years old and a private in the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, British Army, during the Second World War at Monte Ceco, near Palazzuolo sul Senio, north-east of Florence when the following deed took place. It was for this that he was awarded the Victoria Cross. The Citation reads: Burton was

title: Richard Burton

text: rejected him as he felt that Burton was too short compared to Scofield. Rye came to the rescue again by sending Burton to audition for a role in "The Lady's Not for Burning", a play by Christopher Fry and directed by Gielgud. The lead roles were played by Gielgud himself, and Pamela Brown, while Burton played a supporting role as Richard alongside the then-relatively unknown actress Claire Bloom. Gielgud was initially uncertain about selecting Burton and asked him to come back the following day to repeat his audition. Burton got the part the second time he auditioned for the role.

title: Mausoleum of Sir Richard and Lady Burton

text: Mausoleum of Sir Richard and Lady Burton The Mausoleum of Sir Richard and Lady Burton is a Grade II* listed tent-shaped mausoleum of Carrara marble and Forest of Dean stone in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It contains the tombs of the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton (1821–90), who took part in the search for the source of the River Nile and translated "The Arabian Nights", and his wife Isabel, Lady Burton (1831–96), who designed it. The coffins of Sir Richard and Lady Burton can be seen

title: Richard Burton

text: a heavy smoker. In a December 1977 interview with Sir Ludovic Kennedy, Burton admitted he was smoking 60–100 cigarettes per day. According to his younger brother, as stated in Graham Jenkins's 1988 book "Richard Burton: My Brother", he smoked at least a hundred cigarettes a day. His father, also a heavy drinker, refused to acknowledge his son's talents, achievements and acclaim. In turn, Burton declined to attend the funeral, after his father died from a cerebral haemorrhage in January 1957 at age 81. Burton admired and was inspired by the actor and dramatist Emlyn Williams. He employed his son, Brook

title: Richard Henry Burton

text: born in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire where he worked as a bricklayer. He moved to Scotland in later life. He achieved the rank of corporal. The medal is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery, Imperial War Museum, London. Richard Henry Burton Richard Henry Burton VC (29 January 1923 – 11 July 1993) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Burton was 21 years old and a private in the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, British

title: Richard M. Burton

text: to the Duke University where he was Professor of Strategy and Organization from 1985 to 2013. Since 1999 he is also Professor of Management at the European Institute of Advanced Study in Management (EIASM) in Brussels, Belgium. Together with Børge Obel, Burton is a founding partner of the organizational consulting company EcoMerc providing consulting services based on the academic research they have done. He was wlaos visiting professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Organizational Architecture. Articles, a selection: Richard M. Burton Richard Max Burton (born 1939) is an American organizational theorist and Emeritus Professor of Management and Organization at The

title: Richard Burton

text: She has wonderful eyes, but she has a double chin and an overdeveloped chest, and she's rather short in the leg." In August 1976, a month after his second divorce from Taylor, Burton married model Suzy Miller, the former wife of Formula 1 Champion James Hunt; the marriage ended in divorce in 1982. From 1983 until his death in 1984 Burton was married to make-up artist Sally Hay. In 1957 Burton had earned at total of £82,000 from "Prince of Players", "The Rains of Ranchipur" and "Alexander the Great", but only managed to keep £6,000 for personal expenses due to

title: Richard Burton

text: after excelling in the School Certificate Examination. Philip requested Richard to study at Exeter College, Oxford as a part of a six-month scholarship program offered by the RAF for qualified cadets prior to active service. In 1943 Burton played Professor Henry Higgins in a school production of another Shaw play directed by Philip, "Pygmalion". The role won him favourable reviews and caught the attention of the dramatist, Emlyn Williams, who offered Burton a small role of the lead character's elder brother, Glan, in his play "The Druid's Rest". The play debuted at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool on 22 November

title: Richard M. Burton

text: Richard M. Burton Richard Max Burton (born 1939) is an American organizational theorist and Emeritus Professor of Management and Organization at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, known for his work in the field on business strategy and organizational design. Burton obtained his BS in Engineering Mechanics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1961, where in 1963 he also obtained his MBA in Finance, and in 1967 his DBA in Managerial Economics and Production. In 1965 Burton started his academic career as Instructor in Industrial Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In 1970 he moved

title: Richard Burton

text: them. "Time" magazine critic derided "The Rains of Ranchipur" and even went as far as to say Richard was hardly noticeable in the film. A. H. Weiler of "The New York Times", however, called Burton's rendering of Alexander "serious and impassioned". Burton returned to The Old Vic to perform "Henry V" for a second time. The Benthall-directed production opened in December 1955 to glowing reviews and was a much-needed triumph for Burton. Tynan made it official by famously saying Burton was now "the next successor to Olivier". The reviewer from "The Times" began by pointing out the deficiencies in Burton's

title: Richard Burton

text: "Cleopatra" was finally released on 11 June 1963 with a run time of 243 minutes to polarising reviews. The "Time" magazine critic found the film, "riddled with flaws, [lacking] style both in image and in action" and that Burton "staggers around looking ghastly and spouting irrelevance". In a contradictory review, Crowther termed the film "generally brilliant, moving, and satisfying" and thought Burton was "exciting as the arrogant Antony". Richard Brody of "The New Yorker" commented positively on the chemistry between Burton and Taylor, describing it as "entrancing in the movie’s drama as it was in life". "Cleopatra" grossed over $26

title: Jeff Burton

text: younger brother of Ward Burton, who is a former Sprint Cup driver. Married to wife Kim, they have two children: Paige and Harrison. Harrison, like his father, is a NASCAR driver, and currently races in the K&N Pro Series East. Burton also has another brother, Brian, who did not drive in NASCAR but rather took over the family's construction business. Burton currently resides in Huntersville, North Carolina. Burton's family ancestry can be traced back through Colonial Virginia where the landing of his earliest ancestor Richard Burton came over to the Jamestown Colony in the 1630s. The earliest his ancestry goes

title: Richard Francis Burton

text: in 1886. Burton was born in Torquay, Devon, at 21:30 on 19 March 1821; in his autobiography, he incorrectly claimed to have been born in the family home at Barham House in Elstree in Hertfordshire. He was baptized on 2 September 1821 at Elstree Church in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. His father, Lt.-Colonel Joseph Netterville Burton, of the 36th Regiment, was an Irish-born British army officer of Anglo-Irish extraction who through his mother's family – the Campbells of Tuam – was a first cousin of Lt.-Colonel Henry Peard Driscoll and Mrs Richard Graves. Richard's mother, Martha Baker, was the daughter and co-heiress

title: Richard Burton

text: the youth's acting voice, including outdoor voice drills which improved his projection. Richard called the experience "the most hardworking and painful period" in his life. In autumn of 1943, Philip planned to adopt Richard, but was not able to do so as he was 20 days too young to be 21 years older than his ward, a legal requirement. As a result, Richard became Philip's legal ward and changed his surname to "Richard Burton", after Philip's own surname, by means of deed poll, which Richard's father accepted. It was also in 1943 that Richard qualified for admission into a University

title: Richard Burton

text: where he voiced the First Voice in an all-Welsh cast. The entire cast of the radio play, including Burton, did their roles free of charge. Burton reprised his role in the play's 1972 film adaptation with Taylor. Burton was also involved in narrating Lindsay Anderson's short documentary film about The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, "Thursday's Children" (1954). After The Old Vic season ended, Burton's contract with Fox required him to do three more films. The first was "Prince of Players" (1955), where he was cast as the 19th-century Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth, who was John Wilkes Booth's

title: Richard Francis Burton

text: Isabel, in the cemetery of St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake in southwest London. The coffins of Sir Richard and Lady Burton can be seen through a window at the rear of the tent, which can be accessed via a short fixed ladder. Next to the lady chapel in the church there is a memorial stained-glass window to Burton, also erected by Isabel; it depicts Burton as a medieval knight. Burton's personal effects and a collection of paintings, photographs and objects relating to him are in the Burton Collection at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham. Burton had long had an

title: Richard Francis Burton

text: Richard Francis Burton Sir Richard Francis Burton (; 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages. Burton's best-known achievements include: a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise, at a time when Europeans were forbidden access on pain of death; an unexpurgated translation of "One Thousand and One Nights"

title: Richard Burton

text: criticised Taylor, believing her performance "lack[ed] genuine warmth" but his review of Burton was more favourable, noting that he gave "a performance of electrifying charm". Although all four actors received Academy Award nominations for their roles in the film, which received a total of thirteen nominations, only Taylor and Dennis went on to win. Both Burton and Taylor won their first BAFTA Awards for Best British Actor and Best British Actress respectively; the former also for his role in "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold". Burton and Taylor next performed a 1966 Oxford Playhouse adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's

title: Richard Burton

text: but lost to Alec Guinness for his portrayal of the poet Dylan Thomas. The performance was immortalised in a film that was created by recording three live performances on camera from 30 June 1964 to 1 July 1964 using a process called Electronovision; it played in US theatres for a week in 1964. The play was also the subject of books written by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne. Burton helped Taylor make her stage debut in "A Poetry Reading", a recitation of poems by the couple as well as anecdotes and quotes from the plays Burton had

title: Richard Burton

text: finally win the award, but he lost to Richard Dreyfuss in "The Goodbye Girl". In 1976 Burton received a Grammy Award in the category of Best Recording for Children for his narration of "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. His narration of "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds" became such a necessary part of the concept album that a hologram of Burton was used to narrate the live stage show (touring in 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010) of the musical. In 2011, however, Liam Neeson was cast in the part for a "New Generation" re-recording,

title: Richard Francis Burton

text: is: Burton published over 40 books and countless articles, monographs and letters. A great number of his journal and magazine pieces have never been catalogued. Over 200 of these have been collected in PDF facsimile format at "burtoniana.org". An extensive selection of Burton's correspondence can be found in the four volume "Book of Burtoniana" edited by Gavan Tredoux (burtoniana.org, 2016), which is freely downloadable in HTML, PDF, Kindle/MOBI and ePub formats. Brief selections from a variety of Burton's writings are available in Frank McLynn's "Of No Country: An Anthology of Richard Burton" (1990; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons). Richard Francis

title: Richard Burton

text: the film's director, Michael Radford, Paul Scofield was originally contracted to play the part, but had to withdraw due to a broken leg; Sean Connery, Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger were all approached before Burton was cast. He had "heard stories" about Burton's heavy drinking, which had concerned the producers. At the time of his death, Burton was preparing to film "Wild Geese II", the sequel to "The Wild Geese", which was eventually released in 1985. Burton was to reprise the role of Colonel Faulkner, while Laurence Olivier was cast as Rudolf Hess. After his death, Burton was replaced by

title: Richard Burton

text: Alistair MacLean to be given less dialogue, later remarking "I just stood around firing my machine gun while Burton handled the dialogue." Burton enjoyed working with Eastwood and said of the picture that he "did all the talking and [Eastwood] did all the killing". Burton's last film of the decade, "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969) for which he was paid $1.25 million, was commercially successful but garnered mixed opinions from reviewers. Noted British film critic Tom Milne of "Time Out" magazine believed that Burton "plays throughout on a monotonous note of bluff ferocity". Conversely, Vincent Canby of "The New

title: Richard Burton

text: Williams, as his personal assistant and adviser, and he was given small roles in some of the films in which Burton starred. In November 1974, Burton was banned permanently from BBC productions for writing two newspaper articles questioning the sanity of Winston Churchill and others in power during World War II – Burton reported hating them "virulently" for the alleged promise to wipe out all Japanese people on the planet. The publication of these articles coincided with what would have been Churchill's centenary, and came after Burton had played him in a favourable light in "A Walk with Destiny", with

title: Richard Burton

text: British films such as "Now Barabbas" (1949) with Richard Greene and Kathleen Harrison, "The Woman with No Name" (1950) opposite Phyllis Calvert, "Waterfront" (1950) with Harrison; he had a bigger part as Robert Hammond, a spy for a newspaper editor in "Green Grow the Rushes" (1951) alongside Honor Blackman. His performance in "Now Barabbas" received positive feedback from critics. C. A. Lejeune of "The Observer" believed Burton had "all the qualities of a leading man that the British film industry badly needs at this juncture: youth, good looks, a photogenic face, obviously alert intelligence and a trick of getting the

title: Richard Burton

text: was then married to Eddie Fisher. According to Alpert, at their first meeting on the set while posing for their publicity photographs, Burton said, "Has anyone ever told you that you're a very pretty girl?" Taylor later recalled, "I said to myself, "Oy gevalt", here's the great lover, the great wit, the great intellectual of Wales, and he comes out with a line like that." Bragg contradicts Alpert by pointing out that Burton could not stand Taylor at first, calling her "Miss Tits" and opined to Mankiewicz, "I expect she shaves"; he saw her simply as another celebrity with no

title: Richard Burton

text: film version more than a decade earlier. On his religious views, Burton was an atheist, stating, "I wish I could believe in a God of some kind but I simply cannot." Burton was an alcoholic who reportedly nearly died in 1974 from excess drinking. According to biographer Robert Sellers, "At the height of his boozing in the mid-70s he was knocking back three to four bottles of hard liquor a day." After nearly drinking himself to death during the shooting of "The Klansman" (1974), Burton was dried out at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. Burton was allegedly

title: Richard Burton

text: actor to deliver that speech without wringing a strangled sob of laughter out of one. But Burton did it." The play nevertheless made $22,000 dollars, which Coghill was happy with. "Doctor Faustus" was adapted for the screen the following year by both Burton and Coghill, with Burton making his directorial debut. He also co-produced the film with Taylor and Coghill; it was critically panned and was a box office failure. The couple's next collaboration was Franco Zeffirelli's lively version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" (1967). The film was a challenge for Burton, who had to chase Taylor on

title: Richard Burton

text: Movie Reviews who wrote, "Burton is served a death sentence to be in such a turgid film, one that ranges from being creaky to silly to just plain vulgar." The film was a commercial success, grossing $17 million against a $5 million budget, and Burton received his second Best Actor nomination at the 26th Academy Awards. Bolstered by "The Robe"s box office collections, Zanuck offered Burton a seven-year, seven-picture $1 million contract, but he politely turned it down as he was planning to head home to portray "Hamlet" at The Old Vic. Zanuck threatened to force Burton into cutting the

title: Richard Burton

text: taxation regulations imposed by the then-ruling Conservative Party. As a result, he consulted with his lawyer, Aaron Frosch, who suggested he move to Switzerland where the tax payment was comparatively less. Burton acceded to Frosch's suggestion and moved with Sybil in January 1957 to Céligny, Switzerland where he purchased a villa. In response to criticism from the British government, Burton remarked: "I believe that everyone should pay them —except actors." Burton lived there until his death. In 1968 Burton's elder brother, Ifor, slipped and fell, breaking his neck, after a lengthy drinking session with Burton in Céligny. The injury left

title: H. David Burton

text: Bishop. Burton called Richard C. Edgley as his first counselor and Keith B. McMullin as his second counselor. Burton and his counselors were released on 31 March 2012 and given general authority emeritus status. In 2014, Burton was elected chairman of the board of the Utah Transit Authority. As of April 2017, Burton is serving as chair of the board of trustees of the University of Utah. He has been on the University of Utah board since 2013, serving as chair since 2016. Burton married Barbara Matheson in September 1960. They have five children and nineteen grandchildren. Burton is the

title: Richard Burton

text: "Hamlet", sought Philip's help to entice Burton into accepting it. Philip convinced Burton by making him realise that it was Coriolanus' "lack of ambivalence" which made him an admirable character. Burton received even better reviews for Coriolanus than Hamlet. Hardy thought Burton's Hamlet was "too strong" but that "His Coriolanus is quite easily the best I've ever seen." Olivier too agreed it was the greatest Coriolanus he had ever seen till then. Burton's other roles for the season were Sir Toby Belch in "Twelfth Night", Caliban in "The Tempest" and Philip of Cognac in "King John". All five of Burton's

title: Richard Francis Burton

text: of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah". When Burton returned to the British Army, he sat for examination as an Arab linguist. The examiner was Robert Lambert Playfair, who disliked Burton. As Professor George Percy Badger knew Arabic well, Playfair asked Badger to oversee the exam. Having been told that Burton could be vindictive, and wishing to avoid any animosity should Burton fail, Badger declined. Playfair conducted the tests; despite Burton's success living as an Arab, Playfair had recommended to the committee that Burton be failed. Badger later told Burton that "After looking [Burton's test] over, I [had] sent them

title: Richard Burton

text: Wiltshire-based RAF Hospital. Burton's habits of drinking and smoking increased during this period; he was involved in a brief casual affair with actress Eleanor Summerfield. Burton was cast in an uncredited and unnamed role of a bombing officer by BBC Third Programme in a 1946 radio adaptation of "In Parenthesis", an epic poem of the First World War by David Jones. Burton was discharged from the RAF on 16 December 1947. In 1948 Burton moved to London to make contact with H. M. Tennent Ltd., where he again met Beaumont, who put him under a contract of £500 per year

title: Richard Francis Burton

text: interest in sexuality and some erotic literature. However, the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 had resulted in many jail sentences for publishers, with prosecutions being brought by the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Burton referred to the society and those who shared its views as "Mrs Grundy". A way around this was the private circulation of books amongst the members of a society. For this reason Burton, together with Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, created the Kama Shastra Society to print and circulate books that would be illegal to publish in public. One of the most celebrated of all his books

title: Richard Taylor (Hollyoaks)

text: Richard Taylor (Hollyoaks) Richard Taylor is a fictional character from the long-running Channel 4 soap opera "Hollyoaks", played by Richard Calkin. He appeared on the show between 2003 and 2005. Richard Taylor arrived in Hollyoaks with two of his four children Darlene Taylor and Ali Taylor, to set up home with Liz Burton and three of her children Justin Burton, Sophie Burton and Mel Burton and to run the local Gym "Bodyboost". Liz and Richard's attempts to fuse the two families together was the focus of many Hollyoaks story arcs. Eventually he and Liz married, and some time later the

title: Richard Burton

text: "Bitter Victory" tanked as well. By mid-1957, Burton had no further offers in his kitty. He could not return to the UK because of his self-imposed exile from taxation, and his fortunes in film were dwindling. It was then that film producer and screenwriter Milton Sperling offered Burton to star alongside Helen Hayes and Susan Strasberg in Patricia Moyes' adaptation of Jean Anoulih's play, "Time Remembered" ("Léocadia" in the original French version). Sensing an opportunity for a career resurgence, Burton readily agreed to do the role of Prince Albert, who falls in love with a milliner named Amanda (Strasberg). It

title: Bartholomew Burton

text: Bartholomew Burton Bartholomew Burton ( – 1770) was a British financier, banker and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1759 to 1768. He was Governor of the Bank of England from 1760 to 1762. Burton was the fourth son of Bartholomew Burton of North Luffenham, Rutland, and his second wife Susanna Gregory, dughter of George Gregory. He married Hester Mansell in 1729. She died and he married secondly on 2 September 1733, Philadelphia Herne, daughter of Nathaniel Herne, MP, and had one daughter. His wife died on 23 April 1762 and he married a third time to

title: Richard Burton

text: Burton, but his voice cracked during their practice sessions. This incident marked the beginning of his association with Philip. Philip later recalled, "His voice was tough to begin with but with constant practice it became memorably beautiful." Richard made his first foray into theatre with a minor role in his school's production of the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw's "The Apple Cart". He decided to leave school by the end of 1941 and work as a miner as Elfed was not fit due to illness. He worked for the local wartime Co-operative committee, handing out supplies in exchange for coupons.

text: through a glass panel at the rear of the tent, which can be accessed via a short fixed ladder. The inscription includes a commemorative sonnet by Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859–1936), who lived in Putney. The mausoleum was completed in time for Sir Richard's funeral at the church on 15 June 1891. It was restored in 1975 and, with the support of the Friends of Burton and the Environment Trust for Richmond upon Thames, in 2012–13. Next to the lady chapel in the church there is a memorial stained-glass window to Burton, erected by his widow. Mausoleum of Sir Richard and

title: Richard Burton

text: He was the twelfth of thirteen children born to Richard Walter Jenkins Sr. (1876–1957), and Edith Maude Jenkins (née Thomas; 1883–1927). Jenkins Sr., called Daddy Ni by the family, was a coal miner, while his mother worked as a barmaid at a pub called the Miner's Arms, which was also the place where she met and married her husband. According to biographer Melvyn Bragg, Richard is quoted saying that Daddy Ni was a "twelve-pints-a-day man" who sometimes went off on drinking and gambling sprees for weeks, and that "he looked very much like me". He remembered his mother to be

title: Philip Burton (theatre director)

text: Jenkins became his legal ward and took his surname to become Richard Burton. The two remained close for almost all of their lives and when Burton began working for the BBC as a producer, Richard would often lend his vocal talents. For the BBC they worked together on the radio plays "The Corn is Green" (1945) and "The Last Days of Dolwyn" (1949). Later when Burton had moved to New York, Richard called him at short notice to direct the first production of "Camelot", after its original director, Moss Hart, was taken ill. The production was a huge success by

title: Richard Burton

text: eye." Hamlet was a challenge that both terrified and attracted him, as it was a role many of his peers in the British theatre had undertaken, including Gielgud and Olivier. He shared his anxiety with de Havilland whilst coming to terms with her. Bogart too, didn't make it easy for him when he retorted: "I never knew a man who played "Hamlet" who didn't die broke." Notwithstanding, Burton began his thirty-nine-week tenure at The Old Vic by rehearsing for "Hamlet" in July 1953, with Philip providing expert coaching on how to make Hamlet's character match Burton's dynamic acting style. Burton

title: Richard Burton

text: maximum effort with the minimum of fuss". For "The Woman With No Name", a critic from "The New York Times" thought Burton "merely adequate" in his role of the Norwegian aviator, Nick Chamerd. Biographer Bragg states the reviews for Burton's performance in "Waterfront" were "not bad", and that "Green Grow the Rushes" was a box office bomb. Rye recommended Richard to director Peter Glenville for the part of Hephaestion in Rattigan's play about Alexander the Great, "Adventure Story", in 1949. The play was directed by Glenville and starred the then up-and-coming actor Paul Scofield as the titular character. Glenville, however,

title: Richard Burton

text: 1951. Burton received the Theatre World Award for his performance, his first major award. Burton went on to feature in two more plays by Fry "The Boy With A Cart" and "A Phoenix Too Frequent". The former opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in February 1950, while the latter premiered at the Dolphin Theatre, Brighton the following month. Gielgud, who also directed "The Boy With A Cart", said that Burton's role in the play "was one of the most beautiful performances" he had ever seen. During its month-long run, Anthony Quayle, who was on the lookout for a young actor

title: Richard Burton

text: actor Hugh Griffith. The play, retitled as "Legend of Lovers", opened in the Plymouth Theatre, New York City and ran for only a week, but critics were kind to Burton, with Bob Francis of "Billboard" magazine finding him "excellent as the self-tortured young accordionist". Burton began 1952 by starring alongside Noel Willman in the title role of Emmanuel Roblès adventure "Montserrat", which opened on 8 April at the Lyric Hammersmith. The play only ran for six weeks but Burton once again won praises from critics. According to Bragg, some of the critics who watched the performance considered it to be

title: Richard Burton

text: Back in Anger" "had defined a generation, provided a watershed in Britain's view of itself and brought [Osborne] into the public prints as a controversial, dangerous figure". Burton was able to identify himself with Porter, finding it "fascinating to find a man who came presumably from my sort of class, who actually could talk the way I would like to talk". The film, and Burton's performance, received mixed reviews upon release. Biographer Alpert noted that though reviews in the UK were favourable, those in the United States were more negative. Crowther wrote of Burton: "His tirades are eloquent but tiring,

title: Richard Burton

text: enjoyed the play and invited Burton to the White House for a visit. In 1962 Burton appeared as Officer David Campbell, an RAF fighter pilot in "The Longest Day", which included a large ensemble cast featuring: McDowall, George Segal, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Mel Ferrer, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger and Sean Connery. The same year he provided narration for the Jack Howells documentary "Dylan Thomas". The short won the Best Documentary Short Subject at the 35th Academy Awards ceremony. After performing "Camelot" for six months, in July 1961, Burton met producer Walter Wanger who asked him to replace Stephen Boyd

title: Richard Burton

text: acting talent. All that changed when, in their first scene together, Burton was shaky and forgot his lines, and she soothed and helped him; it was at this instance, according to Taylor, that she fell for him. Soon the affair began in earnest; both Fisher and Sybil were unable to bear it. While Fisher fled the sets for Gstaad, Sybil went first for Céligny and then headed off to London. Olivier, shocked by Burton's affair with Taylor, cabled him: "Make up your mind, dear heart. Do you want to be a great actor or a household word?". Burton replied "Both".

title: Richard Burton

text: lead. The film set a trend for Biblical epics such as "Ben-Hur" (1959). Based on Lloyd C. Douglas' 1942 historical novel of the same name, "The Robe" was well received at the time of its release, but contemporary reviews have been less favourable. "Variety" magazine termed the performances of the lead cast "effective" and complemented the fight sequences between Burton and Jeff Morrow. Crowther believed that Burton was "stalwart, spirited and stern" as Marcellus. Among those who gave negative reviews were Jonathan Rosenbaum of the "Chicago Reader" who called "The Robe" a "pious claptrap", and Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World

title: Ken Burton

text: professors Graham Welch, Colin Durrant, Thom Hans and Jacob Lieberman. Burton is a Christian, of the Seventh-Day Adventist faith. He is married to Yasmina Solé, who was born in Barcelona and grew up in Valencia. They married in Spain in 2004, and their son Kenán was born in March 2007. Burton is the youngest of 10 children; his oldest siblings were born in Jamaica, the eldest two living there. He is brother of Professor Dr Keith Augustus Burton, an author and university professor at Oakwood Adventist University in Alabama. Dr Burton was a theology student at the university at the

title: Richard Swann Lull

text: Richard Swann Lull Richard Swann Lull (November 6, 1867 – April 22, 1957) was an American paleontologist and Sterling Professor at Yale University who is largely remembered now for championing a non-Darwinian view of evolution, whereby mutation(s) could unlock presumed "genetic drives" that, over time, would lead populations to increasingly extreme phenotypes (and perhaps, ultimately, to extinction). Lull was born in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of naval officer Edward Phelps Lull and Elizabeth Burton, daughter of General Henry Burton. He married Clara Coles Boggs and he has a daughter Dorothy. He majored in zoology at Rutgers College where he received

title: Richard Burton

text: a two-year hiatus from films until her next venture with Burton, "The Sandpiper" (1965). The supercouple, dubbed "Liz and Dick" by the press, continued starring together in films in the mid-1960s, earning a combined $88 million over the next decade and spending $65 million. Regarding their earnings, in a 1976 interview with Lester David and Jhan Robbins of "The Ledger", Burton stated that "they say we generate more business activity than one of the smaller African nations" and that the couple "often outspent" the Greek business tycoon Aristotle Onassis. In 1964 Burton portrayed Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury who

title: Burton Benjamin

text: journalists with significant achievements toward press freedom. In 1942, Benjamin married book critic Aline L. Wolff. In 1955, Benjamin, Aline, and their two daughters moved to Scarborough, a hamlet of Briarcliff Manor, New York. There the family befriended the families of John Cheever, Ely Jacques Kahn Jr., and architect Don Reiman. Burton Benjamin Burton Richard Benjamin (October 9, 1917 – September 18, 1988) was a vice president and director of CBS News. He worked at CBS for 29 years, as a writer, producer, and executive. In that time, he was director of CBS News from 1978 to 1981 and executive

title: Richard Burton

text: the same name, and the Tennessee Williams adaptation "Boom!" (1968) were critical and commercial failures. In 1969 Burton enjoyed a commercial blockbuster with Clint Eastwood in the World War II action film "Where Eagles Dare"; he received a $1 million fee plus a share of the film's box office gross. According to his daughter Kate Burton, “He did that one for us kids, because we kept asking him, 'Can you do a fun movie that we can go see?" Eastwood thought the script "terrible" and was "all exposition and complications". He asked the film's producer Elliott Kastner and its screenwriter

title: Richard Burton

text: pay Burton a total of $150,000 ($50,000 per film). De Havilland did not get along well with Burton during filming, calling him "a coarse-grained man with a coarse-grained charm and a talent not completely developed, and a coarse-grained which makes him not like anyone else". One of Burton's friends opined it may have been due to Burton making remarks at her that she did not find to be in good taste. While shooting the film, Burton was offered the role of Mark Antony in "Julius Caesar" (1953) by the production company, Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), but Burton refused it to

title: Richard Burton

text: was due to how well he varied his acting with the three female characters, each of whom he tries to seduce differently: Ava Gardner (the randy hotel owner), Sue Lyon (the nubile American tourist), and Deborah Kerr (the poor, repressed artist). The success of "Becket" and "The Night of the Iguana" led "Time" magazine to term him "the new Mr. Box Office". During the production of "Becket", Burton went to watch Gielgud perform in the 1963 stage adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 1948 novel, "The Ides of March". There he was confronted by Gielgud who asked what Burton planned to do

title: Isabel Burton

text: dire circumstances at home. Isabel and her group went into the slums of London, against the advice of police, to distribute assistance. While on a school trip to Boulogne, she first met her future husband, Richard Burton, with whom she claims to have fallen in love immediately, though it would be another four years until their courtship began, and ten years until their marriage. Because of her strict Catholic background, her relationship with Burton caused strains within her family and she ultimately married him against the wishes of her parents. This was to be a major source of pain for

title: Richard Burton

text: Gielgud was not too happy with Burton's Hamlet and asked him while both were backstage: "Shall I go ahead and wait until you're better?... ah, I mean ready?" Burton picked up the hint and infused some of Gielgud's traits to his own in later performances as Hamlet. A greater success followed in the form of the Roman General Gaius Marcius Coriolanus in "Coriolanus". At first, Burton refused to play Coriolanus as he didn't like the character's initial disdain for the poor and the downtrodden. Michael Benthall, who was renowned for his association with Tyrone Guthrie in a 1944 production of

title: Richard Burton

text: but still became a commercially successful venture. According to Bragg, the films they made during the mid-1960s contained a lot of innuendos that referred directly to their private lives. Burton went on to star opposite Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner in "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (1965), a Cold War espionage story about a British Intelligence agent, Alec Leamas (Burton), who is sent to East Germany on a mission to find and expose a mole working within his organisation for an East German Intelligence officer, Hans-Dieter Mundt (Peter van Eyck). Martin Ritt, the film's director and producer,

title: Richard Burton

text: Carré, "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" garnered positive reviews, with Fernando F. Croce of "Slant Magazine" describing Burton's performance as more of "tragic patsy than swashbuckler" and believed his scenes with Werner "have sharp doses of suspicion, cynicism and sadness". Dave Kehr of the "Chicago Reader" called the film "Grim, monotonous, and rather facile", he found Burton's role had "some honest poignancy". "Variety" thought Burton fitted "neatly into the role of the apparently burned out British agent". Burton also made a brief appearance the same year in Clive Donner's comedy "What's New Pussycat?" as a man who

title: Richard Burton

text: (£10 a week). Daphne Rye, the casting director for H. M. Tennent Ltd., offered Burton two rooms on the top floor of her house in Pelham Crescent, London as a place for him to stay. Rye cast Burton in a minor role as a young officer, Mr. Hicks, in "Castle Anna" (1948), a drama set in Ireland. While touring with the cast and crew members of Wynyard Browne's "Dark Summer", Burton was called by Emlyn Williams for a screen test for his film, "The Last Days of Dolwyn" (1949). Burton performed the screen test for the role of Gareth, which

title: Richard Burton

text: with Yvonne Furneaux in DuPont Show of the Month's 90-minute television adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel "Wuthering Heights" as Heathcliff. The film, directed by Daniel Petrie, aired on 9 May 1958 on CBS with Burton garnering plaudits from both the critics and Philip, who thought he was "magnificent" in it. Burton next featured as Jimmy Porter, "an angry young man" role, in the film version of John Osborne's play "Look Back in Anger" (1959), a gritty drama about middle-class life in the British Midlands, directed by Tony Richardson, again with Claire Bloom as co-star. Biographer Bragg observed that "Look

title: Charles Burton (judge)

text: had a house at Eyrecourt in County Galway. He died in Dublin in 1847 and was buried in St. Peter's Church, Aungier Street, Dublin (the church was demolished in the 1980s). He married in 1787 Anna Andrews, of whose parents and background little seems to be known. She died in 1822: they had one daughter, Eliza-Felicia, who in 1819 married John Beattie West, MP for Dublin, by whom she had a son, Charles Burton-West, and several daughters. Charles Burton (judge) Charles Burton (1760 – 1847) was an English-born barrister and judge who spent the greater part of his professional career

title: Kate Burton (actress)

text: of a revival of Noël Coward's "Present Laughter" at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City in which Burton was playing the character Daphne. They have two children, a son Morgan Ivor (born May 14, 1988), who is an actor, and a daughter Charlotte Frances (born January 19, 1998). Kate Burton (actress) Katherine "Kate" Burton (born September 10, 1957) is a Swiss-born British-American actress, daughter of actor Richard Burton and Sybil Burton. On television, Burton received critical acclaim for performances in Shonda Rhimes's drama series as Ellis Grey on "Grey's Anatomy", and as Vice President Sally Langston

title: Isabel Burton

text: be seen through a window at the rear of the tent, which can be accessed via a short fixed ladder. Next to the lady chapel in the church there is a memorial stained-glass window to Sir Richard, erected by Lady Burton. Fiona Shaw portrayed her in the 1990 movie "Mountains of the Moon". Isabel Burton Isabel, Lady Burton (20 March 1831 – 22 March 1896) was an English writer. She was the wife and partner of explorer, adventurer, and writer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890). Isabel Arundell was born in London, England, 20 March 1831. She was the daughter of

title: Samuel Burton

text: with whom he had three sons and a daughter. Anne was killed accidentally by the collapse of a scaffold in 1714 at the coronation of King George I. He was succeeded in his estates by his eldest son, Benjamin, MP and Privy Councillor. His daughter Katherine married Nicholas Netterville, 5th Viscount Netterville, who was tried for murder in 1742 but acquitted. They had a son John, 6th Viscount Neterville, and two daughters. Samuel married secondly Mary Hindle: they had one daughter. Samuel Burton Samuel Burton of Burton Hall was an 18th-century Irish MP and High Sheriff of Carlow. He was

title: Richard Burton

text: a film in which I play." While filming "Look Back in Anger", Burton did another play for BBC Radio, participating in two versions, one in Welsh and another in English, of Welsh poet Saunders Lewis' "Brad", which was about the 20 July plot. Burton voiced one of the conspirators, Caesar von Hofacker. In 1960 Burton appeared in two films for Warner Bros., neither of which were successful: "The Bramble Bush" which reunited him with his "Wuthering Heights" director Petrie, and Vincent Sherman's adaptation of Edna Ferber's "Ice Palace". Burton called the latter a "piece of shit". He received a fee

title: Richard Burton

text: Jean Negulesco's "The Rains of Ranchipur" (1955). In this remake of Fox's own 1939 film "The Rains Came", Burton played a Hindu doctor, Rama Safti, who falls in love with Lady Edwina Esketh (Lana Turner), an invitee of the Maharani of the fictional town of Ranchipur. Burton faced the same troubles with playing character roles as before with Belch. "The Rains of Ranchipur" released on 16 December 1955, three months before "Alexander the Great" rolled out in 28 March 1956. Contrary to Burton's expectations, both the films were critical and commercial failures, and he rued his decision to act in

title: Monty Burton

text: Monty Burton Roland Louis Ernest Burton AFC and Bar (known as Monty Burton) (18 May 1918 – 28 April 1999) was a British pilot who won the 1953 London to Christchurch air race. Flight Lieutenant Burton became the first man to fly from London to New Zealand in under 24 hours, when with his navigator Flight Lieutenant Don Gannon he won the 1953 London to Christchurch air race in a Canberra PR3 in 1953, winning the Britannia Trophy, now in the RAF Museum, Hendon. Burton married Joan Evans (1942) and they had two daughters and a son. One of his

title: Courtney Burton

text: career with a record of 22–7 with 11 knockouts and 1 no-contest. During his professional career Burton won the NABO Lightweight title and was a two-time Indiana State Boxing Champion at Lightweight and Welterweight. Burton lives in his hometown of Benton Harbor, Michigan, he is married, and also has a son from his ex-wife named Courtney Burton Jr. (born in 2000.) Courtney Burton Courtney Lee Burton (born June 28, 1978, South Bend, Indiana) is an American retired professional boxer from Benton Harbor, Michigan who fought in the super lightweight, lightweight, and welterweight divisions. Throughout his career Burton was known as

title: Dan Burton

text: former state employee. In August 2006, Burton married Dr. Samia Tawil in Park City, Utah. She was the internist who cared for Burton's wife, Barbara, during her battle with cancer. Tawil and her first husband had divorced in 2005. Burton's brother, Woody Burton, is a Republican member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing District 58. Burton is a member of the board of advisors of the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. Burton is a 33° Scottish Rite Freemason, and a member of Evergreen-Oriental Lodge No. 500 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dan Burton Danny Lee Burton (born June 21, 1938)

title: Richard Francis Burton

text: claims, calling his evidence inconclusive and his measurements inaccurate. Speke undertook a second expedition, along with Captain James Grant and Sidi Mubarak Bombay, to prove that Lake Victoria was the true source of the Nile. Speke, in light of the issues he was having with Burton, had Grant sign a statement saying, among other things, "I renounce all my rights to publishing ... my own account [of the expedition] until approved of by Captain Speke or [the Royal Geographical Society]". Burton and Livingstone were still unconvinced, but believing the matter had settled, the Royal Geographical Society awarded Speke its Gold

title: Jenny Burton

text: The Jenny Burton Experience. She was married to Broadway songwriter Peter Link. Jenny Burton now focuses on gospel and inspirational music. Her last albums were released on Watchfire Records. Jenny Burton Jenny Burton (born November 18, 1957, New York), is an American female R&B singer who had several hits on the US "Billboard" dance chart. She was lead singer of the dance music band C-Bank's 1983 Top 5 Hot Dance Music/Club Play single "One More Shot", notable for record producer John Robie's use of a "non-linear" approach to its production. In 1983 Burton went solo, releasing the album "In Black

title: Richard Burton

text: participated in thus far. The idea was conceived by Burton as a benefit performance for his mentor Philip, whose conservatory, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, had fallen short of funds. "A Poetry Reading" opened at the Lunt-Fontanne on 21 June 1964 to a packed house; the couple received a standing ovation at the end of their performance. Burton remarked on Taylor's performance, "I didn't know she was going to be this good." After "Hamlet" came to a close in August 1964, Burton and Taylor continued making films together. The first film after their marriage, "The Sandpiper", was poorly received