Richard Burton briefly passed through my life, and yes he made his mark. A brilliant documentary, showing his deep pain and anger, sadly frequently directed destructively towards himself. This helped though produce the great actor he was. R.I.P
Times change, brilliant actors like Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris and others had memories of war and destruction. The new breed wanted LIFE, fun and to follow their star. Wonderful generation, just different experiences of life. What wonderful works they left us ❤❤
Ā phenomenal actor who lived his life and art to the full. He was also extremely generous to all he cared about. Unfortunately alcohol abuse chopped twenty years off his life. Rest in Paradise, Mr Burton. ❤
What makes you say that Dr. @violinistoftaupo ?? Richard Burton died suddenly because of a cerebral haemorrhage. ( stroke). Hundreds of thousands of tea-totallers whom have never drunk alcohol or smoked die from strokes everyday.
@@violinistoftaupo I didn't realize you were a Dr. or experienced Pathologist. What's that, you're NOT ??? I suggest you keep your sensationalist, misguided & ill-informed comments to yourself regarding matters and facts of which you are completely unaware & clueless.
I started watching and wound up listening most of the time as I worked with my back to the screen...and just hearing that voice...it makes you reflect on what was a "circus of a life" that you saw growing up masks an extraordinary talent and an amazing being...this was SO powerful....I hope he is resting easy, all these years.
Somehow so many people, absolutely not feeling his sufferings and his Titanic Talent at the same time, discuss about what he should ...what he would ...Almost all artists were destroying themselves . But it was his Life and he ruled as he wished to
He said it’s me that he couldn’t escape on the guilt of the past. What a brilliantly talented soul too bad he couldn’t overcome his demons & guilt on earth but I hope he’s resting in peace.
My good gosh --it's been 40years -- like yesterday -- a sorrowful passing for a great actor, gentleman, actor for all seasons. His private life was a turmoil -- the price for fame, adulation and false friends. Rest in Peace. klewis AZ/USA
Thoroughly enthralled. Richard Burton was incredibly talented. Those words don't do him justice, apologies. I remember Richard well. Ashame, he met Elizabeth Taylor, I think they were wrong for each other, his 1st wife was his right partner. A sad ending to such a sweet man.
Really enjoyed this intelligent and truthful and non bias bio. I normally hate great actors biography`s because they never criticize or over criticize and never show the true person. Because actor`s are just people like all of us and like all of us are both good and bad.
One of the finest actors ever to have graced this earth but despite his success I always felt he should have been lauded much more than he was. The romance(s) with Liz Taylor were more about that raw chemical attraction two people can have for one another whilst simultaneously being so different as to make them totally unsuited. I tear up every time I hear his dulcet Welsh tones to this day. RIP.
@@lily3054So true. It was just that raw se*ual chemistry that drew them together (constantly) despite being so wrong for one another on a personal level.
He is one of the most BRILLIANT actors ever. Nominated 7 times for an Oscar, never winning. Performances given that not only should have been nominated, but should have won for. Caught up in the publicity of "Cleopatra" and Elizabeth Taylor, his career became a paparazzi's delight. They became more popular than their acting. He became a legend as an actor, and THEY became LEGEND because of their love for each other. Never again will there be such a star....
I am 60 and have watched every movie I could get my hands on with Richard Burton in it, it blows my mind this incredible actor never won an Oscar..He was better then Taylor if you ask me.
God only created a few Greats....it is designed that way. Richard Burton was one of them and that shimmering voice.....ahhhhh sooo memorable, soooo Shaksperian ❤❤
I find it sad that he seemed to finally have rhe life that he truly wanted. Peace, a perfect partner and a future that was quite possibly going to include writing which he was always interested in. Rest in Peace Richard This was s wonderful documentary.
Has anyone here ever seen the speech he did at a celebratory dinner for Frank Sinatra? It’s on YT. It was amazing. The audience, including Sinatra, were blown away by it. He worked so hard on his elocution when he was younger because of his Welsh accent. I could listen to him give the weather or traffic updates all day long with that voice.
Correct- and I think it’s across the Globe - so many wonderful Old School are gone from so many cultures don’t produce same quality actors. Something to do with cheap and low class requirements 🤨 And EGO 🙄 ❤🙏
I volunteered at a hospital in Brisbane for 5 years in the late 1990's. A fellow Gordon.... started there as a volunteer during that time. We would go round and visit people in the wards. One day at morning tea he said he used to be best mates with Richard Burton towards the end of Richard's life in 1984. We were a bit puzzled and suspicious. The next week he brought in a lot of photos of the two of them. Seems Gordon was a builder in California and Richard was getting a house built in Africa and took him regularly there to check on its progress. I asked him what was the thing he noticed. He said he was genuinely interested in others and super polite. And in the morning if they were in Africa and someone woke up at 4 in the morning, they would see Richard near the open fire reading 📖 books.
This was a little bit scary Richard Burton was probably one of the greatest actors that ever lived. He never searched for that internal happiness, and he never achieved it. It was a pity because he had everything else and any man could ever ask for.
The Robe, "Were you there?". I was young and it really made an impression on me. The same with Richard Todd, but I think he was Scottish. In the film"A Man Called Peter," about the Chaplain of the US Senate during WW2. Watch the movie if you can!
Despite them being married ! and even when she got that Hope Diamond 🔹on her finger ! she refused to be addressed as Elizabeth Burton ! Incidentally his real name was Richard Jenkins Jr ! r.i.p. 😢❤🙏
Hearing 'Richard' as 'Wretched' was a bit of a surprise but the surname, 'Burton', is synonymous in English slang with the phrase of 'going for a burton' - meaning trip, fall or demise. Let's not be totally blinded by the brilliance of the man, the irony of finding a Welshman to act out the demise of the Englishman, shouldn't be overlooked. Some scholars believe 'Welsh' means 'slave' - the possibility of a Silent Revolution rather than a 'Bloody' one, might explain a few things.
The Spy Who came out from the cold. ... Richard stood up on a ridge while walking an exclaimed that he was the heir to own thoughts and actions .. not the state .... that put him into the realm outside the human animal and into the being of a human. !
I think from watching the information here that he surely could have done much worse than he did for what he had. He seemed to know what he wanted, and didn't want, from an early age. We all make mistakes and hopefully hurt very little people along life's travels.
I can’t believe how harsh and judgmental and plain wrong Lauren Bacall is about Richard Burton. I used to like and admire her, but in this instance, I really don’t.
From somebody who lived in the exclusive Dakota in NYC, Lauren's comments were rather rich. Also wonder if she was one of Richard's many women scorned from the '50s...
It seems as though he was an introvert and all the hyper socializing and publicity proved to be his undoing. He seemed happiest later on having the peace to read and go to the pub
Interesting in that he openly admitted he was very fortunate yet he took it all for granted by self abuse. There have been countless celebrities who were blessed with what he had who burned the candle at both ends, e.g…. Oliver Reed, Alex Higgins, Richard Harris and many more, it’s as if they had a great zest for life but were prone to addictions of a kind, full steam ahead too hot to handle so to speak. A waste of great talent.
I don't believe Lauren Bacall should have trashed Richard like that Richard, being brilliant and unique, had the right to get rich and to get his family out of the mines, the pit. If I were him, I would have wanted to help my family too not very nice of Bacall to take that cheap shot at him
What about her!?. Was she jealous !?. Or just stupid jealous!!. I wonder. He was a super great actor. A troubled soul, I guess. Yet, one of the best British actors.
I wonder perhaps if Richard Burton was bipolar, as so many stars are. It would certainly explain a lot of his behaviour. Bipolar is genetic and inherited, and Melvyn Bragg said that Burton told him his father 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".
You know my dear I really used to love me some Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton but for some reason on this particular portrait 😔 check out his face because he looks very scary ❤🥀🤍🥀🤍🙏🥀💦please Rest In Peace 🕊️ Sir Richard 💞💞
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Richard Burton briefly passed through my life, and yes he made his mark. A brilliant documentary, showing his deep pain and anger, sadly frequently directed destructively towards himself. This helped though produce the great actor he was. R.I.P
Times change, brilliant actors like Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris and others had memories of war and destruction. The new breed wanted LIFE, fun and to follow their star. Wonderful generation, just different experiences of life. What wonderful works they left us ❤❤
They were all wonderfully trained Shakespearean actors, which refines, hones and precises their natural talents.
One of the best on my lifetime and I'm 80 years old. He was awesome.
Brilliant. This has no equal. No actor more deserving. No life more dramatically gifted
Absolutely, there is no equal! ❤❤❤️
Ā phenomenal actor who lived his life and art to the full. He was also extremely generous to all he cared about. Unfortunately alcohol abuse chopped twenty years off his life. Rest in Paradise, Mr Burton. ❤
What makes you say that Dr. @violinistoftaupo ?? Richard Burton died suddenly because of a cerebral haemorrhage. ( stroke). Hundreds of thousands of tea-totallers whom have never drunk alcohol or smoked die from strokes everyday.
Alcohol didn't "cut his Life short by 2O years", a cerebral haemorrhage did.
@@cindyheadon9005 the cerebral haemorrhage was probably a side effect of alcohol abuse or heavy smoking...
@@violinistoftaupo I didn't realize you were a Dr. or experienced Pathologist. What's that, you're NOT ??? I suggest you keep your sensationalist, misguided & ill-informed comments to yourself regarding matters and facts of which you are completely unaware & clueless.
@@violinistoftaupo I didn't realize you were a qualified Dr. or Pathologist. What's that, you're NOT ???
This guy was astounding. It's a sin he's not mentioned more despite the passage of time.
I started watching and wound up listening most of the time as I worked with my back to the screen...and just hearing that voice...it makes you reflect on what was a "circus of a life" that you saw growing up masks an extraordinary talent and an amazing being...this was SO powerful....I hope he is resting easy, all these years.
A man of all seasons.. Extraordinary..
Somehow so many people, absolutely not feeling his sufferings and his Titanic Talent at the same time, discuss about what he should ...what he would ...Almost all artists were destroying themselves . But it was his Life and he ruled as he wished to
This year marks the 40th anniversary (August 5th 1984) of the passing of the great Welsh actor!!!
Time has passed do quickly
Yes, far too quickly. Lol@@laramaui4114
Amen🙏
Gosh that’s incredible - where does time go?
@@heatherstephens9295 EXACTLY!!!!
Incredible film about an incredible actor and an incredible man. RIP.
He said it’s me that he couldn’t escape on the guilt of the past.
What a brilliantly talented soul too bad he couldn’t overcome his demons & guilt on earth but I hope he’s resting in peace.
I am 38 minutes in and this is amazing. What a life and talent.
To have Churchill ask to use your bathroom between acts! Juarez amazing!
Brilliant documentary. Tastful, respectful, fitting.
My good gosh --it's been 40years -- like yesterday -- a sorrowful passing for a great actor, gentleman, actor for all seasons. His private life was a turmoil -- the price for fame, adulation and false friends. Rest in Peace. klewis AZ/USA
Thoroughly enthralled. Richard Burton was incredibly talented. Those words don't do him justice, apologies. I remember Richard well. Ashame, he met Elizabeth Taylor, I think they were wrong for each other, his 1st wife was his right partner. A sad ending to such a sweet man.
Он очень любил Элизабет.Но не мог удержаться от соблазнов
Really enjoyed this intelligent and truthful and non bias bio.
I normally hate great actors biography`s because they never criticize or over criticize and never show the true person. Because actor`s are just people like all of us and like all of us are both good and bad.
I don't believe Richard Burton and Elizabeth were ever good for one another. Sally would have been so much healthier for him. I truly loved his voice.
We don’t always choose what good for us 😕😏
They obviously had a connection, good or bad or both. I like that they couldn't resist their spell that drew them together.
One of the finest actors ever to have graced this earth but despite his success I always felt he should have been lauded much more than he was. The romance(s) with Liz Taylor were more about that raw chemical attraction two people can have for one another whilst simultaneously being so different as to make them totally unsuited. I tear up every time I hear his dulcet Welsh tones to this day. RIP.
@@lily3054So true. It was just that raw se*ual chemistry that drew them together (constantly) despite being so wrong for one another on a personal level.
It doesn’t matter what you believe. You can’t help who you love
What a glorious tribute.
He helped his whole family out of poverty and friends ,was extremely generous with all ex wives, I'd say he had quite an amount of nobility
True !!!!😊
He was humble yet great.
He is one of the most BRILLIANT actors ever. Nominated 7 times for an Oscar, never winning. Performances given that not only should have been nominated, but should have won for. Caught up in the publicity of "Cleopatra" and Elizabeth Taylor, his career became a paparazzi's delight. They became more popular than their acting. He became a legend as an actor, and THEY became LEGEND because of their love for each other. Never again will there be such a star....
I am 60 and have watched every movie I could get my hands on with Richard Burton in it, it blows my mind this incredible actor never won an Oscar..He was better then Taylor if you ask me.
God only created a few Greats....it is designed that way. Richard Burton was one of them and that shimmering voice.....ahhhhh sooo memorable, soooo Shaksperian ❤❤
Phillip Burton " found" him.
I love a line by Montgomery Clift on Burton: ‘He doesn’t act, he recites’
Haha
He spoke Shakespeare as poetry - which is what he interpreted it to be. Films were different.
Great actor! Thanks for sharing 👏👏👏👋
Excellent documentary about a fascinating actor.
Thank you. It's a terrific bio documentary. By the way, I've just watched "The Taming of the Shrew". Such a delightful movie!
I find it sad that he seemed to finally have rhe life that he truly wanted. Peace, a perfect partner and a future that was quite possibly going to include writing which he was always interested in. Rest in Peace Richard This was s wonderful documentary.
Night of the Iguana had to be one of fave Burton films next to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe.
I like The Sandpiper
Has anyone here ever seen the speech he did at a celebratory dinner for Frank Sinatra? It’s on YT. It was amazing. The audience, including Sinatra, were blown away by it. He worked so hard on his elocution when he was younger because of his Welsh accent. I could listen to him give the weather or traffic updates all day long with that voice.
Amazing documentary about an incredible man. I wish I had a chance to meet him.
We no longer have actors of this level of talent. There were so many great actors of that generation.
Marlon Brando comes to mind
@@astridlabodhisattva1098not for me sorry 😞
@@heatherstephens9295 Who does for you?
Correct- and I think it’s across the Globe - so many wonderful Old School are gone from so many cultures don’t produce same quality actors.
Something to do with cheap and low class requirements 🤨
And EGO 🙄
❤🙏
Yes, there are. Lots of them.
I found this to be extremely fascinating! What an amazing man and life he had, but tragic.
Great actor in his days 🎉🎉
Excellent biography. Thank you. I never could bring myself to watch any film with him and Elizabeth Taylor...none. I think she cheapened him.
masterpiece
Wonderful program! The beautiful voice singing during the funeral segment is obviously the legendary Kristen Flagstad.
Tony Palmer. Wonderful film maker. Totally undervalued.
I volunteered at a hospital in Brisbane for 5 years in the late 1990's. A fellow Gordon.... started there as a volunteer during that time. We would go round and visit people in the wards. One day at morning tea he said he used to be best mates with Richard Burton towards the end of Richard's life in 1984. We were a bit puzzled and suspicious. The next week he brought in a lot of photos of the two of them. Seems Gordon was a builder in California and Richard was getting a house built in Africa and took him regularly there to check on its progress. I asked him what was the thing he noticed. He said he was genuinely interested in others and super polite. And in the morning if they were in Africa and someone woke up at 4 in the morning, they would see Richard near the open fire reading 📖 books.
That's a beautiful memory.
God bless Janet
So well done. Many thanks, a fitting memorial.
Brilliant man beautiful voice troubled soul
This was a little bit scary
Richard Burton was probably one of the greatest actors that ever lived. He never searched for that internal happiness, and he never achieved it. It was a pity because he had everything else and any man could ever ask for.
Un monstru sacru, exceptional, unic al tuturor timpurilor, mulțumesc pt acest documentar!
God, how i loved and admired this man one of the greatest stage and screen actors of all time, if not thee greatest🎉
A great actor and a generous man I think, as I ponder over his grave.
My #1 favourite actor of all time 🎬🎥🎞
Smart, witty, great voice and sadly gone. Diolch, Richard.
The soundtrack, especially during Richard's later life, is really over the top, to the point where you have to strain to hear the speakers...
Thank you for uploading this documentary in higher resolution. A fan and an admirer from Pakistan.
Oh no...how could I forget The Robe?
The Robe, "Were you there?". I was young and it really made an impression on me. The same with Richard Todd, but I think he was Scottish. In the film"A Man Called Peter," about the Chaplain of the US Senate during WW2. Watch the movie if you can!
After awhile Burton's breathy rapid voice wears on me.
"Face of a boxing poet" 😁🥰
Good documentary ccc i enjoyed watching thank you
Thank You for the German Subtitles👍
Despite them being married ! and even when she got that Hope Diamond 🔹on her finger ! she refused to be addressed as Elizabeth Burton ! Incidentally his real name was Richard Jenkins Jr ! r.i.p. 😢❤🙏
Legend. Never be anyone like this man again. RIP
Very interesting fellow. He was before my time but one of my mom’s favorites.
Love old Burton. The diaries are priceless.
Richar barton q hombre maravilloso pura hombria lo adorooooo😊
Cinema is about the earthly plane ..... were not there .. we watched it and we grew from it as we aged in these earthly bodies
Great documentary this
Excellent documentary.
Hearing 'Richard' as 'Wretched' was a bit of a surprise but the surname, 'Burton', is synonymous in English slang with the phrase of 'going for a burton' - meaning trip, fall or demise.
Let's not be totally blinded by the brilliance of the man, the irony of finding a Welshman to act out the demise of the Englishman, shouldn't be overlooked. Some scholars believe 'Welsh' means 'slave' - the possibility of a Silent Revolution rather than a 'Bloody' one, might explain a few things.
Good one!
Never shall we see the like again
Vem legendas em Pt-Br? Espero que sim, quero assistir!!😁😁
As horrible as it was for working class people then from that ferment came such great men and women.
De los tres mejores actores de la historia
The Spy Who came out from the cold. ... Richard stood up on a ridge while walking an exclaimed that he was the heir to own thoughts and actions .. not the state .... that put him into the realm outside the human animal and into the being of a human. !
Excellent documentary
I think from watching the information here that he surely could have done much worse than he did for what he had. He seemed to know what he wanted, and didn't want, from an early age. We all make mistakes and hopefully hurt very little people along life's travels.
Broadsword calling Danny Boy, Broadsword calling Danny Boy
I can’t believe how harsh and judgmental and plain wrong Lauren Bacall is about Richard Burton. I used to like and admire her, but in this instance, I really don’t.
From somebody who lived in the exclusive Dakota in NYC, Lauren's comments were rather rich. Also wonder if she was one of Richard's many women scorned from the '50s...
Impressive documentary 👏 red M.G. wonderful Christmas 🎄 gift 🎁 🎅 🧑🎄
Richard Burton is my James Dean, my Marlin Brando ❤️❤️❤️
Ay q recordarlo como el gran actor q fue
It seems as though he was an introvert and all the hyper socializing and publicity proved to be his undoing. He seemed happiest later on having the peace to read and go to the pub
Q actor marabilloso lo amooo
Yes, pray he is resting in God’s and has found peace !
Interesting in that he openly admitted he was very fortunate yet he took it all for granted by self abuse. There have been countless celebrities who were blessed with what he had who burned the candle at both ends, e.g…. Oliver Reed, Alex Higgins, Richard Harris and many more, it’s as if they had a great zest for life but were prone to addictions of a kind, full steam ahead too hot to handle so to speak. A waste of great talent.
Uno de los más grande actor
Humor goes far.
Talent ..luck..and away some goooooooooooooo..:)
❤❤❤ q vida ruda pero q actor enorme
I don't believe Lauren Bacall should have trashed Richard like that Richard, being brilliant and unique, had the right to get rich and to get his family out of the mines, the pit. If I were him, I would have wanted to help my family too not very nice of Bacall to take that cheap shot at him
Adoro a Elizabeth y Richard. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ cuanta belleza y talento.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have never seen a more beautiful man…
Sean Connery?
추운나라에서몬스파이,
누가버지니아울프를두려워하랴?
I'm still amazed how his first wife took him back.
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What about her!?. Was she jealous !?. Or just stupid jealous!!. I wonder. He was a super great actor. A troubled soul, I guess. Yet, one of the best British actors.
He always played himself... so mannered.
I wonder perhaps if Richard Burton was bipolar, as so many stars are. It would certainly explain a lot of his behaviour. Bipolar is genetic and inherited, and Melvyn Bragg said that Burton told him his father 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".
in fm the cold b/w, he buys canned food but argues about price assauts store clerk
The way Lauren Bacall expresses her self about Richard Burton is just so 🤔
She's definitely not a fan
I move towards fidelity to that which gives me a mother. lmao
You know my dear I really used to love me some Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton but for some reason on this particular portrait 😔 check out his face because he looks very scary ❤🥀🤍🥀🤍🙏🥀💦please Rest In Peace 🕊️ Sir Richard 💞💞
He had such an incredible voice, unfortunately his marriage to Kiz derailed his career.
Magnificent voice which unfortunately he fell in love with.
He never looked happy. Never saw him smile🤷♂️