Richard Burton - the Greatest Poem in the English Language.mpg

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  • @jaynemurphy1667
    @jaynemurphy1667 2 ปีที่แล้ว +468

    A voice like a cello in a coal pit, tough and gentle, soothing and urgent. A man who brought his cathedral on stage with him.

    • @richardl772
      @richardl772 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Thanks…….beautifully described.

    • @taniaearle4457
      @taniaearle4457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      The Welsh

    • @hyena131
      @hyena131 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      jane murphy
      Pseuds Corner...???

    • @klaatu368
      @klaatu368 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @jaynemurohy1667, Nicely written!

    • @Martin-iv6lq
      @Martin-iv6lq ปีที่แล้ว

      More like a drunkard's voice who farts in church and then sits in his own pew.
      Overrated pompous drunkard.

  • @beckyhicks5889
    @beckyhicks5889 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    I have adored Richard Burton since I was 9 years old and I am now 53. I love to hear him speak; movies, interviews or recitation. There will NEVER be another like him!❤

  • @ludwignabucostein2025
    @ludwignabucostein2025 3 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    He was simply THE VOICE , his legacy is the privilege to listen him and the emotion that produces. Richard Burton is in the Olympus of acting.

  • @shakespeareetc.6928
    @shakespeareetc.6928 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Verb conjugation like you've never heard or felt it before. What an artist! Wonderful!

    • @antoniodelrio1292
      @antoniodelrio1292 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I would certainly say so. Well put!

    • @brianyoung3
      @brianyoung3 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yes but what does the conjugation of the verb "to be" really mean? It is all about existence and self knowledge. This is what makes it so profound.

  • @AbsoluteSicknote
    @AbsoluteSicknote 6 ปีที่แล้ว +314

    Richard Burton's voice feels like intellectual music to my ears.

    • @kathlynscuderi9518
      @kathlynscuderi9518 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Perfectly put.

    • @williamallison417
      @williamallison417 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pretty impressive for a constant drunk

    • @janel342
      @janel342 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Michael paget
      Sounds impressive but not a clue what you mean.

  • @LPJack02
    @LPJack02 2 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    RIP Richard Burton (November 10, 1925 - August 5, 1984), aged 58
    You will be remembered as a legend.

  • @doc2146
    @doc2146 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    It was said about Richard Burton that when he was speaking to you, no one else existed.

    • @jeannedeutrom8373
      @jeannedeutrom8373 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      LUCKY! LUCKY!!!! Elizabeth Taylor!❤️

  • @ingridredfern5065
    @ingridredfern5065 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    He had the most amazing voice ever 👌

  • @ellenthorne1168
    @ellenthorne1168 6 ปีที่แล้ว +365

    Richard Burton could read the phone book cover to cover and I'd go weak at the knees, what a beautiful voice.

    • @fuzzyotterpaws4395
      @fuzzyotterpaws4395 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What exactly is a phone book anyway? I've only seen people in elementary school shows rip them in half

    • @WJRay44
      @WJRay44 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@fuzzyotterpaws4395 Burton perfected his projection by standing in a quarry and concentrating on creating an echo without raising his volume. His father, depicted on the photograph, was a Welsh coal miner. His specialty was to arrive at an uncovered vein and strike the seam so that the whole vein would crackle and collapse, saving hours of work for the men. Burton spoke Welsh before English, giving him the background of one of the last languages to survive from Atlantis. The others are Basque and Hungarian.

    • @Timbergal
      @Timbergal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Me too....think how lucky Elizabeth was to have that voice right in her ear while making love ❤️

    • @thomaselliott573
      @thomaselliott573 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      get a life

    • @Ms2blackcats
      @Ms2blackcats 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      me too

  • @nickr9620
    @nickr9620 3 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    A man who developed his voice like a virtuoso on a musical instrument.

    • @ludwignabucostein2025
      @ludwignabucostein2025 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Excellent comparison!

    • @Coltnz1
      @Coltnz1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He was a heavy smoker since the age of 8 (by his own admission) Perhaps that was how he “developed his voice like a virtuoso on a musical instrument”

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      No, he developed his voicelike a virtuoso instrument by constant elecution exercises and concentrated practice in oration for the art of the theatre. He was an artist - with a magnificent gift… There are heavy smokers all over the world - none of them sound like THAT.

  • @AGMundy
    @AGMundy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    A remarkable and fascinating man. The Burton diaries are well worth reading and really provide an insight in to the mind of this erudite and eclectic man.

    • @kateboulton8789
      @kateboulton8789 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for that mention. I wasn't aware of them. I shall look them up.

    • @AGMundy
      @AGMundy ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @kateboulton8789 Yes please do. I thoroughly enjoyed them and I found Burton to be a very thoughtful and interesting man. If you are interested in such hings then I can also recommend the letters of Vincent Van Gogh.

    • @robertacolarette1594
      @robertacolarette1594 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I didn’t know that. I have to look into it.

    • @robertacolarette1594
      @robertacolarette1594 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You know, I’ve always been in love with Orson Welles’ voice. I would watch any movie or documentary that he was in or his voice was narrating just to hear it. But I often forget that singularly Richard Burton had a place way up there for the same thing…a command of the written word and a voice that was just fascinating.

    • @danmalic6688
      @danmalic6688 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@robertacolarette1594welles in moby dick reaches to heavens

  • @kestrel09
    @kestrel09 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I really enjoyed the War of the Worlds album with Richard Burton narrating. Great narration, music and story

  • @morghenmurdochlundgren8640
    @morghenmurdochlundgren8640 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Totally astonishing and captivating,a legend truly missed.

  • @mikemccormick8115
    @mikemccormick8115 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    Burton didn’t need reminder cards from assistants to say his lines either, no matter how long. They don’t make em like that anymore, not even close. Film and stage used to be art. Truly one of the greatest actors of all time.

    • @NaturalRagman
      @NaturalRagman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You were there?

    • @cahillgreg
      @cahillgreg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@NaturalRagman I was; I don't recall seeing Mike.

    • @jaynemurphy1667
      @jaynemurphy1667 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      One of his party tricks was to stand on the table with a cigarette and a glass of whisky, reciting the sonnets of Shakespeare.....backwards.

    • @angusbellamy8751
      @angusbellamy8751 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ThE"VOICE"❤"Highly intellectual individual &truly "GIFTED " BLESSING'S 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼"SHALOM "

    • @danmalic6688
      @danmalic6688 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jaynemurphy1667 you made my day

  • @kataisa3
    @kataisa3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Richard Burton had an epic voice.

  • @johnmason8968
    @johnmason8968 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    He truly had a remarkable voice!

  • @brucetaylor5917
    @brucetaylor5917 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    In my recording collection is the BBC cast recording of "Under Milkwood" by Dylan Thomas. Richard Burton is the narrator. This is a extraordinary production with an all-Welsh cast. Richard Burton's voice continues to reverberate in the mind long afterwards.
    He was also superb with Peter O"Toole in the film "Becket". Neither of them ever received an Academy Award.

    • @monida55
      @monida55 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      O'Toole was nominated eight times and never won, but was awarded an honorary Oscar in 2003.

    • @giovanniacuto2688
      @giovanniacuto2688 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I saw the film 6 times. We were studying the original French text by Jean Anouih at school. This was an easy way to revise

    • @UncleJimsBand
      @UncleJimsBand 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Several copies of that production of Under Milkwood are here on youtube. Peter O'Toole played Captain Cat. Elizabeth Taylor played Rosie. It is a glorious reading.

    • @jillprice8507
      @jillprice8507 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It was a masterclass in acting & shoes those that dole out Oscars know little about acting, so perhaps the fact neither Burton or O’Toole won Oscar’s is testament to their talent!

    • @mikewilliamson7246
      @mikewilliamson7246 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Lucky enough to have a copy. Sublime!

  • @Tagoreapoet777
    @Tagoreapoet777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I once had a dream, that consisted of Richard Burton, myself and Christopher Hitchens, both were debating the pros and cons of Irish whiskey, I just listened.

    • @taniakol
      @taniakol 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Are you sure it was a dream? Think you may have been a fly on the wall

  • @miladydewinter8551
    @miladydewinter8551 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    The Welsh language seems to be the highest foundation for the most melodic voices in speaking and song.

    • @prophetascending9021
      @prophetascending9021 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol...this has nothing to do with the "Welsh language", you cretin.

    • @peeonthepenski4729
      @peeonthepenski4729 ปีที่แล้ว

      Elaborate

    • @prophetascending9021
      @prophetascending9021 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@peeonthepenski4729
      Me?
      Well, he's speaking English, and so Welsh has nothing to do with it.
      Anything else is just wishful thinking.

    • @peeonthepenski4729
      @peeonthepenski4729 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@prophetascending9021 not you the guy who made the comment
      I'm pretty sure I agree with you

    • @DavoInMelbourne
      @DavoInMelbourne ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Funnily enough, I know an Australian pastor who was taught by an American pastor and both agreed that in heaven, all the singing will be in Welsh.

  • @deehillsden9385
    @deehillsden9385 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Brilliant , he has way with words, I love his voice, great actor all time.

  • @globalspiritualrevolutionmedia
    @globalspiritualrevolutionmedia 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS POEM BY THE GREATEST ACTOR & ORATOR IN FILM HISTORY.

    • @alicemi4155
      @alicemi4155 ปีที่แล้ว

      What poem? The present tense of the verb to be is a poem? The greatest poem in the English language? Does that go for other languages as well? Sorry, I find the whole notion a joke.

    • @NemoStrong
      @NemoStrong 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@alicemi4155Poetry is language; without the present tense of the verb to be, Language doesn't exist, Poetry doesn't exist; yet It is.

  • @seva5074
    @seva5074 6 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    This was first spoken by Dylan Thomas when in the company of Richard Burton. Both were in a pub having a beer and Richard Burton was debating with another on the subject of the best poem in the English language. Dylan Thomas intervened in the debate with the words recited by Richard Burton in this short recording.

    • @LeaderOfTheRedNinjas
      @LeaderOfTheRedNinjas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Speaks to Thomas' power as a poet and Burton's different but maybe equal abilities as an narrator. What a video.

    • @bustercrabbe8447
      @bustercrabbe8447 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How many beers? 🍻🍺🍻🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

    • @kateboulton8789
      @kateboulton8789 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@bustercrabbe8447 looks about right! Perhaps a little on the light side if anything 😂

    • @danmalic6688
      @danmalic6688 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@bustercrabbe8447 let's have another one (from an "only beer" pub owner}

  • @kp8381
    @kp8381 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    His voice was elegant, and he was so ruggedly handsome.

    • @jeannedeutrom8373
      @jeannedeutrom8373 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ABSOLUTELY!!!!❤️

  • @michaelapichella2644
    @michaelapichella2644 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    there are still some men with the same rich intensity of Burton hidden deep in the welsh valleys but the world will never see them

    • @dek123
      @dek123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well dig em up.

    • @coreolanus2.02
      @coreolanus2.02 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Too bad isn't it

    • @Ms2blackcats
      @Ms2blackcats 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      it's probably for the best. The world as is probably would find a way to destroy them . GOD knows who they are and why they have those fabulous voices

    • @deniseheupel8814
      @deniseheupel8814 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Protect them from this outer world at all cost.❤❤

  • @rbwebb1022
    @rbwebb1022 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    So sad he has left this earth but his wonderful voice, cultivated by his Welsh education,will endure.

  • @santiagocobo5229
    @santiagocobo5229 8 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    He could do everything and be utterly fascinating

    • @jaynemurphy1667
      @jaynemurphy1667 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He'd be on screen/stage doing nothing and absolutely everything. Charismatic with a presence which was God given.

  • @maaidakausar9802
    @maaidakausar9802 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Richard Burton like gems are not created everyday

  • @lindaodd9681
    @lindaodd9681 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The new Under Milk Wood is astonishingly beautiful. All new cast apart from Richard. Hearing the beginning my heart is transfixed. Love him and not because I’m Welsh! 💕🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

  • @leslieirvine1961
    @leslieirvine1961 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Great Man certainly had a distinctive, unmistakable, truly identifiable and monumental voice. He was unique and a true one off. 👏

  • @jlernerz
    @jlernerz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Like being in Latin class taught in English by a splendid teacher who makes you want to remember

    • @garethmorris299
      @garethmorris299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I had that Latin teacher,mr warriner

  • @gotmythumbs
    @gotmythumbs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    In 1980 I was stationed in South Korea. My wife flew in to visit for a few weeks and we took a short trip to Hong Kong. On Sunday we went to a Catholic church for mass. When the priest started his sermon he sounded exactly like Richard Burton. I was floored and paid rapt attention.

  • @Josingable
    @Josingable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This always amazes me. Everytime I listen to it it's like the first time

  • @Lea-rb9nc
    @Lea-rb9nc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    With that voice, he could mesmerize his listeners by simply reading a phone book. It slays me every time I hear him.

    • @anamariasfms
      @anamariasfms 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Esa VOZ..SE TE CAEN LAS MEDIAS Y OTRAS COSAS..ERA IMPRESIONANTE RICHARD que hombre tan cautivador...tenia una mirada y una actitud tan varonil y era hipnotico.

  • @globalspiritualrevolutionmedia
    @globalspiritualrevolutionmedia 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Richard Burton Was a Pure Genius!!!!!
    The Greatest Orator and Actor In Hollywood History.
    This Powerful Poem "TO BE" Simply Blew My Mind.
    That Was The Genius of Richard Burton.

  • @gardendelight579
    @gardendelight579 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    PURE POET.....HANDSOME.....BEAUTIFUL ACTOR.....GENEROUS....LOYAL TO HIS CRAFT & FAMILY!!

  • @ferkara8223
    @ferkara8223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What a voice and personality!

  • @annaelvis3138
    @annaelvis3138 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Richard Burton was One of the greatest inglish Artist and have a powerful VOICE.Never forgotten.

  • @kellyjackson6548
    @kellyjackson6548 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    OMG! I love his voice! ❤❤❤

  • @RussMcClay
    @RussMcClay 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    That man is thoroughly and most righteously blazed. And therefore I adore him.

  • @aldebaranredstar
    @aldebaranredstar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow! Unexpectedly beautiful.👍😊

  • @timmccaffrey1326
    @timmccaffrey1326 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    The greatest voice of the twentieth century!..Richard Burton was pretty drunk when he recited this piece, which is part of an interview he did with Barry Norman and the whole interview is posted on TH-cam.

  • @mizofan
    @mizofan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,
    My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
    I am the self-consumer of my woes,
    They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
    Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost;
    And yet I am! and live with shadows tost
    Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
    Into the living sea of waking dreams,
    Where there is neither sense of life nor joys,
    But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems;
    And e'en the dearest- that I loved the best-
    Are strange- nay, rather stranger than the rest.
    I long for scenes where man has never trod;
    A place where woman never smil'd or wept;
    There to abide with my creator, God,
    And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept:
    Untroubling and untroubled where I lie;
    The grass below- above the vaulted sky. (John Clare)

    • @lilliannieswender266
      @lilliannieswender266 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      How lovely, thank you.

    • @leona7522
      @leona7522 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Really beautiful. Thank you. I hadnt heard this.

    • @77777aol
      @77777aol 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What a gem and a pleasure to discover. Thank you.

    • @lieblichbourdon
      @lieblichbourdon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      mizofan this reminds me of the following proverb:
      Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can share its joy. Prov 14:10

    • @naaveenmahadeshwar7889
      @naaveenmahadeshwar7889 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🙏🙏🙏

  • @mrsvictor9914
    @mrsvictor9914 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    This response is actually what dylan Thomas said when Burton asked him what is the greatest poem written when they was in a bar *fyi*

  • @stacyblue1980
    @stacyblue1980 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    YOU are , Mr. Burton . You are.

  • @maryeliason1504
    @maryeliason1504 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Incredible voice

  • @WinChun78
    @WinChun78 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You used to get such great actors with such powerful gravitas and deeply distinctive voices, such as Richard Burton, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, James Mason, Patrick McGoohan, etc.

  • @darrylshamrock
    @darrylshamrock ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow! THAT can take you as deep as it is possible to go.

  • @AmethystDew
    @AmethystDew 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    He was too intelligent for them all. Hollywood wouldn't even give him an Oscar because he left them standing. He soared and his fans knew it - he was his own man.

  • @nadeemmohammed6652
    @nadeemmohammed6652 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great man his words dialogues amazes me every time i 1:09 watch him speak

  • @marytorres4843
    @marytorres4843 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Oh how i love his voice!

  • @bendym4n123
    @bendym4n123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I always associate this with his reading of the war of the worlds, when he pauses and says "They are.." I always think he is speaking of the martians

  • @fob1xxl
    @fob1xxl ปีที่แล้ว +30

    A BRILLIANT ACTOR ! The voice of GOD. The speech of knowledge. He commanded what he did. A rare talent. A rare man. Miss him.

    • @willpeony5534
      @willpeony5534 ปีที่แล้ว

      God has a New York accent.

  • @atlantisnewman1722
    @atlantisnewman1722 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    to be or not to be , he was , he is , the shadow in the darkened place where the wind whispers upon dry grass. words of a forgotten lover that beckon as a siren's song upon the ears of the unguarded.

  • @fauxmanchu8094
    @fauxmanchu8094 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Burton and O'Toole are two of the greatest thespians.

    • @flicker162
      @flicker162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and great friends!

    • @BrenB125
      @BrenB125 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sadly both are probably in hell.

    • @janel342
      @janel342 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Please don’t use the word thespians. It’s naff. Actors will suffice,

  • @SandraPrice-c5g
    @SandraPrice-c5g ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This Welshman, whose first language was Welsh, had a voice that earned him millions. He could Act too, by the way. His voice
    was like velvet and captured your interest from the start. Cool & even and melodic. He hadn’t ‘it’ in spades whatever he was
    talking about. Poetic. Homeric. Just in his genes, that’s all you can say.

  • @mikelheron20
    @mikelheron20 8 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    And now Richard Burton reading his shopping list.

    • @Arctic_Fox_NFFC
      @Arctic_Fox_NFFC 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      They.......are......out of milk

    • @stacyblue1980
      @stacyblue1980 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      would be wonderful to hear Im sure.

    • @Losrandir
      @Losrandir 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Vodka, vodka, vodka. Cigarettes, cigarettes, cigarettes. Complete Works of William Shakespeare, dental floss, bacon, eggs, box of matches, tobacco, ham, rope, toadstools, cinnamon, lemonade, canned salmon, shoe wax, Tom Jones Greatest Hits. Vodka, vodka, vodka. Cigarettes, cigarettes, cigarettes.

    • @stacyblue1980
      @stacyblue1980 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Matt Newman not funny.

    • @johnjepsen6206
      @johnjepsen6206 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      mikelheron20 ....whiskey, 2 scotch, 3 cases Heineken. ,3 vodka. ...chips. weekly list? Know I'm forgetting sumpin. ...

  • @SA-hl6gg
    @SA-hl6gg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Il n'a pas donné toute l'ampleur de son génie, trop de films commerciaux, hélas ont contrecarré la plus belle voix du Théâtre et Cinéma mondial, je fais parti de ces cinéphiles dont le regret éternel est qu'il n'ait pas eu le rôle du consul alcoolique dans le film de John Huston : "au dessous de volcan"dont il aurait fait une interprétation hallucinante.
    Dans un rêve, je l'écoute dire les poèmes de Rupert Brooke, et le monde devient plus harmonieux.

  • @vanlendl1
    @vanlendl1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Half of the credits goes to Chesterfield cigarettes.

  • @johnbroadway4196
    @johnbroadway4196 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Richard Burton had a voice which draws one's heart to the Ears in fathom.

  • @p.5557
    @p.5557 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Beautifully done with the soundtrack. A cinephile, no doubt.

  • @donalobrien7582
    @donalobrien7582 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Burton
    A Voice, worth Remembering for its Artistic Beauty.
    Says much about the Man Himself.

  • @globalspiritualrevolutionmedia
    @globalspiritualrevolutionmedia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The greatest actor and luinguist in Stage and Cinematic History.

    • @Chrisjude100
      @Chrisjude100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He actually did a lot less theatre than he is often credited with ... but he did it momentously

  • @alecfoster4413
    @alecfoster4413 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I would have loved to hear him recite "The Raven".

  • @harrysecombegroupie
    @harrysecombegroupie 11 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    That is some intense conjugation!

  • @lindalawson7400
    @lindalawson7400 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    What a beautiful voice he’s a great loss to acting

  • @skye1624
    @skye1624 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Pure brilliance

  • @johnbanks4761
    @johnbanks4761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    great voice...great talent. Something to ( if you wish to be an actor)...to aspire to

  • @WJack97224
    @WJack97224 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Conjugation of the verb to be, I am, you are, he, she or it is, we are, you are and they are. I leaned conjugation in my Spanish Class and had missed it in my English Classes.

  • @FranssensM
    @FranssensM 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you for showing me this

  • @joycerandall1935
    @joycerandall1935 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I liked Richard Burton as an actor. I like Russell Crowe . He's .my favorite actor today

    • @kathlynscuderi9518
      @kathlynscuderi9518 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      First time I heard Russell in gladiator. I thought of Richard Burton..

    • @kathlynscuderi9518
      @kathlynscuderi9518 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't you have an opinion on Richards whole persona?. It's like saying nice steak when you are eating filet mignon. He didn't just act. He performed. He was exceleranting

  • @stardresser1
    @stardresser1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It is nooooo wonder that the most beautiful woman of her time was insanely in love with him...I am too! He is just captivating. Just riveting.

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just one of the women of Liz Taylor's time much more beautiful than Taylor is Sophia Loren.
      And, at 88, still more beautiful than Taylor in her hey-day. (Not to mention more beautiful than Taylor in her 'gin soaked lush' days.)

  • @nathalieriley6539
    @nathalieriley6539 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love his voice can listen to him all day

  • @michaelgibson4705
    @michaelgibson4705 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Broadsword calling Danny boy some of the finest lines in the English language 😂 cheers Rich

    • @kateboulton8789
      @kateboulton8789 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'll never tire of that film. Just those words send shivers down my spine.

  • @danmalic6688
    @danmalic6688 วันที่ผ่านมา

    a voice/soul NEVER duplicated......... also the photo perfectly fits

  • @JuanGonzales-zq2fh
    @JuanGonzales-zq2fh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great voice Richard!

  • @mohammedcohen
    @mohammedcohen 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    .....I was SERIOUSLY impressed in freshman year of high school..61 plus years ago when I heard him in 'The Ryme of the Ancient Mariner' (played on an LP during class discussion of that classic in Mr Monica's English class)...it took me almost the whole 60 years to find a copy on CD...

  • @jimmysanders4813
    @jimmysanders4813 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is all about the present moment,we cannot know yesterday or tomorrow we can only know now.This moment is the heavenly moment.

  • @racelradic6463
    @racelradic6463 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    With this beautiful song, Richard Barton once again showed that he is an actor with the most beautiful voice. No one is equal to him. His voice is reminiscent of thick white wine that you gently pour into a crystal glass. Is there a recorded song about Ozimndias with Barton? If there is, give it to us. It would be a real pleasure to listen to Ozimandias in his performance!

  • @qow2427
    @qow2427 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    When actors were actors

  • @markberryhill2715
    @markberryhill2715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Spy Who Came in From The Cold. Loved that thriller.

  • @SandySaunders9142
    @SandySaunders9142 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Burton. Amazing.

  • @BleedthisFreak83
    @BleedthisFreak83 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am just learning how much of a fan of Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas, Johnny Depp is! and a lot of things are making sense.❤

  • @jontalbot1
    @jontalbot1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The greatest poem in the language is Richard Burton reading Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. It is described as a play for voices because there isn’t really a word for it. But to me it is a poem like no other and Richard Burton reading it just sends it into something created by the Gods

  • @fedup745
    @fedup745 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Even three sheets to the wind he was fascinating.

  • @japagowtrio8008
    @japagowtrio8008 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    That was incredible

  • @OneLastHitB4IGo
    @OneLastHitB4IGo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I've always thought that if you could ever hear God's voice, it would sound like Richard Burton.

    • @aspinallsandy4810
      @aspinallsandy4810 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Agree

    • @Johnconno
      @Johnconno 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have. It doesn't.

    • @franksfiddle9031
      @franksfiddle9031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Perhaps it's no coincidence that Hollywood seem to think that it's Morgan Freeman's voice that god uses ... the baritone gives gravitas perhaps.

    • @teresadbrownbrown3785
      @teresadbrownbrown3785 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      His voice was great

    • @sidecarmisanthrope5927
      @sidecarmisanthrope5927 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Johnconno : You haven't, you only imagined.

  • @rodjones117
    @rodjones117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You have to remember that English wasn't even Burton's first language. That was Welsh (Cymraig), which he always spoke with his family.

  • @russellwilliams1071
    @russellwilliams1071 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Always sounds like grandad who I called Dada...love them both

  • @johnfitzpatrick1472
    @johnfitzpatrick1472 9 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Burton being Burton, so very very good

  • @cryptohunt2552
    @cryptohunt2552 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Never did another voice come close to that.

  • @kirra7406
    @kirra7406 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That man could’ve made the phone book sound interesting. You don’t get that sort of voice in movies any more.

  • @christinescheiner5194
    @christinescheiner5194 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Bombed out of his mind and I love him. ❤

  • @UkuleleBobbyKemp
    @UkuleleBobbyKemp 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Just the most amazing voice ever hey? RB could literally read the Highway Code an' SLAY 'em!... 🥰

  • @wrmty56413
    @wrmty56413 8 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    Not gonna lie - Rob Brydon bought me here

    • @Amethyst_Friend
      @Amethyst_Friend 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Me too, but what is he on about?

    • @thekeypresser
      @thekeypresser 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I've been looking for the Brydon clip. He does it better!

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mr .Creosote Best TH-cam member name. Best reply. Thou deep.#waferthin

    • @wrmty56413
      @wrmty56413 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Would love to hear the Jamaican version of this

    • @donaldmartell3729
      @donaldmartell3729 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jim X SAME

  • @Pimpernella
    @Pimpernella 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Can you imagine being Elizabeth Taylor? She never did strike me as an extraordinary woman...She was pretty and had the most striking eyes ever...He was a mesmerising poet. When poetry and beauty merged together in such a way...there was magic in the air and the most enchanting stories would fill our fantasies for a long time to come. However reality is rude and never what it proposed to be. To each his own but these two eventually were never meant to be.

  • @ninovasev
    @ninovasev 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the voice, the rhythm...drama

  • @tacticallyinept
    @tacticallyinept 9 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Not sure how I got here, but that was fucking amazing.

    • @waremblem3405
      @waremblem3405 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +fe edd --- Perhaps Step One was the action denoted by the word which enhances your description of "amazing."

  • @darrenjones7607
    @darrenjones7607 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A beautiful velvet Welsh voice❤

  • @ronnieince4568
    @ronnieince4568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Spent most of his life on women and alcohol and wasted the rest !!! But has an instantly recognisable voice and a real feeling for words and poetry .

    • @giovanniacuto2688
      @giovanniacuto2688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He, like Anthony Hopkins, was a boyo (South Wales working class). Alcohol was obligatory, although Hopkins pulled himself back from the brink. Interestingly they both acted with Peter O'Toole when he was playing King Henry II. In Burton's case, the film was Becket (1964) and for Hopkins it was The Lion in Winter (1968).

    • @jaynemurphy1667
      @jaynemurphy1667 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He never took the fame game too seriously. Compared with the harsh existence of mining families in Wales, I don't think he ever saw acting as a proper job. By his own admission, he would have preferred to have played rugby for Wales!

  • @Deutschie
    @Deutschie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Next Richard Burton reads the telephone directory.