Richard Burton was so handsome & I love the way he spoke. I met him once in N.Y. TO SEEHIM IN A PLAY HE SHOOK MY MOTHERS & MINE SO GENTLY. HIS EYES WERE BEAUTIFUL. BLUE. HE WAS SUCH A GENTLEMAN. RIP 🙏
This is what you tube was created for, so that we can re-live these magic moments with one of the most charismatic men of our age. Over the years I have read and heard so many stories about Richard and all of them are great. Thanks for uploading!
I couldn't agree more. You tube has become an open door to a magical world l would never have crossed, and which made my life richer and more knowledgeable. Thank you.
Men sat cross legged back in the days I can't imagine it now. My uncle was his freind in school and I visited his house in the village of Ponthrydyfn which is mentioned in this show. There is a sign there in memory of him and Ivor Emmanuel
I'm with you. It seems everything is geared toward people who stopped maturing emotionally/mentally at age 19. There's nothing for adults and that's a shame.
I used to come home from school (South Florida and BROILING hot) and I'd turn on the TV and crank the air-conditioner and watch Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas...usually light-weight stuff but still thoughtful and smart. I just loved it! You couldn't MAKE me watch the nightly chat shows now. Dick Cavett should come out of retirement...unless of course, he's now a whining Leftist/Socialist.
I so liked Dick Cavett...an intelligent, classy gentleman, who treated his guests with quiet respect and warmth....and never resorted to sleaze or attacks. I used to watch his show faithfully. He never set out to hurt anybody, as they do now. He was the best at what he did. I loved seeing him here, talking with the great Richard Burton....how wonderful!
I loved how comfortable and relaxed that Richard Burton was, and also down to earth and real he was, with the stories that he told, and his sense of humor, and I just loved everything about him. What a wonderful and delightful man he was Never to be Forgotten. May He Forever Rest In Peace, & May God Bless Him Always!
I adore this man. He was so intelligent, was an avid reader, had a mind that strived for more and more. His voice is hypnotic. Such a wonderful addition to this world.
Thanks to Dick Cavett, we are able to enjoy in-depth informative interviews with the great actors, musicians, directors, novelists, critics, politicians and personalities of the 20th century. Cavett's style was incomparable.
This was 4 years before he died. What can you say about a Legend. That voice. Those eyes. Just beautiful. They don't make them like Richard Burton anymore. He was one of a kind. He broke the mold! Another great interview was with Robert Mitchum. Another of my favorite actors of all time. What an interview. What a Legend!
What an eloquent and strong man. Incredible presence yet also; so very humble. We can all learn a lot from this true gentle man. Taken from this planet far, far too young. Loved and missed 💜 🏴
@@kevinruddy448 They probably have but don't dismiss it because he had faults and feet of clay like so many do 🙄🙄 Most people realize other human beings are flawed but yet can be admired.
@@kevinruddy448 so what I have to do with anything just somebody might’ve read all about it about him or whatever don’t mean crap serious or people in the public guy I just like everybody else they make mistakes and do dumb shit stop criticizing their personal life
I could listen to him all day.....he has a way of describing the mundane with such beauty, it makes it sound exciting......Beneath the outer hard shell, and dry wit, you can see an almost respectful humbleness and slight vulnerability in his eyes, which I find endearing.....A mesmerising actor, and memorable, fascinating, interesting person...x
Absolutely incandescent! Burton is just a priceless gem to hear, listen to and watch. Dick Cavett is a master at interviewing. Outstanding in every sense.
@@lisahayes8834 I know, he should have, but lost out to Walter Matthau. They were both magnificent in that film, at least Elizabeth got her recognition for it
@@lepetitchat123 its a welsh thing if your not welsh then your just not going to understand we are a very proud people with a rich history that stretches back before the romans had even hered of Britain a language that stretches back thousands of years still used today more castles than anywhere else in the UK and an incredibly unique culture we also feel eachothers success and failures love and heartbreak like its happening too you I love the fact I'm from Wales and could t be prouder to call myself a welshman
I agree. I was a big fan of his. Met him, saw him on stage and even gave him a kiss. I love this interview. Always intelligent, articulate, funny. Fascinating and lovely man.
Richard was larger than life itself, he was so incredibly generous and honest in all the interviews that he gave, Richard had a gift, he was a storyteller, this kind of actors no longer exist nowdays, he was a prince, he was a king and we miss him terribly!!
@Sean Finlay The worst part of this pandemic is the fact you little shits are at home on the internet and not in school. The good news is that your education will be shit and you'll never compete with me in the marketplace.
He was, like Edwin Booth (yes, John Wilkes' brother) before him, the Prince of Players. Booth held the record for performances of "Hamlet" in NYC (100) until Richard Burton broke that record.
His voice. His accent. His delivery. All without conscience of being contrived entertaining. He was a gift to the world. A man of a type sadly missing in the world today. Not world saving. Not enlightening in a spiritual way. But just a delight to witness in his delightful delivery of a simple memory
Being a Welshman myself and with the obvious bias of a," Common fool ".I think Richards voice is the greatest that Ive ever heared in my lifetime .and I miss him very much .
While everyone is gloating about Burton(rightfully so),Cavett is brilliant as well. The spontaneous,smart quips("shoe-business",miner's looking down on other skilled workers,etc.) made the interview more fluid. He absolutely knows when to stay quiet & when to speak. Impeccable interviewer.
Lisening to this great person Richard Burton is for me to understand that we never will have a man and artist like him. And Dick Cavett have done a fantastic jobb doing this interview!!! This is ART for rest of my days….
and he actually thinks before speaking... He is so respectful and considerate and can laugh at himself, great sense of humor. Dick Cavett can relate well to him
Yes I saw this show! He and Peter O'Toole were great actors, they were as big in life as they were on the screen. I was quite surprised how erudite Mr.Burton was in his personal life, he read voraciously as witnessed by his personal well-stocked library and he famous 'book bag' that he carried throughout his travels. He also could quote Shakespeare verse very well, demonstrating a great memory despite all of his hard drinking and he knew a bit of foreign languages as well. He was a man of many hidden talents and he died too young. He and O'Toole were cheated out of their well-deserved deserved acting recognition.
Edmund Charles Quote Shakespeare? His manner of writing, was, and is so obsolete, that the even the British, didn't bother to read it. From hundreds of years ago. Burton to me, had the mindless talent, of taking Liz Taylor away from her abused husband Eddie Fisher. He then dumped his wife and 2 daughters, to pursue HER career, and she brought him to stardom. During their marriage, he was seeing some Princess of a Slovak country, while she had affair with a journalist, who had written an article of praise to her talent. These people are so intently occupied with themselves, they have no time for dedication to any living soul.
Try Edgar Alan Poe. His "Annabel Lee" is recited in every elementary school in this country. Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain are on the lips of every student during their Jr. High years. Yes, I love short stories, and poetry.
@Nexus 6 Just read this post - maybe you've got started now on Sh/peare? If not, in today's Black Lives Matter age, try 'the Merchant of Venice' - where Shylock, a Jew who is angry and hurt by discrimination, protests: ""If you prick us, do we not bleed?" Or try his sonnets - as love poems, unbelievable. Or 'Julius Caesar', where Cinna argues that Caesar is no Great Man, no King-Emperor, just a man like any other - maybe D Trump should have read the speech where Cinna argues "The fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings!". And yet you say his works are obsolete?!
I loved every minute of this entire interview. It was so good to see Burton as Burton (and without any association to the chaos and scandal of the Taylor debacle). He was so clearly highly educated and a master of language. Besides being massively talented, he was such a strikingly handsome, eloquent, warm and sincere person! And, my favorite parts were seeing that amazingly beautiful, slightly crooked smile when he was amused! I'd never seen his smile before! I hope this entire interview can be preserved for future viewers - it is truly a treasure!!!
Richard Burton. A wonderful actor, well spoken and articulate in every aspect. A lovely heart and handsome man. Speaking the way he does shows what a great actor he is. One of my mothers favourite actors. Both born on the same day. A gracious man indeed. Tom Jones, the fantastic singer worked in the horrible coal mines before his musical career. Rest in Paradise Mr Richard Burton
Richard Burton should have won on Oscar. His performances in "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold," "Beckett," and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" were stellar.
You take the trouble to construct a civilization, to build a society based on the principles of... of principle. You make government and art and realize that they are, must be, both the same. You bring things to the saddest of all points, to the point where there is something to lose. Then, all at once, through all the music, through all the sensible sounds of men building, attempting, comes the Dies Irae. And what is it? What does the trumpet sound? Up yours.
the hollywood types didn't like him. i have no idea why. lauren bacall said horrendous things about him in a documentary done a couple of years after his death. it's free on amazon and it's called richard burton come in from the cold, or something like that. (it's a take-off on the spy who came in from the cold obviously). i have no idea what he did out there to get that reaction. maybe they think he screwed elizabeth taylor over or something.
Having grown up with a mother obsessed with the man and years of Welsh education, i say in all honesty, there has never been a cooler Welshman. An absolute treasure.
just people knockin the breeze and being genuine. it shouldn't be called art, but just humans appreciating other human beings. i feel like everything, and it's fact not an opinion, is scripted and the same.
When I was in media during my younger days, I once had the good fortune of speaking with Mr. Burton on the telephone, and his voice literally went right through me. I cannot imagine what actually being in the same room must have been like his charisma and magnetism was so strong. Thank you for uploading this; it was worth watching to the end just to hear those candid thoughts on his struggle with alcoholism.
I worked with him on the Film ABSOLUTION 1979, and had a 25 minute one to one chat with him, hearing him call my name was AMAZING, as you say his voice was stunning, and he was such a nice man deep inside, sadly his addiction to drink was something he struggled with, and a battle he never won.
@@Cortinaman63 It's coming to light now, that Burton suffered from epilepsy and used alcohol as a misguided self-medication and existential strategy to combat or deal with his condition, which at the time wasn't that well understood or treated and in the acting world, an epileptic actor didn't get work for insurance reasons.
@@GordonCaledonia That's interesting. Bud Abbot from Abbott and Costello drank for the same reason. He was afraid of the seizures and thought drinking was helpful.
It was a pleasure to listen to Richard Burton (I'm one of those who'd pay to listen to him read the phone book; that marvelous voice) but this was also a reminder of how great an interviewer Dick Cavett was.
+Steve B I wonder if his "shoe business" line was improvised, it was so clever and spot-on. It couldn't have been prepared beforehand! the "shoe-in-front" situation that spawned it was rather unique.
Re: "I'm one of those who'd pay to listen to him read the phone book; that marvelous voice..." Burton DID read the phonebook! I think it was on the Today show (or some such morning show). He did it with all that wonderful cadence and mellifluous voice could muster. He was blessed.
@Jeepman89 I've noticed this type of thing with a lot of famous people on different old chat shows, they sometimes repeat the same one liners and anecdotes. Orson Welles for instance repeats in most interviews how he started working at the top and has been working his way down ever since.
I have always loved Dick Cavett, so bright, funny, kind... Never thought much about Richard Burton, but now I want to watch this interview over and over, to hear his stories. I love their obvious connection, how much they enjoy each other, how compatible their humor. Just watching them smile, listening to RB's stories, is a tremendous treat. Dick, don't ever leave us.
I grew up in West Wales, a region where every pub bore thought they entertained us with their rich views on life with a Richard Burton-like voice. Those old buggers might have shared that voice, but they did not have his intelligence, his talent, his memory, his humility or his grace. He was unique. No wonder he escaped the bores as soon as all those gifts began to tell.
Agreed. He makes me very proud indeed to be British and working class. His eloquence shows that a gentleman can originate in any class; it simply takes quiet determination and good manners. A marvellous man 💜
Dick Cavett was such a wonderful interviewer. Always brought the best out of his guests. Intelligent conversation with a healthy (but not tacky) dose of humour. And today we have Jimmy Fallon... Christ!
If I was bored, and I wanted one person to walk through the door, it would be Richard Burton. His King Arthur monologue was just spellbinding. A couple of ice cold vodka's, and a Hollywood legend recounting his youth, loves, losses and dreams. _"I saw the blade gleaming with letters of gold. That's how I became king."_
This is two years after The Wild Geese, and the drinking has taken its toll. He is charismatic, funny and interesting, very much one of a dying breed along with Richard Harris and Peter O'Toole. In marrying Elizabeth Taylor not once, but twice, he was luckier than any man on the planet, and I'm sure he knew it. He was a complex actor: brilliantly talented but self destructive, with a devil may care air and engaging charm. Noone like him before or since.
he was lucky and yet did eveything in his power to destroy the marriage. Yes, elizabeth was flawed as well, but his alcoholism was really out of control and it shows here.
It's good to know there have been people like Dick Cavett in the U.S. that were excellent interviewers that asked good questions & didn't back down with even the most belligerent of guests regardless of their fame or ego (not thinking of Burton but definitely thinking of Norman Mailer!) People of his calibre are sadly thin on the ground in modern America.
A true interview rather than a plug for a movie or book. Dick Cavett was so intelligent and did such a marvelous interview here. He puts his guests at ease. It was also about the only time that you got to see Burton laid back enough to share such details about his life and humble beginnings. Love the story of his father questioning his son's earnings. Burton to his father, "...they pay me $150,000...". His father's response, "What for?"
Civilized discussion between intelligent interviewer and articulate, erudite actor. Can do 10 minutes alone on Burton’s beautiful voice. Take a good look because those days are forever gone and we’re left with late night junk hosts and sappy guests with no concept of true talent. Burton overcame drink which was a big deal in itself. Handsome as the years went on. God rest him.
1:30:34 - Richard Burton compares alcoholism to a daily boxing match. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant and very powerful. Probably my favorite part of this whole interview.
That narration he went into about the wretched figure, hung-over and contemplating the shame of his life, was a moment of spontaneous performance art of the highest order. I have no idea whether Burton had ever used those phrases or those words to describe alcoholism before this moment, but it doesn't really matter -- his genius as a speaker and, yes, as an actor was never more splendidly displayed than at this moment.
Agreed. A never-ending boxing match is an excellent analogy. Rampant alcoholism (and any other drug or narcotic addiction) is never really "beaten" per se, it is simply "kept at bay" (by those strong-willed and determined enough to keep it as such). Sadly, Mr Burton was already facing major health issues by the absurdly young age of 41 due to his heavy drinking and smoking and subsequently got worse with escalating health problems until he passed away at the age of 58, only four short years after this televised interview with Dick Cavett.
Still miss Richard to this day. A tremendous actor and a fantastic voice. How I wished I could have met him-when he wasn't drinking of course-and it's also very sad to realise Richard only had four years to live here. Rest in Peace, sir.
I get the immediate feeling that Richard Burton is such a sweet and down to earth kind man. He makes you feel comfortable talking to him instantly, and I am spellbound listening to him, and I absolutely love hearing all of his stories that he tells. He is so charming, gracious and endearing. May you Rest In Eternal Blessed Peace My Friend, and God Bless You Always and Eternally! 💋💋 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
As a young man I rushed home every night from work to see these PBS Cavett shows when they were new, and I remember this particular four-night stretch with special vividness and pleasure. (I've never forgotten the red socks or Burton's response to the Frank Rich review.) Thanks for making this available again!
His stillness throughout the interview is quite remarkable. I have observed even Brando being incredibly still throughout his interview as well. Both utterly captivating actors, of course. I wonder if their stillness, along with their incredible talents, makes them more magnetic.
Good God, Mr. Burton was such an elegant man! These Dick Cavett interviews rule! Incredible how he interviewed the creme-de-la-creme of show business and they loved Cavett as well. Such a wonderful interview!
Two class gentlemen with mutual respect and admiration for the true class and taste for the beautiful Arts in all. Burton was and still is and always will be an iconic genuine gift to the stage and screen world, one of the true defining talents of his era. Humble almost to a fault but so genuine and at ease with being so. Powerful character but in the very best way. RIP Sir!
+Nathan Jeremy Logan The live audience sat through this wonderful interview which must have lasted at least 3 hrs., breaks included. The half hr. segments were aired on tv on consecutive evenings.
What a classic voice. Just to listen to him speak fills your head with thoughts of royalty. But you can really see the many years of hard living had taken a toll.
What a presence! And Mr. Cavett is such a marvelous interviewer. At the time of this interview, Mr. Burton was 55 years old, and he looks 70. He died only four years later from cerebral hemorrhage -- just as his father had. His message to alcoholics of the world was deeply sincere and heartfelt, with a genuine depth of emotion. He was an extraordinary talent, and genuinely human. Watch him as he performs King Arthur to Guinevere. He takes a moment to go to that magical place in his mind. His eyes are as expressive as his voice, and at the end, with the audience rightly applauding, he's still there, in that magical place. He isn't listening to the applause for those few seconds -- he's emerging from the character, returning to Earth from that place he had just created for the audience. It's a shame he was never knighted.
Steve, your words are the most beautiful tribute ever written about Burton. Cavett had so much compassion in all his interviews. This was a rare exchange. How lucky we are to be a part.
@@stephaniestanley8041 Thank you. It's well-deserved praise for Mr. Burton -- a giant who had few peers. He appeared in an episode of 'Here's Lucy' once, as a plumber. She made the mistake of calling him English. Oh, the look on his face when she said that... 🤣 ua-cam.com/video/Nrz0IHQzQo8/v-deo.html
@@randomcomputer7248 Not so , I've lived in south Wales all my life - most of my ancestors also lived here .My ancestry DNA states: 2% Scotland,1%Ireland .97%, Welsh.
Wasn't Richard Burton such a class act. Also saw him on Parkinson on BBC 1. Came accross as an absolute gentleman. Great actor , the voice and intelligent. I could listen for hours. Thanks for posting this.
I definitely saw this in 1980. I was only 26 (!) and I had an apartment where everything was on the floor, including my bed and tv. I watched this and thought, "No wonder he can get such women, he's enormously likeable--" He still is.
Richard Burton is a tremendous inspiration to me. I thought nothing of him back when he and Elizabeth Taylor were such a big thing. But now... when I'm actually older than he was when he died... I've come to discover a remarkable soul.
@Nexus 6 I fell in love with him at age 5. Was devastated by his death scene in Becket and I loved him from that time forward. Got to meet him, see him onstage and kissed him too. I will always love this man.
24:10 minutes, the story Burton tells about his dad back in Wales, long after he made it in Hollywood -- lord, the punchline took me clean out. Repeatedly.
I was lucky enough to worked with Richard Burton, for a week in the Film "ABSOLUTION" 1979, and have found memories of the time, and spent 25 minutes having a private one to one chat with him, hearing him call my name with his iconic sounding voice was AMAZING We also talked about his struggle with drinking, he was a very honest and wonderful man, and my 2 scenes which made the final cut of the film I am very proud of doing, as being in a film with him and on screen at the same time was incredible, I have worked with so many famous well known TV and Film actors in many productions over the years, but Richard left the most lasting impression on me. If you read this and have never seen ABSOLUTION there is a link on one of my playlists on my channel, and it was released on Betamax and VHS tape in the UK, back in the day.
thank you for this wonderful interview. Richard had the most beautiful voice and blue eyes and his acting spell bounding. I saw him in San Francisco, Ca.
Thank you so much for posting this interview! Burton is fascinating. Finding this interview is like stumbling unexpected upon a treasure. Imagine having two unscripted hours with a genius like Burton - it simply doesn't happen anymore. Thanks also to Dick Cavett!
a Welshman ... red socks just like Peter O'Toole who wore green socks his entire life ... Burton was only 58 when he died, four years after this interview ...
I understand why Elizabeth Taylor fell in love with Richard Burton. Fascinating man, great actor ,intelligent , in that voice that could melt you away. Great interview, but Dick Cavett looked very nervous.
Maxula Pretto I think that was how Dick Cavat usually looked. He always seemed a bit nervous, but I’m sure it was more pronounced when he had one of the great ones on. But then, I did see the shows about 45-50 years ago, so who knows if my memory can be trusted.
Richard B. is absolutely marvelous...in every way I may imagine. I must find out if he has done any audio books or audio work, because of that marvelous, quite incredible voice! I am very happy that I lived during this time in the world, so to see if there is any more of this man besides ALL of his wonderful films. Man, he is truly great and the most excellent interview I ever saw/heard...by Dick Cavett (Cavett, by the way, is the best interviewer and the best host of a talk show that I have ever seen.) ..This is the very best interview he has done and I am very happy it was so long with Burton and R. Burton's life is so interesting...and told by that beautiful voice.
What amazes me is how Richard did so little work in his natural Welsh accent. And I say that as a person who considers Burton to have by some margin the best voice of any celebrity of the last century.
this was one of my all-time favorite interviews, have seen it many times, yet every time is like the first. What an amazing actor, man, he has been missed, one of the greats.And just loved that little bit about your wife,knowing his reputation with the ladies,in his youth,the question I am sure he was always afraid to be asked by a husband or signaficant other.
***** So....I comment that he was sexy and that's why Elizabeth couldn't get enough of him, and that since they were known for fighting, that they probably had amazing sex........and that pissed you off? Go f()ck yourself. Oh, and is that your long pointy skull in your avatar?
Richard Burton was so handsome & I love the way he spoke. I met him once in N.Y. TO SEEHIM IN A PLAY HE SHOOK MY MOTHERS & MINE SO GENTLY. HIS EYES WERE BEAUTIFUL. BLUE. HE WAS SUCH A GENTLEMAN. RIP 🙏
He was such a handsome man with beautiful eyes.
This is what you tube was created for, so that we can re-live these magic moments with one of the most charismatic men of our age. Over the years I have read and heard so many stories about Richard and all of them are great.
Thanks for uploading!
Dick Cavett was a great host, too.
I couldn't agree more. You tube has become an open door to a magical world l would never have crossed, and which made my life richer and more knowledgeable. Thank you.
I concur wholeheartedly. Much of the TV 📺 production in 2023 is goat 🐐 Tripe
Men sat cross legged back in the days I can't imagine it now. My uncle was his freind in school and I visited his house in the village of Ponthrydyfn which is mentioned in this show. There is a sign there in memory of him and Ivor Emmanuel
Boy I wish current talk shows had interviews like this! I miss Dick Cavett and articulate, charming guests like Richard Burton.
If ppl still read novels that would be possible.
Storytelling has gone in interviews, replaced by soundbites for quick laughs. People don't have the attention they used to have.
Society then wasn't poisoned by Feminism yet
I'm with you. It seems everything is geared toward people who stopped maturing emotionally/mentally at age 19. There's nothing for adults and that's a shame.
I used to come home from school (South Florida and BROILING hot) and I'd turn on the TV and crank the air-conditioner and watch Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas...usually light-weight stuff but still thoughtful and smart. I just loved it! You couldn't MAKE me watch the nightly chat shows now. Dick Cavett should come out of retirement...unless of course, he's now a whining Leftist/Socialist.
He gave credit to the writer: "You couldn't do it unless the speech was so simply and beautifully written." Burton was as humble as he was great.
I so liked Dick Cavett...an intelligent, classy gentleman, who treated his guests with quiet respect and warmth....and never resorted to sleaze or attacks. I used to watch his show faithfully. He never set out to hurt anybody, as they do now. He was the best at what he did. I loved seeing him here, talking with the great Richard Burton....how wonderful!
I loved how comfortable and relaxed that Richard Burton was, and also down to earth and real he was, with the stories that he told, and his sense of humor, and I just loved everything about him. What a wonderful and delightful man he was Never to be Forgotten.
May He Forever Rest In Peace, & May God Bless Him Always!
E IS WITH ELIZABETH NOW
I know. Relaxed and natural.
Richard Burton was one of our greats. He lives on. What a voice. What charisma. Talent.
So true
Alcohol , indirectly, killed him. By the time he understood that it was too late.
When men were men.
Strong respectful smart and confident. Look what the modern day world has done…
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I adore this man. He was so intelligent, was an avid reader, had a mind that strived for more and more. His voice is hypnotic. Such a wonderful addition to this world.
So well said and so well put.
He always got up very early in the morning so that he could read longer.
Yes, Mr. Cavett was all those things.
Lol
Thanks to Dick Cavett, we are able to enjoy in-depth informative interviews with the great actors, musicians, directors, novelists, critics, politicians and personalities of the 20th century. Cavett's style was incomparable.
I agree. Nothing close to this anymore
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This was 4 years before he died. What can you say about a Legend. That voice. Those eyes. Just beautiful. They don't make them like Richard Burton anymore. He was one of a kind. He broke the mold!
Another great interview was with Robert Mitchum. Another of my favorite actors of all time. What an interview. What a Legend!
What an eloquent and strong man. Incredible presence yet also; so very humble. We can all learn a lot from this true gentle man. Taken from this planet far, far too young. Loved and missed 💜 🏴
You haven't read all about him 📖🙄(Burton)
@@kevinruddy448 They probably have but don't dismiss it because he had faults and feet of clay like so many do 🙄🙄 Most people realize other human beings are flawed but yet can be admired.
@@kevinruddy448 so what I have to do with anything just somebody might’ve read all about it about him or whatever don’t mean crap serious or people in the public guy I just like everybody else they make mistakes and do dumb shit stop criticizing their personal life
I could listen to him all day.....he has a way of describing the mundane with such beauty, it makes it sound exciting......Beneath the outer hard shell, and dry wit, you can see an almost respectful humbleness and slight vulnerability in his eyes, which I find endearing.....A mesmerising actor, and memorable, fascinating, interesting person...x
I think what you describe might be what America's Princess Elizabeth found so irresistable
I totally agree with you.
Absolutely incandescent! Burton is just a priceless gem to hear, listen to and watch. Dick Cavett is a master at interviewing. Outstanding in every sense.
Incandescent! What a perfect adjective!!
Ray Kaelin u got be kidding he was a drukard women beater dont be rediculous
any top english actor can do this - sadly not as many of them around
@@RICARDOGarcia-ey9hh Yes..but one of the greatest actors ever...
Whats does that word mean please,the long one?
'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' is one of the greatest performances ever. It's an acting masterclass from start to finish from both of them.
I can't believe he didn't win the Oscar for that performance.
@@lisahayes8834 I know, he should have, but lost out to Walter Matthau.
They were both magnificent in that film, at least Elizabeth got her recognition for it
It was mesmerizing to me..the cast..incredible character study!!
One of my all time favorites..
Indeed.
Intense, as their lives together seemed to have been.
the importance of Richard Burton as an actor must never be forgotten - Elizabeth Taylor
she was good to him despite his behavious as a womanizer and druken outbursts.
@@melisagalvalizi6982was her true 1 love despite the problems.
He Makes me incredibly proud to be Welsh. He really was something special.
He makes me proud to be English. To know that I come from the same island as this titan.
You should be and yes, he was.💖
Why be proud of something you're just born with? You haven't earned it.
@@lepetitchat123 There's no need to be negative here.
@@lepetitchat123 its a welsh thing if your not welsh then your just not going to understand we are a very proud people with a rich history that stretches back before the romans had even hered of Britain a language that stretches back thousands of years still used today more castles than anywhere else in the UK and an incredibly unique culture we also feel eachothers success and failures love and heartbreak like its happening too you I love the fact I'm from Wales and could t be prouder to call myself a welshman
I have lost count on how many times I have watched this ... it’s still a go to video, when I’m feeling low. Works like a magic, always !!
Agree! Back in 2020
It really does lift the spirits!
I agree. I was a big fan of his. Met him, saw him on stage and even gave him a kiss. I love this interview. Always intelligent, articulate, funny. Fascinating and lovely man.
@@christinescheiner5194 did he smell like cigarettes?
@@kindregardless like any real man.
Richard was larger than life itself, he was so incredibly generous and honest in all the interviews that he gave, Richard had a gift, he was a storyteller, this kind of actors no longer exist nowdays, he was a prince, he was a king and we miss him terribly!!
@Sean Finlay The worst part of this pandemic is the fact you little shits are at home on the internet and not in school. The good news is that your education will be shit and you'll never compete with me in the marketplace.
Francis Drake well written, tiresome aren’t they?🇨🇦
He was, like Edwin Booth (yes, John Wilkes' brother) before him, the Prince of Players. Booth held the record for performances of "Hamlet" in NYC (100) until Richard Burton broke that record.
It comes from a culture that reveres storytelling and a time before television.
Spencer Tracy keeps coming to mind reflecting on Burton. Both such amazing talents and larger than life. Confident, and Did it Their Way.
His voice. His accent. His delivery. All without conscience of being contrived entertaining. He was a gift to the world. A man of a type sadly missing in the world today. Not world saving. Not enlightening in a spiritual way. But just a delight to witness in his delightful delivery of a simple memory
Being a Welshman myself and with the obvious bias of a," Common fool ".I think Richards voice is the greatest that Ive ever heared in my lifetime .and I miss him very much .
lived in Wales many years, and many Weshmen had similar voices and charisma
Except for Tom Jones of course.
While everyone is gloating about Burton(rightfully so),Cavett is brilliant as well. The spontaneous,smart quips("shoe-business",miner's looking down on other skilled workers,etc.) made the interview more fluid. He absolutely knows when to stay quiet & when to speak. Impeccable interviewer.
Highbrow miners "looking down from below"
Lisening to this great person Richard Burton is for me to understand that we never will have a man and artist like him. And Dick Cavett have done a fantastic jobb doing this interview!!! This is ART for rest of my days….
It was this time period and era.. people were real!!
and he actually thinks before speaking... He is so respectful and considerate and can laugh at himself, great sense of humor. Dick Cavett can relate well to him
They don't have actors like this anymore, Burton had class and poise.
Yes I saw this show! He and Peter O'Toole were great actors, they were as big in life as they were on the screen. I was quite surprised how erudite Mr.Burton was in his personal life, he read voraciously as witnessed by his personal well-stocked library and he famous 'book bag' that he carried throughout his travels. He also could quote Shakespeare verse very well, demonstrating a great memory despite all of his hard drinking and he knew a bit of foreign languages as well. He was a man of many hidden talents and he died too young. He and O'Toole were cheated out of their well-deserved deserved acting recognition.
Edmund Charles Quote Shakespeare? His manner of writing, was, and is so obsolete, that the even the British, didn't bother to read it. From hundreds of years ago. Burton to me, had the mindless talent, of taking Liz Taylor away from her abused husband Eddie Fisher. He then dumped his wife and 2 daughters, to pursue HER career, and she brought him to stardom. During their marriage, he was seeing some Princess of a Slovak country, while she had affair with a journalist, who had written an article of praise to her talent. These people are so intently occupied with themselves, they have no time for dedication to any living soul.
Shakespeare is obsolete? I cannot find an equivalent English writer. His shorelines and characters are timeless.
Try Edgar Alan Poe. His "Annabel Lee" is recited in every elementary school in this country. Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain are on the lips of every student during their Jr. High years. Yes, I love short stories, and poetry.
@Nexus 6 Just read this post - maybe you've got started now on Sh/peare? If not, in today's Black Lives Matter age, try 'the Merchant of Venice' - where Shylock, a Jew who is angry and hurt by discrimination, protests: ""If you prick us, do we not bleed?" Or try his sonnets - as love poems, unbelievable. Or 'Julius Caesar', where Cinna argues that Caesar is no Great Man, no King-Emperor, just a man like any other - maybe D Trump should have read the speech where Cinna argues "The fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings!". And yet you say his works are obsolete?!
You can really see how proud Richard was of his father. The stories about him are wonderful.
So sad that this kind of talk show interview is gone. Dick Cavett was among the best. And Sir Richard Burton!! Omg, the man, the talent, the voice!!
He was never knighted.
@@markharrison2544 I stand corrected. Thank you.
I loved every minute of this entire interview. It was so good to see Burton as Burton (and without any association to the chaos and scandal of the Taylor debacle). He was so clearly highly educated and a master of language. Besides being massively talented, he was such a strikingly handsome, eloquent, warm and sincere person! And, my favorite parts were seeing that amazingly beautiful, slightly crooked smile when he was amused! I'd never seen his smile before! I hope this entire interview can be preserved for future viewers - it is truly a treasure!!!
I was thinking that myself,he would have been much better off if he stayed with Sybil,he had children and didn't want to divorce.
@@lioness7582 He cheated on her through the whole marriage
@@stephaniem9094 Lol. Spoilsport!
@@pedromac1620 Just saying why it did not last...
99999mmmmmmmmm
An absolutely mesmerizing interview. Perhaps the greatest celebrity interview ever-because of Burton AND Cavett!
Richard Burton. A wonderful actor, well spoken and articulate in every aspect. A lovely heart and handsome man. Speaking the way he does shows what a great actor he is. One of my mothers favourite actors. Both born on the same day. A gracious man indeed. Tom Jones, the fantastic singer worked in the horrible coal mines before his musical career. Rest in Paradise Mr Richard Burton
Richard Burton should have won on Oscar. His performances in "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold," "Beckett," and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" were stellar.
You take the trouble to construct a civilization, to build a society based on the principles of... of principle. You make government and art and realize that they are, must be, both the same. You bring things to the saddest of all points, to the point where there is something to lose. Then, all at once, through all the music, through all the sensible sounds of men building, attempting, comes the Dies Irae. And what is it? What does the trumpet sound? Up yours.
Agreed with everything except beckett while was really good in it o toole stole the show there
@@SDSen Agree! O'Toole was crackling with energy.
You are giving the Oscar too much importance.
the hollywood types didn't like him. i have no idea why. lauren bacall said horrendous things about him in a documentary done a couple of years after his death. it's free on amazon and it's called richard burton come in from the cold, or something like that. (it's a take-off on the spy who came in from the cold obviously). i have no idea what he did out there to get that reaction. maybe they think he screwed elizabeth taylor over or something.
Having grown up with a mother obsessed with the man and years of Welsh education, i say in all honesty, there has never been a cooler Welshman. An absolute treasure.
Richard Burton forever.
There will never be another like him.
Man i wish we still had interviews like this..
Amen! In depth and openly honest conversations with genuinely talented people.
just people knockin the breeze and being genuine. it shouldn't be called art, but just humans appreciating other human beings. i feel like everything, and it's fact not an opinion, is scripted and the same.
or men like him;
Or people with notable interviewee talents, like story telling
@john ferguson nobody listening, just talking it seems.
Richard Burton’s voice and his command of the English language was amazing! Unparalleled before or since.
His first language was Welsh he could also spoke Shakespeare in German a very talented man who should have won an Oscar
When I was in media during my younger days, I once had the good fortune of speaking with Mr. Burton on the telephone, and his voice literally went right through me. I cannot imagine what actually being in the same room must have been like his charisma and magnetism was so strong. Thank you for uploading this; it was worth watching to the end just to hear those candid thoughts on his struggle with alcoholism.
I worked with him on the Film ABSOLUTION 1979, and had a 25 minute one to one chat with him, hearing him call my name was AMAZING, as you say his voice was stunning, and he was such a nice man deep inside, sadly his addiction to drink was something he struggled with, and a battle he never won.
@@Cortinaman63 It's coming to light now, that Burton suffered from epilepsy and used alcohol as a misguided self-medication and existential strategy to combat or deal with his condition, which at the time wasn't that well understood or treated and in the acting world, an epileptic actor didn't get work for insurance reasons.
@@GordonCaledonia That's interesting. Bud Abbot from Abbott and Costello drank for the same reason. He was afraid of the seizures and thought drinking was helpful.
It was a pleasure to listen to Richard Burton (I'm one of those who'd pay to listen to him read the phone book; that marvelous voice) but this was also a reminder of how great an interviewer Dick Cavett was.
+Steve B I wonder if his "shoe business" line was improvised, it was so clever and spot-on. It couldn't have been prepared beforehand! the "shoe-in-front" situation that spawned it was rather unique.
Under Milk Wood is available on UA-cam if you are interested. Burton plays the narrator.
Re: "I'm one of those who'd pay to listen to him read the phone book; that marvelous voice..."
Burton DID read the phonebook! I think it was on the Today show (or some such morning show).
He did it with all that wonderful cadence and mellifluous voice could muster. He was blessed.
@Jeepman89 I've noticed this type of thing with a lot of famous people on different old chat shows, they sometimes repeat the same one liners and anecdotes. Orson Welles for instance repeats in most interviews how he started working at the top and has been working his way down ever since.
Dick caveat is a new find for me!
I have always loved Dick Cavett, so bright, funny, kind... Never thought much about Richard Burton, but now I want to watch this interview over and over, to hear his stories. I love their obvious connection, how much they enjoy each other, how compatible their humor. Just watching them smile, listening to RB's stories, is a tremendous treat. Dick, don't ever leave us.
Such a great storyteller describing the nobility of mining... I could listen to him for hours
I grew up in West Wales, a region where every pub bore thought they entertained us with their rich views on life with a Richard Burton-like voice. Those old buggers might have shared that voice, but they did not have his intelligence, his talent, his memory, his humility or his grace. He was unique. No wonder he escaped the bores as soon as all those gifts began to tell.
I had a South Yorkshire Mining Background, but I first became interested in him when he read THE JOURNALIST in WAR OF THE WORLDS. (Rawmarsh Rotherham)
Sable Basilisk still one of my favourites..be well 😊🇨🇦
@@Ingens_Scherz well put
@@Ingens_Scherz Grew up or born Welsh? There's a huge difference 😉
Today's "talent" couldn't be on this level on their best day. This was the real Hollywood era.
"Talent". You nailed it. Today's "talent" can never stand up to this. This is how talk shows are done. Sadly, it is a lost art form.
Absolutely agree, today sctors are merely preteders.
He was so many things to so many people. I, for one, absolutely adored him! RIP Richard Burton. ❤️🙏✝️
Brilliant. What a man, what a voice, what a character.
When he speaks on the nobility of the working class people is priceless
Agreed. He makes me very proud indeed to be British and working class. His eloquence shows that a gentleman can originate in any class; it simply takes quiet determination and good manners. A marvellous man 💜
Dick Cavett was such a wonderful interviewer. Always brought the best out of his guests. Intelligent conversation with a healthy (but not tacky) dose of humour. And today we have Jimmy Fallon... Christ!
Fallon sucks. Boring and a terrible interviewer who only laughs
If I was bored, and I wanted one person to walk through the door, it would be Richard Burton. His King Arthur monologue was just spellbinding.
A couple of ice cold vodka's, and a Hollywood legend recounting his youth, loves, losses and dreams.
_"I saw the blade gleaming with letters of gold. That's how I became king."_
+Mark Hilton No kidding! I could have listened to this man tell stories all night - he just draws you in!
This is two years after The Wild Geese, and the drinking has taken its toll.
He is charismatic, funny and interesting, very much one of a dying breed along with Richard Harris and Peter O'Toole.
In marrying Elizabeth Taylor not once, but twice, he was luckier than any man on the planet, and I'm sure he knew it.
He was a complex actor: brilliantly talented but self destructive, with a devil may care air and engaging charm.
Noone like him before or since.
He had aged quite a bit since The Wild Geese and he had lost weight here. During the film he was dry.
@@Voxac100b he aged without elizabeth, sadness and depression are real monsters
he was lucky and yet did eveything in his power to destroy the marriage. Yes, elizabeth was flawed as well, but his alcoholism was really out of control and it shows here.
I am just blessed, to see and hear his gift, what a tremendous man he was. Wow and thank you for sharing this.
It's good to know there have been people like Dick Cavett in the U.S. that were excellent interviewers that asked good questions & didn't back down with even the most belligerent of guests regardless of their fame or ego (not thinking of Burton but definitely thinking of Norman Mailer!) People of his calibre are sadly thin on the ground in modern America.
A true interview rather than a plug for a movie or book. Dick Cavett was so intelligent and did such a marvelous interview here. He puts his guests at ease. It was also about the only time that you got to see Burton laid back enough to share such details about his life and humble beginnings. Love the story of his father questioning his son's earnings. Burton to his father, "...they pay me $150,000...". His father's response, "What for?"
so typical of the working class, right?
Sara, couldn't agree with you more. And the story about his father was so telling and memorable.
Sara Vazzana and think that Anthony Hopkins has come the cinema thanks for Richard Burton and also he was Welsh how Anthony
Sara Vazzana freakin boring boring to interview a drunk
Civilized discussion between intelligent interviewer and articulate, erudite actor. Can do 10 minutes alone on Burton’s beautiful voice. Take a good look because those days are forever gone and we’re left with late night junk hosts and sappy guests with no concept of true talent. Burton overcame drink which was a big deal in itself. Handsome as the years went on. God rest him.
1:30:34 - Richard Burton compares alcoholism to a daily boxing match. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant and very powerful. Probably my favorite part of this whole interview.
That narration he went into about the wretched figure, hung-over and contemplating the shame of his life, was a moment of spontaneous performance art of the highest order. I have no idea whether Burton had ever used those phrases or those words to describe alcoholism before this moment, but it doesn't really matter -- his genius as a speaker and, yes, as an actor was never more splendidly displayed than at this moment.
Agreed.
A never-ending boxing match is an excellent analogy.
Rampant alcoholism (and any other drug or narcotic addiction) is never really "beaten" per se, it is simply "kept at bay" (by those strong-willed and determined enough to keep it as such).
Sadly, Mr Burton was already facing major health issues by the absurdly young age of 41 due to his heavy drinking and smoking and subsequently got worse with escalating health problems until he passed away at the age of 58, only four short years after this televised interview with Dick Cavett.
Brilliant part of the interview the seriousness yet touching too
That 5 minute bit about alcoholism is the most powerful part of an interview, any interview I've ever seen.
that's something the writer jimmy breslin wrote to him in a letter.
The honesty of this man is quite remarkable.
John Parke - and humility.
Us Welsh are very honest people no bullshit there's no point just tell it how it is it's more interesting
The Greatest Stage and Film actor of his generation....!!!
@@stevetessier6568 He was no Franklin Pangborn but he indeed was VERY good !!
I totally agree. When his diaries were published years ago I read them and they were a fascinating read ! He was incredibly intelligent & articulate !
His voice sounds like a lion's purring. Considering he's been dead for over 30 years, I feel totally insane;)
True Roman Cat Excellent comparison!
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Still miss Richard to this day. A tremendous actor and a fantastic voice. How I wished I could have met him-when he wasn't drinking of course-and it's also very sad to realise Richard only had four years to live here. Rest in Peace, sir.
Never seen an interview where the audience was so quiet and transfixed! What an amazing monologue of the Camelot performance!!
I get the immediate feeling that Richard Burton is such a sweet and down to earth kind man. He makes you feel comfortable talking to him instantly, and I am spellbound listening to him, and I absolutely love hearing all of his stories that he tells. He is
so charming, gracious and endearing. May you Rest In Eternal Blessed Peace My Friend, and God Bless You Always and Eternally! 💋💋
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love you Sir Richard, as long as I live, I shall treasure every role I've ever seen you in.
As a young man I rushed home every night from work to see these PBS Cavett shows when they were new, and I remember this particular four-night stretch with special vividness and pleasure. (I've never forgotten the red socks or Burton's response to the Frank Rich review.) Thanks for making this available again!
His stillness throughout the interview is quite remarkable. I have observed even Brando being incredibly still throughout his interview as well. Both utterly captivating actors, of course. I wonder if their stillness, along with their incredible talents, makes them more magnetic.
What a remarkable gentleman of the type we don't have anymore. Fascinating
Good God, Mr. Burton was such an elegant man! These Dick Cavett interviews rule! Incredible how he interviewed the creme-de-la-creme of show business and they loved Cavett as well. Such a wonderful interview!
Two class gentlemen with mutual respect and admiration for the true class and taste for the beautiful Arts in all. Burton was and still is and always will be an iconic genuine gift to the stage and screen world, one of the true defining talents of his era. Humble almost to a fault but so genuine and at ease with being so. Powerful character but in the very best way. RIP Sir!
What a beautiful interview.
Welsh and wonderful, honest to the core.He makes me proud to be Welsh.I love you Richard Bach !!!!!!
Two hours. Think about that.
Back in the days when people had more than a minutes attention span.
NICK nikki Crawl back to your cave
+Nathan Jeremy Logan The live audience sat through this wonderful interview which must have lasted at least 3 hrs., breaks included. The half hr. segments were aired on tv on consecutive evenings.
Nathan Jeremy Logan God you sound like an arrogant prat. With a pretentious name to match.
You are so right -- it would never work today -- too much "me-itis" everywhere!
and the pace is so relaxed, not rushed like today's shows.
What a classic voice. Just to listen to him speak fills your head with thoughts of royalty. But you can really see the many years of hard living had taken a toll.
What a joy to see this. Richard Burton is a Class Act and a wonderful storyteller. Thank you, Mr. Cavett.
His level of acting and timing and of coarse his voice is very very very rare hypnotic!! Cavett was blown away at the end
What a presence! And Mr. Cavett is such a marvelous interviewer. At the time of this interview, Mr. Burton was 55 years old, and he looks 70. He died only four years later from cerebral hemorrhage -- just as his father had. His message to alcoholics of the world was deeply sincere and heartfelt, with a genuine depth of emotion. He was an extraordinary talent, and genuinely human. Watch him as he performs King Arthur to Guinevere. He takes a moment to go to that magical place in his mind. His eyes are as expressive as his voice, and at the end, with the audience rightly applauding, he's still there, in that magical place. He isn't listening to the applause for those few seconds -- he's emerging from the character, returning to Earth from that place he had just created for the audience. It's a shame he was never knighted.
Steve, your words are the most beautiful tribute ever written about Burton. Cavett had so much compassion in all his interviews. This was a rare exchange. How lucky we are to be a part.
@@stephaniestanley8041 Thank you. It's well-deserved praise for Mr. Burton -- a giant who had few peers. He appeared in an episode of 'Here's Lucy' once, as a plumber. She made the mistake of calling him English. Oh, the look on his face when she said that... 🤣 ua-cam.com/video/Nrz0IHQzQo8/v-deo.html
Richard Burton is my all-time favorite actor.
Richard Burton is the Greatest Orator and Actor In Film History.
I live near Carmarthen and I'm also bilungal, I'm fairly patriotic about being Welsh and living in Wales. I adore this man, Rip wonderful Mr. Burton.
'fairly patriotic' ? - I'm fully patriotic .
Cymru am byth 🏴✊
Richard Burton 1925-1984
Heddwch i'w lwch ✝️ 🙏
@@cymro6537 cyrtuno'n llwyr, fully patriotic, I've lived here all my life.
@@sarahcellblockh1562 Da iawn 👍😊
@@cymro6537 South Wales, likely from Anglo Saxon heritage.
@@randomcomputer7248 Not so , I've lived in south Wales all my life - most of my ancestors also lived here .My ancestry DNA states: 2% Scotland,1%Ireland .97%, Welsh.
Wasn't Richard Burton such a class act. Also saw him on Parkinson on BBC 1. Came accross as an absolute gentleman. Great actor , the voice and intelligent. I could listen for hours. Thanks for posting this.
I definitely saw this in 1980. I was only 26 (!) and I had an apartment where everything was on the floor, including my bed and tv. I watched this and thought, "No wonder he can get such women, he's enormously likeable--" He still is.
Richard Burton is a tremendous inspiration to me. I thought nothing of him back when he and Elizabeth Taylor were such a big thing. But now... when I'm actually older than he was when he died... I've come to discover a remarkable soul.
Russ McClay top guy dick burton
My sentiments......
My sentiments, as well......
Russ McClay well said sir . Me too
@Nexus 6 I fell in love with him at age 5. Was devastated by his death scene in Becket and I loved him from that time forward. Got to meet him, see him onstage and kissed him too. I will always love this man.
Wonderful. Not really a Burton fan, but this elevates him. He holds the attention with his great voice and storytelling capacity.
24:10 minutes, the story Burton tells about his dad back in Wales, long after he made it in Hollywood -- lord, the punchline took me clean out.
Repeatedly.
I could literally sit and listen to him for hours ! Magnificent Richard Burton so talented intelligent gripping magnifying !
I was lucky enough to worked with Richard Burton, for a week in the Film "ABSOLUTION" 1979, and have found memories of the time, and spent 25 minutes having a private one to one chat with him, hearing him call my name with his iconic sounding voice was AMAZING We also talked about his struggle with drinking, he was a very honest and wonderful man, and my 2 scenes which made the final cut of the film I am very proud of doing, as being in a film with him and on screen at the same time was incredible, I have worked with so many famous well known TV and Film actors in many productions over the years, but Richard left the most lasting impression on me. If you read this and have never seen ABSOLUTION there is a link on one of my playlists on my channel, and it was released on Betamax and VHS tape in the UK, back in the day.
thank you for this wonderful interview. Richard had the most beautiful voice and blue eyes and his acting spell bounding. I saw him in San Francisco, Ca.
What a wonderful interview with my favorite actor. Thanks for uploading!
An INCREDIBLE HUMAN BEING- to think He ONLY LIVED for JUST FOUR MORE YEARS after this Amazing chat! at ONLY 58 Years old!!!
Thank you so much for posting this interview! Burton is fascinating. Finding this interview is like stumbling unexpected upon a treasure. Imagine having two unscripted hours with a genius like Burton - it simply doesn't happen anymore. Thanks also to Dick Cavett!
Richard Burton had one of the great voices of all time in addition to fantastic charisma.
The long form interview is a lost art. Can you imagine in 2019 someone being interviewed one evening and then brought back the next to finish it off.
No. That's why I'm watching this on YT rather than turning on the TV.
Pod casts like joe Rogen are long interviews
I love seeing Richard Burton by himself without E.T. taking the spotlight away from him, which always happens. Thank you for that.
You seem to hate elizabeth, what did she do??
She Made him famous
What a wonderful man! I truly enjoyed this interview. Thank you so much for sharing! God Bless!
I can watch this interview on repeat forever.
He was larger than life, brilliant mind, absolute genius. 💐
Profoundly moving video of one of the all time greats, Sir Richard Burton.
No "Sir ". Just plain Richard. He wasn't establishment enough to be recognised.
a Welshman ... red socks just like Peter O'Toole who wore green socks his entire life ... Burton was only 58 when he died, four years after this interview ...
It would obviously symbolize his Welsh heritage (red) and obviously O'Toole being of Irish stock (green)
I understand why Elizabeth Taylor fell in love with Richard Burton. Fascinating man, great actor ,intelligent , in that voice that could melt you away. Great interview, but Dick Cavett looked very nervous.
Maxula Pretto I think that was how Dick Cavat usually looked. He always seemed a bit nervous, but I’m sure it was more pronounced when he had one of the great ones on. But then, I did see the shows about 45-50 years ago, so who knows if my memory can be trusted.
Taylor ! Couldn't !! Find !! Any !! Other !! Mann !! To ! Make !! Her !! Happy !!!
@@davidwillard7334 Burton was terribly hungover on the Cleopatra set. Taylor went over to help him lift his drink to his mouth and that was that.
@@harrysmith4780 i'm sure there was more honey
I wish I knew him. I could sit and listen to him talk all day long. His stories are so frickin interesting and amusing.
He can make the phonebook sound interesting.
Richard B. is absolutely marvelous...in every way I may imagine.
I must find out if he has done any audio books or audio work, because of that marvelous, quite incredible voice! I am very happy that I lived during this time in the world, so to see if there is any more of this man besides ALL of his wonderful films. Man, he is truly great and the most excellent interview I ever saw/heard...by Dick Cavett (Cavett, by the way, is the best interviewer and the best host of a talk show that I have ever seen.)
..This is the very best interview he has done and I am very happy it was so long with Burton and R. Burton's life is so interesting...and told by that beautiful voice.
What amazes me is how Richard did so little work in his natural Welsh accent. And I say that as a person who considers Burton to have by some margin the best voice of any celebrity of the last century.
this was one of my all-time favorite interviews, have seen it many times, yet every time is like the first. What an amazing actor, man, he has been missed, one of the greats.And just loved that little bit about your wife,knowing his reputation with the ladies,in his youth,the question I am sure he was always afraid to be asked by a husband or signaficant other.
My god, I can see why Elizabeth couldn't get enough of him. I can also see how they likely lived by fighting.....and making up.
***** So....I comment that he was sexy and that's why Elizabeth couldn't get enough of him, and that since they were known for fighting, that they probably had amazing sex........and that pissed you off? Go f()ck yourself. Oh, and is that your long pointy skull in your avatar?
Cindy A. yea she lived with back eyes how wonderful
+Ricardo
buddy that was her drunkenly applied mascara, im willing to wager she walloped Burton a hell of a lot more
Daniel kkk
Pure magic! Thank you for posting.
I find him to be The Most attractive man. Strong, intense, smart, well read, kind, handsome, vulnerable, humble and low in ego. Absolutely purrrrrfect
He sensed his mortality i think. brutally honest about his life
Lots of good actors around,but he was one of that very rare breed that had real presence.
Easy to say,very hard to achieve.
Listening for the fith time, still is as captivating as for the first time.
I have to say that Mr. Burton was an amazing storyteller! I love listening to him!
WOW....he is such a handsome man!