Times change, brilliant actors like Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris and others had memories of war and destruction. The new breed wanted LIFE, fun and to follow their star. Wonderful generation, just different experiences of life. What wonderful works they left us ❤❤
Somehow so many people, absolutely not feeling his sufferings and his Titanic Talent at the same time, discuss about what he should ...what he would ...Almost all artists were destroying themselves . But it was his Life and he ruled as he wished to
Richard Burton briefly passed through my life, and yes he made his mark. A brilliant documentary, showing his deep pain and anger, sadly frequently directed destructively towards himself. This helped though produce the great actor he was. R.I.P
Ā phenomenal actor who lived his life and art to the full. He was also extremely generous to all he cared about. Unfortunately alcohol abuse chopped twenty years off his life. Rest in Paradise, Mr Burton. ❤
What makes you say that Dr. @violinistoftaupo ?? Richard Burton died suddenly because of a cerebral haemorrhage. ( stroke). Hundreds of thousands of tea-totallers whom have never drunk alcohol or smoked die from strokes everyday.
@@violinistoftaupo I didn't realize you were a Dr. or experienced Pathologist. What's that, you're NOT ??? I suggest you keep your sensationalist, misguided & ill-informed comments to yourself regarding matters and facts of which you are completely unaware & clueless.
I started watching and wound up listening most of the time as I worked with my back to the screen...and just hearing that voice...it makes you reflect on what was a "circus of a life" that you saw growing up masks an extraordinary talent and an amazing being...this was SO powerful....I hope he is resting easy, all these years.
He is one of the most BRILLIANT actors ever. Nominated 7 times for an Oscar, never winning. Performances given that not only should have been nominated, but should have won for. Caught up in the publicity of "Cleopatra" and Elizabeth Taylor, his career became a paparazzi's delight. They became more popular than their acting. He became a legend as an actor, and THEY became LEGEND because of their love for each other. Never again will there be such a star....
Thoroughly enthralled. Richard Burton was incredibly talented. Those words don't do him justice, apologies. I remember Richard well. Ashame, he met Elizabeth Taylor, I think they were wrong for each other, his 1st wife was his right partner. A sad ending to such a sweet man.
He said it’s me that he couldn’t escape on the guilt of the past. What a brilliantly talented soul too bad he couldn’t overcome his demons & guilt on earth but I hope he’s resting in peace.
My good gosh --it's been 40years -- like yesterday -- a sorrowful passing for a great actor, gentleman, actor for all seasons. His private life was a turmoil -- the price for fame, adulation and false friends. Rest in Peace. klewis AZ/USA
Although Richard Burton was a great actor, you never see anything about him. Thank you for this documentary. It was interesting to hear his daughter's analysis of him (& Elizabeth).
Really enjoyed this intelligent and truthful and non bias bio. I normally hate great actors biography`s because they never criticize or over criticize and never show the true person. Because actor`s are just people like all of us and like all of us are both good and bad.
Correct- and I think it’s across the Globe - so many wonderful Old School are gone from so many cultures don’t produce same quality actors. Something to do with cheap and low class requirements 🤨 And EGO 🙄 ❤🙏
God only created a few Greats....it is designed that way. Richard Burton was one of them and that shimmering voice.....ahhhhh sooo memorable, soooo Shaksperian ❤❤
I am 60 and have watched every movie I could get my hands on with Richard Burton in it, it blows my mind this incredible actor never won an Oscar..He was better then Taylor if you ask me.
Has anyone here ever seen the speech he did at a celebratory dinner for Frank Sinatra? It’s on YT. It was amazing. The audience, including Sinatra, were blown away by it. He worked so hard on his elocution when he was younger because of his Welsh accent. I could listen to him give the weather or traffic updates all day long with that voice.
I find it sad that he seemed to finally have rhe life that he truly wanted. Peace, a perfect partner and a future that was quite possibly going to include writing which he was always interested in. Rest in Peace Richard This was s wonderful documentary.
One of the finest actors ever to have graced this earth but despite his success I always felt he should have been lauded much more than he was. The romance(s) with Liz Taylor were more about that raw chemical attraction two people can have for one another whilst simultaneously being so different as to make them totally unsuited. I tear up every time I hear his dulcet Welsh tones to this day. RIP.
@@lily3054So true. It was just that raw se*ual chemistry that drew them together (constantly) despite being so wrong for one another on a personal level.
This was a little bit scary Richard Burton was probably one of the greatest actors that ever lived. He never searched for that internal happiness, and he never achieved it. It was a pity because he had everything else and any man could ever ask for.
I volunteered at a hospital in Brisbane for 5 years in the late 1990's. A fellow Gordon.... started there as a volunteer during that time. We would go round and visit people in the wards. One day at morning tea he said he used to be best mates with Richard Burton towards the end of Richard's life in 1984. We were a bit puzzled and suspicious. The next week he brought in a lot of photos of the two of them. Seems Gordon was a builder in California and Richard was getting a house built in Africa and took him regularly there to check on its progress. I asked him what was the thing he noticed. He said he was genuinely interested in others and super polite. And in the morning if they were in Africa and someone woke up at 4 in the morning, they would see Richard near the open fire reading 📖 books.
Richard was very special. I am always amazed at how much Bacall put him down as if she harboured some great anger at him for some reason. Richard was very generous. I do not think it was fair of Bacall to say he did not know anything about friendship, care, or love.
The Robe, "Were you there?". I was young and it really made an impression on me. The same with Richard Todd, but I think he was Scottish. In the film"A Man Called Peter," about the Chaplain of the US Senate during WW2. Watch the movie if you can!
Despite them being married ! and even when she got that Hope Diamond 🔹on her finger ! she refused to be addressed as Elizabeth Burton ! Incidentally his real name was Richard Jenkins Jr ! r.i.p. 😢❤🙏
The Spy Who came out from the cold. ... Richard stood up on a ridge while walking an exclaimed that he was the heir to own thoughts and actions .. not the state .... that put him into the realm outside the human animal and into the being of a human. !
Hearing 'Richard' as 'Wretched' was a bit of a surprise but the surname, 'Burton', is synonymous in English slang with the phrase of 'going for a burton' - meaning trip, fall or demise. Let's not be totally blinded by the brilliance of the man, the irony of finding a Welshman to act out the demise of the Englishman, shouldn't be overlooked. Some scholars believe 'Welsh' means 'slave' - the possibility of a Silent Revolution rather than a 'Bloody' one, might explain a few things.
I think from watching the information here that he surely could have done much worse than he did for what he had. He seemed to know what he wanted, and didn't want, from an early age. We all make mistakes and hopefully hurt very little people along life's travels.
It seems as though he was an introvert and all the hyper socializing and publicity proved to be his undoing. He seemed happiest later on having the peace to read and go to the pub
Interesting in that he openly admitted he was very fortunate yet he took it all for granted by self abuse. There have been countless celebrities who were blessed with what he had who burned the candle at both ends, e.g…. Oliver Reed, Alex Higgins, Richard Harris and many more, it’s as if they had a great zest for life but were prone to addictions of a kind, full steam ahead too hot to handle so to speak. A waste of great talent.
I don't believe Lauren Bacall should have trashed Richard like that Richard, being brilliant and unique, had the right to get rich and to get his family out of the mines, the pit. If I were him, I would have wanted to help my family too not very nice of Bacall to take that cheap shot at him
I wonder perhaps if Richard Burton was bipolar, as so many stars are. It would certainly explain a lot of his behaviour. Bipolar is genetic and inherited, and Melvyn Bragg said that Burton told him his father was a "twelve-pints-a-day man" who sometimes went off on drinking and gambling sprees for weeks, and that "he looked very much like me".
You know my dear I really used to love me some Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton but for some reason on this particular portrait 😔 check out his face because he looks very scary ❤🥀🤍🥀🤍🙏🥀💦please Rest In Peace 🕊️ Sir Richard 💞💞
Caro Richatd in data 2 agosto 1984 tu hai scritto una meravigliosa lettera d amore A Elizabeth Taylor l Parla d amore solo per lei E della speranza di avere una Altra possinilita di tornare sa lei La lettera è straziante e meravigliosa Elizaneth leggera la lettera quando Sara troppo tardi Lei terra quella lettera vicino fino Al giorno della sua morte ❤❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢😢
I can’t believe how harsh and judgmental and plain wrong Lauren Bacall is about Richard Burton. I used to like and admire her, but in this instance, I really don’t.
From somebody who lived in the exclusive Dakota in NYC, Lauren's comments were rather rich. Also wonder if she was one of Richard's many women scorned from the '50s...
Times change, brilliant actors like Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris and others had memories of war and destruction. The new breed wanted LIFE, fun and to follow their star. Wonderful generation, just different experiences of life. What wonderful works they left us ❤❤
They were all wonderfully trained Shakespearean actors, which refines, hones and precises their natural talents.
A man of all seasons.. Extraordinary..
Somehow so many people, absolutely not feeling his sufferings and his Titanic Talent at the same time, discuss about what he should ...what he would ...Almost all artists were destroying themselves . But it was his Life and he ruled as he wished to
One of the best on my lifetime and I'm 80 years old. He was awesome.
Richard Burton briefly passed through my life, and yes he made his mark. A brilliant documentary, showing his deep pain and anger, sadly frequently directed destructively towards himself. This helped though produce the great actor he was. R.I.P
This year marks the 40th anniversary (August 5th 1984) of the passing of the great Welsh actor!!!
Time has passed do quickly
Yes, far too quickly. Lol@@laramaui4114
Amen🙏
Gosh that’s incredible - where does time go?
@@heatherstephens9295 EXACTLY!!!!
Ā phenomenal actor who lived his life and art to the full. He was also extremely generous to all he cared about. Unfortunately alcohol abuse chopped twenty years off his life. Rest in Paradise, Mr Burton. ❤
What makes you say that Dr. @violinistoftaupo ?? Richard Burton died suddenly because of a cerebral haemorrhage. ( stroke). Hundreds of thousands of tea-totallers whom have never drunk alcohol or smoked die from strokes everyday.
Alcohol didn't "cut his Life short by 2O years", a cerebral haemorrhage did.
@@cindyheadon9005 the cerebral haemorrhage was probably a side effect of alcohol abuse or heavy smoking...
@@violinistoftaupo I didn't realize you were a Dr. or experienced Pathologist. What's that, you're NOT ??? I suggest you keep your sensationalist, misguided & ill-informed comments to yourself regarding matters and facts of which you are completely unaware & clueless.
@@violinistoftaupo I didn't realize you were a qualified Dr. or Pathologist. What's that, you're NOT ???
I started watching and wound up listening most of the time as I worked with my back to the screen...and just hearing that voice...it makes you reflect on what was a "circus of a life" that you saw growing up masks an extraordinary talent and an amazing being...this was SO powerful....I hope he is resting easy, all these years.
He is one of the most BRILLIANT actors ever. Nominated 7 times for an Oscar, never winning. Performances given that not only should have been nominated, but should have won for. Caught up in the publicity of "Cleopatra" and Elizabeth Taylor, his career became a paparazzi's delight. They became more popular than their acting. He became a legend as an actor, and THEY became LEGEND because of their love for each other. Never again will there be such a star....
People who love each other, do not divorce each other, and twice at that. 😂😂😂
What a glorious tribute.
Thoroughly enthralled. Richard Burton was incredibly talented. Those words don't do him justice, apologies. I remember Richard well. Ashame, he met Elizabeth Taylor, I think they were wrong for each other, his 1st wife was his right partner. A sad ending to such a sweet man.
Он очень любил Элизабет.Но не мог удержаться от соблазнов
He said it’s me that he couldn’t escape on the guilt of the past.
What a brilliantly talented soul too bad he couldn’t overcome his demons & guilt on earth but I hope he’s resting in peace.
Brilliant. This has no equal. No actor more deserving. No life more dramatically gifted
Absolutely, there is no equal! ❤❤❤️
He helped his whole family out of poverty and friends ,was extremely generous with all ex wives, I'd say he had quite an amount of nobility
True !!!!😊
He was humble yet great.
My good gosh --it's been 40years -- like yesterday -- a sorrowful passing for a great actor, gentleman, actor for all seasons. His private life was a turmoil -- the price for fame, adulation and false friends. Rest in Peace. klewis AZ/USA
Brilliant documentary. Tastful, respectful, fitting.
Although Richard Burton was a great actor, you never see anything about him. Thank you for this documentary. It was interesting to hear his daughter's analysis of him (& Elizabeth).
Incredible film about an incredible actor and an incredible man. RIP.
Great actor! Thanks for sharing 👏👏👏👋
This guy was astounding. It's a sin he's not mentioned more despite the passage of time.
Tony Palmer. Wonderful film maker. Totally undervalued.
Night of the Iguana had to be one of fave Burton films next to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe.
I like The Sandpiper
Really enjoyed this intelligent and truthful and non bias bio.
I normally hate great actors biography`s because they never criticize or over criticize and never show the true person. Because actor`s are just people like all of us and like all of us are both good and bad.
Un monstru sacru, exceptional, unic al tuturor timpurilor, mulțumesc pt acest documentar!
I am 38 minutes in and this is amazing. What a life and talent.
To have Churchill ask to use your bathroom between acts! Juarez amazing!
I found this to be extremely fascinating! What an amazing man and life he had, but tragic.
We no longer have actors of this level of talent. There were so many great actors of that generation.
Marlon Brando comes to mind
@@astridlabodhisattva1098not for me sorry 😞
@@heatherstephens9295 Who does for you?
Correct- and I think it’s across the Globe - so many wonderful Old School are gone from so many cultures don’t produce same quality actors.
Something to do with cheap and low class requirements 🤨
And EGO 🙄
❤🙏
Yes, there are. Lots of them.
God only created a few Greats....it is designed that way. Richard Burton was one of them and that shimmering voice.....ahhhhh sooo memorable, soooo Shaksperian ❤❤
Phillip Burton " found" him.
Wonderful program! The beautiful voice singing during the funeral segment is obviously the legendary Kristen Flagstad.
I am 60 and have watched every movie I could get my hands on with Richard Burton in it, it blows my mind this incredible actor never won an Oscar..He was better then Taylor if you ask me.
Excellent documentary about a fascinating actor.
My #1 favourite actor of all time 🎬🎥🎞
Love old Burton. The diaries are priceless.
Has anyone here ever seen the speech he did at a celebratory dinner for Frank Sinatra? It’s on YT. It was amazing. The audience, including Sinatra, were blown away by it. He worked so hard on his elocution when he was younger because of his Welsh accent. I could listen to him give the weather or traffic updates all day long with that voice.
Richard Burton lives on in all of us. His contributions to the world are timeless and have no comparison. Rest in Peace.
God, how i loved and admired this man one of the greatest stage and screen actors of all time, if not thee greatest🎉
Great actor in his days 🎉🎉
Amazing documentary about an incredible man. I wish I had a chance to meet him.
Thank you. It's a terrific bio documentary. By the way, I've just watched "The Taming of the Shrew". Such a delightful movie!
I find it sad that he seemed to finally have rhe life that he truly wanted. Peace, a perfect partner and a future that was quite possibly going to include writing which he was always interested in. Rest in Peace Richard This was s wonderful documentary.
Brilliant man beautiful voice troubled soul
Best comment, I completely agree!
A great actor and a generous man I think, as I ponder over his grave.
I don't believe Richard Burton and Elizabeth were ever good for one another. Sally would have been so much healthier for him. I truly loved his voice.
We don’t always choose what good for us 😕😏
They obviously had a connection, good or bad or both. I like that they couldn't resist their spell that drew them together.
One of the finest actors ever to have graced this earth but despite his success I always felt he should have been lauded much more than he was. The romance(s) with Liz Taylor were more about that raw chemical attraction two people can have for one another whilst simultaneously being so different as to make them totally unsuited. I tear up every time I hear his dulcet Welsh tones to this day. RIP.
@@lily3054So true. It was just that raw se*ual chemistry that drew them together (constantly) despite being so wrong for one another on a personal level.
It doesn’t matter what you believe. You can’t help who you love
So well done. Many thanks, a fitting memorial.
Smart, witty, great voice and sadly gone. Diolch, Richard.
I love a line by Montgomery Clift on Burton: ‘He doesn’t act, he recites’
Haha
He spoke Shakespeare as poetry - which is what he interpreted it to be. Films were different.
The soundtrack, especially during Richard's later life, is really over the top, to the point where you have to strain to hear the speakers...
masterpiece
Excellent biography. Thank you. I never could bring myself to watch any film with him and Elizabeth Taylor...none. I think she cheapened him.
Thank you for uploading this documentary in higher resolution. A fan and an admirer from Pakistan.
This was a little bit scary
Richard Burton was probably one of the greatest actors that ever lived. He never searched for that internal happiness, and he never achieved it. It was a pity because he had everything else and any man could ever ask for.
I volunteered at a hospital in Brisbane for 5 years in the late 1990's. A fellow Gordon.... started there as a volunteer during that time. We would go round and visit people in the wards. One day at morning tea he said he used to be best mates with Richard Burton towards the end of Richard's life in 1984. We were a bit puzzled and suspicious. The next week he brought in a lot of photos of the two of them. Seems Gordon was a builder in California and Richard was getting a house built in Africa and took him regularly there to check on its progress. I asked him what was the thing he noticed. He said he was genuinely interested in others and super polite. And in the morning if they were in Africa and someone woke up at 4 in the morning, they would see Richard near the open fire reading 📖 books.
That's a beautiful memory.
God bless Janet
Good documentary ccc i enjoyed watching thank you
Richard was very special. I am always amazed at how much Bacall put him down as if she harboured some great anger at him for some reason. Richard was very generous. I do not think it was fair of Bacall to say he did not know anything about friendship, care, or love.
Cinema is about the earthly plane ..... were not there .. we watched it and we grew from it as we aged in these earthly bodies
After awhile Burton's breathy rapid voice wears on me.
Very interesting fellow. He was before my time but one of my mom’s favorites.
Richar barton q hombre maravilloso pura hombria lo adorooooo😊
Oh no...how could I forget The Robe?
The Robe, "Were you there?". I was young and it really made an impression on me. The same with Richard Todd, but I think he was Scottish. In the film"A Man Called Peter," about the Chaplain of the US Senate during WW2. Watch the movie if you can!
@@bettyreynolds204 Richard Todd was Irish-born.
Despite them being married ! and even when she got that Hope Diamond 🔹on her finger ! she refused to be addressed as Elizabeth Burton ! Incidentally his real name was Richard Jenkins Jr ! r.i.p. 😢❤🙏
Legend. Never be anyone like this man again. RIP
The Spy Who came out from the cold. ... Richard stood up on a ridge while walking an exclaimed that he was the heir to own thoughts and actions .. not the state .... that put him into the realm outside the human animal and into the being of a human. !
Vem legendas em Pt-Br? Espero que sim, quero assistir!!😁😁
Excellent documentary
Good one!
Excellent documentary.
Hearing 'Richard' as 'Wretched' was a bit of a surprise but the surname, 'Burton', is synonymous in English slang with the phrase of 'going for a burton' - meaning trip, fall or demise.
Let's not be totally blinded by the brilliance of the man, the irony of finding a Welshman to act out the demise of the Englishman, shouldn't be overlooked. Some scholars believe 'Welsh' means 'slave' - the possibility of a Silent Revolution rather than a 'Bloody' one, might explain a few things.
I think from watching the information here that he surely could have done much worse than he did for what he had. He seemed to know what he wanted, and didn't want, from an early age. We all make mistakes and hopefully hurt very little people along life's travels.
Thank You for the German Subtitles👍
Broadsword calling Danny Boy, Broadsword calling Danny Boy
Great documentary this
"Face of a boxing poet" 😁🥰
Q actor marabilloso lo amooo
Yes, pray he is resting in God’s and has found peace !
Ay q recordarlo como el gran actor q fue
To the amusement of others on the expense of his own pain. Tragic is the tragic art if you're carried so far away.
De los tres mejores actores de la historia
As horrible as it was for working class people then from that ferment came such great men and women.
Uno de los más grande actor
Impressive documentary 👏 red M.G. wonderful Christmas 🎄 gift 🎁 🎅 🧑🎄
Adoro a Elizabeth y Richard. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ cuanta belleza y talento.
Richard Burton is my James Dean, my Marlin Brando ❤️❤️❤️
❤❤❤ q vida ruda pero q actor enorme
I have never seen a more beautiful man…
Sean Connery?
Never shall we see the like again
I'm still amazed how his first wife took him back.
It seems as though he was an introvert and all the hyper socializing and publicity proved to be his undoing. He seemed happiest later on having the peace to read and go to the pub
Humor goes far.
in fm the cold b/w, he buys canned food but argues about price assauts store clerk
He always played himself... so mannered.
I move towards fidelity to that which gives me a mother. lmao
Interesting in that he openly admitted he was very fortunate yet he took it all for granted by self abuse. There have been countless celebrities who were blessed with what he had who burned the candle at both ends, e.g…. Oliver Reed, Alex Higgins, Richard Harris and many more, it’s as if they had a great zest for life but were prone to addictions of a kind, full steam ahead too hot to handle so to speak. A waste of great talent.
I don't believe Lauren Bacall should have trashed Richard like that Richard, being brilliant and unique, had the right to get rich and to get his family out of the mines, the pit. If I were him, I would have wanted to help my family too not very nice of Bacall to take that cheap shot at him
I wonder perhaps if Richard Burton was bipolar, as so many stars are. It would certainly explain a lot of his behaviour. Bipolar is genetic and inherited, and Melvyn Bragg said that Burton told him his father was a "twelve-pints-a-day man" who sometimes went off on drinking and gambling sprees for weeks, and that "he looked very much like me".
You know my dear I really used to love me some Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton but for some reason on this particular portrait 😔 check out his face because he looks very scary ❤🥀🤍🥀🤍🙏🥀💦please Rest In Peace 🕊️ Sir Richard 💞💞
Caro Richatd in data 2 agosto 1984 tu hai scritto una meravigliosa lettera d amore A
Elizabeth Taylor l
Parla d amore solo per lei
E della speranza di avere una
Altra possinilita di tornare sa lei
La lettera è straziante e meravigliosa
Elizaneth leggera la lettera quando
Sara troppo tardi
Lei terra quella lettera vicino fino
Al giorno della sua morte ❤❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢😢
Talent ..luck..and away some goooooooooooooo..:)
He had such an incredible voice, unfortunately his marriage to Kiz derailed his career.
I can’t believe how harsh and judgmental and plain wrong Lauren Bacall is about Richard Burton. I used to like and admire her, but in this instance, I really don’t.
From somebody who lived in the exclusive Dakota in NYC, Lauren's comments were rather rich. Also wonder if she was one of Richard's many women scorned from the '50s...
41:58 English viewers, who's the "respected actor" Richard is talking about and also doing the impression?
추운나라에서몬스파이,
누가버지니아울프를두려워하랴?