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Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award, six of which were for Best Actor in a Leading Role (without ever winning), and was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. He remains closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor; the couple's turbulent relationship was rarely out of the news.
Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village of Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales. He grew up in a working class, Welsh-speaking household, the twelfth of thirteen children. His father, Richard Walter Jenkins, was a short, robust coal miner, a "twelve-pints-a-day man" who sometimes went off on drinking and gambling sprees for weeks. Burton later claimed, by family telling, that "He looked very much like me...That is, he was pockmarked, devious, and smiled a great deal when he was in trouble. He was, also, a man of extraordinary eloquence, tremendous passion, great violence."
Actors: Tim Seyfert (actor), Jack Tarling (producer), Josephine Halbert (director), Josephine Halbert (producer), Gerry Maguire (miscellaneous crew), Aiste Gramantaite (actress), Cesare Taurasi (actor), Charlotte Quita Jones (actress), Gavin Blackburn (actor), Sarah Llewellyn (composer), Donald Sinclair (actor), Rhodri Miles (actor),
Plot: The other love-affair on the set of Hollywood's most expensive film of its day. Against the backdrop of the much publicised love affair of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, a young woman finds herself in the backstage world of the famous 1963 Ancient Egyptian blockbuster in a film studio near Rome. We follow her as she embarks on her own intense emotional romance over the final days of the shooting of the doomed epic. Burton and Taylor's romance remains a constant presence during her own romantic awakening in a world she knows nothing about. A Short Epic About Love is a love-letter to the films of the golden era of 1960s CineCitta Studios where Hollywood's view of Ancient Rome met the contemporary Rome of Fellini.
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Short,Actors: Troy Waters (miscellaneous crew), Lindsay Lohan (actress), Stefón L.C. (miscellaneous crew), André Devantier (miscellaneous crew), Angelo Vacco (miscellaneous crew), Kyle A. Clark (producer), Theresa Russell (actress), Lee Holdridge (composer), John Arbuckle (miscellaneous crew), Joe Cappelletti (miscellaneous crew), Elizabeth Himelstein (miscellaneous crew), Zach Bradshaw (miscellaneous crew), Massi Furlan (actor), Lina Wong (producer), Charles Shaughnessy (actor),
Plot: On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky, passionate, relationship, born in front of the cameras, was subsequently captured in a series of films, including The V.I.P.s and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The last of the great, extravagant stars, flaunting diamonds, yachts and private planes, they continually seized the headlines. They even divorced and married again - only to divorce again - but remain in each other's hearts. This Elizabeth Taylor - Richard Burton story is a no-holds barred account of their undying, but impossible love.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, academy-award, academy-awards-ceremony, actor, actress, adultery, affair, alcohol, alcohol-abuseActors: Dafydd Hywel (actor), Richard Harrington (actor), Alun Edwards (editor), Dylan Richards (producer), William Owen Roberts (writer), Dylan Richards (director), Judith Roberts (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Steve Larkin (actor), Aliethea D'Angelo (producer), Aliethea D'Angelo (producer), Sam Gipson (actor), Christopher Callen (actress), Stephanie Katz (actress), James Patrick Pitt (actor), Lisa Britton (actress), Deborah Britton (actress), Reed Blake (producer), Jesse Saunders (writer), Jesse Saunders (director), Tova Katz (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Ken Thorne (composer), Katherine Helmond (actress), Jane Robinson (producer), Sherilyn Fenn (actress), Kevin McCarthy (actor), Ray Wise (actor), Eugene Roche (actor), William McNamara (actor), Alan Shearman (actor), John Saxon (actor), Michael Cavanaugh (actor), Nigel Havers (actor), Angus Macfadyen (actor), Kevin Connor (director), Jane Robinson (costume designer),
Plot: The story of 'Elizabeth Taylor (I)' (qv)'s rise to stardom, beginning in Los Angeles 1942. Her dominating mother has decided that her daughter must become a star - no matter what others or Elizabeth herself think. Assisted by 'Hedda Hopper' (qv), she gets a part in _Lassie Come Home (1943)_ (qv). She becomes a child star, raised by her studio. Growing up, she has several love-affairs - and several divorces, since her husbands can't accept being married to a Hollywood icon.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, acting, actress, alcoholism, based-on-novel, behind-the-scenes, celebrity, character-name-in-titleActors: William M. Conselman (writer), William Collier Sr. (actor), Norman Houston (writer), Edward Everett Horton (actor), Lorin Raker (actor), Bert Roach (actor), Spencer Tracy (actor), Louise Beavers (actress), El Brendel (actor), Una Merkel (actress), Ruth Warren (actress), William Fox (producer), William Anthony McGuire (writer), Thornton Freeland (director), William Holden (actor),
Plot: Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car. Friends press them for rides; Marilyn has an accident which Gilbert must get $5,000 from his boss to pay for. They finally sell the car to the janitor.
Keywords: automobile, based-on-playActors: Berton Churchill (actor), Donald Meek (actor), Thomas Mitchell (actor), Ernest Truex (actor), Ralph Spence (writer), Elmer Clifton (director), Ralph Spence (editor), William Fox (miscellaneous crew), William Anthony McGuire (writer), Carl Stearns Clancy (writer), Florence Eldridge (actress), Helen Morgan (actress), Maude Hill (actress), Grace Gordon (actress), Ralph Sipperly (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Carl Laemmle (miscellaneous crew), Earl Metcalfe (actor), Winston Miller (actor), Phillips Smalley (actor), David Torrence (actor), June Elvidge (actress), Maude George (actress), Charles Kenyon (writer), George Archainbaud (director), Stanton Heck (actor), Ruby Lafayette (actress), Mabel Julienne Scott (actress), Johan Bojer (writer),
Plot: Review of story source; The North American Review, Vol. 190, No. 644, Jul., 1909: "... grim little tale of the flourishing landowner who signs his friend's note and then declares it a forgery when the time comes to pay. He builds and flourishes upon his lie, while the weakling goes under."
Keywords: based-on-novel, forgeryActors: Anne Bauchens (editor), Tom Forman (actor), Winter Hall (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Jack Holt (actor), Fred Huntley (actor), Theodore Roberts (actor), Sylvia Ashton (actress), Wanda Hawley (actress), Gloria Swanson (actress), Cecil B. DeMille (producer), Jesse L. Lasky (producer), William C. de Mille (writer), Jeanie Macpherson (writer), Elliott Dexter (actor),
Plot: Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.
Keywords: based-on-playActors: Zena Keefe (actress), Burton L. King (actor), L. Rogers Lytton (actor), Adele DeGarde (actress), Kenneth Casey (actor), Billie West (actress), Albert W. Hale (director), Josephine Earle (actress), Evelyn Francis (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,I know what my people are thinking tonight
As home through the shadows they wander
Everyone smiling in secret delight
They stare at the castle and ponder
Whenever the wind blows this way
You can almost hear everyone say
I wonder what the king is doing tonight?
What merriment is the king pursuing tonight?
The candles at the court, they never burned as bright
I wonder what the king is upto tonight?
How goes the final hour as he sees his bridal bower
Being regally and legally prepared?
Well, I'll tell you what the king is doing tonight
He's scared, he's scared
You mean that a king who fought a dragon
Hacked him in two and fixed his wagon
Goes to be wed in terror and distress? Yes
A warrior who's so calm in battle
Even his armor doesn't rattle
Faces a woman petrified with fright? Right
You mean that appalling clamoring
That sounds like a blacksmith hammering
Is merely the banging of his royal knees? Please
You wonder what the king is wishing tonight?
He's wishing he were in Scotland fishing tonight
What occupies his time while waiting for the bride?
He's searching high and low for some place to hide
And oh, the expectation, the sublime anticipation
He must feel about the wedding night to come
Well, I'll tell you what the king is feeling tonight
He's numb, he shakes, he quails, he quakes