Richard Burton (1925-1984) was known for his outstanding abilities as a Shakespearean actor, his commanding presence on Broadway, and his compelling screen portrayals. He was almost as famous for his romance with actress Elizabeth Taylor, to whom he...

Richard Burton Born March 19, 1821 Torquay, England Died October 20, 1890 Trieste, Italy Sir Richard Burton was at the center of one of the greatest geographical controversies of the Victorian age—the search for the source of the Nile, the...

Richard Burton, CBE (November 10 1925 – August 5 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood.[1] Known for his distinctive voice, he was nominated seven times for Academy Awards for acting, but never...

HE MIGHT have been the greatest classical actor of his age, as Kenneth Tynan, Britain's most celebrated postwar theatre critic, thought in 1955 after seeing his Henry V at the Old Vic. Instead, Richard Burton ne Jenkins) ended up playing a camp barber...

RICHARD BURTON A Life By Melvyn Bragg Little, Brown. 533 pp. $22.95 HE WAS christened Richard Walter Jenkins, just like his father, but Burton was not a stage-name. The father, a miner who could make 20 tons of coal fall out...

Richard Francis Burton -- explorer, writer, soldier, translator, diplomat -- lived for his next adventure.In the months before his death in 1890, Burton was emaciated and barely able to walk without support.Yet he was planning for a trip to Greece. Having just completed what would...

So maybe Mark Antony loved Cleopatra for her mind. That is the conclusion being drawn by academics at Britain's University of Newcastle from a Roman denarius coin which depicts the celebrated queen of Egypt as a sharp-nosed, thin-lipped woman with a protruding chin.In short, a...