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Richard Burton

September 2024

  • Mohamed al Fayed with Michael Cole leaving the High Court, London, following a preliminary hearing for the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde on Al Fayed and Diddy’s enablers, the hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor, and Philippa Perry on embracing anger – podcast

    Marina Hyde on the motley crew of enforcers, concealers and NDA experts behind every Al Fayed or Diddy; Liz Taylor’s son, Chris Wilding, discusses his mother’s legend and legacy; and Philippa Perry helps one reader struggling to reconcile the emotions that come with a devastating illness

  • Christopher Wilding with his mother, Elizabeth Taylor.

    The G2 interview
    The hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor – as seen by her son: ‘Her love for Richard Burton never went away’

    She despised hypocrisy and was fiercely loyal to her friends, while navigating the pressures and pleasures of being the world’s biggest star. Chris Wilding discusses the legend and legacy of the mother he loved
  • Elizabeth Taylor as a teenager, sitting on a sofa holding a flower.

    ‘I hope this changes perceptions’: documentary focuses on the real Elizabeth Taylor

    The ‘rebel superstar’ was decades ahead of her time, a new three-part series produced by her protégé Kim Kardashian shows

August 2024

  • Ben Affleck, left, and Jennifer Lopez at the premiere of This Is Me... Now: A Love Story in February 2024.

    From Bennifer to Burton-Taylor: why some couples can’t stop making and breaking up

    As Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck go their separate ways again, why won’t some just call time on doomed affairs?

June 2024

  • 1959, NORTH BY NORTHWEST<br>EVA MARIE SAINT &amp; CARY GRANT Character(s): Eve Kendall &amp; Film 'NORTH BY NORTHWEST' (1959) Directed By ALFRED HITCHCOCK 17 July 1959 CT2771 Allstar/MGM (USA 1959) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MGM and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To MGM is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Ranked
    Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint! Her best films – ranked

    Born on 4 July, one of the last true stars of Hollywood’s golden age celebrates her centenary next week. We look back at the landmark roles of a 75-year career

May 2024

  • Chris Williams

    Other lives
    Chris Williams obituary

  • Ian MchShane in 2019.

    The reader interview
    Ian McShane: ‘When I was about to get it on with Richard Burton, he said I reminded him of Elizabeth’

February 2024

  • Dylan Thomas circa 1949-53.

    Audiobook of the week
    Dylan Thomas: The BBC Radio Collection audiobook review – a spellbinding homage

    Richard Burton’s reading of Under Milk Wood is the centrepiece of a collection of works written about and by the ‘rock star author’

October 2023

  • Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on the set of The Sandpiper, 1965.

    Observer book of the week
    Erotic Vagrancy: Everything About Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor review – an epic hymn to a ‘joyously vulgar’ pair

    Drink-fuelled fights, tantrums, fratricide… Roger Lewis’s exhaustive but exhausting study of the Burton-Taylor partnership is as extravagant and uncompromising as its badly behaved stars

August 2023

  • Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor began a scandalous affair on the set of 1963’s Cleopatra. Cleopatra, directed by American Joseph L. Mankiewicz. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Cleopatra at 60: new book reveals ‘stunning profligacy’ of infamous Hollywood epic

    The Observer’s critics saw the ‘ordeal in Rome’ and now a new book reveals why it flopped

June 2023

  • Portrait of Tuppence Middleton

    ‘I’ve become more fearless’: Tuppence Middleton on OCD, motherhood and playing Elizabeth Taylor

    The Downton Abbey actor loves to keep a low profile. So how does she feel about portraying one of Hollywood’s most glamorous and headline-grabbing stars – and writing a book about her own mental health?
  • Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra.

    Cleopatra at 60: the expensive epic that almost tanked a studio

    The notoriously overpriced biopic, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, carried an infamous legacy but is it any good?
  • In Cleopatra (1963), the film in which her romance with Richard Burton began.

    Ranked
    Elizabeth Taylor’s 20 best performances – ranked!

    As Cleopatra turns 60, and its star’s romance with Richard Burton becomes the subject of a new play at the National, we take a trip down the Queen of the Nile’s finest films

May 2023

  • Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn in The Motive and the Cue.

    The Motive and the Cue review – Gielgud and Burton battle it out

    Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn star in Jack Thorne’s play about the prickly pair’s 1960s Broadway production of Hamlet

April 2023

  • Kaliza

    Yacht once owned by Richard Burton in shootout off Yemen coast

  • The Guardian Sat final

    ‘We get inside their shame, their ego, their destruction’: Jack Thorne brings Burton and Gielgud back to the stage

January 2023

  • ‘Not a happy experience’ … Richard Burton in the filmed version of Hamlet, 1964.

    Heavenly powers or something rotten? When Richard Burton played Hamlet

    It was a box-office hit directed by John Gielgud and created turmoil on stage and off. Now, the 1964 Broadway staging has inspired The Motive and the Cue, a new play by Jack Thorne

November 2022

  • Richard Burton in the filmed version of Hamlet in 1964.

    Johnny Flynn and Mark Gatiss to play Richard Burton and John Gielgud in new play

    Written by Jack Thorne and directed by Sam Mendes, The Motive and the Cue is about the famous 1964 production of Hamlet and will open at the National Theatre

February 2022

  • Henry V

    Once more unto the breach! Burton, Branagh and the battling stars of Henry V – in pictures

    Kit Harington is the latest actor to take on the role in Shakespeare’s history play. Look back at past portrayals by Michael Sheen, Mark Rylance, Laurence Olivier, Michelle Terry and many more

September 2021

  • Richard Burton and Claire Bloom in the 1965 film of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

    The spy writer who held a grudge against Le Carré comes in from the cold

    Willem Frederik Hermans thought the Briton’s famous book was based on his. Now one of his best works is coming out in the UK
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