Richard Burton On His Humble Welsh Upbringing | The Dick Cavett Show

amazing actor. amazing man.

Richard Burton was suave, debonair, talented and intelligent. He is everything lacking in the contemporary actor.

Wonderful 😊

He was interesting without the liquor, either in him or in you. Now imagine liquor in both. By all accounts, a man painfully missed the minute he was gone, and for long after. By the way, there's gotta be something in that area of Wales that produces greatness, but I failed to see it when I drove through the UK all those years ago. That village he mentions is near a larger town called Port Talbot in South Wales, off the M4, and there's seemingly nothing remarkable about it other than being a working class town. And yet Port Talbot and its immediate environs produced great actors like Burton, Anthony Hopkins, and Michael Sheen, while the great 20th century poet (and Burton's friend) Dylan Thomas was up the M4 a bit in Swansea. Something in the water in South Wales. Maybe it's the coal dust. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There’s something tragic yet beautiful about this man. He was not destined to be an actor. The twelfth child of an impoverished and violent coal miner, he lost his mother when he was two years old. He spoke no English up to the age of 10 and was then taken in by a schoolmaster who put him on the path to Oxford University and, after trying to find his place in life, he became one of the most accomplished actors of his generation.

Most actors today are destined to be actors (born either middle class or higher, took acting lessons when they were children, went to a drama school, etc.) but Richard Burton was not destined to have a career in acting. He could’ve been a miner like the men of his family, but he didn’t. He had a story, something most actors today don’t have 😢

PONTRHYDYFEN…

beautiful

Such a superb host, let the guest talk and dont be crass,bring back the discipline and respect ❤

Richard was only 54 years old when he made this great interview , life sadly caught up with him .Four years later we lost this legend.

He was 54 talking here. Looks older.

My ansectors Jon and George came to America in 1820 and became Foreman of a coalmine in Plymouth Pa. Many ansectors died at the lanseshire mining disaster in Wales. And on Friday the 13th my Great, Great Grandfather went down into a mine collapse to try and rescue 12 men. Sadly all 13 perished. My great grandfather moved to Newark to perdue different work eventually to spare his children of the mines. But my whole Family was and are Pro Union blue collar workers.

Sheer class Richard Jenkins

He talk as the poet he was

Bravo Richard boy Bach

What utter bollocks he spouts on the 'superiority of miners'

GLORIOUS! The first 18 minutes were magical as Richard talked about coal mining. GLORIOUS! Please share!

Gorgeous man..what a voice!

Having worked on construction sites with ex miners....Burtons embellishments and romantic tones of his stories are plain actors' fantasy .....PURE SWISS TAX EXILE FANTASY

What a voice! I find myself mesmerised, I can imagine Him, The Pub; back in the day, fire burning , dog in corne,r old man with pipe and the rest of the pub listening intently to this Man. Transfixed, You can why his Voice was the commentary for War of The Worlds. Amazing.

Here is a real man - not propped up by an agent or studio, but a living, breathing man.

Why? Did he seem to want to destroy himself he should have lived so much longer

Humble??!! First of all, so-called "Richard Burton" not his real name. I think it's a disgrace and shows complete disrespect of one's heritage to change their birth name, unless when a woman gets married. If a woman gets married and DOESN'T change her last name, that shows no respect to her husband. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the name "Richard Walter Jenkins Jr"! The change was probably made as a result of pressure from a greedy Business Manager and or Studio, with respect to perceived anticipation of greater recognition and subsequent monetary gain?!

jeez. he died at 58.. but he looked real tired .. i'm 60 and some people say i look 45..

I could listen to him all night.

No one would have beleived, that in the last years of the 19th century...

Its very interesting the contrast between Burton and Michael Parkinson. Both had fathers who were miners, but whilst Burton talks up the life of a miner, Parkinson’s dad took him down a mine as a kid to show him how terrible it was. I tend to think Parkinson’s father was right - sounded appalling

I can listen to Burton forever.

Wonderful human tragically flawed. Like most of us.

A lovely account of a wonderful working class upbringing, of which Richard Burton was obviously, and rightly proud.

I did not know how charismatic Burton was.

His voice is that of God.

Good interview.

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Zešto se ove emisije o Bartonu ne prevedu na srpski jezik?

How charming, and what a charmed life.

He’s wonderful to listen to.

My grandmother, Margaret Burch, told me of this magical talent to read the coal by my great grandfather, Billy Burch. Who loved the coal mines in Scranton,PA.

I could listen to Richard Burton's voice all day!

Couldn't you just listen to him telling his stories ALL DAY.....

Richard Jenkins Burton
Wonderful Expressive Voice.
Master Craftsmen
R.I.P

Richard Burton what can I say, fabulous, absolutely fabulous.

The greatest actor and easily the greatest voice. Bloody marvellous.

when I was a kid my friend and I went to see "where eagles dare" at the cinema. When we would call each other on the phone we tried to mimic Richard Burton's deep timbre and welsh accent "Broadsword calling Danny Boy". He was a great actor and storyteller.

You don't get TV of this quality anymore.

It is amazing how Dick Cavett could make people feel so comfortable in an interview. He truely had a gift.

Dick Cavett is a national treasure! He has interviewed the most iconic and legendary people of that era. I was young but I remember his show so well and was intrigued with all his guests of every different talent and art form around.

He had such a great voice.

Nice story about his father

Richard Burton comes across as an extremely articulate and intelligent person. Actors like him no longer exist.