Richard Burton

Burton is sometimes erroneously referred to as "Sir Richard Burton", perhaps due to the similarity of his assumed name to that of Richard Francis Burton, but unlike the 19th century scholar, he never received a knighthood. In addition to his film and television credits listed above, Cole has done voice work on several animated series (Family Guy, Kim Possible, Harvey Birdman) and has a recurring role on the drama The West Wing as Vice President Bob Russell (D-Colo.). Burton appears in the 2002 List of "100 Great Britons" (sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public). Cole began his professional career as a stage actor in Chicago; he also appeared in several off-Broadway productions in New York City. He was only 58 years old. Cole then attended Illinois State University, majoring in theater alongside actors Laurie Metcalf and John Malkovich. Burton died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Switzerland, where he is buried. Cole, born in Park Ridge, Illinois, attended Rolling Meadows High School, where his first dramatic appearance was as Snoopy in a high school production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

Burton was banned permanently from BBC productions in 1974 for questioning the sanity of Winston Churchill and others in power during World War II--Burton reported hating them "virulently" for the alleged promise to wipe out all Japanese people on the planet. Gary Cole (born 20 September 1956) is an American actor, known for numerous roles, including the television series Fatal Vision, Midnight Caller, American Gothic, and Crusade, and the films In the Line of Fire, Office Space, The Brady Bunch Movie, and One Hour Photo. The film is reputed to have been similar to Burton and Taylor's real-life marriage. Burton and Taylor played opposite each other in Mike Nichols's film of the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, in which a bitter erudite couple spend the evening trading vicious barbs in front of their horrified and fascinated guests. An insomniac and notoriously heavy drinker, Burton was married five times - twice, consecutively, to Elizabeth Taylor.

In 1954, he took his most famous radio role, as the narrator in the original production of Under Milk Wood, a role he would reprise in the film version twenty years later. In 1952, Burton successfully made the transition to Hollywood star, appearing in My Cousin Rachel opposite Olivia de Havilland. This was made possible only because it was wartime and he was an air force cadet. In 1943, at the age of eighteen, Richard Burton (who had now taken his teacher's surname), was allowed into Exeter College for a term of six months study.

His former teacher, Philip Burton, recognising his talent, adopted him and enabled him to return to school. The facts, as recorded by Burton himself in his own autobiography and in Richard and Philip, which he co-wrote, are as follows: At the age of sixteen, he was forced to leave school and find work as a shop assistant. There is a widespread myth (perhaps encouraged or even believed by some members of his stoutly working-class family) that Richard Burton "won a scholarship to Oxford at the age of sixteen" but left after six months. It was at this time that he began to develop the distinctive speaking voice that became his hallmark, having been encouraged by Philip (who sidelined as a BBC radio producer) to "lose his Welsh accent".

With the assistance of his inspirational schoolmaster, Philip H Burton (who legally adopted him), he excelled in school productions. He was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village of Pontrhydyfen near Port Talbot.
Richard Burton (November 10, 1925 - August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor from the late 1940s through the 1980s. For the 19th-century explorer, scholar, and orientalist, see Richard Francis Burton..

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