RICHARD BURTON The Tortured Life of a HOLLYWOOD ICON

THE ACCLAIMED WELSH ACTOR FINALLY FOUND RELEASE FROM HIS DEMONS AND SORROWS DURING HIS FINAL MARRIAGE

- Fortune Benatar

in 1966, Richard Burton played a henpecked college professor who spends a night drunkenly bickering with his wife in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? His performance is heated and subtle, horrifying and heartbreaking — and earned him one of the seven Oscar nominations of his distinguished career.

The son of a Welsh coal miner, Richard rose to the top of Hollywood’s A-list in the 1960s. For a time, he and his second wife and Virginia Woolf co-star, Elizabeth Taylor, were the most talked- about couple in the world. “Wider fame is a curious thing,” he said in 1963, a year before they wed for the first time. “You’re furious if you’re recognized — and you’re equally furious if you’re not.”