Richard Burton’s Death – Cause and Date

The movie actor Richard Burton died at the age of 58. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Welsh actor best known for his starring roles opposite Elizabeth Taylor, particularly 1963’s Cleopatra and 1966’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? His other memorable films include Hamlet, The Robe, and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

He had a highly sensationalized affair with actress Elizabeth Taylor, whom he married and divorced twice. He was also married to Sybil Christopher, Suzy Hunt and Sally Hay. He had four children named Kate, Jessica, Liza and Maria.

Quotes

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“Let’s have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.” (Richard Burton)

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“If you’re going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.” (Richard Burton)

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“Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.” (Richard Burton)

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“I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven’t been writing for nothing.” (Richard Burton)

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“When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn’t know how to play them when I was drunk.” (Richard Burton)