Richard Burton

Credited as the first paparazzo, Elio Sorci candidly captured some of the most iconic celebrities of the 1960s…and exposed the affair between Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

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The great celebrity romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton is intimately captured in his diaries.

What was Elizabeth Taylor like in bed? Richard Burton answers that, and more, in the newly-released ‘Richard Burton Diaries.’ By Kevin Fallon.

Despite a multitude of leading roles on stage and screen, Richard Burton never ceased to doubt himself as an actor, and the profession as a whole. He often expressed these concerns to his counterpart Elizabeth Taylor, saying once in a letter, ‘I have never quite got over the fact that I thought, and I’m afraid I still do think, that “acting” for a man—a really proper man—is sissified and faintly ridiculous.’ Irreverent, impulsive, and with an addiction to alcohol and women, Burton was also a loving husband, a patient father, and a loyal friend. From his early days on stage with Claire Bloom to the heights of Hollywood royalty, here’s a look back at one of Hollywood’s most beloved—and troubled—leading men.

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