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Richard Burton ought to have won THREE times for Night of the Iguana, The Robe and Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf! COMMENTS "Richard Burton never won an Oscar in his entire career - that is an unforgivable crime on the part of the Academy...yeah, keep awarding trash like Adrien Brody instead, idiots!" Add New Comment Back to: Home

A QUARTER of a century ago this week Wales lost one of its greatest-ever actors - screen legend Richard Burton.

Richard Burton was someone I knew well - I liked him drunk and sober. During the filming of Becket, in which he played the martyred medieval priest, he invited me to stay with him for a few days on location in Northumberland.

AS a new season of films starring Richard Burton begins, we explore why he spectacularly self-destructed as hellraising eclipsed a movie career that once promised so much.

No, I don't mean Mel Brooks's Robin Hood and his very merry band of merry men in tight! tights, some of whom are now major studio executives.

From left are actors Victor Mature, Richard Burton and Michael Rennie in a scene from "The Robe" in this April 1953 photo.