RICHARD BURTON - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 152764

RICHARD BURTON
Black and white publicity photograph signed by Burton as Winston Churchill, statesman and painter
Photograph signed: "Richard Burton". B/w, 8x8. This photo is a BBC publicity photo of Burton as Winston Churchill in the 1974 miniseries The Gathering Storm. Burton's starred in less well-known movies later in his career, but would still garner one more Oscar nomination after The Gathering Storm. Richard Burton (1925-1984), a Welsh stage and screen actor with a magnificent voice, received seven Oscar nominations for My Cousin Rachel in 1952, The Robe in 1953, Becket in 1964, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold in 1965, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1966, Anne of the Thousand Days in 1969 and Equus in 1977, with all but the first for Best Actor. Burton may be best remembered, however, for his tempestuous romances, movie pairings with Elizabeth Taylor, whom he met on the set of Cleopatra (1963), and four failed marriages, two of them to Taylor. He was born Richard Walter Jenkins, Jr., the 12th of a Welsh coal miner's 13 children, but changed his last name to that of Phillip Burton, who helped him get a scholarship to Oxford. He got his start on the stage in 1943, but had his career put on hold when he was drafted into the Royal Air Force in 1944. After his discharge, he had his first hit in 1949's The Lady's Not For Burning. He began making movies in Britain in 1949, with My Cousin Rachel as his first Hollywood role. Lightly creased, otherwise in fine condition.