{"id":255875,"date":"2025-11-11T00:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255875\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T00:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:41:09","slug":"richard-burton-speaks-of-his-home-village-in-archive-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255875\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Burton speaks of his home village in archive footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hollywood actor Richard Burton once said no matter where he travelled, he would always belong to his home village of Pontrhydyfen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burton, who would have turned 100 on Monday, starred in Cleopatra and was known for his powerful performances in Dylan Thomas&#8217;s Under Milk Wood and Shakespearean stage roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Monday, blue plaques were unveiled at both Burton&#8217;s birthplace and the former home of his mentor and legal guardian, Philip Burton, marking the centenary celebrations of the actor&#8217;s life and legacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I disguised myself heavily to go to the village because if you think I&#8217;m recognisable in England, the United States or India, or somewhere nationally, I&#8217;m infinitely more recognisable in here because they all know the family face apart from mine,&#8221; he told the BBC on a return to the village in 1977.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/articles\/c1k021g92lmo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More on this story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood actor Richard Burton once said no matter where he travelled, he would always belong to his home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-255875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}