{"id":255937,"date":"2025-11-11T01:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255937\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T01:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:28:09","slug":"film-star-richard-burton-honoured-in-port-talbot-and-pontrhydyfen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255937\/","title":{"rendered":"Film star Richard Burton honoured in Port Talbot and Pontrhydyfen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plaques were unveiled at Philip Burton’s home in Connaught Street in Port Talbot and later at Richard’s birthplace in Danybont, Pontrhydyfen.<\/p>\n

Philip Burton<\/a> was a teacher who spotted the young actor’s potential, became his legal guardian, lent him his name and helped propel him to stardom.<\/p>\n

Kate Burton, Richard Burton’s daughter from his first marriage to Sybil Christopher, said: “It’s really touching to come back here.”<\/p>\n

She said it was “important to tell the story” because “Philip Burton and Richard Burton are so much a part of Welsh history”.<\/p>\n

The late actor’s granddaughter, Charlotte, said she felt “connected” to her grandfather being in south Wales for the unveiling. <\/p>\n

She added that being able to commemorate her “Welsh elders” was “heart-warming and gratifying”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plaques were unveiled at Philip Burton’s home in Connaught Street in Port Talbot and later at Richard’s birthplace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-255937","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\/255937","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=255937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}