{"id":155183,"date":"2026-01-29T17:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155183\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:47:18","slug":"mr-burton-to-open-san-franciscos-mostly-british-film-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155183\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mr Burton\u2019 to open San Francisco\u2019s Mostly British Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before\u00a0Richard Burton<\/a> became an acting great, a legendary carouser and the on-again, off-again lover of Elizabeth Taylor<\/a>, he was a Welsh schoolboy named Richard Jenkins in need of guidance.<\/p>\n

He found it in his English teacher, Philip Burton, who not only mentored him but made him his legal ward.<\/p>\n

That bond is the subject of \u201cMr Burton,\u201d starring Toby Jones and rising star Harry Lawtey, which opens the Mostly British Film Festival on Thursday, Feb. 5, at the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco. Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor Kate Burton<\/a> (\u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d) is expected to attend in person to reminisce about life with her famous father and stepmom.<\/p>\n

Richard Burton\u2019s screen magnetism will then be on display the following day in the 1959 British melodrama \u201cLook Back in Anger,\u201d one of several retrospective screenings at the festival, which runs through Feb. 12.<\/p>\n

Other highlights include a video interview with Pierce Brosnan<\/a> before a screening of \u201cFour Letters of Love\u201d (Sunday, Feb. 8), a drama that also stars Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne. Brosnan, a serious artist who\u2019s had exhibitions of his work, plays a painter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before\u00a0Richard Burton became an acting great, a legendary carouser and the on-again, off-again lover of Elizabeth Taylor, he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[329,7,35717,839,838,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-155183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-datebook-pick","11":"tag-festivals","12":"tag-movies-and-tv","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","15":"tag-san-francisco-news","16":"tag-sf","17":"tag-sf-headlines","18":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}