Philip Burton (Q61162)

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Welsh teacher, writer, television producer and theatre director
  • Philip Henry Burton
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Philip Burton
Welsh teacher, writer, television producer and theatre director
  • Philip Henry Burton

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30 November 1904Gregorian
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28 January 1995
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Philip Henry Burton (1904-1995), theatre director and writer, was a teacher at the Port Talbot secondary school attended by Richard Burton (then Jenkins) during the early 1940s. Burton became Jenkins's legal guardian and the boy adopted his mentor's surname as his own. Burton nurtured Richard's theatrical talent and helped launch the younger man's acting career. Their relationship is recorded in Burton's Richard and Philip: The Burtons. A Book of Memories (London, 1992).
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