Book description
Richard Burton was one of the greatest actors of our age – and one of the wildest. He is as famed for his reckless life off-stage as for his brilliant and sensitive roles in productions as varied as Antony and Cleopatra, Where Eagles Dare, Under Milk Wood and Camelot.
Now Graham Jenkins gives the family-eye view of his brother’s turbulent and contradictory career: the brilliant classic roles and the ham Hollywood moneyspinners; the chequered relationship with Elizabeth Taylor and his three other marriages; the public image of the jetsetting playboy; the private passion for his family and for Wales – and the battles with alcohol which finally killed him. Above all, this intimate and controversial biography shines with the magic of Richard Burton, flawed genius and enduring friend.
