Plaque

Richard Burton

Erection date: 11/11/2011

Inscription

Richard Burton, 1925 - 1984, actor lived here 1949 - 1956.
English Heritage

Burton lived here with his first wife, Welsh actress Sybil Williams. Plaque unveiled by Michael Sheen, another Welsh thespian.

Site: Richard Burton (1 memorial)

NW3, Lyndhurst Road, 6

2023 The house is for sale. Mansion Global has some photos and provides: "Initially, Burton and his then wife, actress Sybil Burton, purchased the building’s ground-floor flat, but during their tenure they gradually snapped up more of the property until they owned it in its entirety. By the mid-1950s, Richard Burton was one of the highest-earning actors in Hollywood, and had the tax bills to prove it, so the pair—who divorced in 1963 amid his headline-grabbing affair with Elizabeth Taylor—relocated to Switzerland in 1957, where he became a tax exile ..."

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Richard Burton

Actor. Born Richard Walter Jenkins at Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Wales. He was adopted ...

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