“He should have been in the same rank as Laurence Olivier, but he was very wild and had a scandal around him all the time and I think in theater circles that would not be approved of.”

— Richard Burton

Sir John Gielgud, in “Richard Burton, 58, is Dead; Rakish Stage and Screen Star”

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