Toby Jones plays Philip Burton, who adopted the celebrated thespian and mentored him, in this film directed by Marc Evans.

Mr. Burton locates what’s most interesting about Richard Burton’s beginnings, and star Harry Lawtey’s performance is the biggest reason why.

Long before Richard Burton became a star, said Tim Robey in The Daily Telegraph, he was Richard Jenkins – "a nondescript miner's boy", one of 13 motherless children, who almost dropped out of school.

In Mr. Burton, set in Port Talbot in 1942, Jones plays Philip Burton (1904–95), the schoolmaster who, in his English class, spotted Richard Jenkins's raw potential as an actor and subsequently took ...