Richard Burton's Rugby Pause: Transition from the Field to the Stage | The Dick Cavett Show

Richard Burton, a former rugby player, received advice from his Oxford professor to delay his return to rugby for two years and pursue acting. He signed with Hugh Beaumont and was initially cast as Paul Scofield's friend in Terence Vatican's Adventure Story. Despite being dismissed for being too attractive, Burton appeared in John Gielgud's production and Christopher Fry's play, ""The Boy with the Cot.""
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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[@MrRadiorobot]

Decades later and in interview Burton can still hold a viewer spell bound with his every word.

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

Hia voice is mesmerising.

[@wakayama1991]

Cavett is such a great interviewer. No ego, pure interest. Thoughtful in his questions. Class.

[@margpetit1]

Wonderful nterview with a most talented, interesting human being!

[@Spitz79]

He’s captivating

[@bigpeeler]

Thank you very much for posting this.

[@63bplumb]

One could Weep as to how shallow the pool is now!

[@RivaG]

it would be nice to hear the end of this story- thank you for posting

[@annavasquez1394]

"JUST TOO PRETTY" scrubbing story😂😂😂

[@roncaruso931]

Such talent in entertainment back then.

[@pennytyson4358]

He has the best voice and yes your pretty Richard

[@ChristopherSmithNYC]

Is this the Richard Burton Chanel???

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

Would that it were?