Richard Burton is perhaps hunting the teacher who has forged his career

The prospective actor took the man’s last name when he was transformed from the son of a miner to one of the Biggest actors From his generation, but friends and former lovers point to a dark side of the seemingly gentle teacher.

Burton, who died in 1984 at the age of 58, never publicly speculated about the sexuality of Philip Burton.

But Roger Lewis, whose recent biography of both Burton and ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor” Erotic vagrancY, claims an honest claim the most authoritative report of their chaotic, glamorous life, suggests that explicit Philip was not only gay, but also a pedophile – who describes him as “boring and creepy, a snail or whelk curled in his shell.”

Writer Rosemary Kingsland-Die wrote a memoir about her love affair with Burton-Leer, which Philip was “a bloody A *** Bandit”.

Said Kingsland Burton felt unhappy About his involvement with Philip, revealing: “I definitely think Richard had a sexual relationship with Philip Burton, because of what he said to me and how he said it.

“If he had just been him, he might have been a bit embarrassed or guilty. But when he had had a lot to drink, he was very, very black and angry about Philip. He kept saying that he had put Philip and plagued him.

“But he also said,” Why would someone take you to their house unless he wanted you a ***? “