It is made in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, owned and distributed by Unilever UK.

* Worst Actor: Richard Burton ( a highly controversial choice, considering the fact that he was Oscar-nominated many times, but made because Burton starred in so many bad films )

* Sweeney Todd, ( 2007 ) a movie adaptation of the stage work, made with Sondheim's participation and approval, was directed by Tim Burton, featuring a largely nonmusical cast led by Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.

As a student in CalArts, Burton made the shorts Stalk of the Celery Monster and King and Octopus.

While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six-minute black-and-white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his ( and Burton's ) hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration.

It was made by the BBC for Unitel, Produced by Humphrey Burton and Directed by Christopher Swann.

** Author Richard Burton is made vicar of St. Thomas in the west suburbs of London.

Burton, a popular snowboard company has constructed all natural terrain parks with rails made from planed out trees.

Unabridged and unexpurgated translations were made, first by John Payne, under the title The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night ( 1882, nine volumes ), and then by Sir Richard Francis Burton, entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night ( 1885, ten volumes ) – the latter was, according to some assessments, partially based on the former, leading to charges of plagiarism.

In 1943, at the age of eighteen, Richard Burton ( who had now taken his teacher's surname but would not change it by deed poll for several years ), was allowed into Exeter College, Oxford for a special term of six months study, made possible because he was an air force cadet obligated to later military service.

In 1952, Burton successfully made the transition to a Hollywood star ; on the recommendation of Daphne du Maurier, he was given the leading role in My Cousin Rachel opposite Olivia de Havilland.

It has been suggested that remarks Burton made about blacklisting Hollywood while filming The Robe may have explained his failure to ever win an Oscar, despite receiving seven nominations.

A critically panned film he made about the life of Richard Wagner ( noted for having the only onscreen teaming of Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson in the same scenes ) was shown as a television miniseries in 1983 after failing to achieve a theatrical release in most countries, but Burton enjoyed a personal triumph in the American television miniseries Ellis Island in 1984, receiving a posthumous Emmy Award nomination for his final television performance.

For two mallets in each hand, the most common grips are the Burton grip ( made popular by Gary Burton ), the Traditional Grip ( or " cross grip ") and the Musser-Stevens grip ( made popular by Leigh Howard Stevens ).

Although some early vibes players made use of four mallets, notably Red Norvo and sometimes Lionel Hampton, the fully pianistic four-mallet approach is almost entirely the creation of Gary Burton.

Saul calls Akeem " Kunta Kinte ", referring to the Roots character made famous by LeVar Burton ; co-star John Amos played the adult Kunta Kinte later in the Roots miniseries.

In 1854 he made his first voyage to Africa, joining an expedition to Somalia led by the already famous Richard Burton.

Speke returned to England before Burton, on 8 May 1859, and made their trip famous in a speech to the Royal Geographical Society, in which he claimed to have discovered the source of the Nile.

In 1964 the play was made into a successful film, starring Peter O ' Toole and Richard Burton with John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit and Martita Hunt.

In February 2011, Burton made an appearance as himself on NBC's Community in the episode " Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking " and the following week on CBS's The Big Bang Theory in the episode " The Toast Derivation ".

In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons ( of the band Kiss ), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

Avicenna suggests, in remarkable similarity with Robert Burton, many causes for melancholy, including the fear of death, intrigues surrounding one's life, and lost love.

The explorer, Richard Francis Burton, in his study of Thule points out that it has had many definitions over the centuries.

Burton lobbied for many years to have his character's visor replaced so that people could see his eyes, since the " air filter " he wore prevented the audience from seeing his eyes and limited his acting ability.

" Burton bought the first of many cars and celebrated by increasing his drinking.

Though it didn't do well commercially ( many critics felt Burton, at 33, looked too old for the part ) and Burton's Hollywood box office aura seemed to be diminishing, Burton was proud of the effort and wrote to his mentor Philip Burton, " I promise you that there isn't a shred of self-pity in my performance.

The 1988 biography of Burton by Melvyn Bragg provides a detailed description of the many health issues that plagued Burton throughout his life.

Greg Mills became Young Talent Time's Musical Director after assisting previous Director Ross Burton for many years, and continues to work in the music industry.

The Burton film, in particular, greatly expanded Willy Wonka's personal back-story borrowing many themes and elements from the sequel.

Due in large part to unfavourable UK tax laws for inward investment in the UK film industry, the 1990 ′ s were precarious and witnessed an all-time low in British film production generally, but many large-scale productions such as Tim Burton ’ s Batman Returns and three further Bond films ( GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies & The World Is Not Enough ) kept Pinewood ticking over.

Like many other early settlements in the Connecticut Western Reserve, Burton has a town square patterned after the village greens of New England.

He remained an ardent fan of the Munster Rugby and Young Munster teams then until his death, and attending many of its matches, and there are numerous stories of japes at rugby matches with the actors and fellow rugby fans Peter O ' Toole and Richard Burton.

Among the many guest performers were Duane Eddy, Eric Carmen, Lonnie Mack, Jennifer Batten, Jeff " Skunk " Baxter, Dennis Coffey, James Burton, Billy Gibbons, Lenny Kaye, Steve Lukather, Barbara Lynn, Katy Moffatt, Alannah Myles, Richie Sambora, The Ventures and Slash.

The original notebooks passed from Henry Cheke to Humphrey Purefoy, and so ( following his death in 1598 ) to Humphrey's son Thomas, who divided many of them between his two cousins John Hales and the antiquary, William Burton.

Nelson worked with many musicians of repute, including James Burton, Joe Osborn, and Allen " Puddler " Harris, all natives of Louisiana, and Joe Maphis, The Jordanaires, Scotty Moore and Johnny and Dorsey Burnette.

Gielgud directed other actors in many of the Shakespearean roles that he was famous for playing, notably Richard Burton as Hamlet ( 1964 ), Anthony Quayle as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing ( 1950 ), and Paul Scofield as the title role in Richard II ( 1952 ).

During his studies at Cambridge, Jacobi played many parts including Hamlet, which was taken on a tour to Switzerland where he met Richard Burton.

For example, some marimbists feel the Musser-Stevens grip is more suitable for quick interval changes, while the Burton grip is more suitable for stronger playing or switching between chords and single-note melody lines.

A small number of cast changes occurred, affecting Gaia and most of the eco-villains ; similarly, the opening narration was voiced by David Coburn ( Captain Planet ) rather than LeVar Burton ( Kwame ), and was eventually replaced by a rap by Fred Schneider of The B-52's.

However, writing in 1980, author and Dorset resident Roland Gant insisted on using Long Burton, and commented that the village was " irritatingly often now spelled ' Longburton ' on road signs, which to me changes its pronunciation in line with Warburton ".

It would be the last one as well ; an uneventful race won by Jeff Burton, which had no lead changes, was the result of the experiment.

In boundary changes which came into force at the 2010 general election, the constituency was enlarged with the addition of the Needwood ward of East Staffordshire Borough Council, previously located in the Burton constituency ; the main settlement in the Needwood ward is the village of Barton-under-Needwood.