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Article: Richard Burton makes grand exit as vile `Wagner'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 1, 1986
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Wagner (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) 1/2
Wagner Richard Burton
Cosima Vanessa Redgrave
PBS presents a four-part mini-series, directed by Tony Palmer and
written by Charles Wood, which will air from 10:30 to 11:30 tonight
through Thursday on WTTW-Channel 11.
There is always something sad and poetic about a prominent
actor's last role.
For John Wayne, knowing death was near, "The Shootist" came to
be a film symbolizing all the Western heroes he had played. Clark
Gable's final moments before the camera came by way of "The Misfits,"
in a role that suited his long and respected film career.
And now, Richard Burton exits gracefully. His last performance
comes in "Wagner," a four-part, PBS ...