For population 25 years and over in Porter: 1  High school or higher: 77.3%. 2  Bachelor's degree or higher: 6.3%. 3  Graduate or professional degree: 1.2%. 4  Unemployed: 11.4%.
Probably more frequently remembered for his turbulent personal life and multiple marriages, Richard Burton was nonetheless one of the great British actors of the post-WWII period. Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in Pontrhydyfen, Wales, to Edith Maude (Thomas) and Richard Walter Jenkins, a coal miner. His mother died while he was a toddler and his father abandoned the family, leaving him to be raised by his sister Cecilia and her husband Elfred.
Sybil Christopher: Actress, theatre producer and first wife of Richard Burton. Sybil Christopher became the wife of Richard Burton at the age of just 20 and was married to him for fourteen years. During that time she experienced the entire gamut of emotions, from pleasure to pain and back again, that being married to the great and complex actor could bring.