Select Bibliography

The following previous books on our hellraisers proved most useful:

Richard Burton by Fergus Cashin (W. H. Allen, 1982)

Burton: The Man Behind the Myth by Penny Junor (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985)

Rich: The Life of Richard Burton by Melvyn Bragg (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988)

Richard Harris: Sex, Death and the Movies by Michael Feeney Callan (Robson Books, 2003)

Behaving Badly: The Life of Richard Harris by Cliff Goodwin (Virgin Books, 2005)

Peter O’Toole by Nicholas Wapshott (Hodder & Stoughton, 1983)

Loitering with Intent by Peter O’Toole (Macmillan, 1992)

Reed All About Me by Oliver Reed (W. H. Allen, 1979)

Evil Spirits: The Life of Oliver Reed by Cliff Goodwin (Virgin Books, 2000)

Other books proved helpful with miscellaneous stories:

The Street Where I Live by Alan Jay Lerner (Hodder & Stoughton, 1978)

A Divided Life by Bryan Forbes (Heinemann, 1992)

What’s it All About? by Michael Caine (Century, 1992)

Parcel Arrived Safely, Tied with String by Michael Crawford (Century, 1999)

The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan by John Lahr and Kenneth Tynan (Bloomsbury, 2001)

Trevor Howard: A Personal Biography by Terence Pettigrew (Peter Owen, 2001)

Public Places: The Autobiography by Siân Phillips (Hodder and Stoughton, 2001)

Bruce: The Autobiography by Bruce Forsyth (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2001)

Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don’t Care by Lee Server (Faber and Faber, 2002)

And Why Not?: Memoirs of a Film Lover by Barry Norman (Simon & Schuster, 2002)

Adventures of a Suburban Boy by John Boorman (Faber and Faber, 2003)

Close Up: An Actor Telling Tales by John Fraser (Oberon Books, 2004)

Blow-Up and Other Exaggerations by David Hemmings (Robson Books, 2004)

From the Eye of the Hurricane: My Story by Alex Higgins (Headline, 2007)

I’d also like to thank the staff of the British Film Institute library for allowing me access to their vast collection of magazine and newspaper cuttings regarding our hellraisers.