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A

Anderson, Lindsay 59, 87–9, 98

Anderson, Michael 32, 57–8, 63–4, 191

Andrews, Julie 76, 114, 122

Anne of the Thousand Days (film) 137–8

Antonioni, Michelangelo 97

Armstrong, Vic 146, 215–16

Ashton, Roy 75

Aspel, Michael 244–5

B

Bacall, Lauren 40

Backus, Jim 68, 191

Baird, Roy 143

Baker, Robert 85

Baker, (Sir) Stanley 22, 29, 33, 113

Barnes, (Sir) Kenneth 45

Barrymore, John 221

Bates, (Sir) Alan 45, 100, 141–3

Bean, Sean 276

Beatty, Warren 109, 130

Beaumont, Hugh ‘Binkie’ 29, 152

Becket (film) 95–6, 99

beer 22, 30, 39, 43–4, 79–80, 94–5, 103, 219, 237, 261–2

Behan, Brendan 43–4

Berenger, Tom 249

Bernard, Jeffrey 250–51

Bible, The (film) 115–16

Blackman, Honor 39

Blessed, Brian 212

Bloody Marys 87, 113, 166

Bloom, Claire 30, 49–50, 56, 63, 112

Bogarde, (Sir) Dirk 34

Bogart, Humphrey 40–41

Boorman, John 166–7, 171–2

Box, John 84–5

Branagh, Kenneth 269

Brando, Marlon 78–9, 81, 113, 202, 248

brandy/cognac 8, 70, 76, 95, 96, 97, 112, 117, 124, 125, 177, 179

Brass, Tinto 193

Brooks, Mel 220, 233

Brooks, Richard 107

Bruce, Lenny 83

Buck, Jules 92

Burge, Josephine 236–8, 243, 263, 265

Burton, Philip 21–2

Burton, Richard: background and youth 11–13, 21–4; smoking 8, 12, 30, 68; drinking exploits 22–3, 30, 99–100, 112–13; early sexual conquests 7–8, 23–4, 29–30; marriage to Sybil Williams 30, 41–2, 56, 63, 68–9, 86, 95; philandering 41–2, 49–50, 63, 138, 156; relationship and marriages with Elizabeth Taylor 7–8, 49, 86–7, 89, 95, 100, 102–4, 109–110, 112–13, 120–21, 129–30, 136–7, 145–7, 155–7, 160–61, 163–5, 172, 176, 180–83, 189, 227–9; on (and off) the wagon 145–6, 155–7, 163–4, 172–3, 180–82, 190, 198, 202, 208–9, 229–30; ill health 173, 183, 190, 218, 226, 229; marriage to Susan Hunt 189–90, 218, 225–6, 227; marriage to Sally Hay 228–9, 231; death 230–33

Burton, Susan (formerly Hunt) 189–90, 218, 225–6, 227

Byrne, Kate 38, 47, 100–101, 127–8

C

Cagney, James 57–8

Caine, (Sir) Michael 54, 59–60, 146, 147, 157, 221, 240, 256–7, 261

Camelot (stage musical) 76–7, 120, 208–9, 218–20; (film) 122–3, 130–32, 147, 173

Carmichael, Ian 56

Carrera, Barbara 223

Chamberlain, Richard 162

champagne 102, 104, 112, 133, 142, 146, 151, 177, 179, 238, 244, 261

Charteris, Leslie 85

chauvinism 92, 128, 140, 173–4, 252, 253–4

Christie, Julie 93

Cleopatra (film) 7, 72, 86–7

Clift, Montgomery 60

Coburn, James 98

Collins, Joan 62, 188

Connery, (Sir) Sean 77, 93, 148–9, 171, 183, 197, 240, 269

Cooper, Gary 63

Coward, (Sir) Noel 54, 121, 228

Crawford, Michael 111, 222–3

Crowe, Russell 267–8, 271

Cruise, Tom 250

D

Dalton, Timothy 126

Daltrey, Roger 177, 179

Daryl, Jacqueline 127–8, 217–18

Davis, Bette 188

Davis, Geena 259

Davis Jnr, Sammy 106, 149

Day, Doris 123

de Havilland, Olivia 42, 221

Delon, Nathalie 156

Derek, Bo 210

Devils, The (film) 152–3

Dexter, John 190

Djalili, Omid 264

Donen, Stanley 130

Donner, Clive 192

Donohoe, Amanda 244

Douglas, Kirk 104–5

driving, reckless 24, 46, 62, 65–6, 80, 82, 84, 110–111, 117, 126, 217, 225–6, 269

drugs 83, 97, 98, 135, 158, 177, 199, 201, 206

E

Eastwood, Clint 136, 255–6

Eggar, Samantha 18–19

Ekland, Britt 109

Elliott, Denholm 73, 183

Entwistle, John 205

Equus (stage play and film) 190–91

F

fights, drunken 38–9, 69, 90–91, 94, 100–101, 116, 133–4, 139, 143–4, 149, 162–3, 194, 207, 247, 259–60

Finch, Peter 65–6, 233

Finlay, Frank 53

Finney, Albert 45, 54, 81, 116

fires, accidental 14, 62, 68–9, 125–6, 177, 210

Fisher, Eddie 8, 86, 129

Fleming, Gordon 133

Flynn, Errol 75, 220–21

Fonda, Henry 77, 221

Forbes, Bryan 211–13, 251

Ford, Stephen 239

Forsyth, Bruce 157

Foster, Jodie 235

Fox, Edward 231

Frankenheimer, John 173

Fraser, Ronald 24, 59, 70, 74, 97, 199

Fuller, Samuel 166

G

Galton, Ray 74

Gardner, Ava 104, 116, 183

George, Susan 252–3

Gibb, Maurice 158

Gielgud, (Sir) John 23, 30, 40, 54, 93, 96, 145, 193, 226, 232, 256

gin 80, 94, 128, 170, 189, 236, 244, 245, 254

Ginger Man, The (stage play) 69–70

Gladiator (film) 5, 263–6, 267–8

Glen, John 199

Glenville, Peter 99

Goodman, John 257

Goodman, Johnny 85

Grace, Princess 157

Granger, Stewart 7, 41–2

Grant, Cary 53

Green, Nigel 151–2

Griffith, Hugh 50, 117–18

Griffith, Kenneth 46, 61, 65, 73, 83, 109

Guccione, Bob 193–4

Guinness (stout) 43–4, 75, 117, 220, 259, 261, 268, 269, 270, 271

Guinness, (Sir) Alec 82, 121, 158, 210

H

Haggard, Piers 214–15

Hall, (Sir) Peter 72

Hamlet (stage play): Burton 49–50, 93, 96, 190, 232; O’Toole 54, 92–3, 106

Hancock, Tony 74, 250–51

hangovers 50, 83, 94, 137, 140, 187, 191, 202, 234

Hardy, Robert 22–3, 146–7

Harris, Dermot 239

Harris, Ivan 14, 24–5, 34

Harris, Jamie 268–9, 270, 271

Harris, Richard: background and youth 14–16, 24–5, 33–5; drinking exploits 8, 24–5, 52–3, 58–9, 71, 90–91, 105, 131–2, 167, 174–5, 192; early sexual adventures 25, 34, 52–3; marriage to Elizabeth Rees-Williams 44–5, 51, 58, 64, 70–71, 91, 98, 105, 114, 123–4, 132, 147; partying 115, 132, 139–40, 149, 159, 166, 178, 268; ill health 33, 97 123, 158, 201–2, 219, 269–70; drug-taking 158, 201, 202; marriage to Ann Turkel 173–4, 183–4, 192, 209, 249; (mostly) on the wagon 202–3, 219–20, 233–4, 240–41, 255, 259–61; death 270–72

Harrison, (Sir) Rex 89, 102, 129–30, 148, 195

Harry Potter (film series) 269–70, 271

Hart, Moss 76

Harty, Russell 163

Harvey, Anthony 235

Harvey, Laurence 29, 71, 122–3, 233

Hawkins, Jack 108

Hay, Sally 228–9, 231

Hemmings, David 94, 131–2, 174

Henry V: (radio play) 30; (stage play) 39, 50

Hepburn, Audrey 117

Hepburn, Katharine 60, 125, 168, 213, 275

Hershey, Barbara 204

Heston, Charlton 63–4, 97–8, 161, 195

Higgins, Alex ‘Hurricane’ 216–17

Hill, George Roy 114

Hogg, James 254–5

Hopkins, (Sir) Anthony 126, 174

Hopkins, John 164

Hough, John 101

Houston, Donald 33

Houston, Glyn 33

Howard, Trevor 5, 79–81, 136, 202

Howerd, Frankie 157

Hunt, Peter 230

Hunt, Susan see Burton, Susan

Hussein, Waris 120, 163–4, 232

Huston, John 103, 104, 115–16

Hyman, Kenneth 171

I

interviews, difficult 69, 72, 85, 94–5, 96, 108, 113–14, 140, 153–4, 165–6, 170, 224–5, 243–6, 250, 251, 252–3, 262

IRA 43, 52, 57, 69, 158, 175

J

Jackson, Glenda 196, 266

Jacobsson, Ulla 105

James, Clive 245

Jarrott, Charles 137–8, 223

Jenkins, Richard Walter 11, 21, 49

Joint, Alf 136

K

Kastner, Elliott 136

Kennedy, Robert 120–21

Kidnapped (film) 65–6

Kielty, Patrick 262

Kinnear, Roy 73

Kinski, Klaus 214–15, 223

Korda, (Sir) Alexander 40

L

Lancaster, Burt 94, 198, 266

Lawrence of Arabia (film) 60, 66, 81–5, 91

Lawson, Wilfred 46–7

Lazenby, George 143–4

Lean, (Sir) David 81, 84, 204, 275

Lee, Christopher 75, 161–2

Lerner, Alan Jay 76–7, 122, 132–3, 208

Lester, Mark 127, 194–5, 265

Lester, Richard 161, 174–5, 183

Letterman, David 253, 261–2

Levine, Joseph E. 127

Lion in Winter, The (film) 124–7

Littlewood, Joan 43, 44, 50, 51

Lloyd, Euan 7, 32–3, 197–200, 230–31

Logan, Joshua 122, 172

Loncraine, Richard 80–81

Long and the Short and the Tall, The: (stage play) 59–60, 64; (film) 71

Lord Jim (film) 106–8

Loren, Sophia 168, 183

Losey, Joseph 121, 155

Lulu 158

M

McAnally, Ray 248

Macbeth (stage play): Harris 50–51; Hopkins 126; O’Toole 5, 210–214, 220

McCann, Donal 176–7

McCourt, Frank 260

McDowell, Malcolm 193–4

MacGowran, Jack 177

MacLean, Alistair 136

McQueen, Steve 163

Major Dundee (film) 97–9, 104

Mann, Anthony 105

Margaret, Princess 106, 132, 211

Martin, Dean 7

Martin, Strother 187

martinis 41, 57, 172, 191, 198, 208

Marvin, Lee 5, 171–2, 186–7

Mason, James 48, 93

Massey, Raymond 41

Mastroianni, Marcello 154

masturbation 21, 26, 27, 115, 152, 240

Medak, Peter 10, 106, 150–51, 224, 260–61, 269–70

mescal 150

Miles, Sarah 188, 214

Milestone, Lewis 78

Miller, Max 234

Millett, Kate 252

Mitchum, Robert 5, 7, 69, 77, 89, 175, 188–9

Moon, Keith 177–80, 205–6

Moore, (Sir) Roger 7, 85, 149, 158, 198

More, Kenneth 54

Moreau, Jeanne 90

Mower, Patrick 247

Murphy, Brian 44, 51, 152–3

Mutiny on the Bounty (film) 78–9, 88, 202

My Cousin Rachel (film) 42–3, 49

My Favorite Year (film) 220–22

N

Nero, Franco 130, 132

Newton, Robert 31–2, 48

Night of the Iguana, The (film) 103–4

1984 (film) 39, 229, 231

Niven, David 32, 71–2

Norman, Barry 71, 80, 94–5, 165–6

Norman, Leslie 71

O

Oberon, Merle 115

Ogilvy, Ian 85

Ogmore, David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron 44–5, 52

Olivier, Laurence, Baron 34, 40, 48, 54–5, 92–3, 181, 210, 226–7, 230

Onassis, Aristotle 156

orgies 115, 178–9

Othello (stage play) 56

O’Toole, Lorcan 241–3

O’Toole, Patrick 16–17

O’Toole, Peter: background and youth 16–18, 25–6, 35–7, 45–7, 65; early sexual adventures 26, 52–3; drinking exploits 8-9, 52–4, 59–60, 73, 99–100, 133–4, 140–41, 149–50; marriage 61–2, 82, 84, 92, 102, 134, 140–41, 176, 184–5, 192–3; ill health 9, 17–18 74, 168–9, 184–5; (mostly) on the wagon 185, 221–2, 233–4, 251, 274; smoking 234, 251–2; relationship with Karen Somerville 241–3

P

Pallo, Jackie 247

Palmer, Tony 80–81, 147, 226–9, 231, 232–3

Parkinson, (Sir) Michael 42, 155

Peck, Gregory 71

Peckinpah, Sam 97–8

penises: childhood games 19, 20–21; comparing size 141–2, 239; display of 117, 154–5, 221, 224, 238–9, 246, 247, 254, 259; used for smuggling 91; writing/tattooing on 47, 224

Phillips, Siân 61–2, 82, 84, 92, 102, 117, 118, 126, 134, 140–41, 176–7, 184–5, 192–3

Phoenix, Joaquin 267–8

pissing 13, 39–40, 60, 71–2, 134, 159, 221, 224, 251

Plomley, Roy 153

Plummer, Christopher 132, 148

Pollard, Michael J. 135

port 8, 124

Powell, Nosher 247

practical jokes 37–8, 50, 69, 70, 111, 152–3, 162, 175–6, 195, 205, 216–17, 224–5, 240

Preminger, Otto 95, 175–6

Priggen, Norman 155–6

Prince, Reg 154, 161, 188, 194, 254

Puttnam, David, Baron 205

Q

Quayle, (Sir) Anthony 39, 138

Quinn, Anthony 82

R

RADA 45–6, 53, 65

Radford, Michael 39–40

Rattigan, (Sir) Terence 23, 54

Redgrave, (Sir) Michael 39

Redgrave, Vanessa 130–31, 276

Reed, (Sir) Carol 37, 47, 78, 127, 128

Reed, Mark 236, 246, 278

Reed, Oliver: background and youth 18–21, 26–8, 37–8, 74–6; early sexual adventures 19, 27; marriage to Kate Byrne 38, 47, 100–101, 127–8; drinking exploits 9–10, 75, 94, 135–6, 143–4, 154, 162–3, 187–8, 205–7, 215–16, 224–5, 237–8; relationship with Jacquie Daryl 127–8, 217–18; womanizing 127–8; partying 170–71, 179, 195, 236–7, 254; marriage to Josephine Burge 236–8, 243, 263, 265; ill health 246–7; death 5, 264–7

Reed, Simon 153, 243

Rees-Williams, Elizabeth (later Harris; then Harrison) 44–5, 51, 58, 59, 64, 70–71, 91, 98, 105, 114, 123–4, 132, 147–8, 269–70

Richardson, Tony 137

Rickman, Alan 269

Ritt, Martin 112

Robards, Jason 123

Roberts, Rachel 29, 54, 89, 129, 148

Roeg, Nicolas 122

Rourke, Mickey 268

rows, marital 70, 87, 103–4, 113, 123, 124, 145, 152, 156, 164–5

rugby 12, 14–15, 23, 25, 32–3, 36, 52, 87–9, 167, 170, 255, 258, 267

Ruling Class, The (film) 150–51

rum 36, 114, 223, 238, 265

Rush, Richard 203–5

Russell, Ken 118–20, 141–2, 152–3, 177, 196, 258, 266

Ryan, Robert 77

S

Sachs, Robin 185

Sachs, Tom 185–6

Saint, The (TV series) 85

Salkind, Ilya 161

Savage Innocents, The (film) 66–7

Scofield, Paul 72, 229

Scott, George C. 116, 195

Scott, (Sir) Ridley 263–4

Seberg, Jean 176

Sellers, Peter 109

Shake Hands with the Devil (film) 57–8, 63

Sharif, Omar 66, 82–3, 118, 174, 257

Shaw, Robert 29, 59–60, 183, 222, 233

Shaw, Tom 103–4

Sheridan, Jim 248–9

Simmons, Jean 41–2

Simms, Colette 271–2

Simpson, Alan 74

Simpson, O. J. 258

Sinatra, Frank 7, 80, 115, 116, 117

Sinclair, Andrew 146

Somerville, Karen 241–3

Soskin, Paul 32

Spiegel, Sam 60, 81, 83, 84–5

Sporting Life, This (film) 87–90, 96, 248

Squire, William 50

Standing, Sarah 251–2

Starr, Ringo 157, 178

Steele, Barbara 116

Steen, David 170–71

Steiger, Rod 77

Storey, David 87–8

Strasberg, Susan 63

Streisand, Barbra 132–3

Stritch, Elaine 155

Stunt Man, The (film) 203–5

T

Tarantino, Quentin 161–2

Taylor, (Dame) Elizabeth 7–8, 49, 72, 86–7, 89, 95, 100, 102–4, 109–110, 112–13, 120–21, 129–30, 136–7, 145–7, 155–7, 160–61, 163–5, 172, 176, 180, 182–3, 189, 218, 227–9, 231

Taylor, Rod 166

tequila 48, 66, 77, 103–4, 126

Thomas, Dylan 40, 91, 117, 159–60, 231, 233, 234

Three Musketeers, The (film) 161–2, 194, 247

Todd, Mike 32

Todd, Richard 54, 71, 77

Tommy (film) 177–9, 205

Townshend, Pete 177

Turkel, Ann 173–4, 183–4, 192, 200, 201–2, 209, 249, 270

Turner, Derek 89

Tynan, Kenneth 113–14, 176

V

Vidal, Gore 193–4

Vitti, Monica 97

vodka 8, 63, 70, 76, 87, 114, 123–4, 132, 142, 146, 164, 172, 175, 177, 182, 192, 201, 219

W

wagon, falling off the 41, 145–6, 155–6, 180, 181–2, 190, 200, 229–30, 278

Walker, Alexander 153

Walker, Patrick 123

Warner, Jack 122, 130–31, 221

Waterfront (film) 31–3

Waterhouse, Keith 26, 250–51

Wayne, John 77, 138–9

weapons 119–20, 136–7, 161–2, 178, 206–7, 217–18

Welch, Raquel 157, 161, 195–6

Weldon, (Sir) Huw 181–2

West, Timothy 211–13

What’s New Pussycat? (film) 108–9, 117, 192

whisky 30, 47, 54, 65, 73, 76, 101, 112, 113, 134, 153, 160, 170, 206, 216, 237

White, Marco Pierre 267

Widmark, Richard 185

Wild Geese, The (film) 7, 32, 42, 197–201, 202, 230

Wild, Jack 127

Williams, Brook 56–7, 112, 138, 182, 190, 232

Williams, Emlyn 21–2, 29–30

Williams, Sybil 30, 41–2, 56, 63, 68–9, 86, 95

Willis, Bruce 249

Windsor, Wallis, Duchess of 129–30

Winner, Michael 93–4, 111, 134–5, 167, 188–9, 222, 245, 258–9, 262–3, 265–7

Winters, Shelley 128, 160

Wisdom, (Sir) Norman 37

Wise, Herbert 180–82

Women in Love (film) 141–3

Woodward, Edward 95

Y

York, Michael 102, 161, 162

Young, Roger 127, 274–5

Young, Terence 173

Z

Zanuck, Darryl F. 48–9