Richard Burton drank a lot of booze between 1963 and 1965

He was just getting warmed up for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Indeed.

Actually he drank a lot from 1940 to 1984. Unfortunately he had a lot of roles that called for drunks and he gladly obliged.

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Many actors were and are drunks. It goes with the pressures from the job. Make one near miss due to a movie that flopped or their acting and their life style could be greatly reduced or gone.

There is a twitter account that tweets a daily extract from his diaries. The are in no particular order and bounce between school days and lustful observation on Liz Taylor. But quite a lot of the tweets are about drinking too much and trying to cut back and just bloody well enjoying it.

This is NOT called 'Casting Against Type'. Burton's drunks are always a thing to behold, and probably the result of special insight on the actor's part.