The Richard Burton Diaries

by Richard Burton

The Sandpiper (1965)

  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

  The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

  The Comedians (1967)

  Doctor Faustus (1967)

  Boom! (1968)

  Candy (1968)

  Where Eagles Dare (1968)

  Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

  Raid on Rommel (1971)

  Villain (1971)

  The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)

  Hammersmith Is Out (1972)

  Bluebeard (1972)

  Under Milk Wood (1972)

  The Battle of Sutjeska (1973)

  Divorce His, Divorce Hers (1973)

  Massacre in Rome (1973)

  The Klansman (1974)

  The Voyage (1974)

  Brief Encounter (1974)

  Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

  Equus (1977)

  The Medusa Touch (1978)

  The Wild Geese (1978)

  Breakthrough (1979)

  Tristan and Isolt (1979)

  Circle of Two (1980)

  Absolution (1981)

  The Fall Guy (1982)

  Wagner (1983)

  1984 (1984)

  Ellis Island (1984)

  Narrations

  A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959)

  Borrowed Pasture (1960)

  Zulu (1964)

  The Days of Wilfred Owen (1966)

  Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968)

  To The Ends of the Earth (1983)

  Elizabeth R: A New Film Biography (1985)

  Wales: Heritage of a Nation (1987)

  Television Programmes and Films about Burton

  In From The Cold? The World of Richard Burton, BBC/PBS (1989)

  Richard Burton: An Actor's Life, A&E (1995)

  Reputations: Richard Burton: Taylor-Made for Stardom, BBC (2001)

  Welsh Greats: Richard Burton, BBC (2008)

  Books, Chapters and Articles

  This is a select listing of those volumes that have been most useful in the editing process. It is not a list of every work consulted. For readers seeking reliable biographical information on Burton, the best studies are those by Paul Ferris and Melvyn Bragg. Incisive, if brief, essays are provided by Peter Stead.

  Alpert, Hollis. Burton (Toronto and New York: Paperjacks, 1987)

  Amburn, Ellis. Elizabeth Taylor: The Obsessions, Passions and Courage of a Hollywood Legend (London: Robson, 2000)

  Andrews, Julie. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, 2008)

  Babington, Bruce (ed.). British Stars and Stardom: From Alma Taylor to Sean Connery (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001)

  Berry, David. Wales and Cinema: The First Hundred Years (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1994)

  Bloom, Claire. Limelight and After: The Education of an Actress (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982)

  ——. Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir (London: Virago, 1996)

  Bowyer, Justin. Conversations with Jack Cardiff: Art, Light and Direction in Cinema (London: Batsford, 2003)

  Bozzacchi, Gianni. Elizabeth Taylor: The Queen and I (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002)

  Bragg, Melvyn. Rich: The Life of Richard Burton (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988)

  Brodsky, Jack, and Weiss, Nathan. The Cleopatra Papers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963)

  Burton, Hal (ed.). Acting in the Sixties (London: BBC, 1970)

  Burton, Philip. Early Doors (New York: Dial Press, 1969)

  ——. Richard and Philip: Burton – A Book of Memories (London: Peter Owen, 1992)

  Burton, Richard. ‘The Magic of Meredith Jones’, Sunday Times, 17 June 1956

  ——. ‘A Candid Look at Becket and Myself’, Life, 28 January 1964

  ——. ‘Christmas Eve in Aberavon: A Memoir’, Glamour, December 1964

  ——. A Christmas Story (London: Heinemann, 1965)

  ——. ‘His Liz: A Scheming Charmer’, Life, 24 February 1967

  ——. ‘Who Cares about Wales? I Care’, Look, 24 June 1969

  ——. ‘The Last Time I Played Rugby’, Observer, 4 October 1970

  ——. ‘“Le ma'r blydi film star ‘ma?”’, in Geoffrey Nicholson with Cliff Morgan and David Frost (eds), Touchdown: And Other Moves in the Game (London: Rugby Football Union, 1970)

  ——. ‘The Last Game Richard Burton Lost’, Vogue, 1 January 1971

  ——. ‘Travelling with Elizabeth’, Vogue, May 1971

  ——. ‘The trials of travels with Liz’, Observer Review, 13 August 1971

  ——. ‘My Day’, Vogue, 1 September 1971

  ——. ‘A Story of Christmas: In the Twenties’, Daily Mail, 23 December 1971

  ——. ‘The Immortal Dive of P. C. Mog’, in The Barry John Book of Rugby (Swansea: Christopher Davies, 1972)

  ——. ‘To Play Churchill Is To Hate Him’, New York Times, 24 November 1974

  ——. ‘The Shock of His Presence Was Like a Blow Under the Heart’, New York, vol. 8 no. 3 (20 January 1975)

  ——. ‘Aberavon’, in J. Dolan (ed.), The Wizards: Aberavon Football Club, 1876–1976 (Port Talbot: Aberavon Football Club, 1976)

  ——. ‘Lament for a Dead Welshman’, Observer Review, 11 July 1976

  Burton, Sally. ‘To Know the Library Was To Know the Man’, Life, January 1985

  Caine, Michael. What's It All About? (London: Random House, 1992)

  Campbell, James. Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin (London: Faber and Faber, 1991)

  Cardiff, Jack. Magic Hour (London: Faber and Faber, 1996)

  Carpenter, Humphrey. O.U.D.S. A Centenary History of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, 1885–1985 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985)

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

  Castle, Charles. Noël (London, W. H. Allen, 1972)

  Caute, David. Joseph Losey: A Revenge on Life (London: Faber and Faber, 1994)

  Chapman, Don. Oxford Playhouse: High and Low Drama in a University City (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2008)

  Christopher, James. Elizabeth Taylor: The Illustrated Biography (London: André Deutsch, 1999)

  Ciment, Michael. Conversations with Losey (London and New York: Methuen, 1985)

  Clarke, Gerald. Capote: A Biography (London: Carroll and Graf, 2006)

  Coleman, Terry. Olivier: The Authorised Biography (London: Bloomsbury, 2005)

  Collins, Joan. Past Imperfect: An Autobiography (London: Coronet, 1985)

  Cottrell, John, and Cashin, Fergus. Richard Burton: A Biography (London: Arthur Barker, 1971)

  Coward, Noël. The Noël Coward Diaries, ed. Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1982)

  David, Lester and Robbins, Jhan. Richard & Elizabeth (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1977)

  Downing, Christopher. Burton Stories (London: Futura, 1990)

  Duncan, Paul (ed.), Taylor (Cologne: Taschen, 2008)

  Dyffryn Grammar School, Port Talbot, 1912–1962

  Edwards, Anne. Callas: Her Life, Her Loves, Her Music (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001)

  Evans, A. Leslie. The Story of Taibach and District (Port Talbot: 1963)

  Fairweather, Virginia. Cry God for Larry: An Intimate Memoir of Sir Laurence Olivier (London: Calder and Boyars, 1969)

  Falk, Quentin. Anthony Hopkins: Too Good to Waste (London: Virgin, 1989)

  Farber, Manny. Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies (London: Studio Vista, 1998)

  Farrow, Mia. What Falls Away: A Memoir (London: Doubleday, 1997)

  Ferris Paul. Richard Burton (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981)

  ——. A Portrait of Richard Burton (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984)

  Ffrancon, Gwenno. Cyfaredd y Cysgodion: Delweddu Cymru a'i Phobl ar Ffilm, 1935–1951 (Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 2003)

  Findlater, Richard. The Player Kings (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971)<
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  Finstad, Suzanne. Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood (London: Century, 2001)

  ——. Warren Beatty: A Private Man (London: Aurum, 2005)

  Fisher, Eddie. Been There, Done That (London: Hutchinson, 1999)

  Forbes, Bryan. That Despicable Race: A History of the British Acting Tradition (London: Elm Tree, 1980)

  Fothergill, Robert A. Private Chronicles: A Study of English Diaries (London: Oxford University Press, 1974)

  Freedland, Michael. Peter O'Toole (London: W. H. Allen, 1983)

  Gardner, Ava. Ava: My Story (London: Bantam, 1995)

  Gielgud, John. An Actor and His Time (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1989)

  Glenville, Peter. ‘The Burtons’, Vogue, 15 October 1967

  Graham, Sheilah. Scratch an Actor: Confessions of a Hollywood Columnist (London: Mayflower, 1970)

  Griffith, Kenneth. The Fool's Pardon: The Autobiography of Kenneth Griffith (London: Little, Brown, 1994)

  Grobel, Lawrence. The Hustons (London: Bloomsbury, 1990)

  Gussow, Mel. Zanuck: Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking (London: W. H. Allen, 1971)

  ——. Edward Albee: A Singular Journey (London: Oberon, 1999)

  Hall, Sheldon. Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It: The Making of the Epic Movie (Sheffield: Tomahawk, 2005)

  Hanson, J. Ivor. Profile of a Welsh Town (Port Talbot: 1969)

  Harding, James. Emlyn Williams (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993)

  Harrison, Elizabeth. Love, Honour and Dismay (London: W. H. Allen, 1978)

  Harrison, Rex. Rex: An Autobiography (London: Macmillan, 1974)

  Hayman, Ronald. Tennessee Williams: Everyone Else is an Audience (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993)

  Heymann, C. David. Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor (London: Heinemann, 1995)

  Hirsch, Foster. Elizabeth Taylor (New York: Pyramid, 1973)

  Hordern, Michael. A World Elsewhere: The Autobiography of Sir Michael Hordern (London: Michael O'Mara, 1993)

  Hotchner, A. E. Sophia: Living and Loving – Her Own Story (London: Michael Joseph, 1979)

  Howerd, Frankie. On The Way I Lost It: An Autobiography (London: W. H. Allen, 1976)

  Huggett, Richard. Binkie Beaumont: Eminence Grise of the West End Theatre, 1933–1973 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1989)

  Huston, John. An Open Book (London: Macmillan, 1981)

  Isherwood, Christopher, The Sixties: Diaries, Volume Two: 1960–1969, ed. Katherine Bucknell (London: Chatto and Windus, 2010)

  Jenkins, David. Richard Burton: A Brother Remembered (London: Random House, 1993)

  Jenkins, Graham. Richard Burton, My Brother (New York: Harper and Row, 1988)

  Jones, Sally Roberts. The History of Port Talbot (Port Talbot: Goldleaf, 1991)

  Junor, Penny. Burton: The Man Behind the Myth (London: Sphere, 1986)

  Kashner, Sam, and Schoenberger, Nancy. Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century (London: JR Books, 2010)

  Kavanagh, Julie. Rudolf Nureyev: The Life (London: Penguin, 2007)

  Kelley, Kitty. Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star (London: BCA, 1981)

  Kingsland, Rosemary. Hold Back the Night: Memoirs of Lost Childhood, A Warring Family and A Secret Affair with Richard Burton (London: Century, 2003)

  Korda, Michael. Charmed Lives (London: Penguin, 1980)

  Lambert, Gavin. Natalie Wood: A Life (London: Faber and Faber, 2004)

  Lee, Hermione. Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

  Lesley, Cole. The Life of Noël Coward (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976)

  Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas: A New Life (London: Phoenix, 2004)

  Macnab, Geoffrey. ‘Valley Boys’, Sight and Sound, March 1994

  Maddox, Brenda. Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? A Myth of Our Time (London: Granada, 1977)

  Mallon, Thomas. A Book of One's Own: People and their Diaries (St Paul, Minnesota: Hungry Mind, 1995)

  Mann, William J. How To Be A Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood (London: Faber and Faber, 2009)

  Manso, Peter. Brando (London: Orion, 1995)

  Matthews, Gethin. Richard Burton: Seren Cymru (Llandysul: Gomer, 2002)

  McCann, Graham. Frankie Howerd: Stand-Up Comic (London and New York: Fourth Estate, 2004)

  Minnelli, Vincente. I Remember It Well (New York: Doubleday, 1974)

  Morgan, Cliff, with Nicholson, Geoffrey. The Autobiography – Beyond the Fields of Play (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1996)

  Morley, John David. Encounters (London: Bloomsbury, 1990)

  Morley, Sheridan. The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven (Long Preston: Magna, 1985)

  ——. Elizabeth Taylor: A Celebration (London: Pavilion, 1988)

  Moseley, Roy. Rex Harrison: The First Biography (Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1987)

  Mosley, Leonard. Zanuck: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Last Tycoon (London: Granada, 1985)

  Munn, Michael. Richard Burton: Prince of Players (London: JR Books, 2008)

  ——. David Niven: The Man Behind the Balloon (London: JR Books, 2009)

  Nickens, Christopher. Elizabeth Taylor: A Biography in Photographs (London: Hutchinson, 1984)

  Nolan, William F. John Huston: King Rebel (Los Angeles, CA: Sherbourne, 1965)

  O'Connor, Garry. Paul Scofield: The Biography (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 2002)

  Parkinson, Michael. Parky: My Autobiography (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008)

  Payn, Graham, and Morley, Sheridan (eds), The Noël Coward Diaries (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1982)

  Phillips, Siân. Private Faces: The Autobiography (London: Sceptre, 1999)

  ——. Public Places: The Autobiography (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2001)

  Plowright, Joan. And That's Not All (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001)

  Podnieks, Elizabeth. Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart and Anaïs Nin (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000)

  Ponsonby, Arthur. English Diaries (London: Methuen, 1923)

  Port Talbot Borough Council. Port Talbot: The Official Guide (Port Talbot: Port Talbot Borough Council, 1939)

  Quayle, Anthony. A Time to Speak (London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1990)

  Radovich, Don. Tony Richardson: A Bio-Bibliography (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995)

  Read, Piers Paul. Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography (London: Simon and Schuster, 2003)

  Redfield, William. Letters from an Actor (New York: Viking, 1967)

  Redgrave, Vanessa. An Autobiography (London: Hutchinson, 1991)

  Richardson, Tony. Long Distance Runner: A Memoir (London: Faber and Faber, 1993)

  Roberts, Peter (ed.). The Best of Plays and Players, 1953–1968 (London: Methuen, 1988)

  Roberts, Rachel. No Bells on Sunday: The Journals of Rachel Roberts, ed. Alexander Walker (London: Michael Joseph, 1984)

  Rubython, Tom. And God Created Burton (London: Myrtle Press, 2011)

  Seldes, Marian. The Bright Lights: A Theatre Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978)

  Sellers, Robert. Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed (London: Preface, 2009)

  Shaffer, Anthony. So What Did You Expect? A Memoir (London: Picador, 2001)

  Shail, Robert. Stanley Baker: A Life in Film (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008)

  Sheed, Wilfrid. ‘Burton and Taylor Must Go’, Esquire, October 1968

  Sheppard, Dick. Elizabeth: The Life and Career of Elizabeth Taylor (London: W. H. Allen, 1975)

  Spinetti, Victor. Up Front (London: Portico, 2008)

  Spoto, Donald. The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams (London: Methuen, 1990)

  ——. Elizabeth Taylor (London: Little, Brown, 1995)

  Stanley, Louis. Sixty Years of Luxury: The Dorchester (London: Pearl and Dean, 1981)

  Stead, Peter. Richard Burton: So Much, So Little (B
ridgend: Seren, 1991)

  ——. Acting Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002)

  Sterne, Richard L. John Gielgud directs Richard Burton in Hamlet: A Journal of Rehearsals (London: Heinemann, 1968)

  Steverson, Tyrone. Richard Burton: A Bio-Bibliography (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992)

  Storey, Anthony. Stanley Baker: Portrait of an Actor (London: W. H. Allen, 1977)

  Strasberg, Susan. Bittersweet (New York: Putnam, 1980)

  Taibach and Port Talbot Co-operative Society Ltd. Co-operative Jubilee, 1902–1952

  Taraborrelli, J. Randy. Sinatra: The Man Behind the Myth (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1998)

  ——. Elizabeth (London: Pan, 2007)

  Taylor, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Taylor: An Informal Memoir by Elizabeth Taylor (New York: Harper and Row, 1965)

  ——. Elizabeth Takes Off (London: Macmillan, 1988)

  ——. My Love Affair with Jewelry (London: Thames and Hudson, 2002)

  Tynan, Kenneth. The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan, ed. John Lahr (London: Bloomsbury, 2001)

  Ustinov, Peter. Dear Me (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978)

  Vermilye, Jerry, and Ricci, Mark. The Films of Elizabeth Taylor (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel, 1976)

  Wain, John. Dear Shadows: Portraits from Memory (London: John Murray, 1986)

  Walker, Alexander. Hollywood, England: The British Film Industry in the Sixties (London: Harrap, 1986)

  ——. Elizabeth (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990)

  ——. Fatal Charm: The Life of Rex Harrison (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992)

  Wanger, Walter. My Life with Cleopatra (London: Transworld, 1963)

  Warner, Sylvia Townsend. T. H. White (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967)

  Waterbury, Ruth. Richard Burton: His Intimate Story (London: Mayflower-Dell, 1965)

  Waterbury, Ruth, with Arceri, Gene. Elizabeth Taylor: Her Life, Her Loves, Her Future (New York: Bantam, 1982)

  Wilding, Michael. Apple Sauce: The Story of My Life (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982)

  Williams, Bleddyn. Rugger, My Life (London: Stanley Paul, 1956)

  Willoughby, Bob. Liz: An Intimate Collection. Photographs of Elizabeth Taylor (London: Merrell, 2004)

  Wintour, Charles, et al., Celebration: Twenty-Five Years of British Theatre (London: W. H. Allen, 1980)

  Woolf, Virginia. The Death of the Moth, and Other Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1942)

  York, Michael. Travelling Player (London: Headline, 1992)

  Zec, Donald. Sophia: An Intimate Biography (London: W. H. Allen, 1975)