Great Drunks of the Silver Screen 6.0

I give you Richard Burton:

Strengths: Welsh, athletic prowess, cars

Weaknesses: Marriage, man-whoring, insomnia

Another in a long line of hard boozing actors from the UK, this Welsh bastard is well known the world over for his wide range of vocal talents and for nailing twentieth century hot actress ass. Hell, his decades long love/hate relationship with the iconic Elizabeth Taylor is the stuff of tabloid gold. Excuse me, I mean The Paper.

Burton was all but abandoned by his father, although Burton said he took many of his father's traits. He was loquacious, passionate, and violent. My kind of chap.

In post war Britain, Burton fell in with the likes of John Gielgud(Fucking A Hobson) and the venerable Michael Redgrave...this circle of fog breather boozers introduced him to Judy Garland and Humphrey Bogart, the latter and Burton becoming fast friends. In fact, many of Burton's early work was predicated by word of mouth accounts of his acting while drinking in pubs.

Though nearly everyone with a pulse is aware of the bizarre and lurid details of his marriages to Liz, what many folks aren't aware of is Burton's other notorious and lecherous behavior. (Fucker was in Equus after all) Burton attempted to nail Joan Collins, and after being rebuffed was reputed to consort with the elderly, interracial, and homosexual behavior. Deviant fucking Welshman. In fact, shortly after their interaction Burton is allegedly to have told Collins he would sleep with a snake if it wore a skirt. Damn, that's nasty.