——. Liz: the Men, the Myths and the Miracle: An Intimate Portrait of Elizabeth Taylor (London: Mirror, 1982)
Zeffirelli, Franco. Zeffirelli: The Autobiography of Franco Zeffirelli (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986)
Internet Sources
Much of the research into the diaries would have been more difficult without the wealth of resources now available online. Particularly valuable were the following:
ESPN Scrum: www.espnscrum.com
Google Books: books.google.com
Google Maps: maps.google.com
Internet movie database: www.imdb.com
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Archival Sources
Richard Burton Collection, Richard Burton Archives Swansea University
RWB 1 / 1: Diaries
RWB 1 / 2: Correspondence
RWB 1 / 3: Printed Items
RWB 1 / 4: Photographs
RWB 1 / 5: Film, Television and Audio Recordings, Documentaries and Interviews
RWB 1 / 6: Film Posters
RWB 1 / 7: Programmes and Scripts
RWB 1 / 8: Screenplays and Scripts
RWB 1 / 9: Press Cuttings and Publicity Material
RWB 1 / 10: Framed Prints and Pictures
RWB 1 / 11: Objects
RWB 1 / 12: Miscellaneous
Works of Reference
Chambers’ Slang Dictionary
Collins Robert French–English English–French Dictionary
Encyclopedia of Wales
Halliwell's Film Guide
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies
Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Oxford Companion to English Literature
Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors
Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Oxford Guide to Style
Shakespeare, William, Complete Works, ed. Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen (Houndmills: Macmillan, 2007)
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
Virgin Film Guide
Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary
Y Geiradur Mawr
Newspapers and Magazines
Esquire
Glamorgan Gazette
Guardian
Life
Look
New York Times
Observer
Port Talbot Guardian
Sunday Express
Sunday Times
Time
The Times
Vogue
Wayfarer
Western Mail
Audio Recordings
David Copperfield (1950)
Conversation Piece (1951)
Under Milk Wood (1954)
Homage to Dylan Thomas (1954)
The World of Dylan Thomas (1955)
Fifteen Poems by Dylan Thomas (1955)
The English Poets (1955)
Brad (1958)
The Love Poems of John Donne (1958)
The Poetry of Thomas Hardy (1958)
The Rape of Lucrece and Other Poems (1960)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1960)
King Henry V (1961)
Camelot (1961)
Coriolanus (1962)
Henry V (1963)
Hamlet (1964)
Zulu (1964)
‘A Married Man’, Baker Street (1965)
The Days of Wilfred Owen (1966)
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1966)
The Little Prince (1974)
A Personal Anthology: The Hound of Heaven and Other Poems (1978)
The War of the Worlds (1978)
‘All on a Summer's Day’, BBC, 31 December 1981
‘Thanksgiving Service for the Life of Richard Burton’, BBC, 30 August 1984
‘Tribute to Richard Burton’, BBC, 3 September 1984
Burton at the BBC (1995)
The Richard Burton Poetry Collection (2010)
Interviews
Richard Burton: My Time Again, BBC, 19 August 1965
24 Hours, BBC, 2 February 1966
Acting in the Sixties, BBC, 1 April 1967
Burton and Taylor at Oxford, BBC, 25 October 1967
Parkinson, BBC, 23 November 1974
Dick Cavett Show, PBS, 25 July 1980
Kane's Classics, BBC, 9 April 1998
Films and Television Appearances
The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949)
My Cousin Rachel (1952)
The Desert Rats (1953)
The Robe (1953)
Prince of Players (1955)
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Alexander the Great (1956)
Sea Wife (1957)
Bitter Victory (1957)
Look Back in Anger (1959)
The Tempest (1960)
A Subject of Scandal and Concern (1960)
Dylan Thomas (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Cleopatra (1963)
The VIPs (1963)
Becket (1964)
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Hamlet (1964)
What's New Pussycat? (1965)
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 Univers
ity 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)
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)
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