The Richard Burton Diaries

by Richard Burton

  Taylor, Francis (ET's father), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); death, (i)

  Taylor, Howard (ET's brother): RB and ET visit in San Diego, (i); plays in Boom!, (i)n60; visits RB and ET in Europe, (i), (ii); RB gives money to, (i); adopts Simoleke, (i); RB's fondness for, (i); and father's funeral, (i); at Voldengs’ in Phoenix, Arizona, (i); awareness of lesbianism in X, Y and Zee, (i); marriage relations, (i); travels to Hawaii, (i); appearance, (i); celebrates ET's 40th birthday, (i); gives straight talk to ET, (i); on ‘grapple-snapping’, (i)

  Taylor, Layton (Howard-Mara's son), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Taylor, Mara (Howard's wife), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Taylor, Sara (ET's mother): RB lunches with, (i); sends birthday present to RB, (i); and husband's death, (i), (ii); with Duke of Windsor, (i); travels to Geneva with RB, (i); buys paintings, (i); lunches with RB, (i); influence on ET, (i); invited to post-Oscars ‘Thanksgiving’ dinner, (i); illness and recovery, (i); impending death, (i); RB's final visit to, (i), (ii); sees X, Y and Zee, (i); decline, (i); garrulity, (i)

  Taylor, Simoleke (Howard-Mara's adopted daughter): adopted by Howard and Mara, (i); stays with RB and ET, (i); laughs on film set, (i); brings boyfriend to stay, (i); engagement (to John Gross), (i); travels to Geneva with RB, (i); expelled from school, (i); untidiness, (i)

  Teuber, Andreas, (i), (ii)

  Tey, Josephine: A Shilling for Candles, (i)

  Thatcher, Tina, (i)

  Thesiger, Ernest, (i)

  Thomas, Alun, (i)

  Thomas, Charles, (i)

  Thomas, Dylan: Coghill praises, (i); loathes Vaughan-Thomas, (i); RB's view of, (i); on museums, (i); at ML Club, (i), (ii); RB quotes, (i); biographies, (i); The Beach of Falesa, (i); ‘Poem in October’, (i); Under Milk Wood, (i), (ii)

  Thomas, George (later Viscount Tonypandy), (i), (ii)

  Thomas, Gwydion, (i), (ii)

  Thomas, Gwyn, (i)

  Thomas, R. S., (i)

  Thomaster (headmaster), (i)

  Thompson, Tommy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Thomson of Fleet, Roy, Baron, (i)

  Thoreau, Henry David, (i)

  Thorndike, Dame Sybil, (i)

  Thorneycroft, Peter, Baron, (i)

  Thoroughly Modern Milly (film), (i)

  Thorp, Roderick: The Detective, (i)

  Tiel, Vicky, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Time (magazine), (i)

  Tinker, Grant, (i)

  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (TV adaptation), (i)

  Tito, Josip Broz: RB plays in film, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); Liza chooses as historical character for school, (i); RB meets, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); appearance, (i); gives cigar-holder to ET, (i); releases German prisoners, (i); accommodation, (i), (ii), (iii); unveils Sutjeska memorial, (i); at Tjentiste ceremony, (i); RB gives Alsatian puppy to, (i); disorder expected following death, (i); popularity, (i); charm, (i); RB's accent for, (i); supposed aristocratic paternity, (i); and Princess Elizabeth (‘Elisheba’), (i)

  Tiziani, Evan Roberts, (i), (ii)

  ‘To Play Churchill is to Hate Him’ (RB; article), (i)n72

  Tobruk (film), (i)

  Today show (USA), (i)

  Todd, Liza (ET's daughter): horseriding, (i), (ii); accompanies RB to studio, (i); stays with RB and ET, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); swimming, (i); homework, (i); Eddie Fisher sues ET for custody of, (i); in Gstaad, (i), (ii), (iii); schooling, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); buys present for Maria (stewardess), (i); calls RB ‘daddy’, (i), (ii); attends Besancon's funeral, (i); RB takes to New York, (i); writes to RB, (i), (ii), (iii); RB writes to, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); RB's fondness for, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); performs at school, (i); fondness for mother, (i); appearance, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); RB's concern over intelligence, (i); eleventh birthday, (i); smoking, (i); growing up, (i), (ii); troubles, (i); watches RB's films, (i); attempts to reconcile RB and ET, (i); untidiness, (i); promised horse, (i); character, (i), (ii); treatment of RB, (i); and ET's tiger, (i); with RB in Mexico, (i), (ii), (iii); adolescence, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); school report, (i); comforts ET, (i); sends late birthday present to RB, (i); RB disowns, (i); reading, (i); returns to England from Yugoslavia, (i); ET writes to, (i); injures head in fall from horse, (i), (ii); RB's sex talk with, (i); RB offers to set up on farm with horses, (i); in Rome, (i); returns to school from Rome, (i); chooses Tito as historical character, (i); poor handwriting, (i); religious indifference, (i); at ET's 40th birthday, (i); in London, (i); visits RB in Switzerland, (i); birthday (1975), (i); height, (i); leaves for Leningrad, (i); with RB in Pusey, (i); inheritance from RB, (i)

  Todd, Mike, (i), (ii)

  Todd, Mike, Jr: produces TV film on father, (i); visits RB, (i); wife's death, (i)

  Todd, Sarah Jane, (i)

  Tolo, Marie Lou, (i)

  Tom Jones (film), (i)

  Tonight (BBC TV programme), (i)

  Toronto, (i)

  Tourneur, Yves le, (i)

  Toynbee, Arnold: A Study of History, (i), (ii)

  Toynbee, Philip, (i)

  Tracy, Spencer, (i)

  Trench, Mrs (headmistress), (i), (ii)

  Tristan and Isolt (film), (i)

  Troques, Dr, (i)

  Trotsky, Leon, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Truetta, Professor, (i)

  Truman, Harry S.: Memoirs, (i)

  Tuchman, Barbara: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, (i)

  Tucker, Brooke, (i)

  Tucker, Forrest, (i)

  Turner, Lana, (i), (ii)

  Turner, Mrs, (i)

  Twain, Mark, (i)

  Twentieth Century-Fox: employs RB, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); RB and ET's disputes with, (i)

  Tynan, Kenneth, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Umberto D (film), (i)

  Under Milk Wood (film), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Under the Volcano (film), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  United States of America: RB travels in, (i); presidential election (1968), (i); Civil Rights Bill, (i); crossword puzzles, (i); RB considers living in, (i); RB's disenchantment with, (i)

  Universal Pictures, (i), (ii)

  Unruh, Jesse, (i)

  Upfield, Arthur, (i)

  Ure, Mary, (i)

  Ustinov, (Sir) Peter: in Switzerland, (i); in Dahomey, (i); imitations, (i); rotundity, (i); and Hammersmith is Out, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Utrillo, Maurice, (i)

  Vadim, Roger, (i)

  Valachi, Joe, (i)

  Valentine, James, (i)

  Valéry, Paul, (i)

  Van Cleef and Arpel (company), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Van de Water, Frederick F.: Glory-Hunter, (i)

  Van Dyk, Vanessa (Vivienne's daughter), (i), (ii)

  Van Dyk, Vivienne (Susan Burton's twin sister), (i), (ii)

  Van Dyke, Dick, (i)

  Van Gogh, Vincent, (i)

  Van Zuylen, Gabrielle, (i)

  Vandal, M. (lawyer), (i)

  Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford, (i)

  Venice, (i)

  Verga, Giovanni: La Lupa (play), (i)

  Vessna (Yugoslav interpreter), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Vickery, Walter, (i)

  Victor, Collette, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Victor, Paul-Emile, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Victoria Falls, (i)

  Vidal, Gore, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Vietnam, (i)

  Vignale, Raymond: ET orders RB not to shout at, (i); in Palm Springs, (i); finds lost diaries, (i); criticises new cook, (i); in Yugoslavia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); RB attacks, (i); ageing, (i); bores RB, (i); unpaid, (i); and ET's flight to see injured Liza, (i); and Jeffrey Archer's wish to see RB, (i); surgery for sciatica, (i); takes children dancing in Céligny, (i)

  Villain (film), (i)n196, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Villefranche, (i)

  Vincent, Roy, (i)

  V.I.P.s, The (film), (i), (ii)
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  Visconti, Luchino, (i)

  Vitti, Monica, (i)

  Vlaminck, Maurice de, (i)

  Vogue (magazine), (i), (ii)

  Voight, Jon, (i), (ii)

  Voldeng, Karl E. and Mary Frances, (i), (ii)

  Voyage, The (film), (i)

  Vuillard, Edouard, (i)

  Wagner (film), (i)

  Wain, John, (i)

  Wales: rugby team, (i); see also South Wales

  Walker, Alexander, (i)

  Walker, Kathryn, (i), (ii)

  Walker, Zena, (i)

  Waller, Gordon, (i)

  Wallis, Hal B., (i), (ii)

  Walsh, Dr J. J., (i)

  Walter (publicity man), (i)

  Walter, Stanley T. J., (i)

  Walters, D., (i)

  War of the Worlds, The: RB narrates, (i)

  Ward, James (‘Skip’), (i)

  Ward, Sir John Guthrie and Daphne Norah, Lady, (i)

  Warhol, Andy, (i)

  Warmbrodt, Sam, (i)

  Warner Brothers film corporation, (i)

  Warner, Francis, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Warner, Jack L., (i), (ii)

  Warner, John: marries ET, (i)

  Warner, Sylvia Townsend, (i)n19

  Wasserman, Lew, (i), (ii)

  Waterfront (film), (i)

  Waterloo (film), (i)

  Waters, Mira L., (i)

  Watson, James D.: The Double Helix, (i)

  Waugh, Don, (i)

  Waugh, Evelyn: RB admires writing, (i); on Anthony Powell, (i); Black Mischief, (i); Vile Bodies, (i)

  Wayne, John, (i)

  Webb, Alan, (i), (ii)

  Webb, Sidney (Baron Passfield), (i)

  Webling, Peggy: The Story of Virginia Perfect, (i)

  Weibel, Berenice, (i), (ii)

  Weibel, René, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Weiller, Commandant Paul-Louis, (i)

  Weiss, Peter: Marat-Sade, (i)

  Weissburger, Arnold, (i)

  Welch, Raquel, (i)n17, (ii), (iii)

  Welles, Orson, (i), (ii)

  Wellington, Wyndham, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Wendy (nurse), (i), (ii)

  Werner, Oskar, (i), (ii)

  West, Morris: Shoes of the Fisherman, (i)

  West, Nathaniel: Miss Lonelyhearts, (i)

  Where Eagles Dare (film), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Wherle, Colin, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  White, Edward Higgins, (i)n83, (ii)

  White, Nat and Louise, (i)

  White, Terence Hanbury, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); The Once and Future King, (i)

  White, Theodore Harold: The Making of the President 1968, (i)

  Whitehead, Paxton, (i), (ii)

  ‘Who Cares about Wales? I Care’ (RB; article), (i)n37

  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film): RB and ET in, (i); RB reads, (i); ET reads, (i); filming, (i); reception, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); nominated for Oscars, (i), (ii); Mike Nichols directs, (i); success, (i)

  Wichert, Willi and Chantal, (i)n28

  Wicker, Tom, (i)

  Wigmoller, Jorgen, (i)

  The Wild Ones (pop group), (i)

  Wilde, Cornel, (i)

  Wilde, Oscar, (i)

  Wilder, Billy, (i)

  Wilding, Beth (née Clutter, Michael Jr's wife): marriage, (i); birth of daughter, (i); and Michael's untrustworthy behaviour, (i); visits Rome, (i)

  Wilding, Christopher (ET's son): horseriding, (i); RB gives compass key-ring to, (i); RB takes to cinema, (i); accompanies RB to work, (i); appears in Taming of the Shrew, (i); writes to RB, (i); holidays from school, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); popularity, (i); girl friends, (i), (ii); attends Millfield school, (i), (ii); in London, (i); on valuing beautiful days, (i); RB writes to, (i); grows, (i); travels to Geneva with RB, (i); retains American accent, (i); withdrawn from Millfield, (i); in Puerto Vallarta, (i); RB's fondness for, (i); character and manner, (i), (ii); visits RB, (i); at ET's 40th birthday, (i); RB phones for Mark Getty's number, (i); Tennessee Williams makes pass at as boy, (i); inheritance from RB, (i)

  Wilding, Henry (Michael's father), (i)

  Wilding, Leyla (Michael-Beth's daughter), (i)

  Wilding, Michael, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Wilding, Michael, Jr (ET's son): horseriding, (i); RB gives compass key-ring to, (i); RB takes to cinema, (i); accompanies RB to work, (i); in Rome, (i); appears in Taming of the Shrew, (i); RB writes to, (i), (ii); holidays from school, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); RB meets in Rome, (i); expelled from school, (i), (ii); dates girl, (i); attends Millfield school, (i), (ii); in London, (i); and Claudye, (i); grows, (i); sick from drinking, (i); travels to Geneva with RB, (i); artistic interests, (i); anglicized, (i); manner, (i), (ii); withdrawn from Millfield, (i); religious views, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); writes from Hawaii, (i); appearance, (i); returns from Hawaii, (i); in Gstaad, (i); behaviour, (i); letter of farewell to RB, (i); RB dreams of being dead, (i); travels in Asia, (i); marriage (to Beth Clutter), (i), (ii); aspires to be pop musician, (i); RB's concern for lifestyle, (i); takes drugs, (i); bohemian life, (i); visits Rome with wife and baby, (i); in Wales, (i)

  Wilding, Naomi (Michael Junior's daughter), (i)

  Williams, Alan, (i), (ii)

  Williams, Arthur Neville, (i)

  Williams, Billy, (i)

  Williams, Brook: writes in RB diary, (i); attends Besancon's funeral, (i); and birth of child, (i); RB attacks, (i), (ii); RB praises, (i), (ii); RB visits in Oxfordshire, (i); career and ambitions, (i); plays badminton with RB, (i), (ii); visits RB in Switzerland, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); RB explains baseball to, (i); and ET's tiger, (i); attends rehearsals for Oscars, (i); invited to post-Oscars ‘Thanksgiving’ dinner, (i); in Mexico and California with RB, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); and Lucille Ball, (i); gives typewriter to RB, (i); on British politics, (i); drinking, (i), (ii), (iii); plays in Raid on Rommel, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); on Clinton Greyn, (i); travels to Chicago, (i); in Yugoslavia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); ET attacks, (i); RB's disenchantment with, (i); reports accident to Liza, (i); in Rome, (i); and father's selling South Moreton cottage, (i); and RB's filming Jackpot, (i); drives MG sports car, (i); on RB's audience with Duvalier, (i); in New York, (i), (ii)

  Williams, Dai Morgan (‘Dai Mogs’), (i)

  Williams (William), David, (i)

  Williams, Elizabeth (Brook's wife; ‘Liz'; ‘Lillabetta’), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)

  Williams, Elmo, (i)

  Williams, Emlyn: speaks at RB's memorial service, (i); RB auditions with, (i); sends scripts to RB, (i), (ii); meets RB in Switzerland, (i); RB's view of, (i); RB meets, (i); prospective honour, (i), (ii); ageing and nervous collapse, (i), (ii); revue numbers, (i); influence on RB, (i); RB offers to buy Oxfordshire cottage, (i); RB acts for, (i); The Druid's Rest, (i)