Burton, O'Toole or Harris?

zeroliner · 03-11-2016 11:27PM #1

Who was your favourite Hell Raiser?

Proper, Hollywood Stars, and real actors

Nothing around like these lads now. The likes of Pitt and Depp make me cringe in comparison.

Duckworth_Luas · 03-11-2016 11:32PM

Oliver Reed

Tried to shoot down a helicopter flying Keith Moon (No 2 on the list) to his estate to discuss a role in Tommy

lawlolawl · 03-11-2016 11:33PM

Strange thread to start about Joan Burton, Fintan O'Toole and Rolf Harris

I'd hardly consider any of them hellraisers.

ballyargus · 03-11-2016 11:33PM

O'Toole

zeroliner · 03-11-2016 11:38PM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Oliver Reed

Tried to shoot down a helicopter flying Keith Moon (No 2 on the list) to his estate to discuss a role in Tommy

How could I have left him out? Good call sir.

20Cent · 03-11-2016 11:48PM

Hunter S Thompson was a good one.

Amanda.ie · 03-11-2016 11:52PM

Jack Nicholson.
Marlon Brando.

How could you leave these two legends out?

zeroliner · 03-11-2016 11:56PM

Amanda.ie wrote: »

Jack Nicholson.
Marlon Brando.

How could you leave these two legends out?

Marlon was a Yank, Nicholson ditto (and came into his own a decade or so after these chaps_) These lads proper ran amouk in the 50s and 60s.

They were proper disgraceful

SEPT 23 1989 · 03-11-2016 11:59PM

Dennis Hopper

Zaph · 04-11-2016 12:00AM

Reed was probably the most debauched, but O'Toole was my favourite as he had a certain charm to him. The character he played in My Favourite Year probably didn't require a lot of researching on his part.

There's an entertaining book about Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed and their hellraising available on Amazon.

Mr. FoggPatches · 04-11-2016 12:03AM

I remember cillian Murphy telling a story about leaving the cap off the toothpaste. Mad hoor .

zeroliner · 04-11-2016 12:03AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Dennis Hopper

A mad Yank. Who could fully compete with the likes of Burton and O'Toole

zeroliner · 04-11-2016 12:12AM

O'Toole was as bad. He just hung in there longer.

mzungu · 04-11-2016 12:12AM

I'd say a lot of the stories about the above have grown legs over the years. Not saying they were pioneers, but I would say a fair amount of those tales are either exaggerated, or never happened. When faced with truth or myth, always go with myth. It adds to the image, and those lads knew it well.

Pac1Man · 04-11-2016 12:13AM

Hell Raiser.

Another term for a famous person who is a proper c*nt.

zeroliner · 04-11-2016 12:19AM

Pac1Man wrote: »

Hell Raiser.

Another term for a famous person who is a proper c*nt.

Give me them any day over the current dross that is churned out by studios. Funny faced posh boys like Benny Cumovermyface & Eddie Redfaced, and Leonardo bland-tummy fat

I miss proper personalities.

MetalDog · 04-11-2016 12:21AM

Lemmy,
Keith Richards,
Bonzo,
Keith Moon.

Grayson · 04-11-2016 12:26AM

F. Scott Fitzgerald liked to introduce himself as "the alcoholic known as F. Scott Fitzgerald "

And of course there's Errol Flynn. There's a rumour that the phrase "In like Flynn" was about him.

zeroliner · 04-11-2016 12:27AM

Grayson wrote: »

F. Scott Fitzgerald liked to introduce himself as "the alcoholic known as F. Scott Fitzgerald "

And of course there's Errol Flynn. There's a rumour that the phrase "In like Flynn" was about him.

In that case I'll add Ernest Hemmingway to the list

Jawgap · 04-11-2016 12:31AM

Robert Mitchum or John Ford, though I'd need to get better at drinking whiskey!

zeroliner · 04-11-2016 12:34AM

Jawgap wrote: »

Robert Mitchum or John Ford, though I'd need to get better at drinking whiskey!

John Wayne :cool:

Arghus · 04-11-2016 12:39AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDNCEp8Utjo

dd972 · 04-11-2016 12:42AM

Zaph wrote: »

Reed was probably the most debauched, but O'Toole was my favourite as he had a certain charm to him. The character he played in My Favourite Year probably didn't require a lot of researching on his part.

There's an entertaining book about Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed and their hellraising available on Amazon.

Read 'raffish' for O'Toole.

dd972 · 04-11-2016 12:44AM

MetalDog wrote: »

Lemmy,
Keith Richards,
Bonzo,
Keith Moon.

Derek Mooney
Daniel O'Donnell
Alan Titchmarsh
Pat Kenny

zeroliner · 04-11-2016 12:45AM

Arghus wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDNCEp8Utjo

He was a star.

Agricola · 04-11-2016 01:00AM

Has to be Oliver Reed. If you die arm wrestling sailors while blind drunk in Malta, the title is yours I think!

Arghus · 04-11-2016 01:03AM

zeroliner wrote: »

He was a star.

No doubt. The charisma burns the screen even in that teeny youtube clip.

Of the three in the original question, I'd probably say Burton. Look at the amount of marriages for a clue. He had five, the others only had two.

In between the drinking he managed to marry and divorce Elizabeth Taylor twice.

Twice.

He was some boyo.

Oliver Reed should definitely be in there too. He managed to actually die after a night out drinking - that's commitment.

zeroliner · 04-11-2016 01:07AM

Arghus wrote: »

No doubt. The charisma burns the screen even in that teeny youtube clip.

Of the three in the original question, I'd probably say Burton. Look at the amount of marriages for a clue. He had five, the others only had two.

In between the drinking he managed to marry and divorce Elizabeth Taylor twice.

Twice.

He was some boyo.

Oliver Reed should definitely be in there too. He managed to actually die after a night out drinking - that's commitment.

Taylor was nearly the death of him. They both brought out the worst in eachother.

Olishi4 · 04-11-2016 08:43AM

I only knew Burton from narrating War of the Worlds and his marriages to Elizabeth Taylor but recently came across extracts from his diaries.

He seemed very self deprecating and self aware. He really had a way with words and was very funny especially when he spoke about Elizabeth Taylor. Also talks about his father and his drinking.

Anyway in relation to the thread and in his own words "God put me on this earth to raise sheer hell"

Jawgap · 04-11-2016 09:06AM

zeroliner wrote: »

John Wayne :cool:

Not as big a gargler as his on screen persona would suggest - apparently the benders Ford and McLaglen went on were legendary, and the odd occasion when Wayne went along he barely lasted the first evening.

califano · 04-11-2016 09:14AM

Benicio Del Toro. Hes the first to learn to fully cash in on it as well only taking him 15 years to master it.

Burton, O'Toole or Harris?

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