num_pages: 368
description: This highly entertaining biography of four charismatic and much loved actors follows them through five decades of boozing brawling and braggadocio.At their career peaks these four controversial actors had the whole world at their feet and lived through some of the wildest exploits Hollywood has ever seen. But all that fame had a price; Richard Burtons liver was shot by the time he was 50 Richard Harriss film career stalled for over a decade. Peter OTooles drinking almost put him in the grave before his 43rd birthday and Oliver Reed ended up dying prematurely.This is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked  or staggered  off a film set into a pub. Its a story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions parties and orgies broken marriages drugs riots and wanton sexual conquests. And yet these piss-artists were seemingly immune from the law. They got away with it because of their extraordinary acting talent and because the public loved them. They were truly the last of a breed the last of the movie hellraisers.
language: English
title: Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris & Oliver Reed
publisher: Preface Publishing/Random House Group Ltd.