Hollywood's Biggest Drunks That Had Talent

Richard Burton

Peter O'Toole definitely. Pretty sure he's the most well known for that.

Ollie Reed is rumoured to have enjoyed the odd tipple or thirty-two on occasion (only on days with a 'y' in them I've been told).

Errol Flynn
Buster Keaton
Robert Shaw
and of course WC Fields

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Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies...

All that matters to me is what they bring to a film. What they do in their own time is their business.

PSH

He was a recovering heroin addict that hit the skids. Vale Mr Hoffman. Utterly tragic.

Drinker too. Seems The Master sunk him again.

I'm still gutted by his death. I loved that guy.

I absolutely love Oliver Reed in the The Three Musketeers and its sequels. I can't pretend to have seen a lot of his films but it's the best character I've ever seen him play.

Anthony Hopkins, although I think he'd got past the problem early into his time in the States.

Gary Oldman.

Gibson

He was great in Hamlet.

Nick Nolte?

Oh god that's sad. I just looked him up; had no idea.

So did I – the 45-year stretch was a lucky escape, and by extension Vietnam although he didn't see it that way.

Mickey Rourke?

Almost cried seeing current photos of him. Bloody hell, the stress of that business and what it does to some people who are there for our entertainment.

“The Human Ashtray”

- Kim Basinger

Dean Martin
Foster Brooks
Graham Chapman

I was shocked when I saw him recently in one of those round table interviews with actors such as Gary Oldman and Christopher Plummer – Plummer was obviously a fan of them both. Nolte had ballooned out a lot and was obviously in a bad way but he was really funny throughout.

Al Pacino.