Marcel Theroux

Novelist and son of fellow writer Paul Theroux. He is also older brother of Louis Theroux and cousin of Justin Theroux.

[on Richard Burton] It says something about the shallowness of celebrity that a polylingual, dashing, brave, randy scholar who travelled through East Africa to try to find the source of Nile, translated The Arabian Nights into English and had the chutzpah to visit Mecca is overshadowed by a Welsh actor of the same name (with an admittedly nice speaking voice) who married Elizabeth Taylor a lot.