What the fuck was this guys problem in real life?

>Off-screen, the actor's arrests for drunken brawls at bars and Hollywood parties took a heavy toll on his once-promising Hollywood career in the 1950s. Booze was always at the root of his misbehavior, which included tearing a public phone off the wall, hitting a waiter in the face with a sugar bowl, breaking a college student's jaw and attempting to choke a cab driver.

>But by then Tierney's off-set misadventures were taking a toll on his career.

>Headlines of the period tell the story: "Film 'Dillinger' Booked on Drunk Charge." "Court Warns Film Actor to Be Good." "Actor Tierney Must Sleep on Jail Floor." "Tierney Goes to Jail Again."

>By the early 1960s, the onetime B-movie leading man had been reduced to small parts. After appearing in John Cassavetes' "A Child Is Waiting" in 1963, he moved to France for several years. But his scrapes with the law continued in Europe, as they did when he returned to the United States in the late '60s.

>Back living in New York, he was known as a tough guy who drank and fought with ex-cons, cops and hoods, according to a nephew, Michael Tierney. In 1973, Tierney was stabbed during a brawl outside a New York bar near the scruffy hotel where he lived.