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Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole (born 2 August 1932) is an Irish actor of stage and screen who achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia. He went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most competitive Academy Award acting nominations without a win. He has won four Golden Globes, a BAFTA, an Emmy and was the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award in 2003 for his body of work.

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In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career, Personal life, TV- and Filmography right away: Filmography of Peter O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia (film), Becket (film), The Lion in Winter (1968 film), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film), The Ruling Class, The Stunt Man, My Favorite Year, Venus (film), Cristiada (film), God's Spy, Thomas Kinkade's The Christmas Cottage, Dean Spanley, Stardust (2007 film), Ratatouille (film), One Night with the King, Lassie (2005 film), Troy (film), Bright Young Things, The Final Curtain (2002 film), Molokai: The Story of Father Damien, The Manor, Coming Home (TV serial), Phantoms (film), FairyTale: A True Story, The Seventh Coin, Isabelle Eberhardt, Rebecca's Daughters, King Ralph, The Nutcracker Prince, Wings of Fame

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Contents Articles Peter O'TooleFilmography of Peter O'TooleLawrence of Arabia (film)Becket (film)The Lion in Winter (1968 film)Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film)The Ruling ClassThe Stunt ManMy Favorite YearVenus (film)Cristiada (film)God's SpyThomas Kinkade's The Christmas CottageDean SpanleyStardust (2007 film)Ratatouille (film)One Night with the KingLassie (2005 film)Troy (film)Bright Young ThingsThe Final Curtain (2002 film)Molokai: The Story of Father DamienThe ManorComing Home (TV serial)Phantoms (film)FairyTale: A True StoryThe Seventh CoinIsabelle EberhardtRebecca's DaughtersKing RalphThe Nutcracker PrinceWings of FameReferences

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PeterO'TooleInLawrence of ArabiaBornPeter Seamus O‘Toole 2 August 1932OccupationActorYearsactive1954–presentSpouseSiân Phillips (1959-1979)

[1] [2] Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole (born 2 August 1932) is an Irish actor of stage and screen who achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence inLawrence of Arabia. He went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most competitive Academy Award acting nominations without a win. He has won four Golden Globes, a BAFTA, an Emmy and was the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award in 2003 for his body of work.

Early life Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole was born in 1932, with some sources giving his birthplace as Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, and others as Leeds, in West Riding of Yorkshire, England, where he grew up. O'Toole himself is not certain of his birthplace or date, noting in his autobiography that while he accepts 2 August as his birthdate, he [1] has conflicting birth certificates in both countries, with the Irish one giving a June 1932 birthdate. O'Toole is the [3] son of Constance Jane (née Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football [4] [5] player and racecourse bookmaker. When O'Toole was one year old, his family began a five-year tour of major [6] [7] racecourse towns in Northern England. He was raised Roman Catholic. O'Toole was evacuated from Leeds early in World War II and went to a Catholic school for seven or eight years, where he was "implored" to become right-handed.―Iused to be scared stiff of the nuns: their whole denial of womanhood - the black dresses and the shaving of the hair - was so horrible, so terrifying,‖later commented. he ―Of course, that's all been stopped. They're sipping gin and tonic in the Dublin pubs now, and a couple of them flashed their pretty ankles at me just the other [8] day.‖Upon leaving school O'Toole obtained employment as a trainee journalist and photographer on theYorkshireEvening Post,until he was called up for national service as a signaller in the Royal Navy. As reported in a radio

Peter O'Toole interview in 2006 on NPR, he was asked by an officer whether he had something he had always wanted to do. His reply was that he had always wanted to try being either a poet or an actor. O'Toole attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1952 to 1954 on a scholarship after being rejected by the Abbey Theatre's drama school in Dublin by the director Ernest Blythe, because he couldn't speak Irish. At RADA, he was in the same class as Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Brian Bedford. O'Toole described this as "the most remarkable class the academy [9] ever had, though we weren't reckoned for much at the time. We were all considered dotty."CareerO'Toole began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company, before making his television debut in 1954 and a very minor film debut in 1959. O'Toole's major break came when he was chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Lean'sLawrence of Arabia(1962), after Marlon Brando proved unavailable and Albert Finney turned down the [10] role. His performance was ranked number one inPremieremagazine's list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time. The role introduced him to U.S. audiences and earned him the first of his eight nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Peter O'Toole as T. E. LawrenceO'Toole is also one of a handful of actors to be Oscar-nominated for playing the same role in two different films; he played King Henry II in both 1964'sBecketand 1968'sThe Lion in Winter. O'Toole played Hamlet under Laurence Olivier's direction in the premiere production of the Royal National Theatre in 1963. He has also appeared in Sean O'Casey'sJuno and the Paycockat Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, and fulfilled a lifetime ambition when taking to the stage of the Irish capital's Abbey Theatre in 1970 to perform in Samuel Beckett'sWaiting for Godotalongside Donal McCann. In 1980, he received wide critical acclaim for playing the director in the behind-the-scenes filmThe Stunt Man. His 1980 [11] performance as Macbeth is often considered one of the greatest disasters in theatre history, but he has redeemed his theatrical reputation with his performances as John Tanner inMan and Supermanand Henry Higgins in Pygmalion, and won a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance inJeffrey Bernard is Unwell(1989). Another performance from O'Toole, which gained him a nomination for Best Actor, was 1982'sMy Favorite Year, a light romantic comedy about the behind-the-scenes at a 1950s TV variety-comedy show, much likeYour Show of Shows, in which O'Toole plays an ageing swashbuckling film star strongly reminiscent (intentionally) of Errol Flynn. In 1972 he played both Miguel de Cervantes and his fictional creation Don Quixote inMan of La Mancha, the motion picture adaptation of the 1965 smash hit Broadway musical, opposite Sophia Loren. Widely criticised for using mostly non-singing actors and shunned by the public at the time, the film has gone on to become more of a success on videocassette and DVD, though there are those who still find fault with it. O'Toole's singing was dubbed [12] by tenor Simon Gilbert, but the other actors sang their own parts. O'Toole and co-star James Coco, who played both Cervantes's manservant and Sancho Panza, both received Golden Globe nominations for their performances. O'Toole won an Emmy Award for his role in the 1999 mini-seriesJoan of Arc. In 2004, O'Toole played King Priam in the summer blockbusterTroy. In 2005, he appeared on television as the older version of legendary 18th century Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova in the BBC drama serialCasanova. O'Toole's role was mainly to frame the drama, telling the story of his life to serving maid Edith (Rose Byrne). The younger Casanova, seen for most of the action, was played by David Tennant, who had to wear contact lenses to match his brown eyes to O'Toole's blue. He was once again nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for his portrayal of Maurice in the 2006 film Venus, directed by Roger Michell, his eighth such nomination. Most recently, O'Toole co-starred in the Pixar animated film,Ratatouille, an animated film about a rat with dreams of becoming the greatest chef in Paris, asAnton

Peter O'Toole Ego, afood critic. O'Toole appeared in the second season of Showtime's hit drama seriesThe Tudors, portraying Pope Paul III, who excommunicates King Henry VIII from the church; an act that leads to a showdown between the two men in seven of the ten episodes. O'Toole narrated the forthcoming horror comedy filmEldorado, which was [13] [14] directed by Richard Driscoll.Personal life In a BBC Radio interview in January 2007, O'Toole said that he had studied women for a very long time, had given it his best try, but knew "nothing." In 1959, he married Welsh actress Siân Phillips, with whom he had two daughters: award-winning actress Kate O'Toole (b. 1961) and Patricia. Peter and Sîan were divorced in 1979. Phillips later revealed in two autobiographies that O'Toole had subjected her to mental cruelty— largely fuelled by [15] drinking—and was subject to bouts of extreme jealousy when she finally left him for a younger lover.O'Toole and his girlfriend, model Karen Brown, had a son, Lorcan Patrick O'Toole (born 14 March 1983, when O'Toole was fifty years old). Lorcan, now an actor, was a pupil at Harrow School, boarding at West Acre from 1996. Severe illness almost ended his life in the late 1970s. Owing to his heavy drinking, he underwent surgery in 1976 to have his pancreas and a large portion of his stomach removed, which resulted in insulin-dependent diabetes. In 1978 he nearly died from a blood disorder. O'Toole eventually recovered and returned to work, although he found it harder to get parts in films, resulting in more work for television and occasional stage roles. However, he did appear in 1987's much-garlandedThe Last Emperor. He has resided in Clifden, County Galway, Ireland since 1963 and at the height of his career maintained homes in Dublin, London and Paris (at The Ritz which was the hotel where he was supposedly staying in the filmHow to Steal a Million), but now only keeps his home in London. While studying at RADA in the early 1950s he was active in protesting against British involvement in the Korean War. Later, in the 1960s, he was an active opponent of the Vietnam War. He is perhaps the only one of his "London" acting contemporaries not to be knighted. However, according to London'sDaily Mail, he was offered a knighthood or honorary knighthood in 1987, but turned it down for personal [16] and political reasons.In an interview with National Public Radio in December 2006, O'Toole revealed that he knows all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets. A self-described romantic, O'Toole regards the sonnets as among the finest collection of English poems, reading them daily. In the movieVenus,he recites Sonnet 18,"Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day."O'Toole has written two memoirs.Loitering With Intent: The Childchronicles his childhood in the years leading up to World War II and was aNew York TimesNotable Book of the Year in 1992. His second,Loitering With Intent: The Apprentice,is about his years spent training with a cadre of friends at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. The books have been praised by critics such as Charles Champlin of theLos Angeles Times, who wrote: "A cascade of language, a rumbling tumbling riot of words, a pub soliloquy to an invisible but imaginable audience, and the more captivating for it. O'Toole as raconteur is grand company." O'Toole spent parts of 2007 writing his third installment. This book will have (as he described it) "the meat," meaning highlights from his stage and filmmaking career. O'Toole is a noted fan of the rugby union, and used to attend Five Nations matches with friends and fellow rugby fans Richard Harris, Kenneth Griffith, Peter Finch and Richard Burton. (O'Toole, Harris and Burton have a combined 17 Oscar nominations.) He is also a lifelong player, coach and enthusiast of cricket. O'Toole is licensed to teach and coach cricket to children as young as ten. O'Toole has been interviewed at least three times by Charlie Rose onThe Charlie Rose Show.In the 17 January 2007 interview, O'Toole said that Eric Porter was the actor who had most influenced him. He also said that the difference between actors of yesterday and today is that actors of his generation were trained for "theatre, theatre, theatre." He also believes that the challenge for the actor is "to use his imagination to link to his emotion" and that "good parts make good actors." However, in other venues (including the DVD commentary forBecket), O'Toole has also credited Donald Wolfit as being his most important mentor. In an appearance onThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Peter O'Toole on 11 January 2007, O'Toole said that the actor he most enjoyed working with was Katharine Hepburn, his close friend, with whom he played Henry II to her Eleanor of Aquitaine inThe Lion in Winter.O'Toole remains close friends with hisLawrence of Arabiaco-star Omar Sharif and his RADA classmate Albert Finney. O'Toole is a fan of Sunderland A.F.C., as he told Chris Evans on an episode ofTFI Friday,dated Friday, October 11, 1996. The allegiance may well have lapsed. Coincidentally, however, the mother of T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, was born in Sunderland. Academy AwardnominationsO'Toole has been nominated eight times for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, making him the most-nominated actor never to win the award. YearFilmWinnerAlsoNominated1962Lawrence of ArabiaGregory Peck–To Kill aMockingbirdBurt Lancaster–Birdman of AlcatrazJack Lemmon–Days of Wine and RosesMarcello Mastroianni–Divorce, Italian Style

1964

1968

1969

1972

1980

1982

2006

Becket

The Lion in Winter

Rex Harrison–My Fair Lady

Cliff Robertson–Charly

Goodbye, Mr. ChipsJohn Wayne–True Grit

The Ruling Class

The Stunt Man

My Favorite Year

Venus

Marlon Brando–The Godfather(declined)

Richard Burton–BecketAnthony Quinn–Zorba the GreekPeter Sellers–Dr. Strangelove

Alan Arkin–The Heart Is a Lonely HunterAlan Bates–The FixerRon Moody–Oliver!

Richard Burton–Anne of the Thousand DaysDustin Hoffman–Midnight CowboyJon Voight–Midnight Cowboy

Michael Caine–Sleuth Laurence Olivier–Sleuth Paul Winfield–Sounder

Robert De Niro–Raging BullRobert Duvall–The Great Santini John Hurt–The Elephant Man Jack Lemmon–TributeBen Kingsley–GandhiDustin Hoffman–Tootsie Jack Lemmon–Missing Paul Newman–The VerdictForest Whitaker–The Last King of ScotlandLeonardo DiCaprio–Blood DiamondRyan Gosling–Half NelsonWill Smith–The Pursuit of Happyness

In 2003, the Academy honoured him with an Academy Honorary Award for his entire body of work and his lifelong [17] contribution to film. O'Toole initially balked about accepting, and wrote the Academy a letter saying that he was "still in the game" and would like more time to "win the lovely bugger outright." The Academy informed him that they would bestow the award whether he wanted it or not. Further, as he related onThe Charlie Rose Showin January 2007, his children admonished him, saying that it was the highest honour one could receive in the filmmaking industry. O'Toole agreed to appear at the ceremony and receive his Honorary Oscar. It was presented to him by Meryl Streep, who has the most Oscar nominations of any actress (16). However his old friend Kenneth Griffith was bitterly disappointed that he had belittled himself to accept such a "ridiculous award."

Peter O'Toole Stageappearances1955–1958 Bristol Old Vic •King Lear(1956) (Cornwall) •The Recruiting Officer(1956) (Bullock) •Major Barbara(1956) (Peter Shirley) •Othello(1956) (Lodovico) •Pygmalion(1957) (Henry Higgins) •A Midsummer Night's Dream(1957) (Lysander) •Look Back in Anger(1957) (Jimmy Porter) •Man and Superman(1958) (Tanner) •Hamlet(1958) (Hamlet) •Amphitryon '38(1958) (Jupiter) •Waiting For Godot(1957) (Vladimir) 1959 Royal CourtTheatre•The Long and the Short and the Tall(Bamforth) 1960 RoyalShakespeareCompany,Stratford•The Taming of the Shrew(Petruchio) •The Merchant of Venice(Shylock) •Troilus and Cressida(Thersites) 1963 NationalTheatre•Hamlet(title role) directed by Laurence Olivier 1963–1965 •Baal(Phoenix Theatre, 1963) (Baal) •Ride a Cock Horse(Piccadilly Theatre, 1965) 1966 GaietyTheatre, Dublin•Juno and the Paycock(Jack Boyle) •Man and Superman(Tanner) 1969 AbbeyTheatre, Dublin•Waiting for Godot(Vladimir)

Peter O'Toole 1973–Old Vic1974 Bristol •Uncle Vanya(Vanya) •Plunder•The Apple Cart(King Magnus) •Judgement(monologue) 1978 Toronto,WashingtonandChicago•Uncle Vanya(Vanya) •Present Laughter(Gary Essendine) •Caligula (film)(Tiberius) 1980–1999 •Macbeth(1980) (Macbeth) (Old Vic Theatre) •Man and Superman(Theatre Royal, Haymarket) •Pygmalion(Professor Higgins) (Shaftesbury Theatre, 1984, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and Plymouth Theatre, New York, 1987) •The Apple Cart(Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1986) •Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell(Apollo Theatre, 1989, Shaftesbury Theatre, 1991 and Old Vic, 1999) •Our Song(Apollo Theatre, 1992). References[1] O'Toole, Peter,Loitering With Intent,London: Macmillan London Ltd., 1992, p. 10 [2] O'Toole, Peter,Loitering with Intent: Child(Large print edition), Macmillan London Ltd., London, 1992. ISBN: 1-85695-051-4; p. 12, "My nationality is Irish,..." [3] O'Toole, Peter,Loitering with Intent: Child(Large print edition), Macmillan London Ltd., London, 1992. ISBN: 1-85695-051-4; p. 10, "My mother, Constance Jane, had led a troubled and a harsh life. Orphaned early, she had been reared in Scotland and shunted between relatives;..." [4] "Peter O'Toole Biography" (http://www.filmreference.com/film/26/Peter-O-Toole.html).filmreference. 2008. . Retrieved 2008-04-04. [5] Frank Murphy (31 January 2007). "Peter O'Toole, A winner in waiting" (http://www.theirishworld.com/article.asp?SubSection_Id=10& Article_Id=1911).The Irish World. . Retrieved 2008-04-04. [6] Tweedie, Neil (January 24, 2007). "Too late for an Oscar? No, no, no..." (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/3631524/ Too-late-for-an-Oscar-No-no-no....html). The Daily Telegraph. . Retrieved September 11, 2010. [7] Adams, Cindy (March 21, 2008). "Veteran says todays's actors aren't trained" (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/ veteran_says_today_actors_aren_trained_62U8SWk7OZUDSdI7j5aM0M). New York Post. . Retrieved October 7, 2010. [8] Alan Waldman. "Tribute to Peter O'Toole" (http://www.films42.com/tribute/otoole.asp).films42.com. . Retrieved 2008-04-04. [9] Guy Flatley (24 July 2007). "The Rule of O'Toole" (http://www.moviecrazed.com/outpast/otoole.htm).MovieCrazed. . Retrieved 2008-04-04. [10] "Peter O‘Toole" (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9057661/Peter-OToole).Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2008. . Retrieved 2008-04-04. [11] "Tribute to Peter O'Toole" (http://www.films42.com/tribute/otoole.asp).Tribute to Peter O'Toole. films42.com. 2003. . Retrieved 2009-01-03. [12] Internet Movie Database: Soundtracks for‗Man of La Mancha‘(1972) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068909/soundtrack) [13]Eldorado(http://www.imdb.com/name/nmtt1514043/) at the Internet Movie Database [14] House of Fear Preps Slate of Crappy 3-D Horror Films (http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20556) [15] Nathan Southern (2008). "Peter O'Toole: Overview" (http://movies.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=330239).Allmovie. MSN Movies. . Retrieved 2008-04-04. [16] Whether he was offered an honorary knighthood as a non-British citizen, or a full knighthood based on his status as an Irish citizen born prior to the declaration of the Republic of Ireland when Ireland was technically one of the king's realms, is debated. Whatever the form of knighthood offered, he declined the offer. [17] "Peter O'Toole Biography" (http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/artists/o/Peter-OToole/biography-325919.html).Yahoo Movies. 2007. . Retrieved 2008-04-04.