Peter O'Toole
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
131
Gender
Male
Birthday
1932-08-02
Day of death
2013-12-14 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Peter O'Toole
Biography
Peter Seamus O'Toole (August 2, 1932 – December 14, 2013) was a British-Irish actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company. In 1959 he made his West End debut in The Long and the Short and the Tall, and played the title role in Hamlet in the National Theatre's first production in 1963. Excelling on the London stage, O'Toole was known for his "hellraiser" lifestyle off it. Making his film debut in 1959, O'Toole achieved international recognition playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) for which he received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was nominated for this award another seven times – for playing King Henry II in both Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972), The Stunt Man (1980), My Favorite Year (1982), and Venus (2006) – and holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for acting without a win (tied with Glenn Close). In 2002, he was awarded the Academy Honorary Award for his career achievements. O'Toole was the recipient of four Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA Award for Best British Actor and one Primetime Emmy Award. Other performances include What's New Pussycat? (1965), How to Steal a Million (1966), Supergirl (1984), and minor roles in The Last Emperor (1987) and Troy (2004). He also voiced Anton Ego, the restaurant critic in Pixar's Ratatouille (2007).
Known For
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The View
The Tudors
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Dick Cavett Show
Wogan
Wetten, dass..?
Die Harald Schmidt Show
North and South
The Merv Griffin Show
Ratatouille
Troy
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Oscars
Lord Jim
The Ed Sullivan Show
Rosebud
King Ralph
Becket
Stiletto
Power Play
Kidnapped
The Ray Bradbury Theater
Gulliver's Travels
Sunday Night Theatre
Stardust
Caligula
Man Friday
Pygmalion
Joan of Arc
Svengali
Coming Home
Lassie
Casino Royale
Lawrence of Arabia
Phantoms
Isabelle Eberhardt
The Last Emperor
Brotherly Love
Today
High Spirits
Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet
Rogue Male
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Great Catherine
My Favorite Year
Rebecca's Daughters
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Hellraisers
One Night with the King
Creator
The Early Show
Man and Superman
Masada
Venus
Kim
The Dark Angel
Supergirl
How to Steal a Million
Dean Spanley
Talking Pictures
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Casanova
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Under Milk Wood
Heavy Weather
Eldorado
FairyTale: A True Story
Club Paradise
The Night of the Generals
Zulu Dawn
The Lion in Winter
Bright Young Things
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
Augustus: The First Emperor
The Nutcracker Prince
Christmas Cottage
The Sandpiper
The Ruling Class
Iron Road
Civvies
The Stunt Man
Murphy's War
The Savage Innocents
Coming Home
Wings of Fame
What's New Pussycat?
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell
Foxtrot
On a Moonlit Night
Man of La Mancha
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Iron Road
The Dark Angel
The Rainbow Thief
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
Mystic India
Diamond Cartel
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Supergirl: The Making of the Movie
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
Bernardo Bertolucci and the Making of 'The Last Emperor'
Global Heresy
Strumpet City
Wind Sand and Star
Hangover in Death Valley
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
The Manor
Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear
The Castiglioni Brothers
Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse
Augustus: The First Emperor
Crossing to Freedom
Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four
Katherine of Alexandria
The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time
The Final Curtain
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
The Seventh Coin
Present Laughter
Is There One Who Understands Me? The World of James Joyce
Wind, Sand and Star: The Making of a Classic
The Making of Lawrence of Arabia
An Evening with Spike Milligan
The Public's Right to Know
Peter O'Toole: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Eager to Die
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
