Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 02, 1932
Died
Dec 14, 2013
Place of Birth
Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Credits
139 titles
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
Filmography
TFI Unplugged
Self (Archive Footage)
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
Archive
Henry Fonda for President
Self (archive footage)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self (archive footage)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Hangover in Death Valley
Narrator (voice)
Diamond Cartel
Tugboat
Katherine of Alexandria
Gallus
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
Father Christopher
Peter O'Toole: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Self
Eldorado
Narrator (voice)
Eager to Die
Lord Pelican
Iron Road
Lionel Relic
Iron Road
Relic
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
Dean Spanley
Fisk Senior
Christmas Cottage
Glen
Stardust
King
Ratatouille
Anton Ego (voice)
The Tudors
Pope Paul III
One Night with the King
Samuel, the Prophet
Venus
Maurice
Lassie
The Duke
Casanova
Giacomo Casanova
Mystic India
Narrador
Troy
Priam
Augustus: The First Emperor
Augustus Caesar
Augustus: The First Emperor
Augustus Caesar
Bright Young Things
Colonel Blount
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
President Paul von Hindenburg
The Final Curtain
JJ Curtis
Global Heresy
Lord Foxley
The Making of Lawrence of Arabia
Self (archive footage)
Hellraisers
Self
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell
Jeffrey Bernard
The Early Show
Self
Joan of Arc
Bishop Cauchon
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
William Williamson
The Manor
Mr. Ravenscroft
Coming Home
Colonel Edgar Carey-Lewis
Coming Home
Colonel Edgar Carey-Lewis
Phantoms
Dr. Timothy Flyte
FairyTale: A True Story
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The View
Self
The Daily Show
Self
An Evening with Spike Milligan
Himself