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Peter O'Toole

Peter Seamus O'Toole (/ˈtl/; 2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was a British stage and film 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.[2]

Peter O'Toole
O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Born
Peter Seamus O'Toole

(1932-08-02)2 August 1932
Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England[a]
Died14 December 2013(2013-12-14) (aged 81)
St John's Wood, London, England
Alma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupations
  • Actor
  • author
Years active1954–2012
Notable workFull list
Spouse
(m. 1959; div. 1979)
PartnerKaren Brown (1982–1988)
Children3, including Kate
AwardsFull list

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.[3]

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).

Early life and education

Peter Seamus O'Toole was born on 2 August 1932, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (née Ferguson), a Scottish nurse,[4] and Patrick Joseph "Spats" O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player, and bookmaker.[5][6][7][8] O'Toole claimed he was not certain of his birthplace or date, stating in his autobiography that he accepted 2 August as his birth date but had a birth certificate from England and Ireland. Records from the Leeds General Registry Office confirm he was born at St James's University Hospital in Leeds, Yorkshire, England on 2 August 1932.[1] He had an elder sister named Patricia and grew up in the south Leeds suburb of Hunslet. When he was one year old, his family began a five-year tour of major racecourse towns in Northern England. He and his sister were brought up in their father's Catholic faith.[9][10] O'Toole was evacuated from Leeds early in the Second World War,[11] and went to a Catholic school for seven or eight years: St Joseph's Secondary School, just outside Leeds.[12] He later said, "I used 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. [...] 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 day."[13]

Upon leaving school, O'Toole obtained employment as a trainee journalist and photographer on the Yorkshire Evening Post,[14] until he was called up for national service as a signaller in the Royal Navy.[15] As reported in a radio 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.[16] He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1952 to 1954 on a scholarship. This came after being rejected by the Abbey Theatre's drama school in Dublin by the director Ernest Blythe, because he could not speak the Irish language.[17] At RADA, he was in the same class as Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Brian Bedford.[18] O'Toole described this as "the most remarkable class the academy ever had, though we weren't reckoned for much at the time. We were all considered dotty."[19]

Acting career

1950s

O'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. He played a soldier in an episode of The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1954. He was based at the Bristol Old Vic from 1956 to 1958, appearing in productions of King Lear (1956), The Recruiting Officer (1956), Major Barbara (1956), Othello (1956), and The Slave of Truth (1956). He was Henry Higgins in Pygmalion (1957), Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1957), Uncle Gustve in Oh! My Papa! (1957), and Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger (1957). O'Toole was Tanner in Shaw's Man and Superman (1958), a performance he reprised often during his career. He was also in Hamlet (1958), The Holiday (1958), Amphitryon '38 (1958), and Waiting for Godot (1958) (as Vladimir). He hoped The Holiday would take him to the West End but it ultimately folded in the provinces; during that show he met Sian Phillips who became his first wife.[20]

O'Toole continued to appear on television, being in episodes of Armchair Theatre ("The Pier", 1957), and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre ("The Laughing Woman", 1958) and was in the TV adaptation of The Castiglioni Brothers (1958). He made his London debut in a musical Oh, My Papa.[21] O'Toole gained fame on the West End in the play The Long and the Short and the Tall, performed at the Royal Court starting January 1959. His co-stars included Robert Shaw and Edward Judd and it was directed by Lindsay Anderson. He reprised his performance for television on Theatre Night in 1959 (although he did not appear in the 1961 film version). The show transferred to the West End in April and won O'Toole Best Actor of the Year in 1959.[22]

1960s

O'Toole was in much demand. He reportedly received five offers of long-term contracts but turned them down.[21] His first role was a small role in Disney's version of Kidnapped (1960), playing the bagpipes opposite Peter Finch.[23] His second feature was The Savage Innocents (1960) with Anthony Quinn for director Nicholas Ray. With his then-wife Sian Phillips he did Siwan: The King's Daughter (1960) for TV. In 1960 he had a nine-month season at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, appearing in The Taming of the Shrew (as Petruchio), The Merchant of Venice (as Shylock) and Troilus and Cressida (as Thersites). He could have made more money in films but said "You've got to go to Stratford when you've got the chance."[24]

O'Toole had been seen in The Long and the Short and the Tall by Jules Buck who later established a company with the actor.[23][25] Buck cast O'Toole in The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1961), a heist thriller from director John Guillermin. O'Toole was billed third, beneath Aldo Ray and Elizabeth Sellars.[26] The same year he appeared in several episodes of the TV series Rendezvous ("End of a Good Man", "Once a Horseplayer", "London-New York").[27] He lost the role in the film adaptation of Long and the Short and the Tall to Laurence Harvey.[23] "It broke my heart", he said later.[24]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

O'Toole's major break came in November 1960 when he was chosen to play the eponymous hero T. E. Lawrence in Sir David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia (1962), after Albert Finney reportedly turned down the role.[28] The role introduced him to a global audience and earned him the first of his eight nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received the BAFTA Award for Best British Actor. His performance was ranked number one in Premiere magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.[29] In 2003, Lawrence as portrayed by O'Toole was selected as the tenth-greatest hero in cinema history by the American Film Institute.[30]

O'Toole played Hamlet under Laurence Olivier's direction in the premiere production of the Royal National Theatre in 1963.[31] He performed in Baal (1963) at the Phoenix Theatre.[32]

Partnership with Jules Buck

 
O'Toole in the TV film Present Laughter (1968)

Even prior to the making of Lawrence of Arabia, O'Toole announced he wanted to form a production company with Jules Buck. In November 1961 they said their company, known as Keep Films (also known as Tricolor Productions) would make a film starring Terry-Thomas, Operation Snatch.[33] In 1962 O'Toole and Buck announced they wanted to make a version of Waiting for Godot for £80,000.[34] The film was never made. Instead their first production was Becket (1964), where O'Toole played King Henry II opposite Richard Burton. The film, done in association with Hal Wallis, was a financial success.[25][35] O'Toole turned down the lead role in The Cardinal (1963).[21] Instead he and Buck made another epic, Lord Jim (1965), based on the novel by Joseph Conrad directed by Richard Brooks.[25][32] He and Buck intended to follow this with a biopic of Will Adams[36] and a film about the Charge of the Light Brigade, but neither project happened.[37] Instead O'Toole went into What's New Pussycat? (1965), a comedy based on a script by Woody Allen, taking over a role originally meant for Warren Beatty and starring alongside Peter Sellers. It was a huge success.[38]

He and Buck helped produce The Party's Over (1965). O'Toole returned to the stage with Ride a Cock Horse at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1965, which was harshly reviewed.[20] He made a heist film with Audrey Hepburn, How to Steal a Million (1966), directed by William Wyler. He played the Three Angels in the all-star The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), directed by John Huston. In 1966 at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin he appeared in productions of Juno and the Paycock and Man and Superman.[20] Sam Spiegel, producer of Lawrence of Arabia, reunited O'Toole with Omar Sharif in The Night of the Generals (1967), which was a box office disappointment. O'Toole played in an adaptation of Noël Coward's Present Laughter for TV in 1968, and had a cameo in Casino Royale (1967).

The Lion in Winter (1968)

 
As King Henry II in The Lion in Winter (1968)

He played Henry II again in The Lion in Winter (1968) alongside Katharine Hepburn, and was nominated for an Oscar again – one of the few times an actor had been nominated playing the same character in different films. The film was also successful at the box office.[39]

Less popular was Great Catherine (1968) with Jeanne Moreau, an adaptation of the play by George Bernard Shaw which Buck and O'Toole co-produced.[25][40]

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)

In 1969, he played the title role in the film Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a musical adaptation of James Hilton's novella, starring opposite Petula Clark. He was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. O'Toole fulfilled a lifetime ambition in 1970 when he performed on stage in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, alongside Donal McCann, at Dublin's Abbey Theatre.

In other films, he played a man in love with his sister (played by Susannah York) in Country Dance (1970). O'Toole starred in a war film for director Peter Yates, Murphy's War (1971), appearing alongside Sian Phillips. He was reunited with Richard Burton in a film version of Under Milk Wood (1972) by Dylan Thomas, produced by himself and Buck; Elizabeth Taylor co-starred. The film was not a popular success.[20]

1970s

The Ruling Class (1972)

O'Toole received another Oscar nomination for his performance in The Ruling Class (1972), done for his own company.[25][20] In 1972, he played both Miguel de Cervantes and his fictional creation Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, the motion picture adaptation of the 1965 hit Broadway musical, opposite Sophia Loren. The film was a critical and commercial failure, criticised for using mostly non-singing actors. His singing was dubbed by tenor Simon Gilbert,[41] but the other actors did their own singing. 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 did not make a film for several years. He performed at the Bristol Old Vic from 1973 to 1974 in Uncle Vanya, Plunder, The Apple Cart and Judgement. He returned to films with Rosebud (1975), a flop thriller for Otto Preminger, where O'Toole replaced Robert Mitchum at the last minute. He followed it with Man Friday (1975), an adaptation of the Robinson Crusoe story, which was the last work from Keep Films.[35] O'Toole made Foxtrot (1976), directed by Arturo Ripstein. He was critically acclaimed for his performance in Rogue Male (1976) for British television.[42] He did Dead Eyed Dicks on stage in Sydney in 1976.[43] Less well received was Power Play (1978), made in Canada, and Zulu Dawn (1979), shot in South Africa.[44] He toured Uncle Vanya and Present Laughter on stage. In 1979, O'Toole starred as Tiberius in the Penthouse-funded biopic, Caligula.

1980s

The Stunt Man (1980)

In 1980, he received critical acclaim for playing the director in the behind-the-scenes film The Stunt Man.[45][46] His performance earned him an Oscar nomination. He appeared in a mini series for Irish TV Strumpet City, where he played James Larkin. He followed this with another mini series Masada (1981), playing Lucius Flavius Silva. In 1980, he performed in MacBeth at the Old Vic for $500 a week (equivalent to $1,600 in 2021), a performance that famously earned O'Toole some of the worst reviews of his career.[47][48]

My Favorite Year (1982)

O'Toole was nominated for another Oscar for My Favorite Year (1982), a light romantic comedy about the behind-the-scenes at a 1950s TV variety-comedy show, in which O'Toole plays an ageing swashbuckling film star reminiscent of Errol Flynn. He returned to the stage in London with a performance in Man and Superman (1982) that was better received than his MacBeth.[49] He focused on television, doing an adaptation of Man and Superman (1983), Svengali (1983), Pygmalion (1984), and Kim (1984), and providing the voice of Sherlock Holmes for a series of animated TV movies. He did Pygmalion on stage in 1984 at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre.[50]

O'Toole returned to feature films in Supergirl (1984), Creator (1985), Club Paradise (1986), The Last Emperor (1987) as Sir Reginald Johnston, and High Spirits (1988).[51] He appeared on Broadway in an adaptation of Pygmalion (1987), opposite Amanda Plummer. It ran for 113 performances.

Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (1989)

He won a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (1989).[52] His other appearances that decade include Uncle Silas (1989) for television.

1990s

O'Toole's performances in the 1990s include Wings of Fame (1990); The Rainbow Thief (1990), with Sharif; King Ralph (1991) with John Goodman; Isabelle Eberhardt (1992); Rebecca's Daughters (1992), in Wales; Civvies (1992), a British TV series; The Seventh Coin (1993); Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III (1994), for American TV; and Heavy Weather (1995), for British TV. He was in an adaptation of Gulliver's Travels (1996), playing the Emperor of Lilliput; FairyTale: A True Story (1997), playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Phantoms (1998), from a novel by Dean Koontz; and Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999). He won a Primetime Emmy Award for his role as Bishop Pierre Cauchon in the 1999 mini-series Joan of Arc. He also produced and starred in a TV adaptation of Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (1999).

2000s

O'Toole's work in the next decade included Global Heresy (2002); The Final Curtain (2003); Bright Young Things (2003); Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003) for TV, as Paul von Hindenburg; and Imperium: Augustus (2004) as Augustus Caesar. In 2004, he played King Priam in Troy. In 2005, he appeared on television as the older version of legendary 18th century Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova in the BBC drama serial Casanova. 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 followed it with a role in Lassie (2005).

Venus (2006)

O'Toole 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.[53] He was in One Night with the King (2007) and co-starred in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007), an animated film about a rat with dreams of becoming the greatest chef in Paris, as Anton Ego, a food critic. He had a small role in Stardust (2007). He also appeared in the second season of Showtime's drama series The Tudors (2008), portraying Pope Paul III, who excommunicates King Henry VIII from the church; an act which leads to a showdown between the two men in seven of the ten episodes. Also in 2008, he starred alongside Jeremy Northam and Sam Neill in the New Zealand/British film Dean Spanley, based on an Alan Sharp adaptation of Irish author Lord Dunsany's short novel, My Talks with Dean Spanley.[54]

He was in Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage (2008); and Iron Road (2009), a Canadian-Chinese miniseries. O'Toole's final performances came in Highway to Hell (2012) and For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada (2012). On 10 July 2012, O'Toole released a statement announcing his retirement from acting.[55] A number of films were released after his retirement and death: Decline of an Empire (2013), as Gallus; and Diamond Cartel (2017).

Personal life

 
O'Toole (left) with Richard Burton in Becket (1964). The two actors along with Richard Harris and Oliver Reed were among a close group of friends who excelled on both stage and screen, and were known as "hellraisers" in their personal lives.[2]

Personal views

While studying at RADA in the early 1950s, O'Toole 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 played a role in the creation of the current form of the well-known folk song "Carrickfergus" which he related to Dominic Behan, who put it in print and made a recording in the mid-1960s.[56]

Although he lost faith in organised religion as a teenager, O'Toole expressed positive sentiments regarding the life of Jesus Christ. In an interview for The New York Times, he said "No one can take Jesus away from me... there's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace." He called himself "a retired Christian" who prefers "an education and reading and facts" to faith.[57]

Relationships

In 1959, he married Welsh actress Siân Phillips, with whom he had two daughters: actress Kate and Patricia. They were divorced in 1979. Phillips later said in two autobiographies that O'Toole had subjected her to mental cruelty, largely fuelled by drinking, and was subject to bouts of extreme jealousy when she finally left him for a younger lover.[58]

O'Toole and his girlfriend, model Karen Brown,[59] had a son, Lorcan O'Toole (born 17 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.[60]

Sports

O'Toole played rugby league as a child in Leeds[61] and was also a rugby union fan, attending Five Nations matches with friends and fellow rugby fans Richard Harris, Kenneth Griffith, Peter Finch and Richard Burton. He was also a lifelong player, coach and enthusiast of cricket[62] and a fan of Sunderland A.F.C.[63] His support of Sunderland was passed on to him through his father, who was a labourer in Sunderland for many years.[64] He was named their most famous fan.[65] The actor in a later interview expressed that he no longer considered himself as much of a fan following the demolition of Roker Park and the subsequent move to the Stadium of Light. He described Roker Park as his last connection to the club and that everything "they meant to him was when they were at Roker Park".[64]

O'Toole was interviewed at least three times by Charlie Rose on his eponymous talk show. In a 17 January 2007 interview, O'Toole stated that British actor Eric Porter had most influenced him, adding 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 for Becket), O'Toole credited Donald Wolfit as being his most important mentor.[66]

Health

Severe illness almost ended O'Toole's life in the late 1970s. His stomach cancer was misdiagnosed as resulting from his alcoholic excess.[67] O'Toole 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.[68] He eventually recovered and returned to work. He resided on the Sky Road, just outside Clifden, Connemara, County Galway from 1963, and at the height of his career maintained homes in Dublin, London and Paris (at the Ritz, which was where his character supposedly lived in the film How to Steal a Million).

In an interview with National Public Radio in December 2006, O'Toole revealed that he knew all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets. A self-described romantic, O'Toole said of the sonnets that nothing in the English language compares with them, and read them daily. In Venus, he recites Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?").[69] O'Toole wrote two memoirs. Loitering With Intent: The Child chronicles his childhood in the years leading up to World War II and was a New York Times Notable 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.

Death

 
O'Toole's memorial plaque in St Paul's Church in Covent Garden, London

O'Toole retired from acting in July 2012 owing to a recurrence of stomach cancer.[70] He died on 14 December 2013 at Wellington Hospital in St John's Wood, London, at the age of 81.[71] His funeral was held at Golders Green Crematorium in London on 21 December 2013, where his body was cremated in a wicker coffin.[72] His family stated their intention to fulfil his wishes and take his ashes to the west of Ireland.[73]

Legacy

On 18 May 2014, a new prize was launched in memory of Peter O'Toole at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School; this includes an annual award given to two young actors from the School, including a professional contract at Bristol Old Vic Theatre.[74] He has a memorial plaque in St Paul's, the Actors' Church in Covent Garden, London.

On 21 April 2017, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin announced that Kate O'Toole had placed her father's archive at the humanities research centre.[75] The collection includes O'Toole's scripts, extensive published and unpublished writings, props, photographs, letters, medical records, and more. It joins the archives of several of O'Toole's collaborators and friends including Donald Wolfit, Eli Wallach, Peter Glenville, Sir Tom Stoppard, and Dame Edith Evans.[76][77]

Acting credits

Awards and honours

O'Toole was the recipient of numerous nominations and awards. He was offered a knighthood but rejected it in objection to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's policies.[78][better source needed] He received four Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA Award for Best British Actor (for Lawrence of Arabia) and one Primetime Emmy Award.

Academy Award nominations

O'Toole was nominated eight times for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, but was never able to win a competitive Oscar. In 2002,[3] the Academy honoured him with an Academy Honorary Award for his entire body of work and his lifelong 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. He told Charlie Rose in January 2007 that 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 actor or actress (19). He joked with Robert Osborne, during an interview at Turner Classic Movies' film festival that he's the "Biggest Loser of All Time", due to his lack of an Academy Award, after many nominations.[79]

Year Film Winner Also Nominated
1962 Lawrence of Arabia Gregory PeckTo Kill a Mockingbird Burt LancasterBirdman of Alcatraz
Jack LemmonDays of Wine and Roses
Marcello MastroianniDivorce Italian Style
1964 Becket Rex HarrisonMy Fair Lady Richard BurtonBecket
Anthony QuinnZorba the Greek
Peter SellersDr. Strangelove
1968 The Lion in Winter Cliff RobertsonCharly Alan ArkinThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Alan BatesThe Fixer
Ron MoodyOliver!
1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips John WayneTrue Grit Richard BurtonAnne of the Thousand Days
Dustin HoffmanMidnight Cowboy
Jon VoightMidnight Cowboy
1972 The Ruling Class Marlon BrandoThe Godfather (declined) Michael CaineSleuth
Laurence OlivierSleuth
Paul WinfieldSounder
1980 The Stunt Man Robert De NiroRaging Bull Robert DuvallThe Great Santini
John HurtThe Elephant Man
Jack LemmonTribute
1982 My Favorite Year Ben KingsleyGandhi Dustin HoffmanTootsie
Jack LemmonMissing
Paul NewmanThe Verdict
2006 Venus Forest WhitakerThe Last King of Scotland Leonardo DiCaprioBlood Diamond
Ryan GoslingHalf Nelson
Will SmithThe Pursuit of Happyness

Bibliography

  • Loitering with Intent: The Child (1992)
  • Loitering with Intent: The Apprentice (1997)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Records from the Leeds General Registry Office confirm he was born at St James's University Hospital on 2 August 1932.[1]

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Peter Seamus O Toole oʊ ˈ t uː l 2 August 1932 14 December 2013 was a British stage and film 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 2 Peter O TooleO Toole as T E Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia 1962 BornPeter Seamus O Toole 1932 08 02 2 August 1932Leeds West Riding of Yorkshire England a Died14 December 2013 2013 12 14 aged 81 St John s Wood London EnglandAlma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic ArtOccupationsActor authorYears active1954 2012Notable workFull listSpouseSian Phillips m 1959 div 1979 wbr PartnerKaren Brown 1982 1988 Children3 including KateAwardsFull listMaking 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 3 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 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Acting career 2 1 1950s 2 2 1960s 2 3 1970s 2 4 1980s 2 5 1990s 2 6 2000s 3 Personal life 3 1 Personal views 3 2 Relationships 3 3 Sports 3 4 Health 3 5 Death 3 6 Legacy 4 Acting credits 5 Awards and honours 6 Bibliography 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 External linksEarly life and educationPeter Seamus O Toole was born on 2 August 1932 the son of Constance Jane Eliot nee Ferguson a Scottish nurse 4 and Patrick Joseph Spats O Toole an Irish metal plater football player and bookmaker 5 6 7 8 O Toole claimed he was not certain of his birthplace or date stating in his autobiography that he accepted 2 August as his birth date but had a birth certificate from England and Ireland Records from the Leeds General Registry Office confirm he was born at St James s University Hospital in Leeds Yorkshire England on 2 August 1932 1 He had an elder sister named Patricia and grew up in the south Leeds suburb of Hunslet When he was one year old his family began a five year tour of major racecourse towns in Northern England He and his sister were brought up in their father s Catholic faith 9 10 O Toole was evacuated from Leeds early in the Second World War 11 and went to a Catholic school for seven or eight years St Joseph s Secondary School just outside Leeds 12 He later said I used 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 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 day 13 Upon leaving school O Toole obtained employment as a trainee journalist and photographer on the Yorkshire Evening Post 14 until he was called up for national service as a signaller in the Royal Navy 15 As reported in a radio 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 16 He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art RADA from 1952 to 1954 on a scholarship This came after being rejected by the Abbey Theatre s drama school in Dublin by the director Ernest Blythe because he could not speak the Irish language 17 At RADA he was in the same class as Albert Finney Alan Bates and Brian Bedford 18 O Toole described this as the most remarkable class the academy ever had though we weren t reckoned for much at the time We were all considered dotty 19 Acting career1950s O 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 He played a soldier in an episode of The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1954 He was based at the Bristol Old Vic from 1956 to 1958 appearing in productions of King Lear 1956 The Recruiting Officer 1956 Major Barbara 1956 Othello 1956 and The Slave of Truth 1956 He was Henry Higgins in Pygmalion 1957 Lysander in A Midsummer Night s Dream 1957 Uncle Gustve in Oh My Papa 1957 and Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger 1957 O Toole was Tanner in Shaw s Man and Superman 1958 a performance he reprised often during his career He was also in Hamlet 1958 The Holiday 1958 Amphitryon 38 1958 and Waiting for Godot 1958 as Vladimir He hoped The Holiday would take him to the West End but it ultimately folded in the provinces during that show he met Sian Phillips who became his first wife 20 O Toole continued to appear on television being in episodes of Armchair Theatre The Pier 1957 and BBC Sunday Night Theatre The Laughing Woman 1958 and was in the TV adaptation of The Castiglioni Brothers 1958 He made his London debut in a musical Oh My Papa 21 O Toole gained fame on the West End in the play The Long and the Short and the Tall performed at the Royal Court starting January 1959 His co stars included Robert Shaw and Edward Judd and it was directed by Lindsay Anderson He reprised his performance for television on Theatre Night in 1959 although he did not appear in the 1961 film version The show transferred to the West End in April and won O Toole Best Actor of the Year in 1959 22 1960s O Toole was in much demand He reportedly received five offers of long term contracts but turned them down 21 His first role was a small role in Disney s version of Kidnapped 1960 playing the bagpipes opposite Peter Finch 23 His second feature was The Savage Innocents 1960 with Anthony Quinn for director Nicholas Ray With his then wife Sian Phillips he did Siwan The King s Daughter 1960 for TV In 1960 he had a nine month season at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford appearing in The Taming of the Shrew as Petruchio The Merchant of Venice as Shylock and Troilus and Cressida as Thersites He could have made more money in films but said You ve got to go to Stratford when you ve got the chance 24 O Toole had been seen in The Long and the Short and the Tall by Jules Buck who later established a company with the actor 23 25 Buck cast O Toole in The Day They Robbed the Bank of England 1961 a heist thriller from director John Guillermin O Toole was billed third beneath Aldo Ray and Elizabeth Sellars 26 The same year he appeared in several episodes of the TV series Rendezvous End of a Good Man Once a Horseplayer London New York 27 He lost the role in the film adaptation of Long and the Short and the Tall to Laurence Harvey 23 It broke my heart he said later 24 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 O Toole s major break came in November 1960 when he was chosen to play the eponymous hero T E Lawrence in Sir David Lean s epic Lawrence of Arabia 1962 after Albert Finney reportedly turned down the role 28 The role introduced him to a global audience and earned him the first of his eight nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor He received the BAFTA Award for Best British Actor His performance was ranked number one in Premiere magazine s list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time 29 In 2003 Lawrence as portrayed by O Toole was selected as the tenth greatest hero in cinema history by the American Film Institute 30 O Toole played Hamlet under Laurence Olivier s direction in the premiere production of the Royal National Theatre in 1963 31 He performed in Baal 1963 at the Phoenix Theatre 32 Partnership with Jules Buck O Toole in the TV film Present Laughter 1968 Even prior to the making of Lawrence of Arabia O Toole announced he wanted to form a production company with Jules Buck In November 1961 they said their company known as Keep Films also known as Tricolor Productions would make a film starring Terry Thomas Operation Snatch 33 In 1962 O Toole and Buck announced they wanted to make a version of Waiting for Godot for 80 000 34 The film was never made Instead their first production was Becket 1964 where O Toole played King Henry II opposite Richard Burton The film done in association with Hal Wallis was a financial success 25 35 O Toole turned down the lead role in The Cardinal 1963 21 Instead he and Buck made another epic Lord Jim 1965 based on the novel by Joseph Conrad directed by Richard Brooks 25 32 He and Buck intended to follow this with a biopic of Will Adams 36 and a film about the Charge of the Light Brigade but neither project happened 37 Instead O Toole went into What s New Pussycat 1965 a comedy based on a script by Woody Allen taking over a role originally meant for Warren Beatty and starring alongside Peter Sellers It was a huge success 38 He and Buck helped produce The Party s Over 1965 O Toole returned to the stage with Ride a Cock Horse at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1965 which was harshly reviewed 20 He made a heist film with Audrey Hepburn How to Steal a Million 1966 directed by William Wyler He played the Three Angels in the all star The Bible In the Beginning 1966 directed by John Huston In 1966 at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin he appeared in productions of Juno and the Paycock and Man and Superman 20 Sam Spiegel producer of Lawrence of Arabia reunited O Toole with Omar Sharif in The Night of the Generals 1967 which was a box office disappointment O Toole played in an adaptation of Noel Coward s Present Laughter for TV in 1968 and had a cameo in Casino Royale 1967 The Lion in Winter 1968 As King Henry II in The Lion in Winter 1968 He played Henry II again in The Lion in Winter 1968 alongside Katharine Hepburn and was nominated for an Oscar again one of the few times an actor had been nominated playing the same character in different films The film was also successful at the box office 39 Less popular was Great Catherine 1968 with Jeanne Moreau an adaptation of the play by George Bernard Shaw which Buck and O Toole co produced 25 40 Goodbye Mr Chips 1969 In 1969 he played the title role in the film Goodbye Mr Chips a musical adaptation of James Hilton s novella starring opposite Petula Clark He was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy O Toole fulfilled a lifetime ambition in 1970 when he performed on stage in Samuel Beckett s Waiting for Godot alongside Donal McCann at Dublin s Abbey Theatre In other films he played a man in love with his sister played by Susannah York in Country Dance 1970 O Toole starred in a war film for director Peter Yates Murphy s War 1971 appearing alongside Sian Phillips He was reunited with Richard Burton in a film version of Under Milk Wood 1972 by Dylan Thomas produced by himself and Buck Elizabeth Taylor co starred The film was not a popular success 20 1970s The Ruling Class 1972 O Toole received another Oscar nomination for his performance in The Ruling Class 1972 done for his own company 25 20 In 1972 he played both Miguel de Cervantes and his fictional creation Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha the motion picture adaptation of the 1965 hit Broadway musical opposite Sophia Loren The film was a critical and commercial failure criticised for using mostly non singing actors His singing was dubbed by tenor Simon Gilbert 41 but the other actors did their own singing 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 did not make a film for several years He performed at the Bristol Old Vic from 1973 to 1974 in Uncle Vanya Plunder The Apple Cart and Judgement He returned to films with Rosebud 1975 a flop thriller for Otto Preminger where O Toole replaced Robert Mitchum at the last minute He followed it with Man Friday 1975 an adaptation of the Robinson Crusoe story which was the last work from Keep Films 35 O Toole made Foxtrot 1976 directed by Arturo Ripstein He was critically acclaimed for his performance in Rogue Male 1976 for British television 42 He did Dead Eyed Dicks on stage in Sydney in 1976 43 Less well received was Power Play 1978 made in Canada and Zulu Dawn 1979 shot in South Africa 44 He toured Uncle Vanya and Present Laughter on stage In 1979 O Toole starred as Tiberius in the Penthouse funded biopic Caligula 1980s The Stunt Man 1980 In 1980 he received critical acclaim for playing the director in the behind the scenes film The Stunt Man 45 46 His performance earned him an Oscar nomination He appeared in a mini series for Irish TV Strumpet City where he played James Larkin He followed this with another mini series Masada 1981 playing Lucius Flavius Silva In 1980 he performed in MacBeth at the Old Vic for 500 a week equivalent to 1 600 in 2021 a performance that famously earned O Toole some of the worst reviews of his career 47 48 My Favorite Year 1982 O Toole was nominated for another Oscar for My Favorite Year 1982 a light romantic comedy about the behind the scenes at a 1950s TV variety comedy show in which O Toole plays an ageing swashbuckling film star reminiscent of Errol Flynn He returned to the stage in London with a performance in Man and Superman 1982 that was better received than his MacBeth 49 He focused on television doing an adaptation of Man and Superman 1983 Svengali 1983 Pygmalion 1984 and Kim 1984 and providing the voice of Sherlock Holmes for a series of animated TV movies He did Pygmalion on stage in 1984 at the West End s Shaftesbury Theatre 50 O Toole returned to feature films in Supergirl 1984 Creator 1985 Club Paradise 1986 The Last Emperor 1987 as Sir Reginald Johnston and High Spirits 1988 51 He appeared on Broadway in an adaptation of Pygmalion 1987 opposite Amanda Plummer It ran for 113 performances Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell 1989 He won a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell 1989 52 His other appearances that decade include Uncle Silas 1989 for television 1990s O Toole s performances in the 1990s include Wings of Fame 1990 The Rainbow Thief 1990 with Sharif King Ralph 1991 with John Goodman Isabelle Eberhardt 1992 Rebecca s Daughters 1992 in Wales Civvies 1992 a British TV series The Seventh Coin 1993 Heaven amp Hell North amp South Book III 1994 for American TV and Heavy Weather 1995 for British TV He was in an adaptation of Gulliver s Travels 1996 playing the Emperor of Lilliput FairyTale A True Story 1997 playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Phantoms 1998 from a novel by Dean Koontz and Molokai The Story of Father Damien 1999 He won a Primetime Emmy Award for his role as Bishop Pierre Cauchon in the 1999 mini series Joan of Arc He also produced and starred in a TV adaptation of Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell 1999 2000s O Toole s work in the next decade included Global Heresy 2002 The Final Curtain 2003 Bright Young Things 2003 Hitler The Rise of Evil 2003 for TV as Paul von Hindenburg and Imperium Augustus 2004 as Augustus Caesar In 2004 he played King Priam in Troy In 2005 he appeared on television as the older version of legendary 18th century Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova in the BBC drama serial Casanova 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 followed it with a role in Lassie 2005 Venus 2006 O Toole 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 53 He was in One Night with the King 2007 and co starred in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille 2007 an animated film about a rat with dreams of becoming the greatest chef in Paris as Anton Ego a food critic He had a small role in Stardust 2007 He also appeared in the second season of Showtime s drama series The Tudors 2008 portraying Pope Paul III who excommunicates King Henry VIII from the church an act which leads to a showdown between the two men in seven of the ten episodes Also in 2008 he starred alongside Jeremy Northam and Sam Neill in the New Zealand British film Dean Spanley based on an Alan Sharp adaptation of Irish author Lord Dunsany s short novel My Talks with Dean Spanley 54 He was in Thomas Kinkade s Christmas Cottage 2008 and Iron Road 2009 a Canadian Chinese miniseries O Toole s final performances came in Highway to Hell 2012 and For Greater Glory The True Story of Cristiada 2012 On 10 July 2012 O Toole released a statement announcing his retirement from acting 55 A number of films were released after his retirement and death Decline of an Empire 2013 as Gallus and Diamond Cartel 2017 Personal life O Toole left with Richard Burton in Becket 1964 The two actors along with Richard Harris and Oliver Reed were among a close group of friends who excelled on both stage and screen and were known as hellraisers in their personal lives 2 Personal views While studying at RADA in the early 1950s O Toole 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 played a role in the creation of the current form of the well known folk song Carrickfergus which he related to Dominic Behan who put it in print and made a recording in the mid 1960s 56 Although he lost faith in organised religion as a teenager O Toole expressed positive sentiments regarding the life of Jesus Christ In an interview for The New York Times he said No one can take Jesus away from me there s no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance with enormous notions Such as peace He called himself a retired Christian who prefers an education and reading and facts to faith 57 Relationships In 1959 he married Welsh actress Sian Phillips with whom he had two daughters actress Kate and Patricia They were divorced in 1979 Phillips later said in two autobiographies that O Toole had subjected her to mental cruelty largely fuelled by drinking and was subject to bouts of extreme jealousy when she finally left him for a younger lover 58 O Toole and his girlfriend model Karen Brown 59 had a son Lorcan O Toole born 17 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 60 Sports O Toole played rugby league as a child in Leeds 61 and was also a rugby union fan attending Five Nations matches with friends and fellow rugby fans Richard Harris Kenneth Griffith Peter Finch and Richard Burton He was also a lifelong player coach and enthusiast of cricket 62 and a fan of Sunderland A F C 63 His support of Sunderland was passed on to him through his father who was a labourer in Sunderland for many years 64 He was named their most famous fan 65 The actor in a later interview expressed that he no longer considered himself as much of a fan following the demolition of Roker Park and the subsequent move to the Stadium of Light He described Roker Park as his last connection to the club and that everything they meant to him was when they were at Roker Park 64 O Toole was interviewed at least three times by Charlie Rose on his eponymous talk show In a 17 January 2007 interview O Toole stated that British actor Eric Porter had most influenced him adding 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 for Becket O Toole credited Donald Wolfit as being his most important mentor 66 Health Severe illness almost ended O Toole s life in the late 1970s His stomach cancer was misdiagnosed as resulting from his alcoholic excess 67 O Toole 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 68 He eventually recovered and returned to work He resided on the Sky Road just outside Clifden Connemara County Galway from 1963 and at the height of his career maintained homes in Dublin London and Paris at the Ritz which was where his character supposedly lived in the film How to Steal a Million In an interview with National Public Radio in December 2006 O Toole revealed that he knew all 154 of Shakespeare s sonnets A self described romantic O Toole said of the sonnets that nothing in the English language compares with them and read them daily In Venus he recites Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer s day 69 O Toole wrote two memoirs Loitering With Intent The Child chronicles his childhood in the years leading up to World War II and was a New York Times Notable 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 Death O Toole s memorial plaque in St Paul s Church in Covent Garden London O Toole retired from acting in July 2012 owing to a recurrence of stomach cancer 70 He died on 14 December 2013 at Wellington Hospital in St John s Wood London at the age of 81 71 His funeral was held at Golders Green Crematorium in London on 21 December 2013 where his body was cremated in a wicker coffin 72 His family stated their intention to fulfil his wishes and take his ashes to the west of Ireland 73 Legacy On 18 May 2014 a new prize was launched in memory of Peter O Toole at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School this includes an annual award given to two young actors from the School including a professional contract at Bristol Old Vic Theatre 74 He has a memorial plaque in St Paul s the Actors Church in Covent Garden London On 21 April 2017 the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin announced that Kate O Toole had placed her father s archive at the humanities research centre 75 The collection includes O Toole s scripts extensive published and unpublished writings props photographs letters medical records and more It joins the archives of several of O Toole s collaborators and friends including Donald Wolfit Eli Wallach Peter Glenville Sir Tom Stoppard and Dame Edith Evans 76 77 Acting creditsMain article Peter O Toole on screen and stageAwards and honoursMain article List of awards and nominations received by Peter O Toole O Toole was the recipient of numerous nominations and awards He was offered a knighthood but rejected it in objection to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher s policies 78 better source needed He received four Golden Globe Awards one BAFTA Award for Best British Actor for Lawrence of Arabia and one Primetime Emmy Award Academy Award nominationsO Toole was nominated eight times for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role but was never able to win a competitive Oscar In 2002 3 the Academy honoured him with an Academy Honorary Award for his entire body of work and his lifelong 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 He told Charlie Rose in January 2007 that 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 actor or actress 19 He joked with Robert Osborne during an interview at Turner Classic Movies film festival that he s the Biggest Loser of All Time due to his lack of an Academy Award after many nominations 79 Year Film Winner Also Nominated1962 Lawrence of Arabia Gregory Peck To Kill a Mockingbird Burt Lancaster Birdman of AlcatrazJack Lemmon Days of Wine and RosesMarcello Mastroianni Divorce Italian Style1964 Becket Rex Harrison My Fair Lady Richard Burton BecketAnthony Quinn Zorba the GreekPeter Sellers Dr Strangelove1968 The Lion in Winter Cliff Robertson Charly Alan Arkin The Heart Is a Lonely HunterAlan Bates The FixerRon Moody Oliver 1969 Goodbye Mr Chips John Wayne True Grit Richard Burton Anne of the Thousand DaysDustin Hoffman Midnight CowboyJon Voight Midnight Cowboy1972 The Ruling Class Marlon Brando The Godfather declined Michael Caine SleuthLaurence Olivier SleuthPaul Winfield Sounder1980 The Stunt Man Robert De Niro Raging Bull Robert Duvall The Great SantiniJohn Hurt The Elephant ManJack Lemmon Tribute1982 My Favorite Year Ben Kingsley Gandhi Dustin Hoffman TootsieJack Lemmon MissingPaul Newman The Verdict2006 Venus Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland Leonardo DiCaprio Blood DiamondRyan Gosling Half NelsonWill Smith The Pursuit of HappynessBibliographyLoitering with Intent The Child 1992 Loitering with Intent The Apprentice 1997 See alsoList of British Academy Award nominees and winners List of actors with Academy Award nominations List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categoriesNotes Records from the Leeds General Registry Office confirm he was born at St James s University Hospital on 2 August 1932 1 References a b O Toole s claims of Irish roots are blarney Irish Independent 28 January 2007 a b 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