Peter O'Toole
Actor
Born August 2, 1932 in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
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.
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)
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
Gulliver's Travels
King of Lilliput
Heavy Weather
Clarence, Earl of Emsworth
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
100 Years at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
The Rainbow Thief
Prince Meleagre
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
The Seventh Coin
Emil Saber
Civvies
Barry Newman
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self
Rebecca's Daughters
Lord Sarn
Isabelle Eberhardt
Maj. Lyautey
King Ralph
Sir Cedric Charles Willingham
The Nutcracker Prince
Pantaloon (voice)
Crossing to Freedom
John Sidney Howard
Wings of Fame
Cesar Valentin
On a Moonlit Night
Prof. Yan McShoul
The Dark Angel
Silas Ruthyn
High Spirits
Peter Plunkett
Bernardo Bertolucci and the Making of 'The Last Emperor'
Self
The Last Emperor
Reginald Johnston (R.J.)
The Dark Angel
Uncle Silas Ruthyn
Club Paradise
Anthony Cloyden Hayes
Supergirl: The Making of the Movie
Self / Zaltar
North and South
Sam Trump
Creator
Dr. Harry Wolper
The Ray Bradbury Theater
John Hampton
Supergirl
Zaltar
Kim
Lama
Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet
Sherlock Holmes (voice)
Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four
Sherlock Holmes (voice)
Pygmalion
Professor Henry Higgins
Is There One Who Understands Me? The World of James Joyce
Svengali
Anton Bosnyak
Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear
Sherlock Holmes (voice)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse
Sherlock Holmes (voice)
My Favorite Year
Alan Swann
Wogan
Self
Masada
General Cornelius Flavius Silva
Wetten, dass..?
Self
The Stunt Man
Eli Cross
Strumpet City
Jim Larkin
Caligula
Tiberius
Zulu Dawn
Lord Chelmsford
Power Play
Colonel Zeller
Rogue Male
Sir Robert Thorndyke
Foxtrot
Liviu
Rosebud
Larry Martin
Man Friday
Robinson Crusoe
The Public's Right to Know
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
Man of La Mancha
Don Quixote De La Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes / Alonso Quijana
The Ruling Class
Jack 14th Earl of Gurney
Under Milk Wood
Captain Tom Cat
Murphy's War
Murphy
Wind, Sand and Star: The Making of a Classic
Brotherly Love
Sir Charles Ferguson
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Arthur Chipping
Stiletto
Man at the Premiere (uncredited)
Great Catherine
Capt. Charles Edstaston
The Lion in Winter
Henry II
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Casino Royale
Scottish Piper (uncredited)
Present Laughter
Garry Essendine
The Night of the Generals
General Tanz
The Bible: In the Beginning...
The Three Angels
How to Steal a Million
Simon Dermott
The Sandpiper
(voice) (uncredited)
What's New Pussycat?
Michael James
The Party's Over
Lord Jim
Lord Jim
Becket
King Henry II of England
Wind Sand and Star
The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time
Self
Lawrence of Arabia
T.E. Lawrence
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Operation Snatch
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
Capt. Monty Fitch
The Savage Innocents
First Trooper
Kidnapped
Robin MacGregor
Armchair Theatre
Paddy
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
First Soldier
The Oscars
Self
Today
Self
Sunday Night Theatre
Rene Latour
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self