Peter O Toole

Born on August 2, 1932 and Died on December 14, 2013 Peter Seamus O'Toole was Irish born and raised in England. He wanted to be a journalist and started out as a newspaper copy boy. He was successful as a reporter, but discovered theater and made his stage debut at 17. O'Toole was a radioman in the Royal Navy, attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and spent several years on stage at the Bristol Old Vic. In 1962 O'Toole was chosen to play in Lawrence of Arabia. This film made him an international sensation.

O'Toole continued acting in artistically rich and commercially successful firms. He received Academy Award nominations for seven different films. He was Hamlet in Hamlet under Laurence Olivier's management in a first performance production at the Royal National Theatre in 1963. He also had a comic side in What's New Pussycat in 1965.

In the 1970s O'Toole was diagnosed with stomach cancer. In 1980 O'Toole returned to film in The Stunt Man and My Favorite Year (1982). Other notable films include Goodbye, Mr. Chips in 1969, The Ruling Class in 1972, and Venus in 2006.

O'Toole was a professional cricket coach in London and among his accolades, he was chosen as one of the 100 sexiest starts in film history by Empire magazine. He received the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2000 for Outstanding Achievement for his theater performances. In 2003 he won a Special Oscar for lifetime achievement.

O'Toole has been king in Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Troy (2004), and Caligula in 1979. He has also been a Pope in The Tudors in 2007, a president in Hitler: The Rise of Evil in 2003, and a prince in The Rainbow Thief in 1990.



O'Toole is known for his bold blue eyes and deep smooth voice. He often play rebels and has had many roles in Shakespearean adaptions. He generally plays real life characters. O'Toole was married two times; one to Karen Brown in 1983 (one child) and to Sian Phillips in December 1959 to August 1979. They had two children.