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Nickname:Peter Full Name:Peter Seamus O'Toole Profession:Actor Nationality:American Date of Birth:August 2, 1932 Date of Death:December 14, 2013 Place of Death:The Wellington Hospital, South Building, London, United Kingdom Cause of Death:Natural Birthplace:Connemara Zodiac Sign: Aries The break-up sent him into a depression and he was unable to work. [23] O'Toole described this as "the most remarkable class the academy ever had, though we weren't reckoned for much at the time. 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 was offered a knighthood in 1987, but turned it down on political grounds. But the pirate ship has berthed. 1. ‘Never has a man looked so drunk without being drunk,’ critics said. The film, done in association with Hal Wallis, was a financial success. He was Henry Higgins in Pygmalion (1957), Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1957), Uncle Gustve in Oh! In 2003 he was awarded an honorary Oscar, but initially refused to accept it on the grounds that he was not yet 80 years old – and might still win it for a movie  role. He was already an amateur actor. What is the Cause of Peter O’Toole Death? Lawrence]: Killed in a motorcycle accident at the beginning of the movie; the rest of the film depicts his life in flashback. Known ForWilliam Shakespeare. [26] 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. [17] 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. [2] He was additionally the recipient of four Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA Award for Best British Actor and one Primetime Emmy Award. 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. After two years of National Service in the Navy, during which he read Shakespeare, he decided acting was the career for him. (1957), and Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger (1957). Academy Award nominations 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. [76] His funeral was held at Golders Green Crematorium in London on 21 December 2013, where his body was cremated in a wicker coffin. [49] He toured Uncle Vanya and Present Laughter on stage. He played a role in the creation of the current form of the well-known folksong "Carrickfergus" which he related to Dominic Behan, who put it in print and made a recording in the mid-1960s. 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 Academy Award nominations for acting without a win. He received the BAFTA Award for Best British Actor. [68] His support of Sunderland was passed on to him through his father, who was a labourer in Sunderland for many years. In 1979, O'Toole starred as Tiberius in the Penthouse-funded biopic, Caligula. The show transferred to the West End in April and won O'Toole Best Actor of the Year in 1959. [5][6][7][8] Some sources give his birthplace as the Irish region of Connemara,[9] while others cite St James University Hospital in the English city of Leeds. Early on, he fell for the Welsh actress Sian Phillips and when their 20-year marriage ended — to his chagrin — he formed no other romantic relationship that lasted. It was to trigger an emergency that brought him close to death in 1976. His theatrical bomb was front-page news. O’Toole died on 14 December 2013 at the Wellington Hospital in London, following a long illness. Women melted at his tall, lean, good looks, and the pixieish air of mischief and sense of danger he created around himself. Quick Facts. In an interview with National Public Radio in December 2006, O'Toole revealed that he knew all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets. 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. He was 81. At Stratford, O’Toole was hailed as a new star for his portrayal of Shylock in The Merchant Of Venice and Petruchio in The Taming Of The Shrew. Yet he still stayed up talking and  drinking all night afterwards. [50][51] His performance earned him an Oscar nomination. Wildness, rage and violent behaviour could take over. The adoring son also went to the York- shire racecourses. 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. 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. 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. Peter O'Toole. "[29], 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. He followed this with another mini series Masada (1981), playing Lucius Flavius Silva. Olivier insisted, to his dismay, on a blond wig and performing the uncut text, which takes over four hours. Red carpet: The Irish actor pictured during the BFI London Film Festival in 2008. The daughter of an art forger teams up with a burglar to steal one of her father's forgeries and protect his secret. In other films he played a man in love with his sister (played by Susannah York) in Country Dance (1970). Peter O’Toole was writing two screenplays just before his death at the age of 81, according to research that also suggests the actor’s hell-raising image was … They include the historical epic Katherine Of Alexandria, and Mary, which retells the story of Christ’s mother. He played the Three Angels in the all-star The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), directed by John Huston. With Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith. Lawrence and was his most famous work. O'Toole received another Oscar nomination for his performance in The Ruling Class (1972), done for his own company. [74] O'Toole wrote two memoirs. Following Lawrence Of Arabia, other nominations followed for Becket (1964), The Lion In Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972), The Stunt Man (1980) and My Favourite Year (1982). The 1930s were called the Great Depression (1929-1939). [25] 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. He was critically acclaimed for his performance in Rogue Male (1976) for British television. Alcohol was partly a palliative for the stomach pain he constantly suffered. Peter O'Toole (1932 - 2013) 1 Film Deaths 2 TV Deaths 3 Noteworthy Connections 4 Gallery Lawrence of Arabia (1962) [T.E. Nonetheless, O’Toole was making good films: The Stunt Man, My Favourite Year, The Last Emperor, The Final Curtain. He insisted on total control, appointing his own director and designer — at one stage he proposed no scenery other than inflated black plastic bags. He refused to take door keys with him when he left his house. He would return days later, sometimes with a present — such as, on one occasion, a car tied up in ribbon (his wife didn’t drive), which he proceeded to crash into a police car. ‘I got my showmanship and style from him,’ he recalled. As they lounged noisily in the stalls, O’Toole suddenly realised he was supposed to be on stage: he was the show’s star. But his brilliance in Jeffrey  Bernard Is Unwell, in which he appeared intermittently through the Nineties, saved him from being written off as a has-been. 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. LONDON (AP) - Peter O'Toole, the charismatic actor who achieved instant stardom as Lawrence of Arabia and was nominated eight times for an Academy Award, has died, his agent said Sunday. For a poor Irish boy, Peter O’Toole’s rise to stardom was meteoric. "[18], Upon leaving school, O'Toole obtained employment as a trainee journalist and photographer on the Yorkshire Evening Post,[19] until he was called up for national service as a signaller in the Royal Navy. O’Toole was nothing if not erratic. [30][37] He and Buck intended to follow this with a biopic of Will Adams[41] and a film about the Charge of the Light Brigade, but neither project happened. 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. Ruling class ( 1972 ), directed by Arturo Ripstein Short and the following year he played King Priam Troy. 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