🎬 Movies Mates PEOPLE
Peter O'Toole
Acting
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 Ac…
Read full 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).
Biography expanded
BODY OF WORK
Peter O'Toole's Filmography
Select any movie to open its full Movies Mates details page.
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
as Archive
Henry Fonda for President
as Self (archive footage)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self (archive footage)
Peter O'Toole Réalta & Rógaire
as Self (archive footage)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Hangover in Death Valley
as Narrator (voice)
Diamond Cartel
as Tugboat
Katherine of Alexandria
as Gallus
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
as Father Christopher
Peter O'Toole: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
as Self
Eldorado
as Narrator (voice)
Hollywood Invasion
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Eager to Die
as Lord Pelican
Iron Road
as Relic
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
Dean Spanley
as Fisk Senior
Christmas Cottage
as Glen
Stardust
as King
Ratatouille
as Anton Ego (voice)
One Night with the King
as Samuel, the Prophet
Venus
as Maurice
Lassie
as The Duke
Mystic India
as Narrador
Troy
as Priam
Augustus: The First Emperor
as Augustus Caesar
Bright Young Things
as Colonel Blount
The Final Curtain
as JJ Curtis
Global Heresy
as Lord Foxley
The Making of Lawrence of Arabia
as Self (archive footage)
Hellraisers
as Self
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell
as Jeffrey Bernard
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
as William Williamson
The Manor
as Mr. Ravenscroft
Coming Home
as Colonel Edgar Carey-Lewis
Phantoms
as Dr. Timothy Flyte
FairyTale: A True Story
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
An Evening with Spike Milligan
as Himself
Heavy Weather
as Clarence, Earl of Emsworth
The Rainbow Thief
as Prince Meleagre
The Seventh Coin
as Emil Saber
Rebecca's Daughters
as Lord Sarn
Isabelle Eberhardt
as Maj. Lyautey
King Ralph
as Willingham
The Nutcracker Prince
as Pantaloon (voice)
Crossing to Freedom
as John Sidney Howard
Wings of Fame
as Cesar Valentin
On a Moonlit Night
as Prof. Yan McShoul
High Spirits
as Peter Plunkett
Bernardo Bertolucci and the Making of 'The Last Emperor'
as Self
The Last Emperor
as Reginald Johnston (R.J.)
The Dark Angel
as Uncle Silas Ruthyn
Club Paradise
as Anthony Cloyden Hayes
Supergirl: The Making of the Movie
as Self / Zaltar
Creator
as Dr. Harry Wolper
Supergirl
as Zaltar
Kim
as Lama
Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet
as Sherlock Holmes (voice)
Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four
as Sherlock Holmes (voice)
Pygmalion
as Professor Henry Higgins
Is There One Who Understands Me? The World of James Joyce
Svengali
as Anton Bosnyak
Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear
as Sherlock Holmes (voice)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse
as Sherlock Holmes (voice)
Man and Superman
as Jack Tanner
My Favorite Year
as Alan Swann
The Stunt Man
as Eli Cross
Caligula
as Tiberius
Zulu Dawn
as Lord Chelmsford
Power Play
as Colonel Zeller
Rogue Male
as Sir Robert Thorndyke
Foxtrot
as Liviu
Rosebud
as Larry Martin
Man Friday
as Robinson Crusoe
The Public's Right to Know
as Self
Man of La Mancha
as Don Quixote De La Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes / Alonso Quijana
The Ruling Class
as Jack 14th Earl of Gurney
Under Milk Wood
as Captain Tom Cat
Murphy's War
as Murphy
Wind, Sand and Star: The Making of a Classic
Brotherly Love
as Sir Charles Ferguson
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Arthur Chipping
Stiletto
as Man at the Premiere (uncredited)
Great Catherine
as Capt. Charles Edstaston
The Lion in Winter
as Henry II
Casino Royale
as Scottish Piper (uncredited)
Present Laughter
as Garry Essendine
The Night of the Generals
as General Tanz
The Bible: In the Beginning...
as The Three Angels
How to Steal a Million
as Simon Dermott
The Sandpiper
as (voice) (uncredited)
What's New Pussycat?
as Michael James
Lord Jim
as Lord Jim
Becket
as King Henry II of England
Wind, Sand and Star
The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time
as Self
Lawrence of Arabia
as T.E. Lawrence
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
as Capt. Monty Fitch
The Savage Innocents
as First Trooper
Kidnapped
as Robin MacGregor
No Poster
The Castiglioni Brothers
as Mario