Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole
San Francisco Examiner photo by Chris Hardy
Born: 2 August 1932, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
The date and place shown here are the data he personally accepts, he also has a birth certificate from Connemara, Ireland showing a June date. O'Toole was evacuated from Leeds at the beginning of WW II and sent to a Catholic school where the nuns attempted to make him right-handed. After graduation he worked as a trainee reporter and photographer for the Yorkshire Evening Post until he was called up for service as a Signaler in the Royal Navy. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1951-1954) and acted Shakespearean roles at the Bristol Old Vic until he was cast as T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia in 1962. Premiere Magazine rates this as the greatest acting performance of all time, it won him his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor. He now has the most nominations in that category for anyone who has not won one, the Academy Honorary Award he won in 2003 was presented by the actor with the most Oscar nominations of all time, Meryl Streep (with fifteen). O'Toole was active on stage through 1999, he has had roles in about 65 films to date, and has acted in 25 television productions. His heavy drinking led to removal of his pancreas and part of his stomach, which resulted in insulin dependence. He still drinks, and despite legislation in many areas he smokes when and where he likes, and generally gets away with it. He wears only green socks in honor of his Irish heritage, although the color is more muted than it once was.
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- Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest. permalink
Peter O'Toole - For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding. permalink
Peter O'Toole - He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once. permalink
Peter O'Toole - I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him. permalink
Peter O'Toole - I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another. permalink
Peter O'Toole - I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you. permalink
Peter O'Toole - I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick. permalink
Peter O'Toole - I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums. permalink
Peter O'Toole - 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. permalink
Peter O'Toole - I wouldn't mind being a lord. permalink
Peter O'Toole - I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else. permalink
Peter O'Toole - Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. permalink
Peter O'Toole - Since I'm still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright, would the Academy please defer the honour until I am eighty? permalink
Peter O'Toole - The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do. permalink
Peter O'Toole - The nicest buttocks in the world are in Ireland. Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world. permalink
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