Peter O'Toole
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Peter_O%27Toole_-_Lion.jpg/220px-Peter_O%27Toole_-_Lion.jpg) Peter O'Toole in the
Lion in Winter
trailer in 1968
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Born
| Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole
2 August 1932
(
1932-08-02
)
Connemara
,
County Galway
,
Irish Free State
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Dee'd
| 14 December 2013
(2013-12-14)
(aged 81)
Lunnon
,
Ingland
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Thrift
| Actor
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Years active
| 1954-2012
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Hauf-marrae(s)
| Sian Phillips (
m.
1959?1979)
(divorced)
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Bairns
| Three
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Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole
[1]
(
2 August
1932
–
14 December
2013
)
[1]
wis an
Irish
movie an stage actor.
[2]
He wis kent for his stage plays that war maistly basit on that o
William Shakespeare
.
[3]
O'Toole wis born on
2 August
1932
in
Connemara
,
County Galway
,
Irish Free State
.
[4]
O'Toole's career lastit awmaist 60 years. He became famous for his role as
T. E. Lawrence
in
Lawrence o Arabia
(1962). He receivit his first
Academy Awaird
nomination for that role. He receivit seiven mair Academy Awaird nominations ? for
Becket
(1964),
The Lion in Winter
(1968),
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(1969),
The Rulin Class
(1972),
The Stunt Man
(1980),
My Favorite Year
(1982), an
Venus
(2006). O'Toole holds the record for the maist Academy Awaird nominations bi an actor wioot a win.
[5]
O'Toole won fower
Golden Globes
, a
BAFTA Awaird
, an an
Emmy Awaird
. He an aa receivit an honorary Academy Awaird in 2003.
[3]
O'Toole deit on
14 December
2013
in
London
,
England
frae
stomach cancer
.
[1]
He wis 81 year auld.
[6]
O'Toole wis born
Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole
on
2 August
1932
in
Connemara
,
County Galway
,
Irish Free State
.
[4]
His mither wis Constance Jane Eliot (nee Ferguson), a
Scottish
nourice. His faither wis Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish
fitbawer
.
O'Toole wis raisit as an Irish Catholic. He wis raisit in
Leeds
,
West Riding of Yorkshire
,
England
[7]
an stayit thare until he wis forcit oot due tae
World War II
.
[8]
O'Toole studit tae acome an actor at the
Royal Academy o Dramatic Art
frae 1952 until 1954.
Publicity photo for
Lawrence o Arabia
Publicity photo for
Present Laughter
O'Toole's career began in 1954 on stage. His film career began in 1960 in the movie
Kidnapped
as Robin MacGregor. His became famous when he playit
T. E. Lawrence
in
Lawrence o Arabia
. He became ane o the maist famous actors durin the 1960s an 1970s. In 1972 O'Toole plaitd baith
Miguel de Cervantes
an
Don Quixote
in
Man o La Mancha
.
In 1980, he receivit good reviews for playin the director in the behind-the-scenes movie
The Stunt Man
.
[9]
[10]
He receivit mixit reviews as John Tanner in
Man an Superman
an as Henry Higgins in
Pygmalion
. He won a
Laurence Olivier Awaird
for his performance in
Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
(1989).
[11]
O'Toole playit
King Priam
in the 2004 movie
Troy
. His last warldwide film role wis as fuid critic Anton Ego in the 2007
Disney
-
Pixar
movie
Ratatouille
. On
10 Julie
2012
O'Toole releasit a statement that he wad be reteerin.
[12]
O'Toole wis nominatit for aicht
Academy Awairds
. He holds the record of havin the maist nominations for an Academy Awaird wioot winnin.
[5]
He won fower
Golden Globes
, a
BAFTA Awaird
, an an
Emmy Awaird
. In 2003 O'Toole receivit an honorary Academy Awaird.
O'Toole wis marrit tae
Sian Phillips
frae 1959 until thay divorcit in 1979.
[3]
O'Toole haed three childer; twa dochters wi Phillips (Kate an Patricia) an a son bi his girlfriend Karen Broun (Lorcan Patrick O'Toole).
[3]
O'Toole livit in
London
, England.
[3]
He wis lifelong friends wi Irish actor
Richard Harris
until Harris' daith in 2002.
[3]
O'Toole recoverit frae
stomach cancer
in the 1970s. He an aa haed stomach cancer for the last eighteen months o his life. He deit o the disease in the Wellington Hospital in London, agit 81.
[1]
[1]
[6]
Preses o Ireland
Michael D. Higgins
lead a tribute tae O'Toole. Higgins callit O'Toole "a friend".
[1]
O'Toole's
funeral
wis held on
20 December
2013
at his London home.
[13]
Rock starn
Sting
an ex-wife Sian attendit his funeral.
[13]
[14]
His remains war later
crematit
.
[14]
O'Toole's remains war taken back tae his birthplace o Connemara, Ireland. His dochter Kate said, "We're bringing him home. It's what he would have wanted."
[15]