[3], Peter Seamus O'Toole was born on 2 August 1932, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (née Ferguson), a Scottish nurse,[4] and Patrick Joseph "Spats" O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player, and bookmaker. But he was becoming better known for drinking and brawling than acting. Illness and death O'Toole recovered from stomach cancer in the 1970s. He was offered a knighthood in 1987, but turned it down on political grounds. However, in other venues (including the DVD commentary for Becket), O'Toole credited Donald Wolfit as being his most important mentor.[71]. [39] The film was never made. But the pirate ship has berthed. In 1969, he played the title role in the film Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a musical adaptation of James Hilton's novella, starring opposite Petula Clark. In other films he played a man in love with his sister (played by Susannah York) in Country Dance (1970). A cause of death was not immediately disclosed. Actor Peter O'Toole, who found stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in "Lawrence of Arabia," has died, BBC News reports. Tributes were led by Prime Minister David Cameron, who declared that Lawrence Of Arabia was his ‘favourite film’, with O’Toole’s performance ‘stunning’. One day he clutched her and  said: ‘Have my children.’ She agreed, and soon after conceived Kate, the first of their two daughters. After two years of National Service in the Navy, during which he read Shakespeare, he decided acting was the career for him. [69] He was named their most famous fan. Firefighters union 'delayed its members volunteering in pandemic because of a health and safety row'. [23] O'Toole described this as "the most remarkable class the academy ever had, though we weren't reckoned for much at the time. He received the BAFTA Award for Best British Actor. [58] He was in One Night with the King (2007) and co-starred in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007), an animated film about a rat with dreams of becoming the greatest chef in Paris, as Anton Ego, a food critic. After three years at the Bristol Old Vic, O’Toole was spotted as Hamlet by director Peter Hall, who said: ‘I could see the spark of genius.’ Hall invited him to join the team he was recruiting for Stratford upon Avon, due to open in 1960 as the RSC. He had a small role in Stardust (2007). The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. O’Toole died on 14 December 2013 at the Wellington Hospital in London, following a long illness. Their rows often ended with him running out of the house, sometimes barefoot, and driving away furiously. During his not very distinguished time as a RADA student, he was befriended by Wilfrid Lawson, a celebrated actor with a legendary drinking capacity: ‘He lent me money, taught me to drink and gave me the best advice I ever had — stop acting.’, Travelling: Mr O'Toole and his actress wife Sian Phillips in Heathrow Airport in 1972. He also attracted rave reviews in the 1990s in the lead role in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell. O'Toole starred in a war film for director Peter Yates, Murphy's War (1971), appearing alongside Sian Phillips. For Disney, he portrayed Robin MacGregor in the 1960 film, Kidnapped and voiced Anton Ego in the 2007 Disney/Pixar film, Ratatouille. He was based at the Bristol Old Vic from 1956 to 1958, appearing in productions of King Lear (1956), The Recruiting Officer (1956), Major Barbara (1956), Othello (1956), and The Slave of Truth (1956). He was also in Hamlet (1958), The Holiday (1958), Amphitryon '38 (1958), and Waiting for Godot (1958) (as Vladimir). 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. Excelling on the London stage, O'Toole was known as a "hellraiser" off it.[1]. "[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 would burst into a room carrying an open champagne bottle in one hand and an ebony cigarette holder in the other, with coat-tails flying impetuously. He reportedly received five offers of long-term contracts but turned them down. In a 17 January 2007 interview, O'Toole stated that British actor Eric Porter had most influenced him, adding that the difference between actors of yesterday and today is that actors of his generation were trained for "theatre, theatre, theatre". O’Toole’s performance as the enigmatic Lawrence was a triumph. Worst of all, while her career was growing, his was by then steadily declining. 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). In 2003 the Academy awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award. 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. 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. His stomach cancer was misdiagnosed as resulting from his alcoholic excess. He went on to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where his classmates included Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Richard Harris. On stage he portrayed the impossibly drunken but beloved journalist Jeffrey Bernard in the play by author and long-time Mail columnist Keith Waterhouse, set in the writer’s regular habitat, The Coach & Horses in Soho. [31] The same year he appeared in several episodes of the TV series Rendezvous ("End of a Good Man", "Once a Horseplayer", "London-New York"). Nonetheless, O’Toole was making good films: The Stunt Man, My Favourite Year, The Last Emperor, The Final Curtain. It was at a particularly low point in his film career that he hit on the fatal plan to return to the stage in 1980 as Macbeth. 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 so anxious about the film that he could not sit through the premiere — he claimed he first saw it through 20 years later. They suited each other in all respects except one — the drink, which she had never touched before. His career’s highs and lows were his sudden appearance as a fully-fledged international star as Lawrence Of Arabia in 1962, and his notoriously ridiculed return to the stage as Macbeth in 1980, perhaps the biggest theatrical disaster to befall any actor of his time. [32] He lost the role in the film adaptation of Long and the Short and the Tall to Laurence Harvey. O'Toole did not make a film for several years. I had the honour of directing him in a scene. It’s better not to know.’. In 1966 at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin he appeared in productions of Juno and the Paycock and Man and Superman. Friends advised her against marriage. O'Toole's work in the next decade included Global Heresy (2002); The Final Curtain (2003); Bright Young Things (2003); Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003) for TV, as Paul von Hindenburg; and Imperium: Augustus (2004) as Augustus Caesar. According to some biographies, Peter O’Toole was born in Connemara, Co. Galway, on August 2, 1932, shortly before his parents moved to an expatriate community in Hunslet, a very poor area of Leeds. [52][53], O'Toole was nominated for another Oscar for My Favorite Year (1982), a light romantic comedy about the behind-the-scenes at a 1950s TV variety-comedy show, in which O'Toole plays an aging swashbuckling film star reminiscent of Errol Flynn. [50][51] His performance earned him an Oscar nomination. He won a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (1989). 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. It was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. (1957), and Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger (1957). 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 He always kept the exact diagnosis secret, but the love affair with alcohol was over. Quick Facts. With Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith. They were divorced in 1979. [62], In 1959, he married Welsh actress Siân Phillips, with whom he had two daughters: actress Kate and Patricia. On 10 July 2012, O'Toole released a statement announcing his retirement from acting. By Sam Greenhill for the Daily Mail and Sara Smyth for the Daily Mail and Peter Lloyd, Published: 18:05 GMT, 15 December 2013 | Updated: 08:55 GMT, 16 December 2013. In 2002,[2] the Academy honoured him with an Academy Honorary Award for his entire body of work and his lifelong contribution to film. O'Toole and co-star James Coco, who played both Cervantes's manservant and Sancho Panza, both received Golden Globe nominations for their performances. When he sobered up the next day, he cancelled the cheque. On the opening night, O’Toole appeared bathed in blood from head to foot and announced, after a long pause: ‘I have done the deed.’ This statement of the obvious brought the house down and the performance never recovered. Peter O’Toole Cause of Death. [38] In 1962 O'Toole and Buck announced they wanted to make a version of Waiting for Godot for £80,000. On holiday with Sian Phillips in North Wales, he burned down the cottage while trying to make toast and, during the filming of The Lion In Winter in 1968, he cut off the tip of a finger in a boating mishap. [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. O'Toole received another Oscar nomination for his performance in The Ruling Class (1972), done for his own company. The charismatic actor – whose early life is something of a mystery – achieved instant stardom as Lawrence Of Arabia and went on to be nominated eight times for a best-actor Academy Award. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for his role as Bishop Pierre Cauchon in the 1999 mini-series Joan of Arc. Such as peace." O’Toole lost two stone riding hundreds of miles on camel back and endured many minor injuries — from a cracked skull and torn ligaments to camel bites. [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. He was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. On 18 May 2014, a new prize was launched in memory of Peter O'Toole at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School; this includes an annual award given to two young actors from the School, including a professional contract at Bristol Old Vic Theatre. [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. He did Pygmalion on stage in 1984 at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre.[55]. Brought up in Leeds, England in a Yorkshire Irish family, O'Toole has appeared on lists of greatest actors from publications in England and Ireland. However, he ended up with the unenviable record of being the most nominated actor never to win. He was critically acclaimed for his performance in Rogue Male (1976) for British television. In films he was more under control. Yet he still stayed up talking and  drinking all night afterwards. Farewell Peter O’Toole. 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. The NHS puts a price on ALL our lives. He duly received his eighth best-actor nomination for Venus, but failed again and finally accepted his honorary award. He was in Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage (2008); and Iron Road (2009), a Canadian-Chinese miniseries. [22] At RADA, he was in the same class as Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Brian Bedford. "[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. O’Toole and drink always seemed to be inseparable, but when he portrayed determinedly drunken journalist Bernard so convincingly, he had long been stone cold sober. O'Toole was billed third, beneath Aldo Ray and Elizabeth Sellars. He returned to films with Rosebud (1975), a flop thriller for Otto Preminger, where O'Toole replaced Robert Mitchum at the last minute. Gender: . Another memorable role: O'Toole starred in Under Milk Wood with Elizabeth Taylor. O’Toole and Sian Phillips fell in love during the tour of a play in which they played brother and sister. It was presented to him by Meryl Streep, who has the most Oscar nominations of any actor or actress (19). The Hollywood hellraiser: Aside from his screen successes, Peter was also known for living an indulgent life. In 1960 he had a nine-month season at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, appearing in The Taming of the Shrew (as Petruchio), The Merchant of Venice (as Shylock) and Troilus and Cressida (as Thersites). Alcohol was partly a palliative for the stomach pain he constantly suffered. 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A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. Instead their first production was Becket (1964), where O'Toole played King Henry II opposite Richard Burton. O'Toole returned to the stage with Ride a Cock Horse at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1965, which was harshly reviewed. O'Toole was the recipient of numerous nominations and awards. Women melted at his tall, lean, good looks, and the pixieish air of mischief and sense of danger he created around himself. In 1980, he received critical acclaim for playing the director in the behind-the-scenes film The Stunt Man. When he finally unwrapped the mess days later, he discovered he had drunkenly replaced the tip upside-down. He played a soldier in an episode of The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1954. But HIS carousing was out of control. [12] Records from the Leeds General Registry Office confirm that a Peter J (James) O'Toole was born there in 1932. But then O’Toole always did know how to put on a show. After one spectacularly liquid lunch in the Seventies, he dragged a group of friends to a West End theatre to see a play that had rave reviews. [10][11] O'Toole claimed he was not certain of his birthplace or date, noting in his autobiography that he accepted 2 August as his birth date but had a birth certificate from each country, with the Irish one giving a date of June 1932. The global acclaim catapulted O’Toole into the top earning bracket and bought him a home in Hampstead, North London, and a cottage in Connemara, which became his bolthole. 1. Film role: Lawrence Of Arabia starred Peter O'Toole as T.E. The Academy informed him that they would bestow the award whether he wanted it or not. He also appeared in the second season of Showtime's successful drama series The Tudors (2008), portraying Pope Paul III, who excommunicates King Henry VIII from the church; an act which leads to a showdown between the two men in seven of the ten episodes. Sian Phillips later described in her autobiography his destructive rages: he threw a portable TV through the larger screen of another set and said it gave him ‘deep-seated satisfaction’. The news of his death comes just one year after he formally retired from acting on the eve of his 80th birthday. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Peter O'Toole (2 Aug 1932–14 Dec 2013), Find a Grave Memorial no. He told reporters: ‘It will improve.’ In fact, the production sold out throughout its run and provincial tour as people swarmed to see how bad it was. [21] He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1952 to 1954 on a scholarship. Leaving school at 14 with no qualifications, he joined the Yorkshire Evening News as a tea-boy and copy-boy. Emotional: He is embraced by actress and presenter Meryl Streep after he received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2003. He had been ill for some time, but the specific cause was not disclosed. He was already an amateur actor. [20] As reported in a radio interview in 2006 on NPR, he was asked by an officer whether he had something he had always wanted to do. The next day, O’Toole appeared relaxed. Prodigious talent: Peter was considered one of the industry's most talented stars. A reformed but unrepentant hell-raiser, O’Toole long suffered from ill health, but continued to amuse and delight those he met. A child out of wedlock was distinctly bad publicity in 1959, but Sian was already married and awaiting a divorce after three years’ separation. He was being … Peter O’Toole has died at the age of 81, it was announced last night. 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