Peter O'Toole
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Peter O'Toole (2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was an Irish-born, British reared and educated 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, before making his film debut in 1959.
He achieved stardom playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. He received seven further Oscar nominations – for Becket (1964), 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 acting nominations without a win. He won four Golden Globes, a BAFTA and an Emmy, and was the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award in 2003.
Filmography
Film
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1956 | The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel | First Soldier | TV show (1 episode) "A Tale of Two Pigtails" |
1961 | Rendezvous | John | TV show (3 episodes) |
1968 | Present Laughter | Garry Essendine | television film |
1980 | Strumpet City | Jim Larkin | TV show |
1981 | Masada | General Cornelius Flavius Silva | miniseries |
1982 | Man and Superman | Jack Tanner | television film |
1983 | Pygmalion | Professor Henry Higgins | television film |
Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse | Sherlock Holmes | (voice) television film | |
Svengali | Anton Bosnyak | television film | |
1984 | Kim | Lama | television film |
1986 | The Ray Bradbury Theater | John Hapmton | TV show (1 episode) |
1987 | The Dark Angel | Uncle Silas | TV serial, based on the novel Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu |
1990 | Crossing to Freedom | John Sidney Howard | television film |
1992 | Civvies | Barry Newman | television film |
1994 | Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III | Sam Trump | miniseries |
1995 | Heavy Weather | Clarence, Earl of Emsworth | television film |
1996 | Gulliver's Travels | Emperor of Lilliput | television film |
1998 | Coming Home | Colonel Carey-Lewis | television film |
1999 | Joan of Arc | Bishop Cauchon | Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie |
Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell | Jeffrey Bernard | television film | |
2002 | The Education of Max Bickford | Sidney McKnight | TV show (1 episode) |
2003 | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | President Paul von Hindenburg | television film Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie |
Imperium: Augustus | Augustus Caesar | television film | |
2005 | Casanova | Older Casanova | TV serial (3 episodes) |
2008 | The Tudors | Pope Paul III | TV show (7 episodes) |
Iron Road | Lionel Relic | miniseries |