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Personal Info

Birth date

1932-08-02 (92 Years)

Day of death

2013-12-14

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

Also known as

彼得奧圖
彼德·奥图
پیتر اوتول

Peter O'Toole

Biography

Peter Seamus O'Toole (August 2, 1932 – December 14, 2013) was a British 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).

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Filmography

Acting

2025Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders as Archive

2023Sly as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self (archive footage)

2021Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)

2020Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2018Hangover in Death Valley as Narrator (voice)

2015Diamond Cartel as Tugboat

2014Katherine of Alexandria as Gallus

2014And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)

2013Talking Pictures (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)

2012Outlaws - For Greater Glory as Father Christopher

2012Peter O'Toole: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival as Self

2012Eldorado as Narrator (voice)

2010Eager to Die as Lord Pelican

2009Iron Road (2 Episodes) as Lionel Relic

2009Iron Road as Relic

2009Behind The Scenes of Caligula as Unknown

2008Dean Spanley as Fisk Senior

2008Christmas Cottage as Glen

2007Stardust as King

2007Ratatouille as Anton Ego (voice)

2007The Tudors (10 Episodes) as Pope Paul III

2006One Night with the King as Samuel, the Prophet

2006Venus as Maurice

2005Lassie as The Duke

2005Casanova (3 Episodes) as Giacomo Casanova

2005Mystic India as Narrador

2004Troy as Priam

2003Augustus: The First Emperor as Augustus Caesar

2003Augustus: The First Emperor (2 Episodes) as Augustus Caesar

2003Bright Young Things as Colonel Blount

2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show (1 Episode) as Self

2003Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2 Episodes) as President Paul von Hindenburg

2002The Final Curtain as JJ Curtis

2002Global Heresy as Lord Foxley

2000Hellraisers as Self

2000The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man as Unknown

2000The Making of Lawrence of Arabia as Self (archive footage)

1999Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell as Jeffrey Bernard

1999The Early Show (1 Episode) as Self

1999Joan of Arc (2 Episodes) as Bishop Cauchon

1999Molokai: The Story of Father Damien as William Williamson

1999The Manor as Mr. Ravenscroft

1998Coming Home (2 Episodes) as Colonel Edgar Carey-Lewis

1998Coming Home as Colonel Edgar Carey-Lewis

1998Phantoms as Dr. Timothy Flyte

1997FairyTale: A True Story as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1997The View (1 Episode) as Self

1996The Daily Show (1 Episode) as Self

1996An Evening with Spike Milligan as Himself

1996Gulliver's Travels (2 Episodes) as King of Lilliput

1995Heavy Weather as Clarence, Earl of Emsworth

1995Die Harald Schmidt Show (1 Episode) as Self

1994The Rainbow Thief as Prince Meleagre

1993The Seventh Coin as Emil Saber

1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2 Episodes) as Self

1992Rebecca's Daughters as Lord Sarn

1991Isabelle Eberhardt as Maj. Lyautey

1991Civvies (6 Episodes) as Barry Newman

1991King Ralph as Sir Cedric Charles Willingham

1990The Nutcracker Prince as Pantaloon (voice)

1990Crossing to Freedom as John Sidney Howard

1990Wings of Fame as Cesar Valentin

1989On a Moonlit Night as Prof. Yan McShoul

1989The Dark Angel (3 Episodes) as Uncle Silas Ruthyn

1988High Spirits as Peter Plunkett

1988Bernardo Bertolucci and the Making of 'The Last Emperor' as Self

1987The Last Emperor as Reginald Johnston (R.J.)

1987The Dark Angel as Uncle Silas Ruthyn

1986Club Paradise as Anthony Cloyden Hayes

1985Supergirl: The Making of the Movie as Self / Zaltar

1985North and South (3 Episodes) as Sam Trump

1985Creator as Dr. Harry Wolper

1985The Ray Bradbury Theater (1 Episode) as John Hampton

1984Supergirl as Zaltar

1984Kim as Lama

1983Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four as Sherlock Holmes (voice)

1983Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet as Sherlock Holmes (voice)

1983Pygmalion as Professor Henry Higgins

1983Is There One Who Understands Me? The World of James Joyce as Unknown

1983Svengali as Anton Bosnyak

1983Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear as Sherlock Holmes (voice)

1983Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse as Sherlock Holmes (voice)

1982Man and Superman as Jack Tanner

1982My Favorite Year as Alan Swann

1982Wogan (1 Episode) as Self

1981Masada (4 Episodes) as Gen. Cornelius Flavius Silva

1981Wetten, dass..? (1 Episode) as Self

1980The Stunt Man as Eli Cross

1980Strumpet City (7 Episodes) as Jim Larkin

1979Caligula as Tiberius

1979Zulu Dawn as Lord Chelmsford

1978Power Play as Colonel Zeller

1976Rogue Male as Sir Robert Thorndyke

1976Foxtrot as Liviu

1975Rosebud as Larry Martin

1975Man Friday as Robinson Crusoe

1974The Public's Right to Know as Self

1973The American Film Institute Salute to ... (1 Episode) as Self

1972Man of La Mancha as Don Quixote De La Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes / Alonso Quijana

1972The Ruling Class as Jack 14th Earl of Gurney

1972Under Milk Wood as Captain Tom Cat

1971Murphy's War as Murphy

1970Wind, Sand and Star: The Making of a Classic as Unknown

1970Brotherly Love as Sir Charles Ferguson

1969Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Arthur Chipping

1969Stiletto as Man at the Premiere (uncredited)

1968Great Catherine as Capt. Charles Edstaston

1968The Lion in Winter as Henry II

1968The Dick Cavett Show (1 Episode) as Self - Guest

1967Casino Royale as Scottish Piper (uncredited)

1967Present Laughter as Garry Essendine

1967The Night of the Generals as General Tanz

1966The Bible: In the Beginning... as The Three Angels

1966How to Steal a Million as Simon Dermott

1965The Sandpiper as (voice) (uncredited)

1965What's New Pussycat? as Michael James

1965Lord Jim as Lord Jim

1964Becket as King Henry II of England

1963Wind Sand and Star as Unknown

1963The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time as Self

1962Lawrence of Arabia as T.E. Lawrence

1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (2 Episodes) as Self

1960The Day They Robbed the Bank of England as Capt. Monty Fitch

1960The Savage Innocents as First Trooper

1960Kidnapped as Robin MacGregor

1958The Castiglioni Brothers as Mario

1955The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1 Episode) as First Soldier

1953The Oscars (1 Episode) as Self

1952Today (2 Episodes) as Self

1950Sunday Night Theatre (1 Episode) as Rene Latour

1948The Ed Sullivan Show (3 Episodes) as Self

Production

1999Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell ... Producer

1965Lord Jim ... Associate Producer

1962Operation Snatch ... Producer

Directing

1999Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell ... Director