Peter O\' Toole

Peter Seamus O' Toole (born the August 2nd 1932) is a producer, Acteur of Théatre and British Cinéma of Irish origin , considered as a “superstar” of the Théâtre and Cinéma English.

Biography

It is born the August 2nd 1932 in the Connemara from the Comté of Galway in Ireland under the name of Peter Seamus O' Toole then passes its childhood in the Kerry in Ireland, then with Dublin.
  • 1946 : at 14 years, it starts to work like boy of office then like Journaliste with Leeds in the Yorkshire in England for the newspaper Yorkshire News .
  • 1949 : encouraged by a friend actor, it begins a theatrical career at 17 years with the municipal Theater from Leeds.
  • 1950 : at 18 years, it makes its Military service in the Royal Navy during two years.

Actor shakespearien

  • 1952 : he is then 20 years old and obtains a purse to follow during two years the courses of prestigious the royal Académie of Dramatic art of London, with Alan Bates and Richard Harris like comrades of promotion.
  • 1954 : at 22 years, he becomes member, raises and actor shakespearien of prestigious the Royal Shakespeare Compagny of the Bristol-board Old Vic and his school, the Bristol Old Vic Theater School (the oldest institutional theater of the the United Kingdom to Bristol in the Gloucestershire), where he plays an about sixty plays, of which great classics of the English comedy: King Lear , Othello , Hamlet , Macbeth , Romeo and Juliette , Jules César of William Shakespeare, Volpone of Ben Jonson, Major Barbara of George Bernard Shaw, Back Look in Anger of John Osborne, etc
  • 1956: he plays in musical comedies with London: Oh, My Papa ,…
  • 1958: 26 years, he plays sides of the actress Sian Philips in the War of Murphy . They marry (and divorce 21 years later in 1979).
  • 1959 : at 27 years, it obtains its first great triumph with the part Long And the Short and the Tall .

It appeared in more than eighty roles of repertory and it is crowned better actor of the English scene by a Evening Standard Award, by an enthusiastic criticism. He plays for the first time for the Cinéma with three secondary roles and founds the production company Keep Films for autoproduire some of his services.

Movie actor

1960: 28 years, he plays of the first great roles to the Cinéma in the films the Removal of David Balfour of Robert Stevenson and the Teeth of the devil of Nicholas Ray.

International success of the Lawrence film of Arabia

  • 1962 : at 30 years, it is the dedication of its life. Sam Spiegel and David Lean seeks a Acteur hopelessly to incarnate the heroic and charismatic Colonel and British writer Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). After the refusal of Marlon Brando, it is selected for the role in Lawrence of Arabia , incarnation cinematographic which is worth to him to enter the legend of the world cinema with its partner Omar Sharif.
  • 1962 : following its world success, he plays the same year the part of the king Henri II of England in the film Becket of Peter Glenville at the sides of Richard Burton and John Gielgud. Trinomial British actors at the top of their notoriety. It receives for this role the reward Hollywood ienne of the Award Golden Globe of the best actor in a dramatic film 1965.

It then continues to connect a colossal career, especially with the the United Kingdom, many great very diversified roles, shared between the boards of the Théâtre and the Cinéma, of the comedies, more than 80 films of épiques to unimportant, and more than 80 roles to the theater while passing through the great classics, in particular Hamlet and Macbeth of William Shakespeare.

In 2003, at 71 years, after having been nominated 7 times at the Oscars since Lawrence of Arabia without to have obtained this reward, it receives a Oscar of honor 2003 for the whole of its career.

It publishes its autobiography in two volumes.

Selective catalog of films

External bond

Peter Otoole on IMDb

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