Sunday, December 15, 2013

"Peter O’Toole Dies; ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ Star Was 81"


Peter O'Toole receiving an Honorary Oscar®
 
"Irish-born stage and screen actor Peter O’Toole, who became an international star in the title role of David Lean’s Oscar-winning epic “Lawrence of Arabia,” died on Saturday at age 81."

"In a BBC Radio interview in January 2007, O'Toole said he had studied women for a very long time, had given it his best try, but knew "nothing." In 1959, he married Welsh actress Siân Phillips, with whom he had two daughters: actress Kate and Patricia. Peter and Siân were divorced in 1979."
 
Wikipedia

UPDATE: EBL has this post

14 comments:

Shouting Thomas said...

Now that I'm an old grandpa, I read the obituaries and do a quick bit of math to arrive at a rough estimate of how much time I've got left.

Somewhere in the early 80s is a pretty common croaking age for men.

I want to live long enough to be an embarrassment to my grandchildren.

Considering how much I hurt in the morning when I drag this old carcass out of bed, I can't imagine how I'll feel in another 15 years.

deborah said...

He was only 81? I would have figured him older.

ST, you might want to consider not eating flour and sugar. The digestive end products (AGEs) are assumed to be gunk that sticks around and gums up the works. Alzeheimer's, arthritis, etc.

Chip Ahoy said...

Insty read my mind. The first thing I thought was STUNT MAN!!11111 The Düsseldorf scene was amazing. Along with all the other amazing ways he kept appearing, in a director's lift, in a helicopter, always watching everything from advantage. That movie blew my mind and turned my world upside down starting with the beginning where the genesis of confusion and discord originates! A war scene and you go, "bloody hell," then the scene intensifies to random mayhem with body parts graphically strewn all over the place with great effects and you go, "doubly bloody hell," and O'Toole appears and goes, "psych!" and he keeps doing that over and over so you get as confused as the actor does about reality on the set and the whole time O'Toole is evoking authentic emotion.

From me, because I am pissing my pants. Not really, but that movie is great. I was going to post that, then blam, Insty said the exact same thing.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

I thought he was amazing in Man from La Mancha.

edutcher said...

One of the last real movie stars.

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Lydia said...

He was only 81? I would have figured him older.

I think maybe he worked at it -- headline at the Telegraph: "Last of the hard-drinking hell-raisers: the O’Toole character that lodged in cinemagoers’ minds was O’Toole himself: the hellraiser, the champagne and whisky-sinker, the garrulous, charm-drizzled sot."

rcocean said...

O'Toole knew how to drink. Burton didn't.

rcocean said...

I liked O'Toole but he really lacked the macho quality necessary for a leading man.

I always assumed he was Gay, and was surprised that he wasn't.

rcocean said...

He was sorta of a straight, Irish, more talented Tony Perkins.

john said...

Stunt Man was fabulous. O'Toole didn't necessarily make the movie, it was just great on its own merits. But even so. I lift my glass to Mr. O'Toole, an extraordinary actor. RIP

Trooper York said...

My all time favorite performance of his was in "My Favorite Year."

That was pretty funny. Old school family entertainment.

Trooper York said...

I also quite enjoyed "Under Milk Wood" which also starred Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and Captain Poldark's wife.

It is not the story of Huma lactating on Anthony Weiner's Junk.

chickelit said...

Did O'Toole star in Caligula or was that somebody elses? I never saw it.