Peter O'Toole

Most people born in the UK during the Great Depression and WWII had very lean diets. Everyone looked emaciated and they all suffered malnutrition in their formative years.

He's not emaciated. He face looks full and plump yet hard and rough.

He also has about an inch of stage makeup on his face, it will alter anyones appearance.

There are shots in LoA where he is stunningly beautiful. Those eyes. Sigh...

O'Toole was a world class drunk, which destroyed his looks. Booze and cigarettes accelerate the aging process. Even a great beauty like Elizabeth Taylor was not immune-- alcohol seems to coarsen the face irretrievably.

He looked great in What's New Pussycat. Which was filmed years after LoA. He was his most beautiful at that point.

O'Toole was half Irish and half Scottish ethnically. If those ethnicities stay away from the bottle and smoke, they look OK. Otherwise they go to shit. Peter went to shit.

He was magnificent and gorgeous til the end.

Booze and smokes, OP.

Here's another one who destroked his looks with the bottle (and had the kind of rugged looks that can tolerate some coarsening).

Young:

Who is that, R9?

...and about 10 years later:

Aldo Ray

Aldo Ray, R10.

Should have been a star on the order of Steve McQueen. He was unlucky regarding timing, as his type fell out of fashion in the early 60s when he should have been in his prime, but alcohol was what really ruined his career.

The story is that Lean picked O'Toole for the role because he was related to Lawrence.

I read that doctors told O'Toole that if he did not stop drinking, he would die soon. Although he had 2 daughters with wife Sian Phillips, he had a young son from another relationship. I recall that O'Toole was in a big custody fight for the boy which apparently had a negative impact on his finances. But I believe O'Toole won custody of the boy. Because of his young son, he did stop drinking.

That's one of the reasons he outlived so many of his equally wild contemporaries like Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Oliver Reed.

He greatest role was Jack, the Fourteenth Earl of Gurney, in The Ruling Class.

Actually think O'Toole held on to his looks in spite of the booze. He was a rare beauty, though he looked like the crypt keeper toward the end. Great bone structure which didn't get lost in puffy flesh like Ray's did.

His eyes looked amazing in Lawrence of Arabia.

T. L. Lawrence was a fascinating complicated real life character. He was embarrassed by the characterization of him in the Lawrence of Arabia movie.

The movie does show some of the arrogance of the Europeans, and especially British, in assuming they could determine the future of the Middle East. Many of the problems we see today, especially in Iraq and Syria are the direct result of their interventionist manipulations.

T.E. Lawrence died many years before the film Lawrence of Arabia was produced.

[QUOTE]T. L. Lawrence was a fascinating complicated real life character. He was embarrassed by the characterization of him in the Lawrence of Arabia movie.

Did you just pull this out of your ass?

R15 He had his son with his second wife didn't he? Are you thinking of another Plastic Paddy instead?

[quote] He had his son with his second wife didn't he?

Lorcan's mother was model Karen Somerville (aka Brown). There is some debate as to whether she and O'Toole were ever married.

O'Toole had 3 children: daughters Kate and Patricia (mother Sian Phillips) and son Lorcan.

The resemblance between Lawrence and O'Toole is amazing. They war related distantly.

Except Peter O'Toole was 6ft 3 and the real Lawrence was about 5ft 5.

And Peter O'Toole was truly beautiful in How to Steal A Million.

O'Toole's nose job really ruined his looks early on.

That ski slope they gave him was just horrid.

O'Toole gave a frank interview with Robert Osborne on TCM. Probably the greatest aspect of his career was luck; he happened to be at the right place at the right time, and great roles literally just came to him.

(He refused the title role in DOCTOR ZHIVAGO despite repeated pleading from David Lean.) He relates a hilarious story about getting drunk with Sharif before the charge at Aquaba sequence in LAWRENCE, because both were terrified of riding camels; Sharif tied himself to his saddle, which by the end of the scene had rolled around his camel, leaving him upside down!

Throughout his career, he emphasized acting never came easy, and he always felt he could have done better work in his roles. For a major star in his day, he was very self-effacing.

Noel Coward told O'toole that he was so pretty in Lawrence of Arabia that they should have called the film "Florence of Arabia".

O'toole was an elegant rogue. The way he moved in front of a camera spoke of years of classical training and a great level of comfort in his own skin. I'm watching My Favorite Year, which I cannot believe I've never seen before. I can do without Mark Lin Baker and his mousy girlfriend, but the rest of the cast is wonderful, and O'toole is, of course, pitch perfect.

YES, R28! “My Favorite Year” is surprisingly good and O’Toole (again, surprisingly) gives one of his greatest performances in that film.

I had only ever seen him in “Lawrence” (as a kid and as an adult) and have only recently become a huge fan and realized what an amazing actor he was after seeing more of his work.

Even just in “My Favorite Year”, he does comedy, drama, pathos, everything....to perfection.

And don’t even get me started on his performance in “A Lion In Winter”! It’s a masterclass in acting.

He truly was one of the all time greats, and his talent went far beyond what was seen in “Lawrence of Arabia” (though I love that too).

I loved Peter O'Toole. I was obsessed with him. And the two great loves of my life were both blond, thin, and tall. I thought he was perfection. I've seen pictures of him pre nose job, and he's still perfection. I saw Troy just for him and was shocked. It looked like he ironed his face. Youtube has a cliff of a round table conversion of O'Toole talking about Hamlet. I think Orson Wells is in it. He's in his mid 30s, wearing black rim glasses and he is perfection.

^clip, a clip of him

Clapp, CLAPP?!

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