Peter O’Toole Net Worth

Peter O’Toole's Quotes

• I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.
• Noël Coward (to O'Toole): "If you'd been any prettier, it would have been Florence of Arabia".
• For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.
• [on receiving a lifetime achievement at The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003)] Always a bridesmaid, never a bride - my foot!
• The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

Interesting Facts about Peter O’Toole

1. He attended a Catholic school where the nuns beat him to correct his left-handedness.
2. O'Toole & Karen Brown's son's name is Lorcan O'Toole.
3. From 1952 to 1954 he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as a scholarship student.
4. The title character in the comic strip "Alan Ford", widely popular in Italy, was styled after the physical features of O'Toole.
5. Coaching cricket professionally in London. [1997]
6. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#47). [1995]
7. His daughter Kate O'Toole is a well-respected actress in her own right.
8. He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2000 for Outstanding Achievement Award for his theatrical career.
9. Was friends with fellow Irish actor Richard Harris. After Harris died, his family hoped that O'Toole would replace him as Professor Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter en de gevangene van Azkaban (2004), but the role went to Michael Gambon instead.
10. He was only one of six performers to be nominated for an Oscar twice for playing the same role in two separate films. He was nominated as Henry II in Becket (1964) and Leeuw in de winter (1968). The other five are Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley in Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974), Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986), Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky (1976) and Creed (2015). Furthermore, O'Toole was the only one of these six who was nominated for playing the same character (at two different stages in his life) in films that were not a prequel or sequel to the other.
11. Became an Associate Member of RADA.
12. Both he and his fellow Irish actor (and close friend), the late Richard Harris appeared in versions of 'Gulliver's Travels': Harris played the 1977 film version Gulliver's Reizen (1977) and O'Toole played the Emperor of Lilliput in the 1996 TV-film version Gulliver's Travels (1996), where Ted Danson played Gulliver.
13. He portrayed three kings, one of them twice (King Henry II in Becket (1964) also in Leeuw in de winter (1968)), one of them fictional (Sir/King Cedric Willingham in King Ralph (1991)) and King Priam in Troy (2004), two emperors, one of them real (Emperor Tiberius Caesar in Caligola (1979)) and one of them fictional (Emperor of Lilliput in Gulliver's Travels (1996)), a fictional prince (Prince Meleagre in The Rainbow Thief (1990)), a real president (President Paul von Hindenburg in Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)), a real Pope (Pope Paul III in The Tudors (2007)) and several lords.
14. In 1976 he underwent surgery to remove parts of his stomach and intestine, at the time attributed to his heavy drinking, but later disclosed to be stomach cancer. In the following year he almost died from a blood disorder. These two serious illnesses greatly affected his ability to work at that time.
15. When he was named the recipient of a Special Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2003, he originally intended to turn it down feeling that the lifetime award signaled the end of his career. He wrote the Academy a letter stating that he was "still in the game" and would like more time to "win the lovely bugger outright." It was only after the Academy informed him that they were bestowing the award on him whether he came to collect it or not that he relented.
16. His performance as "T.E. Lawrence" in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is the #1 ranked performance of all time in Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
17. The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) was originally meant to be a vehicle for O'Toole.
18. His performance as "Alan Swann" in My Favorite Year (1982) is ranked #56 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
19. He was nominated eight times for the Academy Award for Best Actor, but never won. He had more nominations without winning than any other actor.
20. Cited Rose Byrne and Jodie Whittaker as the best young actresses he had ever worked with.