Posted on 08/02/2012 6:29:05 PM PDT by beaversmom
Acting legend Peter O'Toole is 80 years old! The thesp with the piercing eyes scooped a whopping eight Oscar nominations during a glittering career for the likes of 'Lawrence Of Arabia, ' The Lion In Winter' and 'Venus'.
He was also awarded a lifetime achievement Academy Award in 2003 (he initially turned it down, famously saying "I want to win the lovely bugger outright"). He's now retired, but his CV is remarkable. O'Toole is not just renowned for his monumental acting talent though. He's also infamous for his hellraising antics, along with fellow luvvies Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter Finch and Oliver Reed. Before ill health forced him to cut down on his drinking, the actor's boozy shenanigans were legendary.
Here's some of the best Peter O'Toole stories we could find… most are true, a few could be urban legends.
While filming 'Lawrence Of Arabia', O'Toole organised a date for Omar Sharif with "sex-swap pioneer" April Ashley. When Sharif found out that, um, all was not as it appeared, he chased O'Toole around the house with a meat cleaver.
Famously, O'Toole once went out for a drink in Paris… and woke up in Corsica. He's confirmed this actually happened.
He also loved climbing. His party piece was drunkenly scrambling up the wall of Lloyd's Bank in Covent Garden. He used to scale it in his "Sunday shoes".
Richard Burton and O'Toole both said they were drunk throughout most of the shooting of 'Becket'. The pair were still awarded Oscar nominations.
While shooting 'The Lion In Winter', O'Toole cut off the top of his finger in a boating accident. He popped the finger in some brandy he was drinking, before pushing it back into place and wrapping with a bandage. Three weeks later he took the bandage off, and found he'd...
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One of my favorite scenes from Lawrence of Arabia. Okay, the whole movie is my favorite scene.
The Most Famous of Edits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypul7nPcMII
He woke up in the morning with Hudson handing him a drink and saying "Today is a day for getting drunk".
He said the last thing he remembered was the sun setting and both of them riding on a horse still in their pajamas.
I was looking for the scene in that movie where he goes to the family’s dinner, because it would have been good for this thread. The family asks him if certain rumors were true about his behavior, and he replies that yes, he gets away with a lot because he is a movie star, but he also gets blamed for things he has never done, and it all evens out in the end. I couldn’t find it on YouTube, though, so I just went with the bathroom scene.
Ah, I love that scene with Uncle Morty. “Did you schtoop her?” If you find it, let me know.
LOL! That was great!
Reminds me of me and my brother, though we aren’t that old.
How the horse got in their pajamas they’ll never know.
Harris loved to tell the joke about getting the truck stuck under a bridge. He drove a truck under a bridge that was too low for the truck. the truck got stuck. When the cops showed up, he tells the cops “no problem here, I’m just delivering this bridge”.
‘The Night of the Generals’ with O’Toole and Sharif is a favorite of mine. Amazing movie.
I always liked the fellow.
When I was a kid and saw him in Lawrence of Arabia, I thought he was GORGEOUS. Looking back at the film now, my opinion was right.
IMDb shows him in two movies now in post-production.
“These must be his drinking socks.”
That’s one of the O’Toole movies that I have not seen.
He did announce a couple of weeks ago that he will no longer be acting. On a fan page at Facebook someone posted that it was because of his declining health.
Peter O’Toole retires, says his ‘heart’ for acting is gonehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2905265/posts
Not a great film, but that is a great scene.
Fly You Bastard! Fly!
Pretty darned handsome.
Hadn’t heard that story before.
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