Peter O'Toole remembered. "Along the Sky Road to Aqaba" (2022)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Peter Seamus O'Toole (2 August 1932 - 14 December 2013) was an English stage and film actor. He attended RADA in London (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company. In 1959 he made his West End debut in The Long and the Short and the Tall, and played the title role in Hamlet in the National Theatre's first production in 1963. Excelling on the London stage, O'Toole was known for his "hellraiser" lifestyle.
Making his film debut in 1959, O'Toole achieved international recognition playing T. E. Lawrence in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962) for which he received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was nominated for this award another seven times - for playing King Henry II in both Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972), The Stunt Man (1980), My Favourite Year (1982), and Venus (2006) - and holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for acting without a win (tied with Glenn Close). In 2002, he was awarded the Academy Honorary Award for his career achievements.
This Film
Here is a 2022 Documentary on Peter O'Toole, featuring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Michael Jayston, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Petula Clark, Stephen Fry, Orson Welles, Brian Cox, Brian Blessed, Sir Derek Jacobi, Vernon Dobtcheff, and Carolyn Seymour (among others).
Met the great man in Dublin early 70ts he was with some rugby people at the end of the Bar I was on my own Peter got up walking towards the gents loo behind me as he got right in front of me I said Mister o Tool thanks for the many years of pleasure you have giving me ,, he looked at me smiling and then with a loud booming voice said "what a marvelous thing to say" Barman give this chap a Drink and winked and went away.
As bob dylan wrote someday you'll be glad to have me around
I wonder how his ex wife put up with him... But she was so deliriously in love that we can understand !
Sian Phillips claimed in her divorce petition that he subjected her to "mental cruelty". That wouldn't surprise me.
Brian Cox claiming that the legendary director, David Lean, was some kind of "English Imperialist"? A bit rich from a plastic Scot - a noisy Scottish separatist - who accepted a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) - homes in America and London. Reminds me of that other off-shored plastic Scots separatist Sean Connery. Hypocrisy unbound.
Anthony Beevor "introduced" me to the power of nationalism. It is an immense force, so tricky that it was one of the main targets in various Communist states. But the phenomenon of nationalism intermixed with centralism binding separate national entities, there's a tension that could get inflamed when central power is weakened and economic crisis hits.
Spain recently reacted fast, Farrage already spoke about internationalization and in support of the Catalans - why and for what political reason I don't know, but Spanish response was the only logical - fast military movements, disbanding of local parliament and (temporary) suspension of autonomy.
It is still a complicated question all across the planet as war for thoughts, ideas, "heads" goes 24/7 for the last 10 millenniums.
Messed up, all of it!