
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
2025
as Archive
Also known as: Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole, Peter Seamus O'Toole
Acting
Peter Seamus O'Toole (August 2, 1932 – December 14, 2013) was a British-Irish actor. He attended 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 off it. Making his film debut in 1959, O'Toole achieved international recognition playing T. E. Lawrence in 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 Favorite 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. O'Toole was the recipient of four Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA Award for Best British Actor and one Primetime Emmy Award. Other performances include What's New Pussycat? (1965), How to Steal a Million (1966), Supergirl (1984), and minor roles in The Last Emperor (1987) and Troy (2004). He also voiced Anton Ego, the restaurant critic in Pixar's Ratatouille (2007).

2025
as Archive

2000
as Self (archive footage)

1999
Producer

1983
as Professor Henry Higgins

1962
as T.E. Lawrence

2007
as Anton Ego (voice)

2022
as Self (archive footage)

1987
as Reginald Johnston (R.J.)

1995
as Clarence, Earl of Emsworth

1987
as Uncle Silas Ruthyn

1966
as Simon Dermott

2008
as Fisk Senior

1968
as Henry II

2007
as King

1966
as The Three Angels

2004
as Priam

1964
as King Henry II of England

1978
as Colonel Zeller

2020
as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2005
as Narrador

2000

1975
as Robinson Crusoe

1965
as Lord Jim

1967
as General Tanz

2012
as Father Christopher

1960
as First Trooper

2006
as Samuel, the Prophet

1969
as Arthur Chipping

2006
as Maurice

1982
as Alan Swann

1965
Producer

1980
as Eli Cross

1972
as Don Quixote De La Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes / Alonso Quijana

1976
as Sir Robert Thorndyke

2005
as The Duke

1990
as Cesar Valentin

1960
as Robin MacGregor

1990
as Pantaloon (voice)

1997
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1972
as Jack 14th Earl of Gurney

2009
as Relic

2008
as Glen

1983
as Sherlock Holmes (voice)

1985
as Self / Zaltar

2003
as Colonel Blount

1989
as Prof. Yan McShoul

1971
as Murphy

1960
as Capt. Monty Fitch

1985
as Dr. Harry Wolper

1999
as William Williamson

1992
as Lord Sarn

1965
as Michael James

1979
as Lord Chelmsford

1990
as John Sidney Howard

1984
as Lama

1979
as Tiberius

1972
as Captain Tom Cat

1970
as Sir Charles Ferguson

1999
as Mr. Ravenscroft

1968
as Capt. Charles Edstaston

1988
as Peter Plunkett

1998
as Dr. Timothy Flyte

1983
as Sherlock Holmes (voice)

1994
as Prince Meleagre

1984
as Zaltar

2015
as Tugboat

1991
as Sir Cedric Charles Willingham

1998
as Colonel Edgar Carey-Lewis

1986
as Anthony Cloyden Hayes

2002
as Lord Foxley

1983
as Anton Bosnyak

1975
as Larry Martin

1976
as Liviu

2002
as JJ Curtis

2021
as Self (archive footage)

1983
as Sherlock Holmes (voice)

1991
as Maj. Lyautey

1983
as Sherlock Holmes (voice)

1993
as Emil Saber

2014
as Gallus

2012
as Narrator (voice)

2018
as Narrator (voice)

1983

1996
as Himself

1988
as Self

1963

1970

1974
as Self

1967
as Garry Essendine

1963
as Self
2010
as Lord Pelican

2009

2003
as Augustus Caesar

2012
as Self

2000
as Self
1958
as Mario
1982
as Jack Tanner

1962
Producer
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