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Peter O'Toole retires.

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  • #2
    Sean7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭Sean7


    Great actor, pity he won't be making anything else. Thanks for everything Pete!


  • #3
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,091 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    From acting, sure, but I can see him doing the occasional voice gig e.g. I thought he was marvellous as Anton Ego, the food critic in Ratatouille.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #4
    Otacon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,721 ✭✭✭Otacon


    He made Troy watchable for me. Some feat indeed.

    Thank you Pete.


  • #5
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    What a shame. Best actor to never win an Oscar, in my opinion.


  • #6
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    Da Shins Kelly wrote: »
    What a shame. Best actor to never win an Oscar, in my opinion.
    They owe him a lifetime achievement award, I assume he'll get it next year because of retirement.

    My mistake, he got one in 2003.


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  • #7
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    Corkfeen wrote: »
    They owe him a lifetime achievement award, I assume he'll get it next year because of retirement.

    He already has it. He got it in 2003.


  • #8
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    Skid wrote: »
    He already has it. He got it in 2003.

    Still kinda sh*tty that he never won the real thing.


  • #9
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    50 years since Lawrence of Arabia, yikes.

    Pity he never won an oscar but at least he's ending his career with dignity and on his own will so he can live out the rest of his life.


  • #10
    Skerries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,774 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    who won it the year Lawrence of Arabia came out to deny such an obvious award win?
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  • #11
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Skerries wrote:
    who won it the year Lawrence of Arabia came out to deny such an obvious award win?
    Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird, apparently.

    I always had to hide my liking of O'Toole in my house, as he had almost killed my parents while he was drink driving down in the country. He was fantastic in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell. And of course he was the bomb in Phantoms, more so than Affleck!

    Wasn't there a story about him that while he was doing a show in the West End, he went for a liquid lunch with a friend, got absolutely pissed and insisted that they go off to see the matinee of some show. He kept rabbiting on about how good it was, so his friend reluctantly agreed to go in. During the performance, O'Toole turns to his friend and says, "Oh, you'll love this bit. This is where I come on and... OH BUGGER!"

    It's funny how heavy drinking actors of his era, like Richard Harris and Oliver Reed were all lovable rogues, and we're stuck with Mel Gibson. Drunks these days just have no class! :D


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  • #12
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    I love this interview.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIXoneT1XFI


  • #13
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    It's sad that he won't be appearing in any more films, but at least this is a rare case of an actor getting to retire before he prematurely kicks the bucket, and I hope he enjoys his retirement immensely.


  • #14
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,298 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Great actor, found my copy of Caligula today, scary,scary movie.:D


  • #15
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Brilliant at his best, one of the last members of the drinking class of 1960-ish still going.

    His turn as the legendary and legendarily absent journalist Jeffrey Bernard

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI42lY9W9HE


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