Peter O'Toole has died

The_Kew_Tour · 16-12-2013 02:28AM

RIP

Samuel L. Jackson ‏@SamuelLJackson 1m I met Peter O'Toole backstage at A Soldiers Play! Amazing talent, an Inspiration! RIP.

K-9 · 16-12-2013 02:35AM

timthumbni wrote: »

Where the feck did you work exactly???

I'd a whole array of RTE celebs, politicians and their wives at times of seismic shifts in Irish politics, Neeson, Blackburn Rovers, I've forgotten more than I could remember, oh, Christy Moore turned up once!

In all seriousness, Finney was a pleasure, only man I can ever remember returning a tip, and my God the red head was stunning.

Some drink in him and remembered everybodies names. Personal touch.

timthumbni · 16-12-2013 02:53AM

K-9 wrote: »

I'd a whole array of RTE celebs, politicians and their wives at times of seismic shifts in Irish politics, Neeson, Blackburn Rovers, I've forgotten more than I could remember, oh, Christy Moore turned up once!

In all seriousness, Finney was a pleasure, only man I can ever remember returning a tip, and my God the red head was stunning.

Some drink in him and remembered everybodies names. Personal touch.

You sound like you could swap stories with o'toole and harris yourself. Please don't say you arm wrestled Ollie reed or I will be ultra jealous. Ha.

K-9 · 16-12-2013 03:06AM

timthumbni wrote: »

You sound like you could swap stories with o'toole and harris yourself. Please don't say you arm wrestled Ollie reed or I will be ultra jealous. Ha.

Lol

I just loved Finneys naivety, his unawareness, I don't think he realised how big he was.Damn fine redhead though! Rather partial to a red head like myself.

timthumbni · 16-12-2013 03:17AM

K-9 wrote: »

Lol

I just loved Finneys naivety, his unawareness, I don't think he realised how big he was.Damn fine redhead though! Rather partial to a red head like myself.

I'm a huge film fan but have to admit that finney didn't mean much to me. This red head sounds intriguing. Any pics? Lol.

I have to admit that a sexy red head is hard to beat.

April O Neill II · 16-12-2013 11:28AM

A quote from his Wiki page:

I used to be scared stiff of the nuns: their whole denial of womanhood – the black dresses and the shaving of the hair – was so horrible, so terrifying. Of course, that's all been stopped. They're sipping gin and tonic in the Dublin pubs now, and a couple of them flashed their pretty ankles at me just the other day.

:pac:

Mint Sauce · 16-12-2013 11:43AM

murpho999 wrote: »

RIP Peter O'Toole. A great actor.

As usual, UK media will say he was British.

greenflash wrote: »

Does this ever genuinely happen, or is just some nationalist oppression fantasy? Every report I've read describes O'Toole as Irish, even though he was half Scottish, spent practically no time here, English educated and based and may not have even been born here. Other than when Barry McGuigan chose to box for Britain and was described as British, I genuinely can't recall any instances of this actually happening.

RIP Peter O'Toole

LBC Radio were claiming him last night anyway.

Anyhow, RIP.

What did surprise me was though, with the media, and internet now, it was more than 24 hrs after his death, that the world learnt about it. Glad to see that some private moments can remain that.

jebus84 · 16-12-2013 12:02PM

“The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.” Peter O Toole

Grandeeod · 16-12-2013 12:33PM

Peter O'Toole - Strumpet City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrT7VOj1gdg

Beano · 16-12-2013 01:07PM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

I think you're mixing him up with Dumbledore!

I'm pretty sure i'm definitely not. Dumbledore was played first by Richard Harris and then by Michael Gambon.

Duckworth_Luas · 16-12-2013 01:19PM

Beano wrote: »

I'm pretty sure i'm definitely not. Dumbledore was played first by Richard Harris and then by Michael Gambon.

I've seen all the films and it was definitely Alec Guinness and later Ewen McGregor.

Beano · 16-12-2013 01:26PM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

I've seen all the films and it was definitely Alec Guinness and later Ewen McGregor.

Now you're just getting weird

DeadHand · 16-12-2013 01:43PM

A throwback to a time when actors were hard drinking, fist fighting hellraisers as opposed to the sterile, health obsessed, PR creations many are now and celebrity status could be earned only through hard work and raw talent.

One of the last living souls.

RIP

RobbingBandit · 16-12-2013 11:23PM

Just remembered he is in a little known movie called Fairy Tale about a hoax photograph of fairys from the early 1900s, he plays Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the guy that wrote Sherlock Holmes, great movie.

emo72 · 16-12-2013 11:57PM

heard a few interviews on the radio with him. god he was funny as ****.

LorMal · 17-12-2013 12:52AM

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Not the right thread for this discussion I admit, but as you are quoting me, I can assure you that non-republicans (uber or otherwise) do care about this, and with good reason - because, across the world it is possible to come across people who have heard of Barry McGuigan, U2, Geldof, etc, but have never heard of Ireland and have assumed those famous people are British/English.

So it matters not as a rabble-rousing national pride thing, but in real terms for trade, tourism, brand-awareness, etc.

What claptrap. Tourism, trade??? Tourists mistakenly going to Britain in the hope of getting a glimpse of Barry Mc Guigan...really??

DeadHand · 17-12-2013 01:21AM

Can we use this thread to pay our respects to the man without engaging in nonsense arguments?

dublinman1990 · 20-01-2014 12:18PM

I remember him as Jim Larkin in Strumpet City from RTE and a more recent from a few years ago, the latest movie version of Lassie. He was a wonderful actor with a wonderful talent.

May the legend R.I.P.

jimgoose · 20-01-2014 12:26PM

A class act. RIP Peter. :cool:

dd972 · 20-01-2014 01:36PM

Whilst he was a good bloke and RIP, funny how this thread has resurfaced, was someone chained to a radiator in the middle east somewhere?

Peter O'Toole has died

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