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Title: Actor Peter O'Toole, best known for starring role in 'Lawrence of Arabia,' dead at 81
Category: Showbiz
Posted By: Strutz
Date: 2013-12-15 11:24:45

[Freakinoldguy]

RIP Mr. O'Toole.

8 Academy Award nominations and not one win is something which IMO is a damn travesty.

[Gunnair]

RIP

[ShepherdsDog]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

RIP Mr. O'Toole.

8 Academy Award nominations and not one win is something which IMO is a damn travesty.

They`ll likely award him one PH.....sort of an empty accolade for his career on the silver screen

[Regina]

He road life hard. RIP

[DrCaleb]

I recall an interview with him from back in the 70's, where the reporter basically got to spend the day with Mr. O'Toole. Nothing but praise for him, sounds like he was a very friendly intelligent man. And I don't know why he never won an Oscar (much as I don't put much faith in them). All his performances were far better than many today that do win awards.

RIP.

[andyt]

I liked him in The Ruling Class.

[Regina]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I recall an interview with him from back in the 70's, where the reporter basically got to spend the day with Mr. O'Toole. Nothing but praise for him, sounds like he was a very friendly intelligent man. And I don't know why he never won an Oscar (much as I don't put much faith in them). All his performances were far better than many today that do win awards.

RIP.

You would think that he would have won best actor for Lawrence of Arabia, since it won many of the other awards that year including best picture. He was beat out by Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird.....who is no slouch either.

35th Academy Awards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th_Academy_Awards

[DrCaleb]

Regina Regina:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I recall an interview with him from back in the 70's, where the reporter basically got to spend the day with Mr. O'Toole. Nothing but praise for him, sounds like he was a very friendly intelligent man. And I don't know why he never won an Oscar (much as I don't put much faith in them). All his performances were far better than many today that do win awards.

RIP.

You would think that he would have won best actor for Lawrence of Arabia, since it won many of the other awards that year including best picture. He was beat out by Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird.....who is no slouch either.

35th Academy Awards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th_Academy_Awards

Yea, between those two roles, it would be tough to choose who was the best. But compared to something like 'The Hurt Locker' is would be easy.

[Regina]

SO true!!

[BartSimpson]

Regina Regina:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I recall an interview with him from back in the 70's, where the reporter basically got to spend the day with Mr. O'Toole. Nothing but praise for him, sounds like he was a very friendly intelligent man. And I don't know why he never won an Oscar (much as I don't put much faith in them). All his performances were far better than many today that do win awards.

RIP.

You would think that he would have won best actor for Lawrence of Arabia, since it won many of the other awards that year including best picture. He was beat out by Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird.....who is no slouch either.

35th Academy Awards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th_Academy_Awards

The reason he did not win for 'Lawrence of Arabia' is, in part, because of the movie's very controversial content. Lawrence, the man, is often considered to either have been homosexual or at least to have been homosexually brutalized by the Turks and the film's alluding to these issues was highly controversial in 1962. These days it barely rates a glance so we don't readily see the controversy that took place in 1962.

It should be noted that the homosexuality charges followed Peter O'Toole the rest of his career and the man should be rightly lauded for his sensibilities as a British gentleman who never dignified those charges with a response. Whether he was or was not is not germane to his body of work as his private life was kept private.

[andyt]

Regina Regina:

You would think that he would have won best actor for Lawrence of Arabia, since it won many of the other awards that year including best picture. He was beat out by Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird.....who is no slouch either.

Wow, those were the days, eh, when you had two movies like that going head to head.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Whether he was or was not is not germane to his body of work as his private life was kept private.

Too true.

Another thing that came from Col. Laurence, the man, was helmets. His death by a seemingly minor motorcycle accident prompted his Doctor to search for ways to prevent such deaths. The motorcycle helmet was born.

[Jabberwalker]

... interesting Peter O'Toole movie circa 1980:

The Stunt Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BesLJgU0ZBs

... something different.

[Freakinoldguy]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

And I don't know why he never won an Oscar (much as I don't put much faith in them). All his performances were far better than many today that do win awards.

RIP.

True. When you lose a Best Actor Award to John Wayne you know that the system is more politically correct, than fair