Peter O’Toole - an exciting actor.
A list of films from a rather eccentric actor, who achieved considerable success on the stage as well as film.
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- DirectorDavid LeanStarsPeter O'TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony QuinnThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
- DirectorPeter GlenvilleStarsRichard BurtonPeter O'TooleJohn GielgudKing Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsPeter O'TooleJames MasonCurd JürgensAfter being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsPeter O'TooleOmar SharifTom CourtenayIn 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsAudrey HepburnPeter O'TooleEli WallachThe daughter of an art forger teams up with a burglar to steal one of her father's forgeries and protect his secret.
- DirectorClive DonnerStarsPeter SellersPeter O'TooleRomy SchneiderA playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
- DirectorAnthony HarveyStarsPeter O'TooleKatharine HepburnAnthony Hopkins1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. When he allows his imprisoned wife Eleanor of Aquitaine out for a Christmas visit, they all variously plot to force him into a decision.
- DirectorHerbert RossStarsPeter O'ToolePetula ClarkMichael RedgraveA shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsPeter O'TooleSiân PhillipsPhilippe NoiretA lone survivor from a British naval ship is obsessed with getting revenge on a German U-boat crew that massacred his shipmates in the water.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsPeter O'TooleSophia LorenJames CocoThe funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.
- DirectorPeter MedakStarsPeter O'TooleAlastair SimArthur LoweA member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsPeter O'TooleRichard RoundtreePeter CellierDuring the 17th century, shipwrecked English seaman Robinson Crusoe, after years of solitude, spots natives on his deserted Pacific island and befriends one who he names Friday.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsPeter O'TooleRichard AttenboroughCliff GormanRenowned producer-director Otto Preminger captures international terrorism in this film about five teenage girls who are kidnapped from a yacht by the P.L.O. Stars Peter O'Toole and Richard Attenborough.
- DirectorClive DonnerStarsPeter O'TooleJohn StandingAlastair SimIn 1939 when an English hunter takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a rifle, he is captured, tortured and left for dead. He escapes but his captors pursue him to England.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsMalcolm McDowellPeter O'TooleHelen MirrenA dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome. We see his ambition, his scheming, his perversion and decadence, his brutality and his lunacy.
- DirectorDouglas HickoxStarsBurt LancasterPeter O'TooleSimon WardA dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation.
- DirectorAndrew SinclairStarsRichard BurtonElizabeth TaylorPeter O'TooleOne night while the townsfolk wrestle with their dreams, seedy Captain Tom Cat and a stranger walk the streets. Captain Cat is a blind, retired sea Captain, recalling memories of drowned shipmates and Rosie Probert, a whore, and the one great love of his youth.
- DirectorRichard RushStarsPeter O'TooleSteve RailsbackBarbara HersheyA fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.
- DirectorRichard BenjaminStarsPeter O'TooleMark Linn-BakerJessica HarperAn aging, dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show in 1954, and a young comedy writer is tasked with the thankless job of keeping him ready and sober for the broadcast.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsHelen SlaterFaye DunawayPeter O'TooleAfter losing a powerful orb, Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsAldo RayElizabeth SellarsPeter O'TooleIn 1901, a group of IRA members decides to rob the Bank of England in order to finance their movement and to embarrass the British government.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsPeter FinchJames MacArthurBernard LeeIn Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
- DirectorMartyn BurkeStarsPeter O'TooleDavid HemmingsDonald PleasenceIn an unnamed country rife with internal troubles, Narriman, a loyal army colonel, has his conscience pricked into planning a coup d'etat, under the influence of a dissident intellectual.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsPeter O'TooleSusannah YorkMichael CraigControversial tragicomedy about a brother's obsessive love for his sister. Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPeter O'TooleCharlotte RamplingMax von SydowAt the beginning of WW2, Liviu, a Romanian count, and his wife Julia come to live on an uninhabited tropical island, where they hope to escape the war and their past. They bring with them all conceivable provisions and their servants, and live in luxury in a mansion-like tent on the beach. After a short time, a group of uninvited friends arrive. They decimate the supplies and, in the course of a frenzied shooting party, kill every living animal on the island before leaving, bringing most of the servants with them. The only people left on the island are Liviu and his wife, their friend Larson, and one servant, Eusebio. The expected supplies do not arrive, the party has no way of communicating with the outside world, and passion is rife between the one woman and three men on the island. As supplies run short, mistrust, greed and jealousy threaten their idyllic life style.
- DirectorGordon FlemyngStarsPeter O'TooleZero MostelJeanne MoreauSlapstick comedy based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. A stiff English officer, captain Charles Edstaston (Peter O'Toole), and his fiancée Claire arrive in St. Petersburg. Edstaston is brought to the imperial court to seek audience with the empress Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). He obtains an interview with her courtier, the drunken Potemkin (Zero Mostel), who ends up carrying him in his arms to the empress and dumping him into her royal bed. From this moment on, the hapless Edstaston endeavours to escape from the clutches of the sex-crazed empress and leave the city with his English fiancée.
- DirectorPatrick DromgooleAlex KirbyStarsPeter O'TooleLisa HarrowJames GroutA story of modern London life, where the ordinary man strives to maintain his position as a gentleman, and the ordinary woman is concerned with marriage.
- DirectorIvan PasserStarsPeter O'TooleMariel HemingwayVincent SpanoAn eccentric scientist teaches a student in his own manner while he looks for a way to clone his deceased wife.
- DirectorAnthony HarveyStarsPeter O'TooleJodie FosterElizabeth AshleyAn old singer coaches a young woman whom he believes will be the next singing sensation. As she starts off with her career, their bond gets stronger.
- DirectorAlan CookeStarsPeter O'TooleShelagh McLeodNancy KerrThe standard My Fair Lady (1964) story, with a provocative rendition by Peter O'Toole. He knows how to talk, but does he know how to behave towards a lady?
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsPeter O'TooleDaryl HannahSteve GuttenbergWhen a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.
- DirectorOtakar VotocekStarsPeter O'TooleColin FirthMarie TrintignantA famous movie actor (Peter O'Toole) claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengenfully kills him but then dies as a result of an accident. Next, they both find themselves in after-life, where souls of all famous people are gathered.
- DirectorNorman StoneStarsPeter O'TooleMare WinninghamSusan WooldridgeA very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany in this adaptation of the novel by Nevil Shute.
- StarsBeatie EdneyJane LapotaireTim WoodwardMaud Ruthyn, a lovely and sensitive girl, is sent to stay with her Uncle Silas Ruthyn, a charismatic rogue who stands to inherit the family fortune... should anything untoward happen to young Maud. With the tyrannical Madame De La Rougierre as her governess, Maud finds that the estate holds terrors beyond her imaginings.
- DirectorDavid S. WardStarsJohn GoodmanPeter O'TooleJohn HurtA regular guy from America becomes king of England after a royal wipe-out puts him next in line.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJohn LoneJoan ChenPeter O'TooleBernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
- DirectorKarl FrancisStarsPeter O'ToolePaul RhysJoely RichardsonThe film is set in Wales and concerns itself with the aristocracy who are taxing to common people to ruin. Naturally, a certain member of said aristocracy decided that all this is not on, chiefly because most of the money collected by the taxes etc is being spent on keeping Lord Sarn drunk. So Anthony Raine dresses up as a woman, calls himself Rebecca, and leads the common people to victory over their masters.
- StarsTed DansonMary SteenburgenJames FoxAn Englishman returns after nine years abroad and tells strange stories of the tiny people of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, the flying island Laputa and the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses.
- StarsPhilip CasnoffKyle ChandlerCathy Lee CrosbyThe Civil War has just ended, but things in the country aren't much better, especially in the south.
- DirectorJoe ChappelleStarsPeter O'TooleRose McGowanJoanna GoingIn the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
- StarsLeelee SobieskiChad WillettPeter O'TooleSpurred by divine voices and visions, fifteenth century teen Joan d'Arc leads French forces against the English.
- DirectorTom KinninmontPeter O'TooleStarsPeter O'TooleTimothy AckroydSarah BergerPeter O'Toole stars as the complex, funny, charming, and hard-drinking Jeffrey Bernard in this live performance at the Old Vic Theatre in London.
- DirectorPatrick HarkinsStarsAidan GillenAdrian LesterPeter O'TooleA rivalry develops between a showbiz veteran and an upstart newcomer.
- StarsPeter StormareFriedrich von ThunPeter O'TooleA profile of the life of Adolf Hitler with a unique slant, as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National Socialist German Workers Party prior to World War II.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsBrad PittEric BanaOrlando BloomAn adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.
- StarsRose ByrneDavid TennantPeter O'TooleAfter a life spent seeking pleasure and decadence, Casanova seeks his one true love, Henriette.
- CreatorMichael HirstStarsJonathan Rhys MeyersHenry CavillAnthony BrophyEpic series reveals the scandalous life of a young king whose affairs and obsession with producing a male heir changed marriage, the church, and the world.
- StarsLi SunLuke MacfarlaneSam NeillA poor but feisty Chinese woman, disguised as a boy, joins the railroad crew in the Rocky Mountains to search for her long-lost father, and falls in love with the son of the railroad tycoon.
- StarsJoanna LumleyPeter O'TooleGrace SimonDrama miniseries about the friendship between Judith Dunbar and Loveday Carey-Lewis, before, during and after WW2.
- DirectorKen BerrisStarsGreta ScacchiGabrielle AnwarPeter O'TooleDuring a snowstorm, Patrick Roarke, a manservant, is found dead at the bottom of the main staircase in a gothic English mansion. Inspector Hatcher is sent to investigate the death. When he arrives, he finds a household consisting of five women: the somewhat eccentric Lady Ravenscroft and her mentally unstable daughter Gillian, the icy foreign governess Miss Keiner, the simple minded maid Dolly, and the sinister cook Mrs French. When questioned by the inspector, each of the women tells a different story, all of which are illustrated by flashback scenes showing the events as related by that particular person. Everybody seems to protect somebody and the inspector becomes increasingly intoxicated as he tries to untangle the web of lies in his endeavour to find out the truth.
- CreatorMark MassariStarsRay BradburyMichael CopemanFrank Whitten"The Ray Bradbury Theater" was a Canadian-produced anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
- StarsMarius GoringStanley Van BeersPatrick TroughtonSir Percy Blakeney, Baronet, is a notorious fop and hedonistic member of the Prince Regent's court, but he is secretly "the Scarlet Pimpernel", a mysterious figure who rescues innocents from the Reign of Terror taking place in France and transports them to safety in England.
- StarsDerek FrancisAlfred BurkeArthur HewlettAn anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
- StarsRichard CaldicotGeorge WoodbridgeRobert BrownSeries of television plays performed live.
- StarsCicely CourtneidgeEvelyn LayeDora BryanA BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
- StarsHarry H. CorbettPaul Whitsun-JonesBillie WhitelawThis show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.
- DirectorSean CameronStarsRobert OsbornePeter O'TooleIn a show taped before a live audience at the TCM Classic Film Festival in April 2011, Robert Osborne hosts an in-depth interview with legendary actor Peter O'Toole about his career.
- Bonus feature for the DVD/Blu-ray 'The Tudors Season 2'.