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Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole
  • Born: August 2, 1932
  • Died: December 14, 2013
  • Nationality: British, Irish
  • Profession: Actor, Author

Peter Seamus O'Toole was an Irish-British stage and film 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 as a "hellraiser" off it.