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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6      Non-Film Score Discussion: Peter O'Toole has crossed the River    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2 3 4    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 1:31 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) O'Toole received his first Oscar nomination as Best Actor for LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. He lost to Gregory Peck in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 1:31 PM     By:   betenoir   (Member) What a magnificent, outstanding actor. He lived life fully, though by no means quietly. It's perhaps amazing he lived so long, considering how he lived. I lost faith in the academy regarding the Oscars when he did not win for Lawrence. Peck was very good, but O'Toole was exceptional. Even in his roles where he poked fun at himself he showed the acting world how it should be done. His departure from the stage of life is a major loss.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 1:32 PM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) "...No prisoners!! ....NO PRISONERS!!!..." Fondly remembered, both man and the the work he left behind. Will have to watch Orrence again next few days. Has to be done.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 1:32 PM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) "...So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are..."    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 1:41 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) O'Toole first played the role of King Henry II in 1964's BECKET. He received his second Oscar nomination for the role, losing to Rex Harrison in MY FAIR LADY. But O'Toole did win the Golden Globe that year.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 1:48 PM     By:   OnlyGoodMusic   (Member) What a magnificent, outstanding actor. He lived life fully, though by no means quietly. Yeah. Apparently, he lived life to its fullest (hence the reference to Richard Burton and Richard Harris before).    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 1:49 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) After the tepid reception to 1965's LORD JIM, especially for his own starring performance, a once-enthusiastic O'Toole declared, "It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure."    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 1:54 PM     By:   DOGBELLE   (Member) goodbye it's been nice knowing you.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 1:55 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) O'Toole starred in his first comedy in this 1965 romp. Richard Burton appears in a cameo with O'Toole in a scene in a bar where Burton asks O'Toole "Don't you know me from someplace?" and O'Toole responds "Give my regards to what's her name." The dialogue is a reference to their appearance together in BECKET and to Burton's wife at the time, Elizabeth Taylor.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 2:06 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) O'Toole continued his romantic comedy ways in this 1966 film. This was director William Wyler's first romantic comedy since 1953's ROMAN HOLIDAY, which also starred Audrey Hepburn.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 2:10 PM     By:   Regie   (Member) I think "Lawrence of Arabia" is actually one of the finest films ever made and O'Toole was outstanding in it; as though he was born to play that part! And wasn't the screenplay by Robert Bolt? That will account for the stunning lines so wonderfully quoted in previous comments. The thing about O'Toole is that he made some poor career choices and silly films, sadly. How COULD anybody trump a role like Lawrence, though? Lacking the "Oh Titus" histrionics of Richard Burton and other English actors, O'Toole was a consummate actor and it seemed easy to him. He will probably be best remembered as a theatrical performer. Dissipated through drink over the decades he finally became a parody of himself, which was distressing to watch. That hollowed-out face of his, with the sunken eyes, is an image I prefer to forget. We pay a price for our 'enthusiasms' (why does that word always remind me of Robert De Niro??)!! Oscar Wilde once made a comment about the Catholic Church and his relationship to it. The quote can be roughly translated as; 'the fragrance of the Catholic Church and its teachings could have cured me of my degeneracies". I always think of that whenever I've seen the recent O'Toole mien.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 2:12 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) O'Toole had a small role in this huge John Huston epic.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 2:19 PM     By:   Ian J.   (Member) For some reason, this one sticks out in my mind as an O'Toole film I particularly remember:    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 2:19 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) O'Toole made his second appearance with Omar Sharif in 1967's THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 2:27 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In 1967's CASINO ROYALE, O'Toole's bagpiping skills came to the fore again in an uncredited role as a Scottish piper.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 2:32 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) History repeated itself in 1968's THE LION IN WINTER: O'Toole again played King Henry II and again was Oscar-nominated for the role (this time losing out to Cliff Robertson for CHARLY) and again won the Golden Globe for his work.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 2:36 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) This 1968 film had the last film score composed by Dimitri Tiomkin.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 2:39 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) O'Toole stretched his talents (some might say too far) by appearing in his first musical, in this 1969 effort. Nevertheless, he was nominated for his fourth Oscar for his role, losing this time to John Wayne in TRUE GRIT.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 2:50 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In this little-seen 1970 drama, O'Toole plays a disturbed Scottish farmer named Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson. John Addison scored the film.    Posted:   Dec 15, 2013 - 2:51 PM     By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member) Sad news. My mum remembers him being in a group of kids who she used to play with in the back streets of Leeds in the 30s, although she's a couple of years older than him. TG Does she remember where he was born? There's a bit of ambiguity about it. He always played up his Irishness, but there was something a little exaggerated there sometimes. Mayve your mum has a clue on this?     Non-Film Score Discussion: Peter O'Toole has crossed the River    << < 1 2 3 4  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6

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