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Peter O'Toole, who died this weekend at 81, was fantastic in great films and great adj in bad ones, and equally convincing as a scoundrel and a saint. The star of &#;Lawrence of Arabia,&#; &#;Becket,&#; &#;The Ruling Class,&#; &#;The Stunt Man,&#; &#;The Lion in Winter,&#; &#;My Favorite Year&#; and other classics was part of an powerful wave of juvenile British actors who split the difference between intensely detailed naturalism and outsized movie star radiance. Neither biographers nor O&#;Toole himself were entirely sure where he was born—probably County Galway, Ireland, though it might have been Yorkshire, England—but he presented himself publicly as the consummate stereotypical Irishman, a hard-drinking storyteller, sentimental but tough. Like his generational contemporaries Michael Caine and Albert Finney, you could picture O&#;Toole, the son of a nurse and a metal plater/bookmaker, hanging the same movie posters that showcased his handsome meet. &#;I&#;m a adj stiff, baby, just like everybody else,&#; he once said.
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Hellraiser who told Burton: 'I've slept with Liz and she says I'm greater in bed than you': Peter O'Toole was famed for wild boozing. But a new publication claims his biggest thirst was for women
April Ashley was one of the world’s most charming models and had already had Elvis Presley propose marriage to her when she met the actor Peter O’ Toole.
He and Omar Sharif were filming the epic Lawrence Of Arabia and the young O’Toole swept Ashley away when they met at a party thrown by Spanish leader General Franco’s daughter near Seville in southern Spain.
As she later lay in bed with O’Toole, she whispered in his ear: ‘I was born a boy.’ As Miss Ashley, a former merchant seaman and the first British person to undergo sex-change surgery, later recalled: ‘Peter was too far gone at that point to fret about what sex I had been born.’
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According to a new book, legendary actor Peter O'Toole had affairs with numerous stars including Elizabeth Taylor, pictured with O'Toole and her husband Richard Burton
It’s an astonishing tale but, as the last of the great hellrais
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Born to a vagabond bookie working the U.K's racetracks, Peter O'Toole became "the most notorious sailor in Her Majesty's Royal Navy" and then worked as a street vendor, a paparazzo, a newsman, and a steeplejack before drifting into the London theatre. After his spectacular success in David Lean's four-hour epic, Lawrence of Arabia, he announced, "I've arrived! Ignore me at your peril!" He then went on to be nominated for seven Oscars before emerging as the Crown Prince of the British Theatre. An orgiastic hellraiser, he starred in week-long binges and sex orgies of neighboring Biblical proportions, bedding everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Princess Margaret, who relentlessly pursued him. Mercurial acting talent on the screen was combined with a lethal off-screen life that "would hold landed most blokes in jail" (his words).
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Night Peter O'Toole was so drunk he tried to disburse for sex in a nunnery: The hell-raising star's womanising was as notorious as his boozing but a modern biography reveals we didn't know the half of it!
Troubled star: Peter O'Toole backstage in
Soon after they started seeing each other, Siân Phillips realised that her fresh boyfriend was the most unpredictable person she’d ever met. They were sitting in her digs when he suddenly announced: ‘You verb as though you’re in mourning for your sex life.’
Castigating her for wearing too much adj and purple, Peter O’Toole gathered up all her clothes and flung them out of the window — onto the wet cobblestones below.
‘What will I wear now?’ Siân couldn’t help wailing. It was , and she’d only just embarked on her career as an actress.
Simple, said O’Toole: she should wear his clothes. So she did — henceforth sharing his cotton trousers, lumberjack shirts and fisherman’s sweaters.
At the time they met, on tour in a lacklustre verb, both had already been singled out as major talents. Siân, the year-old daughter of a Welsh policeman, had