Peter O’Toole retiring: O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia Peter O’Toole retires from acting. Stage and screen star Peter O’Toole, 79, announced earlier today that he is retiring from film and stage work. (Please scroll down to check out O’Toole’s statement.) Among the eight-time Academy Award-nominated O’Toole’s film credits are David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Anthony Harvey’s The Lion in Winter (1968), and Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (1987). On stage, O’Toole has brought to life the likes of Shylock in a 1960 Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Merchant of Venice; Hamlet, under the direction of Laurence Olivier; and Pygmalion‘s [...]...
- 7/10/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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