# RIP Peter O'toole **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400 "2013-12-15T18:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/1 "2013-12-15T18:42:22Z")
Farewell to Lawrence. ☹ Peter O’Toole, star of Lawrence of Arabia, dies aged 81 > **[Peter O'Toole, star of Lawrence of Arabia, dies aged 81](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/dec/15/peter-o-toole-dies-lawrence-arabia)** > > Actor who shot to fame in David Lean's 1962 masterpiece and received eight Oscar nominations has died in hospital in LondonObituary: Peter O'Toole, 1932-2013 RIP ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/2 "2013-12-15T18:44:21Z")
Loved his blue eyes, he was a handsome man. RIP ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/3 "2013-12-15T18:50:41Z")
Peter Seamus O’Toole? Sounds like a porno stage name. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/4 "2013-12-15T18:53:31Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Peter Seamus O’Toole? Sounds like a porno stage name. Lil: This is for ladies only! Alan Swann: [unzipping fly] So is _this_, ma’am, but every now and then I have to run a little water through it. ---
**Author:** ![Agnostic\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Agnostic\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agnostic_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/5 "2013-12-15T18:55:07Z")
From the Guardian: “We heralded the ’60s,” he once said. “Me, [Richard] Burton, Richard Harris; we did in public what everyone else did in private then, and does for show now. We drank in public, we knew about pot.” I loved the unabashed zest for life he and his compadres had. A brilliant actor and a great person. He will be missed. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/6 "2013-12-15T19:00:25Z")
Heh, From _The Ruling Class_: -“How should I prove to you that I am [Jesus Christ]” -“Show us your Godhead” -(Starts unzipping) -“Never mind!” Alan Swann: “I am not an actor, I’m a MOVIE STAR!” – but he \*was \*both, and how. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/7 "2013-12-15T19:30:54Z")
Herb Caen once said, “Peter O’Toole is redundant.” RIP, trouper. ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/8 "2013-12-15T19:33:52Z")
I should think he’d want to “RIP” at all. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/9 "2013-12-15T19:51:15Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Peter O’Toole, star of Lawrence of Arabia, dies aged 81. You know it’s weird, but I’m slightly surprised at how “young” he was. Maybe it was the Sid Caesar thread skewing my thinking, but I had it in my mind he would have been around 90. Ah, well. A life heartily lived, a very few truly atrocious acting jobs ( he slummed and man could he chew scenery if you let him ), but far, far more of some of the most sublime. Made ‘larger than life’ work over and over again. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/10 "2013-12-15T19:58:43Z")
> [@Agnostic\_Pagan](#): > > From the Guardian: “We heralded the ’60s,” he once said. “Me, [Richard] Burton, Richard Harris; we did in public what everyone else did in private then, and does for show now. We drank in public, we knew about pot.” > > I loved the unabashed zest for life he and his compadres had. A brilliant actor and a great person. > > He will be missed. Stephen Fry in QI talked about one such public incident: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/R_CoggWEjeM/maxresdefault.jpg "QI Peter O' Toole") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_CoggWEjeM) > [@](#): > > There is a very good story, though, about Peter O’Toole, who was once getting drunk, in his Celtic hellraiser days, in a pub in London, and they were at throwing out time at lunchtime, and he said, “Let’s go and see a play,” And, um, at one point O’Toole nudged his friend and said, “This is brilliant! This is the bit where I come on… > > Oh, bollocks." Yes, it was the very same theater he was supposed to do that part that day! ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/11 "2013-12-15T19:58:58Z")
Lawrence of Arrhythmia. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/12 "2013-12-15T19:59:31Z")
Remember the bit when Letterman was doing the show from London? Peter comes out on a Camel and … [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K561m7Nq7kk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K561m7Nq7kk) Miss him already **Capt** ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/13 "2013-12-15T20:05:41Z")
Must’ve been made of sturdy stuff. Never expected him to make it this far. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/14 "2013-12-15T20:09:07Z")
Oh, how I love Peter O’Toole! Even in the abominable Man of La Mancha movie… I love My Favorite Year. We just watched Becket recently for the bazillionth time, and he was a hoot in Creator. He was on my short list of actors I’d really really like to meet. My heart is broken. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/15 "2013-12-15T20:30:27Z")
He had such a great time with the whole LOA role, loved the costumes, etc. It was a joy to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/16 "2013-12-15T20:48:33Z")
I love My Favorite Year, and The Stunt Man, so much, and of course, Lawrence. Those eyes, and that smile always did funny things to my insides. I hope you raise a little friendly hell on your journey to whatever heaven is in store for you. Thank you for the great movies. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/17 "2013-12-15T21:18:37Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Remember the bit when Letterman was doing the show from London? > > Peter comes out on a Camel and … > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K561m7Nq7kk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K561m7Nq7kk) > > Miss him already > > **Capt** Did that camel really down a beer? You think he’d spit it out. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/18 "2013-12-15T21:33:17Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Did that camel really down a beer? You think he’d spit it out. I got the impression that the camel in question regularly drank beer but who knows. It sure looked like it did when I watched it live so many years ago. The funny thing about that clip is the fact that I started to write out the details and then remembered about you tube :smack:. I need to watch “My Favorite Year” again soon. **Capt** ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/19 "2013-12-15T22:29:16Z")
_ **"My God, I love being King!"** _ ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400/20 "2013-12-15T22:36:36Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Lil: This is for ladies only! > > Alan Swann: [unzipping fly] So is _this_, ma’am, but every now and then I have to run a little water through it. My Favorite Year is probably my favorite Peter OToole movie, though I really liked him on the horse dressed in full reds in Club Paradise when he was playing the Governor. Although I will generally watch him in anything. RIP:( [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-otoole/676400.md?page=2)