PETER O’TOOLE’S WORK IN FILM, TELEVISION AND THEATRE

FILMS

Kidnapped (1960)

Director: Robert Stevenson

Cast: Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, John Laurie, Niall MacGinnis, Finlay Currie, Peter O’Toole (Robin Macgregor)

The Savage Innocents (1960)

Director: Nicholas Ray

Cast: Anthony Quinn, Yoko Tani, Carlo Giustini, Marie Yang, Andy Ho, Peter O’Toole (uncredited)

The Day They Robbed The Bank Of England (1960)

Director: John Guillermin

Cast: Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O’Toole (Capt. Monty Fitch), Kieron Moore, Albert Sharpe, Joseph Tomelty, John Le Mesurier, Andrew Keir, Hugh Griffith, Arthur Lowe

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Director: David Lean

Cast: Peter O’Toole (T. E. Lawrence), Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit

Becket (1964)

Director: Peter Glenville

Cast: Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole (King Henry II), John Gielgud, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa, Donald Wolfit, David Weston, Martita Hunt, Pamela Brown, Siân Phillips, Felix Aylmer

Lord Jim (1965)

Director: Richard Brooks

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Lord Jim), James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas, Daliah Lavi, Akim Tamiroff

What’s New Pussycat? (1965)

Director: Clive Donner

Cast: Peter Sellers, Peter O’Toole (Michael James), Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress

How To Steal A Million (1966)

Director: William Wyler

Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole (Simon Dermott), Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer

The Bible: In The Beginning (1966)

Director: John Huston

Cast: Michael Parks, Richard Harris, John Huston, Stephen Boyd, George C. Scott, Ava Gardner, Peter O’Toole (The Three Angels), Franco Nero

The Night of the Generals (1967)

Director: Anatole Litvak

Cast: Peter O’Toole (General Tanz), Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet, Philippe Noiret, Charles Gray, Coral Browne, John Gregson, Nigel Stock, Christopher Plummer

Casino Royale (1967)

Director: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish and Richard Talmadge

Cast: Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi, Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr, William Holden, John Huston, Peter O’Toole (cameo – Scottish piper)

The Lion In Winter (1968)

Director: Anthony Harvey

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Henry II), Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton, Jane Merrow

Great Catherine (1968)

Director: Gordon Flemyng

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Captain Charles Edstaston), Zero Mostel, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Hawkins, Akim Tamiroff

Goodbye Mr Chips (1969)

Director: Herbert Ross

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Arthur Chipping), Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, George Baker, Siân Phillips, Michael Bryant

Country Dance (1970)

Director: J. Lee Thompson

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Sir Charles Ferguson), Susannah York, Michael Craig, Harry Andrews, Cyril Cusack, Brian Blessed

Murphy’s War (1971)

Director: Peter Yates

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Murphy), Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson

Under Milk Wood (1972)

Director: Andrew Sinclair

Cast: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O’Toole (Captain Cat), Glynis Johns, Vivien Merchant, Siân Phillips, Victor Spinetti, Ryan Davies, Angharad Rees, David Jason, Susan Penhaligon

The Ruling Class (1972)

Director: Peter Medak

Cast: Peter O’Toole (14th Earl of Gurney), Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, William Mervyn, James Villiers, Michael Bryant, Carolyn Seymour, Nigel Green

Man of La Mancha (1972)

Director: Arthur Hiller

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Don Quixote), Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle, Brian Blessed, Ian Richardson

Rosebud (1975)

Director: Otto Preminger

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Larry Martin), Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman, Claude Dauphin, Peter Lawford, Raf Vallone, Isabelle Huppert

Man Friday (1975)

Director: Jack Gold

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Robinson Crusoe), Richard Roundtree, Peter Cellier

The Far Side of Paradise (aka Foxtrot) (1976)

Director: Arturo Ripstein

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Liviu), Charlotte Rampling, Max Von Sydow

Power Play (1978)

Director: Martyn Burke

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Colonel Zeller), David Hemmings, Donald Pleasence, Barry Morse

Zulu Dawn (1979)

Director: Douglas Hickox

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Peter O’Toole (Lord Chelmsford), Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott, John Mills, Michael Jayston, Bob Hoskins, Nigel Davenport, Christopher Cazenove

Caligula (1979)

Director: Tinto Brass

Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O’Toole (Tiberius), John Gielgud

The Stunt Man (1980)

Director: Richard Rush

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Eli Cross), Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield, Alex Rocco

My Favourite Year (1982)

Director: Richard Benjamin

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Alan Swann), Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Bill Macy

Supergirl (1984)

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Cast: Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Peter O’Toole (Zaltar), Hart Bochner, Mia Farrow, Brenda Vaccaro, Peter Cook, Simon Ward, Marc McClure

Creator (1985)

Director: Ivan Passer

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Dr Harry Wolper), Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen, David Ogden Stiers

Club Paradise (1986)

Director: Harold Ramis

Cast: Robin Williams, Peter O’Toole (Governor Anthony Cloyden Hayes), Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy, Eugene Levy, Joanna Cassidy

The Last Emperor (1987)

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O’Toole (Reginald Johnston), Victor Wong, Ruyuichi Sakamoto, Vivian Wu

High Spirits (1988)

Director: Neil Jordan

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Peter Plunkett), Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Beverly D’Angelo, Jennifer Tilly, Liam Neeson, Peter Gallagher, Ray McNally

On A Moonlit Night (1989)

Director: Lina Wertmüller

Cast: Rutger Hauer, Nastassja Kinski, Peter O’Toole (Prof. Yan McShoul), Faye Dunaway, Lorraine Bracco

Wings of Fame (1990)

Director: Otakar Votocek

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Cesar Valentin), Colin Firth, Marie Trintignant, Robert Stephens

The Rainbow Thief (1990)

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Cast: Omar Sharif, Peter O’Toole (Prince Meleagre), Christopher Lee

King Ralph (1991)

Director: David S. Ward

Cast: John Goodman, Peter O’Toole (Sir Cedric Charles Willingham), John Hurt, Camille Coduri, Richard Griffiths, Leslie Phillips, James Villiers

Isabelle Eberhardt (1991)

Director: Ian Pringle

Cast: Mathilda May, Tchéky Karyo, Peter O’Toole (Maj. Lyautey)

Rebecca’s Daughters (1992)

Director: Karl Francis

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Lord Sarn), Paul Rhys, Joely Richardson, Keith Allen

The Seventh Coin (1993)

Director: Dror Soref

Cast: Alexandra Powers, Navin Chowdhry, Peter O’Toole (Emil Saber), John Rhys-Davies

FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

Director: Charles Sturridge

Cast: Harvey Keitel, Paul McGann, Peter O’Toole (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), Elizabeth Earl, Florence Hoath

Phantoms (1998)

Director: Joe Chappelle

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Dr Timothy Flyte), Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Ben Affleck

The Manor (1999)

Director: Ken Berris

Cast: Greta Scacchi, Gabrielle Anwar, Peter O’Toole (Mr Ravenscroft)

Molokai (1999)

Director: Paul Cox

Cast: Peter O’Toole (William Williamson), Kris Kristofferson, Sam Neill, David Wenham, Derek Jacobi, Tom Wilkinson

Rock My World (2002)

Director: Sidney J. Furie

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Lord Foxley), Joan Plowright, Alicia Silverstone, Martin Clunes

The Final Curtain (2002)

Director: Patrick Harkins

Cast: Aidan Gillen, Peter O’Toole (JJ Curtis), Adrian Lester, Julia Sawalha

Bright Young Things (2003)

Director: Stephen Fry

Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Sheen, Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Stockard Channing, Jim Carter, Dan Aykroyd, Peter O’Toole (Colonel Blount), Jim Broadbent

Troy (2004)

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Cast: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, Peter O’Toole (Priam), Diane Kruger, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Christie, Julian Glover, Trevor Eve

Lassie (2005)

Director: Charles Sturridge

Cast: Peter O’Toole (The Duke), Samantha Morton, John Lynch, Peter Dinklage, Edward Fox

Venus (2006)

Director: Roger Michell

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Maurice), Leslie Phillips, Jodie Whittaker, Richard Griffiths, Vanessa Redgrave

One Night with the King (2006)

Director: Michael O. Sajbel

Cast: Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss, John Noble, John Rhys-Davies, Peter O’Toole (Samuel, the Prophet), Omar Sharif

Ratatouille (2007)

Director: Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava

Voice Cast: Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Brian Dennehy, Peter O’Toole (Anton Ego)

Stardust (2007)

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Cast: Clare Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Sienna Miller, Ricky Gervais, Peter O’Toole (King)

My Talks with Dean Spanley (2008)

Director: Toa Fraser

Cast: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Peter O’Toole (Fisk Senior), Art Malik

Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage (2008)

Director: Michael Campus

Cast: Jared Padalecki, Marcia Gay Harden, Peter O’Toole (Glen), Aaron Ashmore, Geoffrey Lewis

Eager to Die (2010)

Director: Michael Mandell

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Lord Pelican), Michelle Rodriquez, Tony Devon, David Morse

For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada (2012)

Director: Dean Wright

Cast: Andy Garcia, Oscar Isaac, Eva Longoria, Peter O’Toole (Father Christopher)

Decline of an Empire (2014)

Director: Michael Redwood

Cast: Nicole Keniheart, Peter O’Toole (Gallus), Joss Ackland, Steven Berkoff, Edward Fox, Dudley Sutton

The Whole World at Our Feet (2015)

Director: Salamat Mukhammed-Ali and Dauren Mussa

Cast: Armand Assante, Peter O’Toole (Tugboat), Michael Madsen, Tommy Lister, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

TELEVISION

Siwan: The King’s Daughter (TV drama, 1960)

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Gwilym De Breos), Siân Phillips, Clifford Evans

Rendezvous (TV series, 1959–1961)

O’Toole appeared in three episodes, as John.

Present Laughter (TV drama, 1967)

Director: Gordon Flemyng

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Gary Essendine), Honor Blackman, Isla Blair, Edward Hardwicke

Rogue Male (TV movie, 1976)

Director: Clive Donner

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Sir Robert Hunter), John Standing, Alastair Sim, Harold Pinter, Michael Byrne

Strumpet City (TV series, 1980)

Director: Tony Barry

Cast: David Kelly, Frank Grimes, Donal McCann, Bryan Murray, Peter O’Toole (Jim Larkin)

Masada (TV mini-series, 1981)

Director: Boris Sagal

Cast: Peter O’Toole (General Cornelius Flavius Silva), Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Anthony Quayle, David Warner, Joseph Wiseman

Pygmalion (TV drama, 1983)

Director: Alan Cooke

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Professor Henry Higgins), Margot Kidder, John Standing

Svengali (TV movie, 1983)

Director: Anthony Harvey

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Anton Bosnyak), Jodie Foster, Elizabeth Ashley, Larry Joshua, Holly Hunter

Kim (TV movie, 1984)

Director: John Davies

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Lama), Bryan Brown, John Rhys-Davies, Ravi Sheth, Julian Glover

Uncle Silas (TV mini-series, 1987, aka The Dark Angel)

Director: Peter Hammond

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Uncle Silas Ruthyn), Jane Lapotaire, Beatie Edney, Guy Rolfe, Barbara Shelley

The Pied Piper (TV movie, 1990)

Director: Norman Stone

Cast: Peter O’Toole (John Sidney Howard), Mare Winningham, Michael Kitchen

Civvies (TV series, 1992)

Director: Karl Francis

Cast: Jason Issacs, Elizabeth Rider, Lennie James, Peter Howitt, Peter O’Toole (Barry Newman)

Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III (TV mini-series, 1994)

Director: Larry Peerce

Cast: Philip Casnoff, Kyle Chandler, Cathy Lee Crosby, Lesley-Anne Down, Jonathan Frakes, Rip Torn, Robert Wagner, Billy Dee Williams, Peter O’Toole (Sam Trump)

Heavy Weather (TV movie, 1995)

Director: Jack Gold

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Clarence, Earl of Emsworth), Judy Parfitt, Richard Briers, Roy Hudd, David Bamber, Richard Johnson, Samuel West, Bryan Pringle

Gulliver’s Travels (TV movie, 1996)

Director: Charles Sturridge

Cast: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Edward Fox, Robert Hardy, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Peter O’Toole (Emperor of Lilliput), Omar Sharif

Coming Home (TV movie, 1998)

Director: Giles Foster

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Colonel Carey-Lewis), Joanna Lumley, Emily Mortimer, David McCallum, Paul Bettany

Joan of Arc (TV movie, 1999)

Director: Christian Duguay

Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Chad Willett, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe, Olympia Dukakis, Neil Patrick Harris, Maximilian Schell, Shirley MacLaine, Peter O’Toole (Bishop Pierre Cauchon)

Hitler: The Rise of Evil (TV mini-series, 2003)

Director: Christian Duguay

Cast: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Matthew Modine, Liev Schreiber, Peter O’Toole (President Paul von Hindenburg)

Imperium: Augustus (TV movie, 2003)

Director: Roger Young

Cast: Peter O’Toole (Augustus Caesar), Charlotte Rampling

Casanova (TV series, 2005)

Director: Sheree Folkson

Cast: David Tennant, Rose Byrne, Peter O’Toole (Older Casanova), Rupert Penry-Jones

The Tudors (TV series, 2007–2010)

Creator: Michael Hirst

Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Anthony Brophy, James Frain, Simon Ward, Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Peter O’Toole (Pope Paul III)

Iron Road (TV mini-series, 2008)

Director: David Wu

Cast: Li Sun, Luke Macfarlane, Sam Neill, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Peter O’Toole (Lionel Relic)

THEATRE

1955–1958

The Bristol Old Vic Company

Numerous roles

1957

Oh! My Papa

Garrick Theatre, London

1958

The Holiday by John Hall. Directed by Frank Dunlop

Cambridge Arts Theatre and UK tour

1959

The Long and the Short and the Tall by Willis Hall. Directed by Lindsay Anderson

The Royal Court and The New Theatre, London

1960

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. Directed by Michael Langham

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Directed by John Barton

Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare. Directed by John Barton and Peter Hall

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon (Season)

1963

Baal by Bertolt Brecht. Directed by William Gaskill Phoenix Theatre

Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Directed by Laurence Olivier National Theatre, London

1965

Ride a Cock Horse by David Mercer. Directed by Gordon Flemyng Piccadilly Theatre, London

1969

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Nat Brenner

Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Directed by Sean Cotter Abbey Theatre, Dublin

1971

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Directed by Frederick Monnoyer

Nottingham Playhouse

1973

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov. Directed by Val May

Plunder by Ben Travers. Directed by Nat Brenner

The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by David Phethean Bristol Old Vic (Season)

1976

Dead Eyed Dicks by Peter King. Directed by Lionel Harris Theatre Royal, Brighton

1978

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov. Directed by Nat Brenner

Present Laughter by Noël Coward. Directed by Nat Brenner Canada and US Tour

1980

Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Directed by Bryan Forbes Old Vic, London

1982

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Patrick Dromgoole

Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London

1984

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Ray Cooney Shaftesbury Theatre, London

1986

The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Val May Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London

1987

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Val May The Plymouth Theatre, Broadway

1989

Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse. Directed by Ned Sherrin

Apollo Theatre, London

1991

Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse. Directed by Ned Sherrin

Shaftesbury Theatre, London

1992

Our Song by Keith Waterhouse. Directed by Ned Sherrin Apollo Theatre, London

1999

Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse. Directed by Ned Sherrin

Old Vic, London