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Peter O'Toole : a biography 🔍
Freedland, Michael, 1934- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1st ed edition, 1982
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237 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm, Son of a Galway bookie, Peter tried newspaper work, and the Navy, before deciding to study drama at RADA--in the glittery class of 1955. Triumphs at the Bristol Old Vic followed, leading to Shakespeare at Stratford, including a celebrated Shylock. Though signed up for a long-term contract there, with Peter Hall as mentor, the chance to play Lawrence of Arabia came along--launching O'Toole into \"\"two totally different trajectories: the career he wanted as an actor and the one he found he couldn't do without, as a money-making machine.\"\" Some of the subsequent films were fine--Becket, Lion in Winter--but most were ill-chosen and shabby. Attempts to return to the stage were uneven, with a legendarily disastrous Macbeth thoroughly explored. His health deteriorated, his drinking escalated, and wife Sian Phillips left him. The book ends with O'Toole's 1981 success in The Stunt Man, but at a low ebb personally. Freedland's account is admiring rather than sleazy--and fans should find it inoffensive and reasonably informative, Includes index
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by Michael Freedland
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Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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W.H. Allen
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Wadsworth
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1st ed., New York, New York State, 1982
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United States, United States of America
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First edition, New York, ©1982
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1st ed edition, May 1985
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First Edition, PS, 1985
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London, England, 1983
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Inherent cut text on leaf 131
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Includes index.
Alternative description
Profiles the mercurial actor who made a solid reputation at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before becoming an international star in the film "Laurence of Arabia" and whose career has been marked alternately by brilliance, failure, and personal excess
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Best-selling biography of actor/filmstar Peter O'Toole, perhaps best known for his starring role in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Much emphasis is on the private O'Toole
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2023-06-28
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