Peter O'Toole Filmography

Stardust

Actors: Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller

Synopsis: A charmingly naïve boy from the English village of Wall travels to a magical, mythical world in search of the falling star that will help him win the heart of his true love in this fantasy adventure starring Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ricky Gervais, and Sienna Miller Read More

Ratatouille

Actors: Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn

Synopsis: A scrawny rat named Remy (voice of Patton Oswalt) finds his dreams of culinary superstardom stirring up sizable controversy in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant in director Brad Bird's madcap computer-animated comedy. It's hard being a rat with culinary aspirations, but Remy is convinced he Read More

Becket

Actors: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: A high-class costume drama with a substantive historical basis, Becket is the true story of the friendship between King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and Thomas à Becket (Richard Burton), a royal courtier and confidant whom Henry appoints as Archbishop of Canterbury. As Becket takes his duties with the Read More

One Night With the King

Actors: Tiffany DuPont, Luke Goss, John Rhys-Davies, John Noble

Synopsis: When a beautiful young slave girl learns that her people are about to fall victim to a horrible act of genocide, she will be forced to choose between realizing her wildest dreams or stepping into the pages of history to embrace her destiny in an epic tale of one young girl who rises from peasant Read More

Venus

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Leslie Phillips, Jodie Whittaker, Richard Griffiths, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis: An aging pair of veteran English actors whose success never quite took hold finds their quiet existence suddenly interrupted by the arrival of one of the men's precocious grandnieces in director Roger Michell's affectionate comedy drama. Maurice (Peter O'Toole) and Ian (Leslie Phillips) may still Read More

Lassie

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, John Lynch, Peter Dinklage, Steve Pemberton

Synopsis: Everyone's favorite collie returns to the screen -- and to her native home back in Britain -- in director Charles Sturridge's faithful adaptation of author Eric Knight's sentimental kid and canine novel Lassie Come Home. When Lassie saves a fox from the hunting hounds of the duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole Read More

Casanova

Synopsis: As the world's greatest lover lies slowly fading on his death bed, the memories of his passionate past come flooding back in director Sheree Folkson's tale of lust and adventure in 18th Century Europe. Casanova (portrayed in his early years by David Tennant, and his dying days by Peter O'Toole) Read More

Bright Young Things

Actors: Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, James McAvoy, Michael Sheen, David Tennant

Synopsis: British writer/actor Stephen Fry makes his feature-film debut with the witty, sophisticated comedy Bright Young Things, adapted from Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies. Set in London during the '30s, this stylish period film follows an ensemble cast of well-dressed and highly literate Read More

Troy

Actors: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Brian Cox, Sean Bean, Brendan Gleeson, Peter O'Toole

Synopsis: Homer's sprawling tale of love and war in ancient Greece comes to the screen in all its grandeur in this epic-scale adventure. In 1193 B.C., Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom), has fallen in love; however, the beautiful woman who has beguiled him is Helen, Queen of Sparta (Diane Kruger), who is Read More

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone, Julianna Margulies, Matthew Modine

Synopsis: British actor Robert Carlyle stars as the 20th century's most infamous dictator in this two-part TV biopic. The film covers the life of Adolf Hitler from his childhood to his emergence as absolute ruler of Germany in 1934. Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's Read More

Augustus

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis: The life and times of Augustus Caesar are brought to the screen in this made-for-television historical epic. After assisting Julius Caesar in a string of military campaigns, Augustus is adopted by the Roman leader, and when Brutus and Cassius kill Julius, Augustus joins forces with Marc Antony to Read More

The Final Curtain

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Adrian Lester, Aidan Gillen, Julia Sawalha, Ralph Brown

Synopsis: Patrick Harkins makes his directorial debut with the satirical dark comedy The Final Curtain, written by screenwriter John Hodge (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave). Serious author Jonathan Stitch (Adrian Lester) accepts a job writing a biography of unscrupulous U.K. game show host J.J. Curtis (Peter O'Toole Read More

Rock My World

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Joan Plowright, Alicia Silverstone, Lochlyn Munro, Jaimz Woolvett

Synopsis: Veteran hack director Sidney J. Furie directs the silly straight-to-video comedy Rock My World. The aging stuffy English aristocrats Lord and Lady Foxley (Peter O'Toole and Joan Plowright) have fallen on hard times, so they loan out the use of their mansion to the American rock band Global Heresy. Read More

The Making of Lawrence of Arabia

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Crew: Director

The Sinister Saga of Making 'The Stunt Man'

Actors: Richard Rush, Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Chuck Bail

Synopsis: In honor of the DVD release of the 1980 cult film The Stunt Man, director Richard Rush recounts the trials and tribulations he confronted while making that much praised film. Speaking from a variety of quirky settings including his private plane and a UCLA sculpture garden, he openly admits that Read More

Panstvi

Actors: Martin Dejdar, Greta Scacchi, Gabrielle Anwar, Laura Harris, Edie McClurg

Synopsis: In this spoof of old-fashioned murder mysteries, Detective Tomas Hatcher of Scotland Yard (Martin Dejdar) is dispatched to Ravenscroft Manor to investigate the murder of Patrick (Matt Hantley), who has been working at the palatial estate as a stable boy. Hatcher quickly discovers nearly everyone Read More

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

Actors: David Wenham, Kate Ceberano, Chris Haywood, Thom Hoffman, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: Based on the true story of a priest who risked his life in order to help people no one else would touch (a wager he would eventually lose), Father Damien stars David Wenham as the titular Belgian saint. In 1872, Damien, a young Catholic priest serving as a missionary near Hawaii, volunteers to Read More

Joan of Arc

Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe, Neil Patrick Harris, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: A literal interpretation of the oft-produced biography of 15th century historical heroine Joan d'Arc, this four-hour television miniseries version of Joan's story is lavishly produced. In a tiny village during the Hundred Years' War, teenager Joan d'Arc (Leelee Sobieski) has been raised by her Read More

Coming Home

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Joanna Lumley, Emily Mortimer

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher, the two-part British miniseries Coming Home re-created the years between 1936 and 1941 as experienced by a brace of young and impressionable girls. Meeting in a boarding school, Judith Dunbar and Loveday Carey-Lewis became close friends, though they were Read More

Phantoms

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Ben Affleck

Synopsis: Dean Koontz scripted this adaptation of his fantasy novel. The tale begins when two sisters, Lisa (Rose McGowan) and Jenny (Joanna Going) arrive for a ski vacation in the mountain resort town of Snowfield, Colorado, where they discover their landlady is dead and the town is deserted except for a Read More

Fairy Tale: A True Story

Actors: Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl, Paul McGann, Phoebe Nicholls, Peter O'Toole

Synopsis: Two young girls who believe that fairies are real attempt to prove it to the world in this drama based on actual events. In 1917, there is little to be happy about in the Wright household in West Yorkshire, England. Polly (Phoebe Nicholls) and her 12-year-old daughter Elsie (Florence Hoath) are Read More

Gulliver's Travels

Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Originally aired on the NBC network as a two-part miniseries, this all-star adventure is perhaps one of the most complete and faithful retellings of 18th-century author Jonathan Swift's epic social satire on film. Nine years after he set sail from England, a bedraggled, disoriented Dr. Lemuel Read More

Rebecca's Daughters

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Paul Rhys, Joely Richardson, Keith Allen, Simon Dormandy

Synopsis: Set in Wales a few hundred years ago, Rebecca's Daughters stars Paul Rhys as an aristocratic member of the ruling class. Rhys is not happy with the way that the members of his social order, particularly dissipated nobleman Peter O'Toole, are taxing the Welsh peasants into nonexistence. Thus, he Read More

The Seventh Coin

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Navin Chowdhry, Alexandra Powers, John Rhys-Davies, Ally Walker

Synopsis: Emil Saber (Peter O'Toole) travels to Jerusalem to seek the seventh coin of King Herod to complete his collection. As Saber searches for the coins, he becomes more and more unhinged, eventually believing that he is the murderous incarnation of King Herod. When he discovers that the coin is in the Read More

King Ralph

Actors: John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt, Camille Coduri, Richard Griffiths

Synopsis: Sometimes a family title, among the nobility of England, goes to the "collateral" heirs -- people not in the direct line of decent, like cousins, great-nephews and the like. On rare occasions, these people are not even aware that they are about to be elevated to the House of Lords, and they have Read More

The Dark Angel

Synopsis: Taped in Britain, The Dark Angel is an extra-long entry of PBS' Mystery series. Peter O'Toole heads a cast of dissipated, decadent 19th century aristocratic types. The script is based on a novel by Sheridan LeFanu, whose fascination with vampirism and "the undead" precipitated Bram Stoker by Read More

The Nutcracker Prince

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Megan Follows, Mike McDonald, Peter Boretski, Phyllis Diller, Peter O'Toole

Synopsis: Based on E.T.A. Hoffman's classic book The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, this animated holiday tale utilizes the vocal talents of such stars as Kiefer Sutherland, Peter O'Toole and Phyllis Diller. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Crossing to Freedom

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Mare Winningham

Synopsis: Crossing to Freedom is a 1990 TV-movie remake of the 1942 film The Pied Piper; both productions were based on a novel by Nevil Shute. Peter O'Toole steps into the old Monty Woolley role of the crotchety, isolationist Britisher who finds himself the unwilling guardian of several French war- refugee Read More

The Rainbow Thief

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Christopher Lee, Berta D. Dominguez, Jane Chaplin

Synopsis: An eccentric prince decides one day to give up all his wealth and position and live his own life. His idea of living his own life, though, is to take up residence in the city's sewers. His dutiful servant, who happens to be a thief, accompanies him. Appeals to his rich uncle to do something about Read More

Isabelle Eberhardt

Actors: Mathilda May, Tchéky Karyo, Peter O'Toole, Richard Moir, Arthur Dignam

Synopsis: Isabelle Eberhardt dramatizes the tragic true story of the iconoclastic Swiss-born writer, who gained notoriety for both her lifestyle and her work in North Africa at the turn of the twentieth century. Eberhardt (Mathilda May) began dressing as a man and converted to Islam in her teens. As the Read More

In Una Notte Di Chiaro Di Luna

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Nastassja Kinski, Peter O'Toole, Faye Dunaway

Synopsis: This international production by well-known director Lina Wertmuller is a harrowing educational melodrama about the AIDS epidemic. The story follows John Knot (Rutger Hauer) a brash, cheerful American reporter, and Joelle (Nastassja Kinski), a new photographer he has had an affair with and Read More

Wings of Fame

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Colin Firth, Marie Trintignant, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: In 1966, a famous actor (Peter O'Toole) is taken by a rowboat to a fabulous old hotel on an island in the middle of a lake. He comes to find out that time stands still here -- and the reason is that he is dead. He discovers that all the residents of the hotel are famous but dead people, including Read More

High Spirits

Actors: Daryl Hannah, Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg, Beverly D'Angelo, Liam Neeson, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: The owner of an Irish castle decides to attract visitors by falsely claiming that the building is haunted, only to have a pair of real ancestral spirits start causing trouble in this uneven attempt at fantasy-comedy. The story centers on Jack and Sharon (played by Steve Guttenberg and Beverly D'Angelo Read More

The Last Emperor

Actors: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto

Synopsis: The Last Emperor is the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last ruler of the Chinese Ching Dynasty. Told in flashback, the film covers the years 1908 to 1967. We first see the three-year-old Pu Yi being installed in the Forbidden City by ruthless, dying dowager Empress Tzu-Hsui (Lisa Lu). Though Read More

Club Paradise

Actors: Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy

Synopsis: Robin Williams' comic shtick sabotages any attempt at comic development in Harold Ramis' patchy comedy farce Club Paradise. Williams plays Jack Moniker, a Chicago fireman injured in the line of duty, who uses his disability money to open up a run-down Caribbean resort. Jack eagerly awaits the Read More

Strange Tales: Ray Bradbury Theatre

Synopsis: At 10:20 PM on June 16, 1985, an avuncular chap named Ray Bradbury, sitting at his typewriter in a room overflowing with clutter, introduced the first of HBO's dramatizations of his off-kilter short stories. Strange Tales: Ray Bradbury Theatre is a videotaped collection of three of those stories Read More

Creator

Actors: Jeff Corey, Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, John Dehner, Ellen Geer, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen, David Ogden Stiers, Rance Howard

Synopsis: This romantic, melancholy twist on the Frankenstein formula stars Peter O'Toole as Professor Harry Wolper, a lonely eccentric who has dedicated decades of research to cloning his long-dead wife Lucy from a culture of living tissue. To this end, he enlists the services of likeable Graduate Read More

Kim

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Unlike the more succinct 1950 MGM version, the 1984 TV movie adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Kim (filmed on location in India) takes its own sweet time establishing characters and exposition. You'll have to stay with the film for its first half hour to determine who is who and what is what, but Read More

Supergirl

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Peter O'Toole, Peter Cook, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: A big-budget spin-off from the series of three successful Superman movies, this film stars Helen Slater as the counterpart to the famous comic-book superhero. Supergirl is Kara, Superman's young cousin. She is sent to Earth is search of a Krypton power source, a lost ring that has been turned into Read More

Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet

Synopsis: This film is an animated version of the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Peter O'Toole as the voice of Sherlock Holmes. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear

Synopsis: This is the second in a series of mystery stories specifically for children, based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. In this one, Holmes and Watson are investigating a man who faked his own death to escape the wrath of an American secret society. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Sherlock Holmes: The Baskerville Curse

Synopsis: This film is an animated adventure with Peter O'Toole voicing Conan Doyle's master detective as he and his friend and partner, Dr. Watson, attempt to uncover the truth behind the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Svengali

Actors: Peter O'Toole

Synopsis: Peter O'Toole goes over-the-top as a has-been rocker who mentors a young female singer. This version of the old story was made for cable television. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

My Favorite Year

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Bill Macy

Synopsis: Richard Benjamin's directorial debut is an engaging slice of nostalgia, purportedly based on an incident in life of Mel Brooks. Mark Linn-Baker stars as Benjy Stone, junior writer on the popular 1950s TV comedy/variety series The King Kaiser Show. Kaiser (Joseph Bologna)'s guest star this week is Read More

The Stunt Man

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield, Alex Rocco

Synopsis: Adapted from Paul Brodeur's novel, Richard Rush's story of a Machiavellian movie director and his accidental employee takes a darkly comic look at movie reality vs. "real" reality. Running from the law, Vietnam vet Cameron (Steve Railsback) stumbles on a movie shoot just in time to interfere with Read More

Masada

Actors: Peter Strauss, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quayle, Barbara Carrera, David Warner

Synopsis: Wits and weapons clash in this 1981 epic chronicling a rebellion by Jewish Zealots against Roman rule. After Jerusalem falls to the Romans in 70 A.D., nearly a thousand Jewish rebels led by Eleazar ben Jair (Peter Strauss) withdraw to a mountaintop fortress 30 miles southeast of Jerusalem. There Read More

Strumpet City

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Peter Ustinov, David Kelly, Bryan Murray

Synopsis: One of the most turbulent eras in Dublin history is detailed in this adaptation of the James Plunkett novel directed by Tony Barry and starring Peter Ustinov and Peter O'Toole. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Caligula

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, John Steiner, John Gielgud

Synopsis: This lavish big-budget epic was the pinnacle of a uniquely Italian subgenre, the historical hardcore gore/porn extravaganza. The star-studded cast, perhaps lured by the high-profile involvement of producer Bob Guccione and screenwriter Gore Vidal, includes such luminaries as John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole Read More

Zulu Dawn

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, John Mills, Nigel Davenport

Synopsis: This film depicts the events prior to the devastating conflict that occurred in 1879 when British soldiers were held siege by thousands of Zulu warriors. Fifteen hundred soldiers were killed in the epic battle. This film portrays the tensions existing between the tribal factions and the British Read More

Power Play

Actors: Peter O'Toole, David Hemmings, Donald Pleasence, Barry Morse, Jon Granik

Synopsis: After years of an oppressive dictatorship, a group of army officers in a tiny, vaguely delineated European country organize a coup. Colonel Narriman (David Hemmings) has bravely taken chances which could have resulted in his death, and he expects, once the coup is successful, to become the next Read More

State of Shock

Synopsis: In this suspenseful war drama, the commander of a tank and other military leaders team up and stage a coup d'etat in a European country. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rogue Male

Synopsis: Based on the film Man Hunt, the BBC-produced Rogue Male stars Peter O'Toole as a British aristocrat who attempts to assassinate Hitler. After he fails, he is hunted down by the German Gestapo. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Foxtrot

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampling, Max von Sydow, Jorge Luke, Helena Rojo

Synopsis: Arturo Ripstein directs Foxtrot, a drama filmed in Mexico that borrows much material from The Rules of the Game. Wealthy European aristocrat Liviu (Peter O'Toole) and his wife, Julia (Charlotte Rampling) escape the harsh reality of WWII by vacationing on a tropical island. Due to unforeseen Read More

Man Friday

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Richard Roundtree, Peter Cellier, Christopher Cabot, Joel Fluellen

Synopsis: If you're looking for revisionism, Man Friday has it in abundance. Peter O'Toole stars as Daniel Defoe's fabled castaway Robinson Crusoe, while Richard Roundtree plays Crusoe's "man Friday". Crusoe makes it his mission in life to convert Friday to Christianity, but this pales in comparison to the Read More

Rosebud

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman, Claude Dauphin, John V. Lindsay

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Joan Hemingway and Paul Bonnecarrere, Rosebud opens with five young women vacationing aboard a luxurious yacht called the Rosebud. All five of the women are the daughters of wealthy and powerful men; one of them is the daughter of an influential American senator. Their vacation Read More

Man of La Mancha

Actors: Miriam Acevedo, Rolando DeSantis, Connel Miles, Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle

Synopsis: Dale Wasserman's long-running Broadway smash comes to the screen in this musical based on Miguel de Cervantes' classic satire Don Quixote de la Mancha. Cervantes (Peter O'Toole) is arrested and put in prison by the soldiers of the Spanish Inquisition after staging a comic performance which mocked Read More

The Ruling Class

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne

Synopsis: An institutionalized schizophrenic with a Messiah comple