Discussion: Talk about Peter O'Toole

"From The Tudors Cast Page

A location to discuss Peter O'Toole, his work on The Tudors, and anything else you have enjoyed him in!"

"I first saw Peter O'Toole in "Lawrence of Arabia" wit Omar Sharif . O'Toole was absolutely beautiful. He has aged well. He is still beautiful. I love his voice, too. At times it has a quality of elegant sarcasm, as it did in "Becket" in which he played Henry II to Richard Burton's Thomas Becket. "

"Elegant is the word that perfectly describes him, he and Jeremy Irons with those voices. If you closed your eyes, you'd imagine they were in their 30's. He (O'Toole) is also great in the role of the Pope because he doesn't overplay it; you never know if he is a hero or a villian. "

"No body's voice will do it more for me than Sean Connery. He could melt butter with that voice...JRM is a close second though. I use to have a customer when I was in hairdressing school and her husband was paying for her hair. I had my back turned and if I hadn't of looked would have thought Sean Connery was behind me. I asked him if anyone ever told him and he laughed. He was from the same area of Scottland that Sean Connery was from. Him and JRM could read me the phone book and it would be worth listening to. Me I just have a plain old Canadian accent..."

"I remember him from "Diary of a Mad Housewife", which I loved, ages me. ha ha. He was soooo handsome and I agree absolutely about that voice. The resonance is it, what they all have in common. If I had to listen to the phone book, it would probably be Irons or that new guy who played Darcy in the most current Pride and Prejudice. Robert Powell is another one, and he narrarated other Biblical things, as well. "

"I love O'Toole & started a thread on him shortly after he appeared on the series as Pope Paul III.
He is an extremely talented actor who JRM happens to admire a great deal.
His speaking voice is wonderful. If you ever saw him in Beckett with Richard Burton, you can close your eyes & just listen to both of them; visuals are not necessary!
I loved him in The Last Emperor & A Lion in Winter as well.
As a young man, he was gorgeous & is still looking good at 76!"

"Sorry about my recommendations, KOB. I just can't help myself.
I am usually broke, too, because of buying books and DVDs. In fact, I have $15.00 in Borders Bucks that are yelling at me to spend them :-) "

"I already just ordered "The Lion in Winter" the version with Glenn Close and Patrick Stewart - and guess who plays the young King of France - Jonathan Rhys-Meyers! I had it on VHS, got it on Alibris.com, discounted. It's even better than the Hepburn version, I like her but her "Bahston" accent drives me to distraction. Not like Cate Blanchett who could not only do British but do Hepburn so well that you swore it was her if you weren't looking. I saw Becoming Jane and was disappointed, it was too pretty. Jane was not that pretty, she was a word=warrior. There's a film called "Jane Austen Regrets" (or something - exerpts on Youtube) which portrays her as you would have been her, an attractive, strong-willed, complex woman. I am tired of movies always pursuing the romantic angle. Have you seen Glenn Close in Hamlet with Mel Gibson. Sorry everyone for veering off this post. But some of these actors and actresses are right up there with Peter, and I am sure he would agree!
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