Staying in Christmas Day?
Peter O’Toole – Réalta & Rógaire on TG4.
Linda writes;
Peter O’Toole was known throughout the world as Lawrence of Arabia (top), as a hell-raising actor and as an Irishman. His distinguished career saw him conquer the stage and screen as one of our greatest movie stars.
However, between his time on stage and screen, O’Toole spent his life in Connemara, a place he called home, a place that offered him a refuge and respite from the pressures of the world of entertainment.
Featuring rare family archive and interviews with his daughter Kate O’Toole, friends and co-stars, including Twiggy, Brian Blessed and Irish co-stars Bryan Murray, Jim Bartley and Mary Coughlan, Peter O’Toole – Realta & Rogaire is the definitive account of the life and career of one of our greatest movie stars and his enduring love of Ireland. Produced by Dearg Films.
Peter O’Toole – Réalta & Rógaire on TG4 on Christmas Day at 9.25pm.
His three-part autobiographies well worth a read if they can be found (not sure if still in print or not).
TG4 make excellent documentaries, thanks, will watch this
..Farrell on Miami Vice is a story i want hear,another hagiography on that falling down,p**sing in his pants,alcoholic now Saint O’Toole,nah.
the irish really have a high tolerance or did then for alcoholism and poor mental health.
…the happy witty charming,drunk paddy trope,Saint O’Toole is from LEEDS.
“Drinking was part of the role he was creating for himself,” Sellers said. “He played up being Irish, and drinking was a part of that, but though he had an Irish passport he was in fact born in Leeds [in England].”
Saint O’Tool regrets he’s unable to lunch today,he’s just having a slash in the lobby.
“High jinks included brawling in pubs, throwing up in the lobbies of fancy hotels, and urinating on stage during a play. O’Toole once burnt his index finger to the bone, with no memory of how it happened.”
a mentally ill degenerate,welcomed and embraced in Ireland,hope they fleeced him for everything.
https://nypost.com/2016/11/19/legendary-lush-peter-otoole-turned-his-co-stars-into-drunks/
A brilliant actor and boy he loved life a rebel to the end
Let’s face it if I was granted a wish before I died
It would be a night out with Peter OToole ,Brendan Behan Richard Harris ,Dave Allen spike Milligan and Charles haughey
On the sauce ending up in Charlie’s wine cellar
Call me a degenerate but by god what a night to be had by all
You are a very angry man Johnny,
especially for a stoner.
Look how tolerant BS is of your rants while high that oft would need a translator to fathom.
People in glass houses.
Is he the lad in SATC?
He could ham his Irish ancestry a bit. Nevertheless kudos to TG4 for making another interesting documentary.
Best Irish channel by a mile TG4
How RTÉ could be.
The man is one of my hero’s. Just a marvelous actor.