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Irish-born stage and screen actor Peter O’Toole, who became an international star in the title role of David Lean’s Oscar-winning epic “Lawrence of Arabia,” died on Saturday at age 81.

<p>Peter O’Toole died in London yesterday. He was one of the few actors I was happy to watch in any role. He improved almost anything he was in, although I wish there had been more late-career stuff after his charming turn in My Favorite Year.</p>

Peter O'Toole has died aged 81, his agent has confirmed.

The actor Peter O'Toole, who found stardom in David Lean's masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia, has died aged 81, his agent has said. The acclaimed leading man who overcame stomach cancer in the 1970s passed away on Saturday at the Wellington hospital in London following a long illness, Steve Kenis said.

Acting legend Peter O'Toole is 80 years old! The thesp with the piercing eyes scooped a whopping eight Oscar nominations during a glittering career for the likes of 'Lawrence Of Arabia, ' The Lion In Winter' and 'Venus'. He was also awarded a lifetime achievement Academy Award in 2003 (he initially turned it down, famously saying "I want to win the lovely bugger outright"). He's now retired, but his CV is remarkable. O'Toole is not just renowned for his monumental acting talent though. He's also infamous for his hellraising antics, along with fellow luvvies Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter Finch...

Screen legend Peter O'Toole announced today that he is retiring from acting. "It's time for me to chuck in the sponge," he said in a statement. "To retire from stage and screen. The heart for it has gone out of me; it won't come back." O'Toole, who turns 80 on Aug. 2, achieved international stardom and his first Oscar nomination for David Lean's 1962's Academy Award-winning epic "Lawrence of Arabia." O'Toole was 27 when he earned the coveted title role. When he was cast in 1960, The Times quoted a London critic who called the young actor "a blazing new...

Peter O'Toole paid a rare visit to L.A. from his London home recently, receiving a standing ovation at the Academy Award nominees luncheon Monday and proving, during an interview the following day, that rumors he's unwell are wildly exaggerated. His handshake like an iron clamp and pale blue eyes flickering with mischief, the 74-year-old Irish actor was full of laughs, droll banter and energetic enthusiasm as he looked back on his career and talked about his latest film, Venus, which has earned him his eighth best-actor Oscar nomination. The others were for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Becket (1964), The Lion...

Peter O'Toole has criticised Hollywood actresses for their "vacant" personas, comparing them to "unlit lampposts". The veteran actor stars alongside British newcomer Jodie Whittaker in new movie Venus, and has lavished praised on his young co-star. But O'Toole believes the majority of Tinseltown beauties are incapable of having any real depth of character - and would have struggled to fill Whittaker's shoes. He says: "You look into their eyes and there's no one at home. Oh God help us! It's like looking at an unlit lamppost."

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter O'Toole's peers want to reward him with an honorary Academy Award. But the actor, who has been nominated for an Oscar seven times but never won, is not sure he's ready to accept it. O'Toole, 70, sent a handwritten letter last week to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saying he was "enchanted" at the thought of an honorary Oscar but that he still had a shot at earning the award for a particular acting performance. The academy announced last week that it intended to award O'Toole an honorary Oscar for a career...