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Martin McCaffery
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posted 12-15-2013 12:45 PM

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/peter-otoole-dies-lawrence-of-arabia-star-was-81-1200953310/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breakingnewsalert
rish-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.

He was undoubtedly one of the greatest actors of his generation. And yet with the 2006 film “Venus,” O’Toole surpassed Welshman Richard Burton and assumed the dubious distinction of being the most nominated actor never to win a competitive Oscar. When it was first announced that O’Toole would receive an Honorary Oscar in 2002, O’Toole astonished the Academy by turning it down, announcing in a letter to the organization that he was “still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright, would the Academy please defer the honour until I am 80.’”

But he did indeed show up at the ceremony the following year, accepting the award from Meryl Streep. “Always a bridemaid never a bride,” he said with typical theatrical flair to an adoring crowd, “my very own Oscar now to be with me till death do us part.”

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Aaron Garman
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posted 12-15-2013 05:12 PM

He was an amazing man. Here is one of his best appearances on Letterman.

And this haunting video in which he laughingly talks about his future epitaph. Just terrific.

AJG

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Terry Lynn-Stevens
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posted 12-18-2013 10:17 PM

He was pretty good in Lawrence of Arabia.

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Leo Enticknap
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posted 12-31-2013 05:45 PM

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When it was first announced that O’Toole would receive an Honorary Oscar in 2002, O’Toole astonished the Academy by turning it down, announcing in a letter to the organization that he was “still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright, would the Academy please defer the honour until I am 80.’”

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