Peter O’Toole Movies

Want to know the best Peter O’Toole movies?  How about the worst Peter O’Toole movies?  Curious about Peter O’Toole’s box office grosses or which Peter O’Toole movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Peter O’Toole movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Peter O’Toole (1932-2013) was a British-Irish stage and film actor.  During his long career he received 8 Best Actor Oscar® nominations….sadly he lost every single time.  One of my father’s favorite movies was 1962’s Lawrence of Arabia which is now synonymous with O’Toole.   Pretty sure that is one of the main reasons why I liked Mr. O’Toole so much.  I guess the big question is why I wanted so long to do a movie ranking page on his career.  I do not really have an answer for that….but….when I saw that Lyle and LucronFan had requested a Peter O’Toole page…. figured it was time to finally take a deeper look at the movie career of Sir Peter O’Toole.

His IMDb page shows 96 acting credits from 1956-2015. This page ranks Peter O’Toole movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies not released in North America were not included in the rankings.

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Peter O’Toole Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Peter O’Toole Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Peter O’Toole movies by co-stars of his movies.
  • Sort Peter O’Toole movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Peter O’Toole movies by domestic box office rank
  • Sort Peter O’Toole movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Peter O’Toole movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Peter O’Toole movie won.
  • Sort Peter O’Toole movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
  • Use the search and sort button to make this page very interactive.

Peter O'Toole in 1980's The Stunt Man

Peter O’Toole in 1980’s The Stunt Man

Best IMDb Trivia On Peter O’Toole

1. Peter Seamus O’Toole was born in Leeds, England  in 1932.

2.  Peter Toole attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1952 to 1954.  Two of his classmates were Albert Finney and Alan Bates.

3. Peter O’Toole is one of six performers to be nominated for an Oscar® twice for playing the same role in two separate films. He was nominated as Henry II in Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968). The other five are Bing Crosby as Father O’Malley in Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945), Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974), Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986), Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky (1976) and Creed (2015).

4.  Peter O’Toole won his career-making part in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) after it was turned down by superstar Marlon Brando and a then-unknown Albert Finney. Both director David Lean and producer Sam Spiegel (who produced On the Waterfront (1954), the movie for which Brando and Spiegel won their first Oscars®) wanted Brando, but he turned the role down (allegedly saying he didn’t want to spend two years of his life riding on a camel). Finney was put through extensive screen-tests costing 100,000 pounds, but refused to sign a seven year contract demanded by Spiegel. O’Toole signed the seven-year contract and got the part.

5. Peter O’Toole was friends with fellow Irish actor Richard Harris. After Harris died, his family hoped that O’Toole would replace him as Professor Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), but the role went to Michael Gambon instead.

Check out Peter O’Toole’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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31 thoughts on “Peter O’Toole Movies

  1. Well….it took awhile….but I finally went back and finished this Peter O’Toole page…..try over 5 years went by. What you get. 17 more Peter O’Toole movies added to the page. New photos. The chronological table and possibly interesting facts.

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