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Acting

Peter O'Toole

Career: Active from 1958 to 2025, busiest in 1983 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 68
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: Lawrence of Arabia
91/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 79 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Peter O'Toole Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.0, average 5.4
Pop Culture
1.2, average 2.2
Scare
1.7, average 2.6
Crime
2.8, average 3.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 10
Character-Driven 10
Political Intrigue 9
Character Study 8
Social Commentary 7
Period Piece 4
Eccentric Characters 4
Cultural Clash 4
Psychological Thriller 3
Historical Setting 3
Satirical 3
Romantic Comedy 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

104

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title

Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders

as Archive

2010s

6 titles · average score 32

Hangover in Death Valley

as Narrator (voice)

Diamond Cartel

23

as Tugboat

Katherine of Alexandria

29

as Gallus

Eldorado

27

as Narrator (voice)

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

48

as Father Christopher

as Lord Pelican

2000s

19 titles · average score 68

Iron Road

74

TV show · as Lionel Relic

Christmas Cottage

62

as Glen

Dean Spanley

81

as Fisk Senior

Ratatouille

89

as Anton Ego (voice)

One Night with the King

46

as Samuel, the Prophet

Venus

77

as Maurice

Lassie

76

as The Duke

Casanova

70

TV show · as Giacomo Casanova

Mystic India

78

as Narrador

Augustus: The First Emperor

58

TV show · as Augustus Caesar

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

71

TV show · as President Paul von Hindenburg

Global Heresy

61

as Lord Foxley

1990s

20 titles · average score 61

Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell

82

as Jeffrey Bernard

Phantoms

32

as Dr. Timothy Flyte

Coming Home

61

as Colonel Edgar Carey-Lewis

Coming Home

68

TV show · as Colonel Edgar Carey-Lewis

FairyTale: A True Story

60

as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Gulliver's Travels

71

TV show · as King of Lilliput

The Rainbow Thief

49

as Prince Meleagre

The Seventh Coin

46

as Emil Saber

Rebecca's Daughters

65

as Lord Sarn

King Ralph

37

as Willingham

Isabelle Eberhardt

as Maj. Lyautey

Wings of Fame

70

as Cesar Valentin

1980s

22 titles · average score 61

High Spirits

41

as Peter Plunkett

The Last Emperor

80

as Reginald Johnston (R.J.)

Club Paradise

38

as Anthony Cloyden Hayes

Creator

51

as Dr. Harry Wolper

Supergirl

35

as Zaltar

Svengali

41

as Anton Bosnyak

Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse

64

as Sherlock Holmes (voice)

Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet

61

as Sherlock Holmes (voice)

Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four

53

as Sherlock Holmes (voice)

My Favorite Year

76

as Alan Swann

Masada

74

TV show · as General Cornelius Flavius Silva

The Stunt Man

76

as Eli Cross

1970s

13 titles · average score 58

Zulu Dawn

61

as Lord Chelmsford

Caligula

35

as Tiberius

Power Play

64

as Colonel Zeller

Rogue Male

60

as Sir Robert Thorndyke

Foxtrot

51

as Liviu

Man Friday

54

as Robinson Crusoe

Rosebud

42

as Larry Martin

The Ruling Class

78

as Jack 14th Earl of Gurney

Man of La Mancha

60

as Don Quixote De La Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes / Alonso Quijana

Under Milk Wood

62

as Captain Tom Cat

Murphy's War

63

as Murphy

Brotherly Love

60

as Sir Charles Ferguson

1960s

19 titles · average score 62

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

53

as Arthur Chipping

The Lion in Winter

85

as Henry II

Great Catherine

56

as Capt. Charles Edstaston

The Night of the Generals

56

as General Tanz

Casino Royale

46

as Scottish Piper (uncredited)

How to Steal a Million

89

as Simon Dermott

Lord Jim

60

as Lord Jim

What's New Pussycat?

43

as Michael James

Becket

74

as King Henry II of England

Lawrence of Arabia

91

as T.E. Lawrence

The Savage Innocents

69

as First Trooper

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

71

as Capt. Monty Fitch

1950s

4 titles · average score 60

The Castiglioni Brothers

as Mario

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Paddy

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

TV show · as First Soldier

Sunday Night Theatre

51

TV show · as Rene Latour