Too true! If you haven't seen Dean Spanley, you must! My Favourite Year is what I watch to cheer myself, but Dean Spanley fires up my spirituality! I highly recommend Dean Spanley. Xxx ❤
...enjoy an interview with Peter Sellers, who describes Peter O'Toole as one the great gigglers on any movie set, especially on the set of Lawrence of Arabia - th-cam.com/video/1mbUdsQfSq0/w-d-xo.html
I have nothing negative to say about Osborne's interviewing. I loved every minute of this interview. I think Robert Osborne was most gracious and even loving and obviously immense respect for Peter O'Toole and his life. He allowed much room for interesting even fascinating digression; even when Peter said, "May I tell a little bit of a longer story about that time?" Osborne said, "Please do!" He allowed max freedom...as I said, I loved this.
Peter O'Toole is one of the very few actors who can have me in tears when he's acting or just in conversation like this. When he says goodbye to the pupils in Mr Chips, I become a quivering heap on the floor. For sure, one of the greatest actor of the 20th Century. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Thank you. These interviews remind to speek Correctly And remind us of speach . Which is one of my flaws in the past., also., I am not a teach yet the student.Iam not as perfect as he.
This interview was done between April 28-May 1, 2011 and posted here on 16 Dec 2013 two days after he died on 14 Dec 2013 at the age of 81. We will miss him.
In this interview, Peter O'Toole talked about voice and speech being the most important learning aspects for an aspiring actor but I think it is important for every person that wants to learn to communicate effectively. We learn to speak from the people that we are surrounded with and seldom give speech and voice attention. Most people don't know how to communicate effectively. I know that voice and speech are one of the qualities of good attorneys when they litigate in a court of law.
Been a Otoole binge for a few days.loved everything about him.his great stories too and those blue eyes.like looking into a blue ocean.RIP this is one good thing about you tube and the internet.
He ressonated even at his very end. His voice, pitch , tempo , the gathering of thoughts, and having thoughtful exchanges , being insightful as is seen. That could touch and trade , let alongar acting. 😊
Great interview, great interviewer, magnificent actor raconteur O'Toole. Every aspiring actor should be made to watch this interview, especially O'Toole's advice on speech, "the 80%" of acting. O'Toole had that strange quality essential in an actor, a lack of personal self-awareness which propelled him into character.
Class. Always funny. Always talks lovingly about his fellow actors. What a drinking partner he would be. A hilarious night. What a film. Not a superhero in sight.
Can you imagine an actor today speaking with such intelligence and humility? They all seem like cookie cut outs compared with the great actors of the past generations.
Do yourself a favor and look up O'Toole's interview with Orson Welles and another actor whose name I forget. He is genius. The way he discusses the roles he plays, the plays, the historical setting--everything. He is among THE most eloquent and intelligent actors.
A private man? Good lord, no. He was massively, publicly fun. He was a superb actor and performer. I really loved Richard Roundtree and him in Man Friday, as dated as it might seem stylistically, it had much to say of note
What a shame he never won an Oscar. The Academy has truly been full of dumb asses to not ever give this man an Oscar. He should have won for Lawrence of Arabia and I also think he should've won for The Lion in Winter. But, his success and work do speak for themselves. He truly was one of the last great, sophisticated actors ever. Such a gentleman. A shame he's gone now, but at least he's left a great legacy of films for generations to watch. R.I.P. Mr. Peter O'Toole.
All his nominated roles should have won him an Oscar. Everyone of them. He finally got an honorary Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 2003. He gave us a lot of beauty and pleasure through his meticulous portrayals and his mellifluous voice, which I will always love. R. I.P. Dear Peter.
O’Toole along with Richard Burton and Albert Finney were just victims of bad luck at the Oscars, they’d be nominated in very competitive years and unfortunately lost. When O’Toole lost for Lawrence of Arabia, I think the belief then was that he was a newcomer and would win next time around. After that he just had consistent bad luck
I know a couple of characters who have this great storytelling ability (perhaps not to this fabulous degree though) and they've all been over 80. I wonder....did they have this when they were 30 too?
I thought everybody knew that Lawrence of Arabia was garbled until they re-released it in the 1980's with the missing footage replaced. It was a BIG DEAL. People lined up to see it. it was the first time the story really completely made sense.
can't imagine if Peter O'Toole accepted Dr. Zhivago how it would have played to audiences to watch 2 stunning blonde haired, blue eyed romantic leads - it might have been a bit too dazzling
He was practically the male Julie Christie and she was practically the female Peter O’Toole. Omar Sharif had a knack for playing characters whose type was fair skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes. LOL.
Wasn't Speigelman the guy involved in the check cashing scandal? that exposed how some studios paid actors for things so that the income would not be credited to them essentially for tax evasion purposes and so that others would not know some behind the scenes arrangement had been maed?
Imagine that you show real talent for the arts, get a grant and we as a society get to step into your world as a preforming artist. Under Tory government today, you’d be stacking shelves in Tesco. The arts is for the rich now, the common man you have no change. I like es Sheeran who father sent him to private school, yea speaks volumes, not allowing the next kurt cobain to take his righful thrown
No wonder I find so many young British actors can't act these days. They are almost as bad as the Americans. Far cry from the Shakespearean trained ones acting from 1940s to 1980s.
Robert Osborne conducted a brilliant interview with, of course, a great deal of admiration. He allowed Peter O'Toole take his time to digress and wander through stories of his life and the amazing people he worked, and drank, with. Two things never changed about Peter, no matter how old he grew; his beautiful blue eyes and his even more beautiful voice and excellent elocution. He truly was a master of that 'instrument' in his throat that is ruled by the mind; his magnificent voice. From screaming at Beckett to a gentle farewell to his students in '...Mr Chips', O'Toole's voice could always find exactly the right tone for the character he was playing. For all its tragedy and strife, all its upheavals and technology, the 20th Century truly was the era of absolutely magnificent stage and screen actors, top notch scriptwriters, directors, production designers and cinematographers. And there were so many of these extraordinary, talented people. Yes, there are great actors about these days but their numbers are tiny compared to 100 years ago until 2000. The Hollywood, English and French greats began to fade away before 2000 and only a lucky few continued to work past that year. I think myself extremely lucky to have been a film critic/reviewer and writer on film in the last significant part of the 20th Century. I was there to witness the final throes of the true Hollywood studio system that morphed into electronics companies and consortia of businessmen and lawyers take over the movie making machines, world-wide. When I began reviewing films for newspapers and radio networks, I would have to sit through about 20 ordinary films to catch one great motion picture, large or small. Just before I retired, I was sitting through about 45 or 50 mundane films to discover one gem, here and there. The writing was on the wall. Then what used to be daytime TV fare was making its way into the cinemas, and TV was hijacked by 'reality' programming, simply because it was cheap and swift to produce. That's when I decided to retire. Like Peter O'Toole, I came to the conclusion that films were never going to be the pure magic they used to be. Now, anything that can be imagined can be done digitally in rooms full of computers to churn out CGI special effects. Acting talent, the spoken word and people talented enough to make the words 'flesh' are much thinner on the ground. It's a great pity. Thank you for this marvellous interview. Cheers, BH
I am 63 & remember much of what you’ve written. I remember finding good if not great movies to see at the cinema once a week as a kid, teenager into my early 20’s then finding a great movie became an event. We celebrated birthdays & anniversaries by going to the movies. Not so fir a lot of years now. At Christmas we watch old beloved films (the tv has the Christmas classics- so I don’t mean them) I recently recorded Lawrence of Arabia- director’s cut from a TVM broadcast, so I could block out the best time to enjoy it, again. Lately TCM have been showing the few great movies from my 30-40’s, which at first made me feel ancient but I am glad that I am seeing them again. I am the only of 4 siblings that did not amass a collection of vcr then DVD’s. I used to borrow them from Blockbuster or a sibling but as you pointed out too many are not so important they are time wasters instead of improvers.
Thank you Mr Bill Halliwell for your superb comment, you yourself are also a part of the genre of those hard working men & women...actors, and your talent is a contribution to this history of magnificence.... which will never be repeated again. Ordinary, even poor, and struggling human beings who rose above all that, and entertained the world with their hidden talent, which came alive on the big screen and theatre! They entertained the world, and keep entertaining us through repeats of all their films. ***Thank you Sir for your contribution in life and in responding to this interview. A superb comment !!
@@fritula6200 Dear Fritula, I feel I am at a loss to express how much I appreciate your kind words of praise. Even though I feel they are not entirely deserved in as much as I am a writer who used to be a journalist. I have enjoyed the transition from dry reporting to 'daring' to express opinions. Despite the fact that I was, for a time, paid to be a film critic and reviewer. Over the last ten years or so, my relatively long comments on TH-cam have drawn a lot of criticism; not for the content, so much as the simple length in 'column inches', as we used to say in compositing-speak. I toyed with Twitter and Facebook when they were still new and quickly noticed that they began to descend into what now has become an avalanche of hate and derision. I’ve even seen several clips from TikTok(?) in which idiots pretending to be experts in commercial aviation churn out bogus ‘safety’, ‘how to dos’ which, if followed, would certainly cost people their lives! I withdrew from these platforms because I found it impossible to even, mildly, 'entertain' anyone with my allegedly long-winded prose. But mostly, I loathed their content. I guess, even as a journalist there is a certain amount of ambition to write an entertaining piece now and then among the stories of crime; the tragedies of court reporting and all the other distasteful commentary of everyday life that is called the daily news. I must say, however, I never saw 'fake news' coming over the horizon. I am repelled by the very concept of what, now, passes for 'reporting the facts'; no balance; no logic and 'reporters' that (I think) are now encouraged to make themselves part of the story. (A 'crime' that, at any newspaper I wrote for, would have been an instant sacking offence; if one had not been deliberately asked to write a feature from one's point of view.) I will not even touch the topic of 'TV news' as it stands today; it's just too hideous. Not that I’d want it, but I’d never win a post as a TV critic again; I’d have to confess in the interview that, apart from occasional news bulletins from the national broadcaster (like the BBC), I have not watched free-to-air TV for… oh, I want to say seven or eight years. Something like that. Now that I've formally declared myself to be a 'dinosaur' in the modern writing climate; I shall sit back and await the backlash of this one post. Ah, well. It's a good thing I don't give a jot anymore. What I do care about is the idea that what I've written has touched even one person who then bothers to send me compliments. It's a situation that's always surprised me. I recall jumping on a tram during my first week at The Age newspaper and I noticed a couple of passengers reading my first weekly piece in the film and TV ‘insert’, ‘The Green Guide’. I was truly gobsmacked at what I soon realised was not an Earth-shattering event. Just a happy coincidence, nonetheless, when I passed on this story to my good Christian mate, at the pub, he smiled and said I was, obviously, brimming over with the ‘sin’ of pride. 😉 Perhaps it's easy to understand when I tell you that the very first time one of my readers put pen to paper to write to me, it was to warn me of a death threat! My crime, apparently, was denigrating his favourite film. A preposterously silly film about little kids acting like they were 1920s US gangsters. (Happily, I've sublimated this film's title. Please don't remind me.) Now, of course, someone will tell me the title, just to 'nark' me. Oh, well... So, my good Fritula 6, once again thank you so much for your compliments and making my day, nay, probably my last six months or so. Cheers, and do take care in this crazy world. Humbly(?) yours, Bill Halliwell Tasmania
Me too. Harris & O'Toole, great Irish actors and Burton Welsh. Wouldn't we have loved sharing a pint and being in their company. Can you imagine the conversation?!? Wow, just thinking about that possibility is exciting. What wit, what charm & intellect. A joy to behold!
What's a great intelligent man and great great actor.Soooo sense of humour.So sad Peter and all Richard Burton, Richard Harris and all are inglish.Great inglish school the best and never forgotten.Thank yuo so much for this great interview.
The world has accelerated and has lost lasting quality and duration on the account of ephemeral bursts of enchantment. How grandiose you were, Peter O'Toole!
"The Three Stooges" and "Popeye"! So much for "high-art"/"low-art" elitism -- from one of the most exalted "high" artists the worlds of theater and film have ever known!
I love how his face and voice are still just as expressive here as they were in his youth. At 4:48 the way his eyes bug out of his head as he asks “of a feature?” and you can see the memories flooding back just in his face, followed by that giggle at 4:52… He really was a master at telling stories, on and off the screen. “He looked like a nun with a mustache” ROFL
Peter O'Toole.. what a incredible human. Read his biography 'Loitering with Intent", Had me in stitches laughing and going down into the depths of winces of his hard times. I have the movies Lion of Winter with Katherine Hepburn, and Man of Le Manca (sp). one of the incredible Thank you for posting this.
I am very happy to say that this very fine, kind, gentle, funny, Mischievous and excellent actor was in relation of mine, when I was young I used to tell some people that my dad was also looked and was a very gentle kind hardworking man like Peter were first cousins, they were not were born in the same area, and all people in that area are related, so I said Peter is a relation to my, Our world needs more people like Peter like Richard Harris, like Oliver Reed, like Richard Burton . First and foremost they were all excellent actors but also great human beings, who live their lives to the full, who did no harm to anyone. they only brought laughter, joy and happiness to all, I still miss Peter Richard, Oliver and Richard, Our world great people like those men more then ever
Been watching Harris, Burton and O'Toole interviews for days now.. What men they were..
I do the same since 5 days.....also I never smoke or drink in my life....they got my RESPECT!they were talented,''tortured''....GREAT!!!!
Pls include Omar sharif a very good actor.
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Peter O'Toole definition of class & style!
Wonderful trio… Peter deserved an Oscar for Lawrence o Arabia. Honorary Oscar wasn’t enough.
Too true! If you haven't seen Dean Spanley, you must! My Favourite Year is what I watch to cheer myself, but Dean Spanley fires up my spirituality! I highly recommend Dean Spanley. Xxx ❤
Well, Oscars are overrated anyway and they also tend to be given out to the Americans.
Peter O'Toole - impossible not to admire him - great interview
I could listen to him talk and tell stories forever. He is missed.
Funny and talented with a degree of humility. Very distinguished gentleman. Love this man.
...enjoy an interview with Peter Sellers, who describes Peter O'Toole as one the great gigglers on any movie set, especially on the set of Lawrence of Arabia - th-cam.com/video/1mbUdsQfSq0/w-d-xo.html
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I have nothing negative to say about Osborne's interviewing. I loved every minute of this interview. I think Robert Osborne was most gracious and even loving and obviously immense respect for Peter O'Toole and his life. He allowed much room for interesting even fascinating digression; even when Peter said, "May I tell a little bit of a longer story about that time?" Osborne said, "Please do!" He allowed max freedom...as I said, I loved this.
Peter O'Toole is one of the very few actors who can have me in tears when he's acting or just in conversation like this. When he says goodbye to the pupils in Mr Chips, I become a quivering heap on the floor. For sure, one of the greatest actor of the 20th Century. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Thank you. These interviews remind to speek Correctly And remind us of speach . Which is one of my flaws in the past., also., I am not a teach yet the student.Iam not as perfect as he.
appold him as King...
IAin't...dead yet nor do I intend to be .
This interview was done between April 28-May 1, 2011 and posted here on 16 Dec 2013 two days after he died on 14 Dec 2013 at the age of 81. We will miss him.
In this interview, Peter O'Toole talked about voice and speech being the most important learning aspects for an aspiring actor but I think it is important for every person that wants to learn to communicate effectively. We learn to speak from the people that we are surrounded with and seldom give speech and voice attention. Most people don't know how to communicate effectively. I know that voice and speech are one of the qualities of good attorneys when they litigate in a court of law.
I totally agree with you. One ought to learn how to enunciate properly.
CLASS!!!,There will never be an actor like the Great Peter O'toole!..NEVER!!
Been a Otoole binge for a few days.loved everything about him.his great stories too and those blue eyes.like looking into a blue ocean.RIP this is one good thing about you tube and the internet.
He ressonated even at his very end. His voice, pitch , tempo , the gathering of thoughts, and having thoughtful exchanges , being insightful as is seen.
That could touch and trade , let alongar acting. 😊
What a gentleman and a legend , I'm so happy that he and Richard Harris are together again
I could listen to him forever, marvellous man and sorely missed
This is how you should conduct an interview. Particularly when you are in front of such an eloquent and elegant man.
Those eyes on O’Toole in the opening few minutes ........ Amazing
Although his skin aged, his voice stayed strong throughout.
Great interview, great interviewer, magnificent actor raconteur O'Toole. Every aspiring actor should be made to watch this interview, especially O'Toole's advice on speech, "the 80%" of acting. O'Toole had that strange quality essential in an actor, a lack of personal self-awareness which propelled him into character.
he died 2 days after my father who loved him RIP men
I miss you Peter. Thank you for the great work. RIP.
indeed,.
Class. Always funny. Always talks lovingly about his fellow actors. What a drinking partner he would be. A hilarious night. What a film. Not a superhero in sight.
A remarkable actor and a remarkable man who led a very remarkable life.
Can you imagine an actor today speaking with such intelligence and humility? They all seem like cookie cut outs compared with the great actors of the past generations.
ges...maybe not cookie cutters ...he was human
The only word they able to say is awesome.
The old boys hv been classically trained with wisdom n culture. Just listen vocabulary they use
Do yourself a favor and look up O'Toole's interview with Orson Welles and another actor whose name I forget. He is genius. The way he discusses the roles he plays, the plays, the historical setting--everything. He is among THE most eloquent and intelligent actors.
WOW What an interview. I have always admired Peter O'Toole and now I love this man. A true gentleman. God Bless Peter O'Toole
Wonderful interview from another man I wish I could have met...RIP-you left us a fine and proud legacy...
Going to contine this focus deserves Complements.
One of the few fine Actors whose narratives will absorbed you without never boring you.
Amazing Peter O’Toole and great interview!!
Wonderful beautiful man
His voice and presence is still missed. Thank you for sharing ❤
The definition of ICONIC...!
"Take no prisoners..." Rest in peace, Peter. Love & light from Brazil.
I loved this interview and adored the man. Thank you so much for posting!
Absolutely delightful, one of the greatest for sure!
LARGER THAN LIFE....
Rest in peace to Robert Osborne and peter otoole
What a great raconteur.
That man could do more with a look than many a fine actor could do with a brilliant speech.
He was so handsome so naturally he didn’t mind watching himself!
He's a magnificent inspiration ❤
Golden moments from a golden man/actor :)
One of the bests.
It is amazing to know that he and Katharine Hepburn were 25 years apart in age! I had no idea whenever I have seen The Lion In Winter...
accepted!
This is great, you guys really help me with my french.
Wonderful
Fascinating.
Pure delight ...
A wonderful man and a excellent Actor.
He was at RADA. wth Harris,Bates Butron n Finney.. what a start.. onthe boards... and in the boozer! MW
I love and miss you both.
A private man? Good lord, no. He was massively, publicly fun. He was a superb actor and performer. I really loved Richard Roundtree and him in Man Friday, as dated as it might seem stylistically, it had much to say of note
Great interview thanks for posting it.
I thought so also
What a man
What a shame he never won an Oscar. The Academy has truly been full of dumb asses to not ever give this man an Oscar. He should have won for Lawrence of Arabia and I also think he should've won for The Lion in Winter.
But, his success and work do speak for themselves. He truly was one of the last great, sophisticated actors ever. Such a gentleman. A shame he's gone now, but at least he's left a great legacy of films for generations to watch. R.I.P. Mr. Peter O'Toole.
Totally agree !
I still donˊt underdtand…
the Academy owed him too much !!!!!!!!!!
He is above the oscars
All his nominated roles should have won him an Oscar. Everyone of them. He finally got an honorary Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 2003. He gave us a lot of beauty and pleasure through his meticulous portrayals and his mellifluous voice, which I will always love. R. I.P. Dear Peter.
Oscar is for political correctness
O’Toole along with Richard Burton and Albert Finney were just victims of bad luck at the Oscars, they’d be nominated in very competitive years and unfortunately lost. When O’Toole lost for Lawrence of Arabia, I think the belief then was that he was a newcomer and would win next time around. After that he just had consistent bad luck
I know a couple of characters who have this great storytelling ability (perhaps not to this fabulous degree though) and they've all been over 80. I wonder....did they have this when they were 30 too?
Yariten with Peter O’Toole, yes!
God I would kill to be in that audience!!
Absolutely love 💕 Pete? Sir Peter and Sir David Suchet’s voice.
God bless him
He did a very good impression of an Irishman.
I thought everybody knew that Lawrence of Arabia was garbled until they re-released it in the 1980's with the missing footage replaced. It was a BIG DEAL. People lined up to see it. it was the first time the story really completely made sense.
Rest now... Rest in peace.
Pure class he will allways be Lawrence
They don't make them like O'Toole any longer. The loss is ours. A void incapable of being filled.
that was good
can't imagine if Peter O'Toole accepted Dr. Zhivago how it would have played to audiences to watch 2 stunning blonde haired, blue eyed romantic leads - it might have been a bit too dazzling
He was practically the male Julie Christie and she was practically the female Peter O’Toole. Omar Sharif had a knack for playing characters whose type was fair skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes. LOL.
To Adventures!
grandeur
French?
FOREVER LAWRENCE .
❤️❤️❤️
immortal man
This boy was a missing person?
💗💞💕
Wasn't Speigelman the guy involved in the check cashing scandal? that exposed how some studios paid actors for things so that the income would not be credited to them essentially for tax evasion purposes and so that others would not know some behind the scenes arrangement had been maed?
So David Lean is where Peter got the idea to smoke a cigarette with a holder!
Who is this interviewer? Doesn’t he belong to CBS? I must know. He is so familiar.
Bob Scheiffer, correct?
Robert Osborne, who hosted Turner Classic Movies for 2 decades. A wonderful man.
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Imagine that you show real talent for the arts, get a grant and we as a society get to step into your world as a preforming artist. Under Tory government today, you’d be stacking shelves in Tesco. The arts is for the rich now, the common man you have no change. I like es Sheeran who father sent him to private school, yea speaks volumes, not allowing the next kurt cobain to take his righful thrown
No wonder I find so many young British actors can't act these days. They are almost as bad as the Americans. Far cry from the Shakespearean trained ones acting from 1940s to 1980s.
Frankly, I find the interviewer's constant interruptions about "destiny" mildly annoying. Anyone else?
What date was this interview?
April 2011
April 2011
Lucky bastards in the audience!!!
39:18 “ the widow who couldn’t mourn” - why?
Because she wasn't his wife!
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Peter O'TOOLE what an amazing person and actor.
I love movies and he is my favorite.
kiitos
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Peter O'Toole is captivating as ever. He has great vocabulary and speech and is a master of story telling. I very much enjoyed listening to him talk.
Absolutely the best film ever made
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Robert Osborne conducted a brilliant interview with, of course, a great deal of admiration. He allowed Peter O'Toole take his time to digress and wander through stories of his life and the amazing people he worked, and drank, with. Two things never changed about Peter, no matter how old he grew; his beautiful blue eyes and his even more beautiful voice and excellent elocution. He truly was a master of that 'instrument' in his throat that is ruled by the mind; his magnificent voice. From screaming at Beckett to a gentle farewell to his students in '...Mr Chips', O'Toole's voice could always find exactly the right tone for the character he was playing.
For all its tragedy and strife, all its upheavals and technology, the 20th Century truly was the era of absolutely magnificent stage and screen actors, top notch scriptwriters, directors, production designers and cinematographers. And there were so many of these extraordinary, talented people. Yes, there are great actors about these days but their numbers are tiny compared to 100 years ago until 2000. The Hollywood, English and French greats began to fade away before 2000 and only a lucky few continued to work past that year.
I think myself extremely lucky to have been a film critic/reviewer and writer on film in the last significant part of the 20th Century. I was there to witness the final throes of the true Hollywood studio system that morphed into electronics companies and consortia of businessmen and lawyers take over the movie making machines, world-wide.
When I began reviewing films for newspapers and radio networks, I would have to sit through about 20 ordinary films to catch one great motion picture, large or small.
Just before I retired, I was sitting through about 45 or 50 mundane films to discover one gem, here and there. The writing was on the wall.
Then what used to be daytime TV fare was making its way into the cinemas, and TV was hijacked by 'reality' programming, simply because it was cheap and swift to produce.
That's when I decided to retire. Like Peter O'Toole, I came to the conclusion that films were never going to be the pure magic they used to be.
Now, anything that can be imagined can be done digitally in rooms full of computers to churn out CGI special effects. Acting talent, the spoken word and people talented enough to make the words 'flesh' are much thinner on the ground. It's a great pity.
Thank you for this marvellous interview. Cheers, BH
I am 63 & remember much of what you’ve written. I remember finding good if not great movies to see at the cinema once a week as a kid, teenager into my early 20’s then finding a great movie became an event. We celebrated birthdays & anniversaries by going to the movies. Not so fir a lot of years now. At Christmas we watch old beloved films (the tv has the Christmas classics- so I don’t mean them) I recently recorded Lawrence of Arabia- director’s cut from a TVM broadcast, so I could block out the best time to enjoy it, again. Lately TCM have been showing the few great movies from my 30-40’s, which at first made me feel ancient but I am glad that I am seeing them again. I am the only of 4 siblings that did not amass a collection of vcr then DVD’s. I used to borrow them from Blockbuster or a sibling but as you pointed out too many are not so important they are time wasters instead of improvers.
Thank you Mr Bill Halliwell for your superb comment, you yourself are also a part of the genre of those hard working men & women...actors, and your talent is a contribution to this history of magnificence.... which will never be repeated again.
Ordinary, even poor, and struggling human beings who rose above all that, and entertained the world with their hidden talent, which came alive on the big screen and theatre! They entertained the world, and keep entertaining us through repeats of all their films.
***Thank you Sir for your contribution in life and in responding to this interview.
A superb comment !!
@@fritula6200 Dear Fritula, I feel I am at a loss to express how much I appreciate your kind words of praise. Even though I feel they are not entirely deserved in as much as I am a writer who used to be a journalist. I have enjoyed the transition from dry reporting to 'daring' to express opinions. Despite the fact that I was, for a time, paid to be a film critic and reviewer.
Over the last ten years or so, my relatively long comments on TH-cam have drawn a lot of criticism; not for the content, so much as the simple length in 'column inches', as we used to say in compositing-speak.
I toyed with Twitter and Facebook when they were still new and quickly noticed that they began to descend into what now has become an avalanche of hate and derision. I’ve even seen several clips from TikTok(?) in which idiots pretending to be experts in commercial aviation churn out bogus ‘safety’, ‘how to dos’ which, if followed, would certainly cost people their lives!
I withdrew from these platforms because I found it impossible to even, mildly, 'entertain' anyone with my allegedly long-winded prose. But mostly, I loathed their content.
I guess, even as a journalist there is a certain amount of ambition to write an entertaining piece now and then among the stories of crime; the tragedies of court reporting and all the other distasteful commentary of everyday life that is called the daily news.
I must say, however, I never saw 'fake news' coming over the horizon.
I am repelled by the very concept of what, now, passes for 'reporting the facts'; no balance; no logic and 'reporters' that (I think) are now encouraged to make themselves part of the story.
(A 'crime' that, at any newspaper I wrote for, would have been an instant sacking offence; if one had not been deliberately asked to write a feature from one's point of view.)
I will not even touch the topic of 'TV news' as it stands today; it's just too hideous.
Not that I’d want it, but I’d never win a post as a TV critic again; I’d have to confess in the interview that, apart from occasional news bulletins from the national broadcaster (like the BBC), I have not watched free-to-air TV for… oh, I want to say seven or eight years. Something like that.
Now that I've formally declared myself to be a 'dinosaur' in the modern writing climate; I shall sit back and await the backlash of this one post.
Ah, well. It's a good thing I don't give a jot anymore.
What I do care about is the idea that what I've written has touched even one person who then bothers to send me compliments. It's a situation that's always surprised me.
I recall jumping on a tram during my first week at The Age newspaper and I noticed a couple of passengers reading my first weekly piece in the film and TV ‘insert’, ‘The Green Guide’. I was truly gobsmacked at what I soon realised was not an Earth-shattering event.
Just a happy coincidence, nonetheless, when I passed on this story to my good Christian mate, at the pub, he smiled and said I was, obviously, brimming over with the ‘sin’ of pride. 😉
Perhaps it's easy to understand when I tell you that the very first time one of my readers put pen to paper to write to me, it was to warn me of a death threat!
My crime, apparently, was denigrating his favourite film. A preposterously silly film about little kids acting like they were 1920s US gangsters. (Happily, I've sublimated this film's title. Please don't remind me.)
Now, of course, someone will tell me the title, just to 'nark' me. Oh, well...
So, my good Fritula 6, once again thank you so much for your compliments and making my day, nay, probably my last six months or so.
Cheers, and do take care in this crazy world.
Humbly(?) yours,
Bill Halliwell
Tasmania
Me too. Harris & O'Toole, great Irish actors and Burton Welsh. Wouldn't we have loved sharing a pint and being in their company. Can you imagine the conversation?!? Wow, just thinking about that possibility is exciting. What wit, what charm & intellect. A joy to behold!
bless this man's speaking voice
very much so.
A great interviewer made this a really great interview with the legend O'Toole.
iconic, brilliant and legendary actor so charming
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He was one of a kind. Real class act. I could listen to him all day
What's a great intelligent man and great great actor.Soooo sense of humour.So sad Peter and all Richard Burton, Richard Harris and all are inglish.Great inglish school the best and never forgotten.Thank yuo so much for this great interview.
The world has accelerated and has lost lasting quality and duration on the account of ephemeral bursts of enchantment. How grandiose you were, Peter O'Toole!
I have loved him since the first time I saw him.
Remarkably fine. Thank you for uploading.
"The Three Stooges" and "Popeye"! So much for "high-art"/"low-art" elitism -- from one of the most exalted "high" artists the worlds of theater and film have ever known!
I do not veliece that was th point. To me, the point of the memory, was that O'Toole went to the films with his father.
I love how his face and voice are still just as expressive here as they were in his youth. At 4:48 the way his eyes bug out of his head as he asks “of a feature?” and you can see the memories flooding back just in his face, followed by that giggle at 4:52… He really was a master at telling stories, on and off the screen. “He looked like a nun with a mustache” ROFL
Peter O'Toole.. what a incredible human. Read his biography 'Loitering with Intent", Had me in stitches laughing and going down into the depths of winces of his hard times. I have the movies Lion of Winter with Katherine Hepburn, and Man of Le Manca (sp). one of the incredible Thank you for posting this.
The world has lost an artist... 😢
LOVE THIS GUY
The story of how he met Katharine Hepburn has been sanitized... It wasn't his hands he had in the sink.
I like that he did that. He recognized how classy and elegant that whole setup was, especially Osborne himself, and didn’t want to ruin that.
I am very happy to say that this very fine, kind, gentle, funny, Mischievous and excellent actor was in relation of mine, when I was young I used to tell some people that my dad was also looked and was a very gentle kind hardworking man like Peter were first cousins, they were not were born in the same area, and all people in that area are related, so I said Peter is a relation to my, Our world needs more people like Peter like Richard Harris, like Oliver Reed, like Richard Burton . First and foremost they were all excellent actors but also great human beings, who live their lives to the full, who did no harm to anyone. they only brought laughter, joy and happiness to all, I still miss Peter Richard, Oliver and Richard, Our world great people like those men more then ever
A great actor, storyteller, human....the best of us. I miss Peter O'Toole so much, what joy he effused.
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