Later, in the 1960s, he was an active opponent of the Vietnam War. While studying at RADA in the early 1950s, O’Toole actively protested British involvement in the Korean War. Peter O’Toole plays the title role in a production of Macbeth at the Old Vic, Septem(Photo: Getty Images) O’Toole described it as “the most remarkable class the academy ever had, although we weren’t considered very good at the time. This happens after he is rejected from the Abbey Theater drama school in Dublin by director Ernest Blyth because he cannot speak Irish.Īt RADA he is in the same class as Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Brian Bedford. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1952 to 1954 on a scholarship. His answer is that he always wanted to try being either a poet or an actor. In a 2006 radio interview on NPR, he was asked if there was anything he always wanted to do. Now they drink gin and tonics in Dublin pubs and several of them flashed me their beautiful ankles the other day.”Īfter leaving school, O’Toole got a job as a trainee journalist and photographer at the Yorkshire Evening Post until he was called up for national service as a signalman in the Royal Navy. Of course, all that is no longer the case. Later he says: “I used to be very afraid of the nuns: all their denial of femininity – the black dresses and the shaving of the hair – was so terrible, so terrifying. In 1945, he was sent to a Catholic boarding school, from where he soon ran away, disgusted by the humiliations to which he was subjected by the nun teachers, who called even the smallest offenses “sin”. Peter O’Toole (1932 – 2013) in costume as Jack Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney on the set of The Ruling Class, UK, August 1971 (Photo: Getty Images) Because of the war and the evacuation, he stopped school before he was 11 years old. O’Toole fell in love with acting as a child, and he played his first role when he was only 6 years old in a home play. He and his sister were raised in their father’s Catholic faith. When he was one year old, his family embarked on a five-year tour of the major cities of northern England. He has an older sister named Patricia and grew up in the southern Leeds suburb of Hunslet. Records at Leeds General Register Office confirm that he was born at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds, Yorkshire, England on 2 August 1932. About fame, marriages, aging – the memoirs of Paul Newman coming out next year
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