A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker.
Again, his drinking was out of control.
According to Alec Guinness, a local dignitary invited the film’s stars to a party only for O’Toole to get in a row with their host and hurl a glass of champagne in his face. On one occasion, in the Seventies, O’Toole flew to Morocco to join her at the famous Villa Taylor in Marrakesh, where Churchill and Roosevelt had stayed during the 1943 Casablanca Conference.
The villa’s owner said she gave Princess Margaret Churchill’s old suite complete with a vast bath.
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O’Toole, discovering she had finally rebelled from her life of drudgery, kicked her out of their Hampstead house.
In her biography, she described how, when she wasn’t raising her family on her own while her husband was filming, she had to endure this ‘abominable’ binge-drinking, crockery-hurling tyrant whom she never dared challenge.
According to the new book, O’Toole had quite a nerve in throwing her out for having an affair because he had enjoyed a string of them.
(O’Toole was at the time in a relationship with the play’s First Witch, alias Trudie Styler, the future wife of rock star Sting.) It is claimed the actor’s friendship with Margaret started after they met at the 1965 Royal Command performance of the film Lord Jim.
O’Toole was invited to a string of parties at Kensington Palace where she would reportedly complain to him about her worsening relationship with husband Lord Snowdon.
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We don't know for a fact whether Peter OToole is gay, bisexual or straight. He continued successfully in artistically rich films as well as less artistic but commercially rewarding projects. The role made O'Toole an international superstar and received him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.