81-657: Club Paradise is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Robin Williams , Twiggy , Peter O'Toole and Jimmy Cliff . Set in a fictional Caribbean banana republic , it follows a group of vacationers' attempts to create a luxury resort from a seedy nightclub, and the series of events that take place. The film reunites director and cowriter, Ramis, with most of his SCTV co-stars — SCTV cast members, Andrea Martin , Eugene Levy , Rick Moranis , Joe Flaherty and Robin Duke play supporting roles in
162-865: A Grammy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award . O'Toole started his training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company . In 1959, he made his West End debut in The Long and the Short and the Tall , and played the title role in Hamlet in
243-547: A Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (1989). His other appearances that decade include Uncle Silas (1989) for television. O'Toole's performances in the 1990s include Wings of Fame (1990); The Rainbow Thief (1990), with Sharif; King Ralph (1991) with John Goodman ; Isabelle Eberhardt (1992); Rebecca's Daughters (1992), in Wales; Civvies (1992),
324-583: A Primetime Emmy Award for his role as Bishop Pierre Cauchon in the 1999 mini-series Joan of Arc . He also produced and starred in a TV adaptation of Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (1999). O'Toole's work in the next decade included Global Heresy (2002); The Final Curtain (2003); Bright Young Things (2003); Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003) for TV, as Paul von Hindenburg ; and Imperium: Augustus (2004) as Augustus Caesar . In 2004, he played King Priam in Troy . In 2005, he appeared on television as
405-723: A camp sensibility lay behind the successful Carry On films , while in America subversive independent film-maker John Waters made camp films for college audiences with his drag queen friends that eventually found a mainstream audience. The success of the American television show Saturday Night Live drove decades of cinema with racier content allowed on television drawing on the program's stars and characters, with bigger successes including Wayne's World , Mean Girls , Ghostbusters and Animal House . Parody and joke-based films continue to find audiences. While comedic films are among
486-418: A happy ending , with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film, and it is derived from classical comedy in theatre . Some of the earliest silent films were slapstick comedies , which often relied on visual depictions, such as sight gags and pratfalls, so they could be enjoyed without requiring sound. To provide drama and excitement to silent movies, live music
567-718: A hematologic disease . He eventually recovered and returned to work. He resided on the Sky Road, just outside Clifden , Connemara , County Galway, from 1963, and at the height of his career maintained homes in Dublin, London, and Paris (at the Ritz , which was where his character supposedly lived in the film How to Steal a Million ). In an interview with NPR in December 2006, O'Toole revealed that he knew all 154 of Shakespeare 's sonnets . A self-described romantic, O'Toole said of
648-498: A British TV series; The Seventh Coin (1993); Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III (1994), for American TV; and Heavy Weather (1995), for British TV. He was in an adaptation of Gulliver's Travels (1996), playing the Emperor of Lilliput; FairyTale: A True Story (1997), playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; Phantoms (1998), from a novel by Dean Koontz ; and Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999). He won
729-459: A Canadian-Chinese miniseries. O'Toole's final performances came in Eldorado (2012) and For Greater Glory : The True Story of Cristiada (2012). On 10 July 2012, O'Toole released a statement announcing his retirement from acting. A number of films were released after his retirement and death: Decline of an Empire (2013), as Gallus ; and Diamond Cartel (2017). While studying at RADA in
810-585: A company with the actor. Buck cast O'Toole in The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1961), a heist thriller from director John Guillermin . O'Toole was billed third, beneath Aldo Ray and Elizabeth Sellars . The same year he appeared in several episodes of the TV series Rendezvous ("End of a Good Man", "Once a Horseplayer", "London-New York"). He lost the role in the film adaptation of Long and
891-680: A film for several years. He performed at the Bristol Old Vic from 1973 to 1974 in Uncle Vanya , Plunder , The Apple Cart and Judgement . He returned to films with Rosebud (1975), a flop thriller for Otto Preminger , in which O'Toole replaced Robert Mitchum at the last minute. He followed it with Man Friday (1975), an adaptation of the Robinson Crusoe story, which was the last work from Keep Films. O'Toole made Foxtrot (1976), directed by Arturo Ripstein . He
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#1732797645664972-564: A film starring Terry-Thomas, Operation Snatch . In 1962 O'Toole and Buck announced they wanted to make a version of Waiting for Godot for £80,000. The film was never made. Instead their first production was Becket (1964), where O'Toole played King Henry II opposite Richard Burton. The film, done in association with Hal Wallis , was a financial success. O'Toole turned down the lead role in The Cardinal (1963). Instead he and Buck made another epic, Lord Jim (1965), based on
1053-416: A handful of tourists, including Barry and Barry, who are there for the marijuana and the women. Much of the film involves the tourists' comic misadventures adjusting to island life, and the low-rent facilities of Club Paradise. Also traveling to the island is The New York Times travel writer, Terry Hamlin, who ends up spending most of her time in the company of Governor Hayes. Adding to the comedic content
1134-518: A heart attack four months before the film's release. The film's soundtrack was released by Columbia Records , and includes several tracks by Jimmy Cliff , Elvis Costello , Mighty Sparrow , Blue Riddim Band and Well Pleased & Satisfied, some of which are unique to this release. It was released on CD in Japan in 1994, and in 2004 in Europe, with the latter including seven extra songs. The film
1215-833: A man in love with his sister (played by Susannah York ) in Country Dance (1970). O'Toole starred in a war film for director Peter Yates , Murphy's War (1971), appearing alongside Sian Phillips. He was reunited with Richard Burton in a film version of Under Milk Wood (1972) by Dylan Thomas , produced by himself and Buck; Elizabeth Taylor co-starred. The film was not a popular success. He received another Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in The Ruling Class (1972), done for his own company. In 1972, he played both Miguel de Cervantes and his fictional creation Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha ,
1296-635: A military takeover of the island. Ernest builds up a resistance force, and St. Nicholas is soon threatened with the possibility of civil war, which is averted at the last minute with assistance from Jack and Governor Hayes. As Gundy's takeover fails, Zerbe and his partners leave Saint Nicholas, and head for the Cayman Islands . Harold Ramis 's wife, Anne Ramis, has a cameo as a travel agent. Shooting took place in Jamaica , Chicago and Los Angeles from April to July 1985. The titular "Club Paradise"
1377-483: A musical adaptation of James Hilton's novella , starring opposite Petula Clark . He was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy . O'Toole fulfilled a lifetime ambition in 1970 when he performed on stage in Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godot , alongside Donal McCann , at Dublin's Abbey Theatre . In other films, he played
1458-721: A nine-month season at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, appearing in The Taming of the Shrew (as Petruchio), The Merchant of Venice (as Shylock) and Troilus and Cressida (as Thersites). He could have made more money in films but said "You've got to go to Stratford when you've got the chance." O'Toole had been seen in The Long and the Short and the Tall by Jules Buck who later established
1539-472: A performance that famously earned O'Toole some of the worst reviews of his career. O'Toole was nominated for another Oscar for My Favorite Year (1982), a light romantic comedy about the behind-the-scenes at a 1950s TV variety-comedy show, in which O'Toole plays an ageing swashbuckling film star reminiscent of Errol Flynn . He returned to the stage in London with a performance in Man and Superman (1982) that
1620-502: A separate genre, but rather, provides a better understanding of the film. Peter O%27Toole Peter Seamus O'Toole ( / oʊ ˈ t uː l / ; 2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was an English actor. Known for his leading roles on stage and screen, he received several accolades including the Academy Honorary Award , a BAFTA Award , a Primetime Emmy Award , and four Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for
1701-492: A strong affinity with Ireland and on occasion referred to himself as Irish: “I consider myself to be an Irishman but I have lived most of my life in England so I am fairly bogus Irish actor as such”. In an interview with Charlie Rose in 1992 he said Irishness was “almost the centre of my very being” and that “Everything I think of is coloured by its history, by its literature, by its people, by its geography”. He recalls that he
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#17327976456641782-520: A younger lover. O'Toole and his girlfriend, model Karen Brown, had a son, Lorcan O'Toole (born 17 March 1983), when O'Toole was fifty years old. Lorcan, now an actor, was a pupil at Harrow School , boarding at West Acre from 1996. O'Toole played rugby league as a child in Leeds and was also a rugby union fan, attending Five Nations matches with friends and fellow rugby fans Richard Harris , Kenneth Griffith , Peter Finch and Richard Burton . He
1863-435: Is about his years spent training with a cadre of friends at RADA . O'Toole was interviewed at least three times by Charlie Rose on his eponymous talk show . In a 17 January 2007 interview, O'Toole stated that British actor Eric Porter had most influenced him, adding that the difference between actors of yesterday and today is that actors of his generation were trained for "theatre, theatre, theatre". He also believes that
1944-547: Is an electrifyingly outgoing actor, and it is a surprise to see him make his first appearance...with his features twisted into melancholy" He performed in Baal (1963) at the Phoenix Theatre. Even prior to the making of Lawrence of Arabia , O'Toole announced he wanted to form a production company with Jules Buck. In November 1961 they said their company, known as Keep Films (also known as Tricolor Productions) would make
2025-405: Is suburban housewife, Linda White, who is vacationing with her husband, Randy, who, despite the very favorable surroundings and atmosphere, is not very randy. Voit Zerbe plays a key role, as a developer who wants to force Jack and Ernest from their property so that he can build a massive high-end casino on the beach, as part of a deal that he is making with two business partners. To do that, he uses
2106-923: The Academy Award for Best Actor . He received the BAFTA Award for Best British Actor . His performance was ranked number one in Premiere magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time. In 2003, Lawrence as portrayed by O'Toole was selected as the tenth-greatest hero in cinema history by the American Film Institute . Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote in 1989 "The then unknown Peter O'Toole, with his charmingly diffident manner and his hair and eyes looking unnaturally gold and blue, accounted for no small part of this film's appeal to impressionable young fans". O'Toole played Hamlet under Laurence Olivier 's direction in
2187-636: The Dublin pubs now, and a couple of them flashed their pretty ankles at me just the other day." Upon leaving school, O'Toole obtained employment as a trainee journalist and photographer on the Yorkshire Evening Post , until he was called up for national service as a signaller in the Royal Navy . As reported in a radio interview in 2006 on NPR , he was asked by an officer whether he had something he had always wanted to do. His reply
2268-580: The National Theatre 's first production in 1963. Excelling on stage, O'Toole was known for his "hellraiser" lifestyle off it. He received a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for his portrayal of Jeffrey Bernard in the play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (1990). Making his film debut in 1959, O'Toole received his first Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for portraying T. E. Lawrence in
2349-532: The Stadium of Light . He described Roker Park as his last connection to the club and that everything "they meant to him was when they were at Roker Park". Severe illness almost ended O'Toole's life in the late 1970s. His stomach cancer was misdiagnosed as resulting from his alcoholic excess. O'Toole underwent surgery in 1976 to have his pancreas and a large portion of his stomach removed, which resulted in insulin -dependent diabetes . In 1978, he nearly died from
2430-707: The West End in the play The Long and the Short and the Tall , performed at the Royal Court beginning in January 1959. His co-stars included Robert Shaw and Edward Judd , and it was directed by Lindsay Anderson . O'Toole reprised his performance for television on Theatre Night in 1959 (although he did not appear in the 1961 film version ). The show transferred to the West End in April and won O'Toole Best Actor of
2511-774: The 2006 film Venus , directed by Roger Michell , his eighth such nomination. He was in One Night with the King (2007) and co-starred in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007), an animated film about a rat with dreams of becoming the greatest chef in Paris, as Anton Ego, a food critic. He had a small role in Stardust (2007). He also appeared in the second season of Showtime 's drama series The Tudors (2008), portraying Pope Paul III , who excommunicates King Henry VIII from
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2592-537: The British crown as governor of St. Nicholas, is concerned more with vacationing than governing. Miss Phillipa Lloyd, who is visiting St. Nicholas with some friends, decides to stay permanently, and becomes Jack's girlfriend. Jack befriends financially-troubled reggae musician, Ernest Reed, and they form Club Paradise, which they market as a Club-Med -style resort, complete with a brochure that features photographs of Jack in various disguises on every page. This attracts
2673-899: The Gaiety Theatre in Dublin he appeared in productions of Juno and the Paycock and Man and Superman . Sam Spiegel , producer of Lawrence of Arabia , reunited O'Toole with Omar Sharif in The Night of the Generals (1967), which was a box office disappointment. O'Toole played in an adaptation of Noël Coward 's Present Laughter for TV in 1968, and had a cameo in Casino Royale (1967). He played Henry II again in The Lion in Winter (1968) alongside Katharine Hepburn , and
2754-620: The Leeds General Register Office says he was born at St James's University Hospital in Leeds , Yorkshire, England, on 2 August 1932. O'Toole had an elder sister named Patricia and grew up in the south Leeds suburb of Hunslet . When he was one year old, his family began a five-year tour of major racecourse towns in Northern England. He and his sister were brought up in their father's Catholic faith. O'Toole
2835-930: The School, including a professional contract at Bristol Old Vic Theatre. He has a memorial plaque in St Paul's , the Actors' Church in Covent Garden , London. On 21 April 2017, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin announced that Kate O'Toole had placed her father's archive at the Humanities Research Centre. The collection includes O'Toole's scripts, extensive published and unpublished writings, props, photographs, letters, medical records, and more. It joins
2916-525: The Short and the Tall to Laurence Harvey . "It broke my heart", he said later. O'Toole's major break came in November 1960 when he was chosen to play the eponymous hero T. E. Lawrence in Sir David Lean 's epic Lawrence of Arabia (1962), after Albert Finney reportedly turned down the part. The role introduced him to a global audience and earned him the first of his eight nominations for
2997-434: The West End but it ultimately folded in the provinces; during that show he met Siân Phillips who became his first wife. O'Toole continued to appear on television, being in episodes of Armchair Theatre ("The Pier", 1957), and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre ("The Laughing Woman", 1958) and was in the TV adaptation of The Castiglioni Brothers (1958). He made his London debut in a musical, Oh, My Papa . He gained fame on
3078-560: The Year in 1959. O'Toole was in much demand. He reportedly received five offers of long-term contracts but turned them down. His first role was a small role in Disney's version of Kidnapped (1960), playing the bagpipes opposite Peter Finch . His second feature was The Savage Innocents (1960) with Anthony Quinn for director Nicholas Ray . With his then wife Sian Phillips he did Siwan: The King's Daughter (1960) for TV. In 1960 he had
3159-568: The academy ever had, though we weren't reckoned for much at the time. We were all considered dotty ." O'Toole began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company , before making his television debut in 1954. He played a soldier in an episode of The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1954. He was based at the Bristol Old Vic from 1956 to 1958, appearing in productions of King Lear , The Recruiting Officer , Major Barbara , Othello , and The Slave of Truth (all 1956). He
3240-501: The age of 81. His funeral was held at Golders Green Crematorium in London on 21 December 2013, where his body was cremated in a wicker coffin. His family stated their intention to fulfil his wishes and take his ashes to the west of Ireland. On 18 May 2014, a new prize was launched in memory of Peter O'Toole at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School; this includes an annual award given to two young actors from
3321-525: The archives of several of O'Toole's collaborators and friends, including Donald Wolfit , Eli Wallach , Peter Glenville , Sir Tom Stoppard , and Dame Edith Evans . O'Toole was the recipient of numerous nominations and awards. He was offered a knighthood but rejected it in objection to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's policies. He received four Golden Globe Awards , one BAFTA Award for Best British Actor (for Lawrence of Arabia ) and one Primetime Emmy Award . Academy Award nominations O'Toole
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3402-658: The challenge for the actor is "to use his imagination to link to his emotion" and that "good parts make good actors." However, in other venues (including the DVD commentary for Becket ), O'Toole credited Donald Wolfit as being his most important mentor. O'Toole retired from acting in July 2012 owing to a recurrence of stomach cancer. He died on 14 December 2013 at the Wellington Hospital in St John's Wood , London, at
3483-539: The church; an act which leads to a showdown between the two men in seven of the ten episodes. Also in 2008, he starred alongside Jeremy Northam and Sam Neill in the New Zealand/British film Dean Spanley , based on an Alan Sharp adaptation of Irish author Lord Dunsany's short novel, My Talks with Dean Spanley . He was in Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage (2008); and Iron Road (2009),
3564-514: The director in the behind-the-scenes film The Stunt Man . His performance earned him an Oscar nomination. He appeared in a mini-series for Irish TV, Strumpet City , in which he played James Larkin . He followed this with another mini-series, Masada (1981), playing Lucius Flavius Silva . In 1980, he performed in Macbeth at the Old Vic for $ 500 a week (equivalent to $ 1,800 in 2023),
3645-584: The early 1950s, O'Toole opposed the Korean War , and later became a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . During the 1960s, he was involved in the opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War . He played a role in the creation of the current form of the well-known Irish folk song " Carrickfergus " which he related to Dominic Behan , who put it in print and made a recording in
3726-515: The film industry due to their popularity. In The Screenwriters Taxonomy (2017), Eric R. Williams contends that film genres are fundamentally based upon a film's atmosphere, character, and story, and therefore, the labels "drama" and "comedy" are too broad to be considered a genre. Instead, his taxonomy argues that comedy is a type of film that contains at least a dozen different sub-types. A number of hybrid genres have emerged, such as action comedy and romantic comedy . The first comedy film
3807-405: The film with Brian Doyle-Murray, never stoops for an easy laugh. He seems capable, however, of making a movie with more momentum than this." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2 stars out of 4 stars, and wrote, "The movie never really comes together, and I think the fault for that begins with Williams. When the star of a movie seems desperate enough to depend on one-liners, can
3888-439: The film, as does cowriter, Brian Doyle-Murray , a former SCTV staff writer. It was the final film of actor Adolph Caesar , who died in March 1986, four months before the film's release. Jack Moniker is a Chicago firefighter who is injured on the job. Using his disability insurance payout, he retires to the small (fictional) Caribbean island of Saint Nicholas, and buys a small property. Anthony Croyden Hayes, appointed by
3969-416: The fourth Caribbean comedy out that year, and none of them did any business. The casting ended up being diametrically opposed to what was intended. It was intended for Bill Murray and John Cleese, with Bill as the laid-back guy and Cleese as the over-the-top guy, and we ended up with Robin Williams and Peter O'Toole, with O'Toole as the laid-back guy and Robin the over-the-top guy. The polarities shifted, and it
4050-452: The help of the local prime minister , Solomon Gundy, and his men to cause trouble to have Club Paradise to close "legally". Jack and Ernest board Zerbe's yacht to provide some "useful intelligence" for Governor Hayes, by finding out what is going to happen to the future of Saint Nicholas. They skin dive to the yacht, where they are captured by local police and thrown in jail. When Prime Minister Gundy's strong-arm tactics do not work, he orders
4131-443: The historical epic Lawrence of Arabia (1962). He was further Oscar-nominated for playing King Henry II in both Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968), a public school teacher in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), a paranoid schizophrenic in The Ruling Class (1972), a war veteran turned stunt man in The Stunt Man (1980), a film actor in My Favorite Year (1982), and an elderly man in Venus (2006). He holds
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#17327976456644212-561: The lovely bugger outright". The Academy informed him that they would bestow the award whether he wanted it or not. He told Charlie Rose in January 2007 that his children admonished him, saying that it was the highest honour one could receive in the filmmaking industry. O'Toole agreed to appear at the ceremony and receive his Honorary Oscar. It was presented to him by Meryl Streep , who has the most Oscar nominations of any actor or actress (21). He joked with Robert Osborne , during an interview at Turner Classic Movies ' film festival that he's
4293-494: The mid-1960s. Although he lost faith in organised religion as a teenager, O'Toole expressed positive sentiments regarding the life of Jesus Christ. In an interview for The New York Times , he said "No one can take Jesus away from me... there's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace." He called himself "a retired Christian" who prefers "an education and reading and facts" to faith. The son of an Irishman, O’Toole had
4374-487: The miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003). Peter Seamus O'Toole was born on 2 August 1932, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (née Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph "Spats" O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player, and bookmaker . O'Toole claimed he was not certain of his birthplace or date, stating in his autobiography that he accepted 2 August as his birth date but had birth certificates from England and Ireland. The birth certificate recorded at
4455-640: The most popular with audiences at the box office, there is an 'historical bias against a close and serious consideration of comedy' when it comes to critical reception and conferring of awards, such as at the Academy Awards . Film writer Cailian Savage observes "Comedies have won Oscars, although they’ve usually been comedy-dramas, involved very depressing scenes, or appealed to stone-hearted drama lovers in some other way, such as Shakespeare in Love ." According to Williams' taxonomy , all film descriptions should contain their type (comedy or drama) combined with one (or more) sub-genres. This combination does not create
4536-463: The motion picture adaptation of the 1965 hit Broadway musical , opposite Sophia Loren . The film was a critical and commercial failure, criticised for using mostly non-singing actors. His singing was dubbed by tenor Simon Gilbert , but the other actors did their own singing. O'Toole and co-star James Coco , who played both Cervantes's manservant and Sancho Panza , both received Golden Globe nominations for their performances. O'Toole did not make
4617-411: The novel by Joseph Conrad directed by Richard Brooks. He and Buck intended to follow this with a biopic of Will Adams and a film about the Charge of the Light Brigade , but neither project happened. Instead O'Toole went into What's New Pussycat? (1965), a comedy based on a script by Woody Allen , taking over a role originally meant for Warren Beatty and starring alongside Peter Sellers . It
4698-426: The older version of legendary 18th century Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova in the BBC drama serial Casanova . The younger Casanova, seen for most of the action, was played by David Tennant , who had to wear contact lenses to match his brown eyes to O'Toole's blue. He followed it with a role in Lassie (2005). O'Toole was once again nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for his portrayal of Maurice in
4779-406: The premiere production of the Royal National Theatre in 1963. The casting of O'Toole as the Dane was met with some controversy with Michael Gambon describing him as a "god with bright blonde hair". On playing the role O'Toole stated he was "sick with nerves", adding "If you want to know what it's like to be lonely, really lonely, try playing Hamlet." The Times wrote, "Mr O'Toole, like Olivier,
4860-565: The record for the most Oscar nominations for acting without a win (tied with Glenn Close ). In 2002, he was awarded the Academy Honorary Award for his career achievements. O'Toole has also starred in films such as What's New Pussycat? (1965), How to Steal a Million (1966), Man of La Mancha (1972), Caligula (1979), Zulu Dawn (1979), and Supergirl (1984), with supporting roles in The Last Emperor (1987), Bright Young Things (2003), Troy (2004), Stardust (2007), and Dean Spanley (2008). He also voiced Anton Ego,
4941-425: The rest of the cast be blamed for losing confidence in the script?" Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader wrote, "Moranis and Levy get most of the laughs as a pair of geeky business partners desperately on the make for beach bunnies; Williams is saddled with a lot of soggy insult humor that doesn't really let him show his gifts." Ramis said, "We thought Club Paradise had a good chance at the box office. But we were
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#17327976456645022-420: The restaurant critic in Pixar 's animated film Ratatouille (2007). On television, he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his portrayal of Bishop Pierre Cauchon in the CBS miniseries Joan of Arc (1999). He was Emmy-nominated for his performances as Lucius Flavius Silva in the ABC miniseries Masada (1981), and Paul von Hindenburg in
5103-439: The sonnets that nothing in the English language compares with them, and that he read them daily. In Venus (2006), he recites Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"). O'Toole wrote two memoirs. Loitering with Intent: The Child chronicles his childhood in the years leading up to the Second World War, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1992. His second, Loitering With Intent: The Apprentice ,
5184-461: The use of comedy film to make social statements by building their narratives around sensitive cultural, political or social issues. Such films include Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb , Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? and The Graduate . In America, the sexual revolution drove an appetite for comedies that celebrated and parodied changing social morals, including Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Fanny Hill . In Britain,
5265-414: Was L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895), directed and produced by film pioneer Louis Lumière . Less than a minute long, it shows a boy playing a prank on a gardener. The most notable comedy actors of the silent film era (1895–1927) were Charlie Chaplin , Harold Lloyd , and Buster Keaton , though they were able to make the transition into “ talkies ” after the 1920s. Film-makers in the 1960s skillfully employed
5346-403: Was evacuated from Leeds early in the Second World War, and went to a Catholic school for seven or eight years: St Joseph's Secondary School in Hunslet, Leeds. He later said, "I used to be scared stiff of the nuns: their whole denial of womanhood—the black dresses and the shaving of the hair—was so horrible, so terrifying. [...] Of course, that's all been stopped. They're sipping gin and tonic in
5427-429: Was Henry Higgins in Pygmalion , Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream , Uncle Gustave in Oh! My Papa! , and Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger (all 1957). O'Toole was Tanner in Shaw's Man and Superman (1958), a performance he reprised often during his career. He was also in Hamlet , The Holiday , Amphitryon '38 , and Waiting for Godot (as Vladimir; all 1958). He hoped The Holiday would take him to
5508-427: Was a huge success. He and Buck helped produce The Party's Over (1965). O'Toole returned to the stage with Ride a Cock Horse at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1965, which was harshly reviewed. He made a heist film with Audrey Hepburn , How to Steal a Million (1966), directed by William Wyler . He played the Three Angels in the all-star The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), directed by John Huston . In 1966 at
5589-399: Was a set constructed on Winifred Beach in Portland Parish , while other scenes were shot in the city of Port Antonio . Warner Bros. 's production company planned to release it in early 1986, but held it back until July. Bill Murray turned down the film's lead role, which was eventually given to Robin Williams ; his brother, Brian Doyle-Murray, ended up in the cast instead. John Cleese
5670-413: Was also a lifelong player, coach and enthusiast of cricket and a fan of Sunderland A.F.C. His support of Sunderland was passed on to him through his father, who was a labourer in Sunderland for many years. He was named their most famous fan. The actor in a later interview expressed that he no longer considered himself as much of a fan following the demolition of Roker Park and the subsequent move to
5751-407: Was also slated to star, but immediately dropped out, before Peter O'Toole signed on to replace him. "Ed Roboto" is a pseudonym for Harry Shearer , who was asked to do a rewrite with Tom Leopold . Only two words of what the two writers wrote ended up in the film (the title). Shearer commented that he was "so appalled by the movie" that he removed his name from the credits. Adolph Caesar died of
5832-779: Was better received than his Macbeth . He focused on television, doing an adaptation of Man and Superman (1983), Svengali (1983), Pygmalion (1984), and Kim (1984), and providing the voice of Sherlock Holmes for a series of animated TV movies. He played in Pygmalion on stage in 1984 at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre . O'Toole returned to feature films in Supergirl (1984), Creator (1985), Club Paradise (1986), The Last Emperor (1987) as Sir Reginald Johnston , and High Spirits (1988). He appeared on Broadway in an adaptation of Pygmalion (1987), opposite Amanda Plummer . It ran for 113 performances. He won
5913-448: Was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1983. He told his friends that he wanted him to be "raised as an Irishman". O'Toole married Welsh actress Siân Phillips in 1959, with whom he had two daughters: actress Kate and Patricia. They were divorced in 1979. Phillips later said in two autobiographies that O'Toole had subjected her to mental cruelty, largely fuelled by drinking, and was subject to bouts of extreme jealousy when she finally left him for
5994-770: Was critically acclaimed for his performance in Rogue Male (1976) for British television. He did Dead Eyed Dicks on stage in Sydney in 1976. Less well received was Power Play (1978), made in Canada, and Zulu Dawn (1979), shot in South Africa. He toured Uncle Vanya and Present Laughter on stage. In 1979, O'Toole starred as Tiberius in the controversial Penthouse -funded biopic Caligula acting alongside Malcolm McDowell , Helen Mirren and John Gielgud . In 1980, he received critical acclaim for playing
6075-548: Was given mostly negative reviews from critics, with Rotten Tomatoes maintaining Club Paradise an 11% rating, based on 28 reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on a scale of A+ to F. Variety said, "There are enough funny skits in Club Paradise to make for a good hour of SCTV, where most of the cast is from, but too few to keep this Club Med satire afloat for 104 minutes." People wrote, "Director Harold Ramis, who co-wrote
6156-528: Was nominated eight times for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role , but was never able to win a competitive Oscar. In 2002, the Academy honoured him with an Academy Honorary Award for his entire body of work and his lifelong contribution to film. O'Toole initially balked about accepting, and wrote the Academy a letter saying that he was "still in the game" and would like more time to "win
6237-409: Was nominated for an Oscar again – one of the few times an actor had been nominated playing the same character in different films. The film was also successful at the box office. Less popular was Great Catherine (1968) with Jeanne Moreau , an adaptation of the play by George Bernard Shaw which Buck and O'Toole co-produced. In 1969, he played the title role in the film Goodbye, Mr. Chips ,
6318-417: Was played in sync with the action on the screen, on pianos, organs, and other instruments. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s, comedy films grew in popularity, as laughter could result from both burlesque situations but also from humorous dialogue . Comedy, compared with other film genres , places more focus on individual star actors, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to
6399-509: Was probably not as interesting or as solid as it might have been if Bill and Cleese were there." Peter O'Toole's performance in the film earned a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actor , but lost to Jerome Benton for Under the Cherry Moon . Comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor . These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have
6480-653: Was that he had always wanted to try being either a poet or an actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ) in London from 1952 to 1954 on a scholarship. This came after being rejected by the Abbey Theatre 's drama school in Dublin by the director Ernest Blythe , because he could not speak the Irish language . At RADA, he was in the same class as Albert Finney , Alan Bates and Brian Bedford . O'Toole described this as "the most remarkable class
6561-578: Was “a bit of a misfit, a bit of an odd man out” but that when he went to County Kerry , Ireland in 1946 he realized “I wasn’t different at all”. He possessed an Irish passport and believed he may have been born in Connemara . He owned a house in Ireland located in Clifden , County Galway . In 1969 he met future Irish president Michael D. Higgins and the two developed a friendship. His son Lorcan
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