where in the UK is peter O'Toole the film actor Lawrence of Arabia originally come from?

Question

It was in hunslet leeds my dad told me he lived on the same street has him when they where kids and my dads surname was lawrence. weird hey

Answer 1

Born on 08/02/1932 in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland




Although David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) claimed to "introduce" Peter O'Toole, he was anything but an unknown, having already appeared in three films, his debut "Kidnapped", "The Day They Robbed the Bank of England" and "The Savage Innocents" (all 1960). At the time he tested for the role of Lawrence, the blond, blue-eyed Irish-born O'Toole was playing three parts for The Shakespeare Memorial Theater Company at Stratford-on-Avon: Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice", Petruchio in "The Taming of the Shrew" and Thersites in "Troilus and Cressida" (all 1960). Prior to that, he had worked for years at The Bristol Old Vic Company in such roles as Jimmy Porter in John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" (1957) and the title role in "Hamlet" (1958) before winning the Best Actor of the Year Award for his portrayal of Private Banforth in "The Long and the Short and the Tall" (1959). After two years in the desert with Lean, living the life of Thomas E Lawrence, O'Toole leaped off the screen to overnight, international fame. His performance, which netted him the first of seven Oscar nominations, remains one of the most raw, wired and charismatic portraits on film--a highly original, nakedly dangerous high wire act.

O'Toole's peculiar flair for portraying abstracted, visionary characters resulted in some superb performances in the 1960s and early 70s, notably with Richard Burton in "Becket", in the title role of Richard Brooks' adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim" (both 1964 features were co-produced by O'Toole's Keep Films company) and opposite Katharine Hepburn in "The Lion in Winter" (1968). He also excelled at personifying upper-class English eccentricity, bordering on neurosis in "Brotherly Love" (1970) and plunging deliciously to the sociopathic depths just as those around his 14th Earl of Gurney believed him cured of his "Messiah's Complex" in Peter Medak's screen adaptation of Peter Barnes' black comedy "The Ruling Class" (1972). O'Toole's performance in "The Ruling Class", which has acquired cult status, allowed him to show his English Music Hall "chops" to much greater advantage than had his singing schoolteacher in the musical remake of "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1969), but perhaps the real culprit of the latter was the mediocre score. As for musical bombs, there's really no fathoming how such a wonderful stage show like "Man of La Mancha" could have become such screen dreck, but O'Toole found himself as Don Quixote right in the middle of that abysmal 1972 turkey.

O'Toole's well-publicized bout with alcoholism sent his career on a downward spiral in the 70s, but he made a creditable comeback in "The Stuntman" (1980) and earned an Emmy nomination soon after as Cornelius Flavius Silva in the ABC miniseries "Masada" (1981). He garnered his seventh Oscar nomination with an outstanding performance, drawing heavily on his alcoholic escapades, as the over-the-hill swashbuckling actor Alan Swann in the riotous comedy "My Favorite Year" (1982) and was also impressive in Bernardo Bertolucci's Academy Award-winning "The Last Emperor" (1987). Although he has been known to squander his talents on unworthy vehicles and has earned something of a reputation as a ham, O'Toole remains a performer of exceptional charisma and charm, capable of delivering the occasional gem like his erratic Lord Emsworth in the TV adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's zany novel "Heavy Weather" (PBS, 1996), his Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the delightful feature "Fairytale--A True Story" (1997), his Emmy-winning turn as Bishop Cauchon in the CBS miniseries "Joan of Arc" (1999), or as President Paul von Hindenburg in the telepic "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" (2003). After a controversial moment when he initially declined to accept an Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2003--he feared it would signal the end of his career but later embraced the accolade--O'Toole returned to the big screen in an appropriately gargantuan epic, playing Priam in "Troy" (2004), the action-oriented tale of the Trojan War.

The actor also become a writer during the 90s, publishing two books ("The Child" and "The Apprentice") of his proposed three-volume memoirs, "Loitering with Intent".

Also Credited As: Seamus Peter O'TooleBorn: on 08/02/1932 in Connemara, County Galway, IrelandJob Titles: Actor, Author, Copy boy, Messenger, Reporter, SailorSignificant Others
Companion: Karen Brown. mother of Lorcan O'Toole; lived together c. 1982-88
Education
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, England, 1952-54

Answer 2

Peter Seamus O'Toole (born August 2, 1932) is an Irish-born film and stage actor who was raised in England in the Yorkshire city of Leeds. He was born in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland and spent most of his life in Great Britain until returning to Ireland at the height of his fame in 1963.

Answer 3

Connemara, County Galway, Ireland

Answer 4

He was born in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland and spent most of his life in Great Britain until returning to Ireland at the height of his fame in 1963.

Answer 5

he's irish not from the uk

Answer 6

he was from potatoe land......