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var brightcovevideoid = ' 2937710634001'; Peter O'Toole, who over a 50-year-career delivered majestic performances as unforgettable characters both noble and notorious, died Saturday at the Wellington Hospital in London following a long illness, his agent Steve Kenis said, according to various reports. He was 81. In a stunning announcement in July 2012, the acclaimed actor said he was retiring from the arena that made him a household name going back to 1962's Lawrence of Arabia. "It is time for me to chuck in the sponge," is how he put it as he bid his profession "a dry-eyed and profoundly grateful farewell." "He was six years old,...

Lawrence of Arabia star Peter O'Toole has died at the age of 81.

The actor passed away at the Wellington Hospital in London on Saturday (December 14) following a long illness, according to his agent Steve Kenis.

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He rose to fame when he played Te Lawrence in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 and went on to score eight 'Best Actor' Academy Award nominations during a career spanning over 50 years.

However, he never won the Oscar, making him the most-nominated actor never to win the accolade.

O'Toole went on to appear in movies such as Goodbye Mr Chips, The Ruling Class, The Stunt Man and My Favourite Year, and was presented with an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 2003.

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Actor who shot to fame in David Lean's 1962 masterpiece and received eight Oscar nominations has died in hospital in London

The actor Peter O'Toole, who found stardom in David Lean's masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia, has died aged 81, his agent has said.

The acclaimed leading man who overcame stomach cancer in the 1970s passed away on Saturday at the Wellington hospital in London following a long illness, Steve Kenis said.

O'Toole announced last year he was stopping acting saying: "I bid the profession a dry-eyed and profoundly grateful farewell."

He said his career on stage and screen fulfilled him emotionally and financially, bringing him together "with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits."

Early in his career O'Toole became emblematic of a new breed of hard-drinking Hollywood hellraiser.

"We heralded the '60s," he once said. "Me, [Richard] Burton, Richard Harris...

Peter O’Toole, the veteran actor best known for starring in Lawrence of Arabia, died on Saturday. He was 81.

Peter O'Toole Dies

O’Toole, who’d been suffering from an ongoing illness, passed away in a hospital, according to his agent Steve Kenis. "Ireland, and the world, has lost one of the giants of film and theatre," Irish President Michael D. Higgins said in a statement.

The 1950s were when O’Toole, who started out on the stage, began to pick up both TV and film roles. His first major film part came in 1962, playing the title role of T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia. O’Toole was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in the film – and would later receive seven more Oscar nods.

In addition to Lawrence of Arabia, O’Toole was nominated for his acting in The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Ruling Class...

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Irish actor and Hollywood legend Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole (78) has been immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The sharply dressed actor was joined by his son and daughter, Lorcan and Kate, as he marked his handprints and footprints in wet cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles as part of the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival honouring classic film and movie stars. Born in Connemara in 1932 and raised in Leeds in the UK, O'Toole made his stage debut aged just 17. His became an international star when he got the part of T. E. Lawrence in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962) after Marlon Brando proved unavailable and Albert Finney turned down the role, to which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. This award nomination was the first of 8 Academy Award nominations to come. Severe illness almost ended his life in the late 1970s.

NBC's newest adventure series has had a rocky journey. The network believed in the Crusoe TV show enough to give it lots of promotion but saddled it with a Friday timeslot, one of the least-watched nights of television. Did the series ever have a chance for survival?

Crusoe is based on the 1719 Robinson Crusoe novel by Daniel Defoe. The series follows the adventures of a young man, Robinson Crusoe (Philip Winchester), who leaves his wife, Susannah (Anna Walton), and children to go to the high-seas in search of riches to settle his impending debts. Crusoe ends up stranded on a remote island where he befriends a native named Friday (Tongayi Chirisa). While trying to find a way off the remote island, the two must battle the elements and intruders for survival. Crusoe also features Sam Neill, Sean Bean, Mia Maestro, Mark Dexter, Emma Barnett, Jake Curran, James Lauren, James Middlemarch,...