A biography of the Irish-born actor follows his career in films and the theater, and provides a glimpse of his personal life
The second volume in the autobiography of legendary actor, writer, bon vivant Peter O'Toole offers a keenly wrought portrait of the artist as a young man: his education as an...
They were truly the last of a breed, the last of the movie hellraisers.This book traces the intertwining lives and careers of Burton, Harris, O'Toole, and Reed, plus an assortment of other movie boozers who crossed their path.
Profiles the mercurial actor who made a solid reputation at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before becoming an international star in the film "Laurence of Arabia" and whose career has been marked alternately by brilliance, failure, and ...
THE STORY: As told by Chapman: The setting...is a modest bungalow in a small town near Kansas City, and here lives Miss Field, a widow, and her twenty-one-year-old son.
Gambler, journalist, fervent alcoholic and four-times married Jeffrey Bernard writes the "Low Life" column for the Spectator magazine chronicling Soho life as well as offering a very personal philosophy on...
Covering his time as a drama student at RADA, the author writes about his student days in London in the 1950s, a time which coincided with significant moments in British theatre.
The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions.
Jean Simmons and her husband, director Richard Brooks, and their children had come to lunch at Guyon House to talk about the project before leaving England. 'No script to be seen until we've started shooting,' said Richard Brooks.
Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world” at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association.
Here are PETER O'TOOLE's most essential quotations culled from as wide a variety of source materials available.