Peter O'Toole

Peter Seamus O'Toole was an English stage and film actor. He attended RADA 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 the National Theatre's first production in 1963. Excelling on the London stage, O'Toole was known for his "hellraiser" lifestyle off it.

2 August 1932

Born on the same birth date (2 August 1932): Lamar Hunt

Born on the same birth day (2 August): Albert Bloch • Alfonso A. Ossorio • Austin Theory • Bunker Roy • Eddie Fuller • Fernando Couto • John W. Snow • Keston Hiura • Louis Pauwels • Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque • Michael Hughes (footballer) • Mineiro (footballer, born 1975) • Red Ames • Rómulo Gallegos

Born in the same month (August 1932): Antonia Fraser • Charles Wood (playwright) • Cormac Murphy-O'Connor • Edward Hardwicke • Enos Nkala • Geoffrey Cass • Houari Boumédiène • Izzy Asper • Jim Lange • Johan Steyn, Baron Steyn • John Gomery • John Gorrie (director) • Lamar Hunt • Liang Congjie • Luc Montagnier • Luis Salvadores • Meir Kahane • Menashe Kadishman • Peter Eisenman • Richard Meale • Rien Poortvliet • Tera de Marez Oyens • V. S. Naipaul