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): Charli XCX • Danie Keulder • Edward Furlong • Geoffrey Dutton • Giampaolo Pazzini • Goran Gavrančić • Herbert M. Allison • Isabel Allende • Istifan al-Duwayhi • Joe Harnell • John Dexter • Karl Amadeus Hartmann • Matt Henderson (cricketer) • Neal Morse • Philippe II, Duke of Orléans • Red Ames • Steve Hillage • Theodor Zwinger • Varvara Gracheva

Born in the same month (August 1932): Banharn Silpa-archa • Charles Wood (playwright) • Enos Nkala • Houari Boumédiène • Johan Steyn, Baron Steyn • John Gomery • Peter Eisenman • Yakir Aharonov