Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Actor                          

Selected Works:

Films:

Kidnapped - 1960 - Robin MacGregor 
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England - 1960 - Captain Fitch
The Savage Innocents - 1960 - First Trooper
Lawrence of Arabia - 1962 - T.E. Lawrence
Becket - 1964 - Henry II 
Lord Jim - 1965 - Lord Jim 
What's New Pussycat? - 1965 - Michael James 
The Sandpiper - 1965 - voice
How to Steal a Million - 1966 Simon Dermott 
The Bible: In the Beginning... - 1966 - The Three Angels 
The Night of the Generals - 1967 - General Tanz 
Casino Royale - 1967 Piper - uncredited
The Lion in Winter - 1967 - Henry II 
Great Catherine - 1967 - Capt. Charles Edstaston 
Goodbye, Mr. Chips - 1969 - Arthur Chipping 
Country Dance - 1970 - Sir Charles Ferguson 
Murphy's War - 1971 Murphy 
Under Milk Wood - 1972 - Captain Tom Cat 
The Ruling Class - 1972 - Jack Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney 
Man of La Mancha - 1972 - Don Quixote de La Mancha/Miguel de Cervantes/Alonso Quijana 
Rosebud - 1975 - Larry Martin 
Man Friday - 1975 - Robinson Crusoe 
Foxtrot - 1976 - Liviu 
Rogue Male - 1976 - Sir Robert Thorndyke 
Power Play - 1978 - Colonel Zeller 
Zulu Dawn - 1978 - Lord Chelmsford 
Caligula - 1980 - Tiberius Caesar 
The Stunt Man - 1980 - Eli Cross 
My Favorite Year - 1982 - Alan Swann 
Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear - 1983 - Sherlock Holmes - voice
Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet - 1983 - Sherlock Holmes - voice
Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four - 1983 - Sherlock Holmes - voice
Supergirl - 1984 - Zaltar 
Creator - 1985 - Harry 
Club Paradise - 1986 - Governor Anthony Cloyden Hayes 
The Last Emperor - 1987 - Reginald Johnston 
High Spirits - 1988 - Peter Plunkett
As Long as It's Love - 1989
The Rainbow Thief - 1990 - Prince Meleagre 
Wings of Fame - 1990 - Cesar Valentin 
The Nutcracker Prince - 1990 - Pantaloon - voice
King Ralph - 1991 - Sir Cedric Charles Willingham 
Rebecca's Daughters - 1992 - Lord Sarn 
Isabelle Eberhardt - 1992 - Maj. Lyautey 
The Seventh Coin - 1993 - Emil Saber 
FairyTale: A True Story - 1997 - Arthur Conan Doyle 
Phantoms - 1998 - Dr. Timothy Flyte 
The Manor - 1999 - Mr. Ravenscroft 
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien - 1999 - William Williamson
Global Heresy - 2002 - Lord Charles Foxley 
The Final Curtain - 2002 - J.J. Curtis 
Bright Young Things - 2003 - Colonel Blount 
Troy - 2004 - Priam
Lassie - 2005 - The Duke 
Venus Maurice - 2006 
One Night with the King - 2006 - Samuel, the Prophet 
Ratatouille - 2006 - Anton Ego - voice
Stardust - 2007 - Lord of Stormhold 
Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas - 2007 - Glen Wessler 
2008 Dean Spanley - 2003 - TBA filming
The Phoenix - 2003 - pre-production
Love and Virtue - 2003 - Atlantes - pre-production
2009 God's Spy - 2003 - pre-production

Television:

The Scarlet Pimperne - 1956 - First Soldier TV show - 1 episode
Rendezvous - 1959-1961 - John TV show - 3 episodes
Strumpet City - 1980 - Jim Larkin TV show
Masada - 1981 - General Cornelius Flavius Silva miniseries
Man and Superman - 1982  - Jack Tanner TV movie
Pygmalion - 1983 - Professor Henry Higgins TV movie
Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse - 1983 - Sherlock Holmes - voice TV movie
Svengali - 1983 - Anton Bosnyak TV movie
Kim - 1984 - Lama TV movie
The Ray Bradbury Theater - 1986  - John Hapmton TV show 1 episode
The Dark Angel - 1987- Uncle Silas TV movie
Crossing to Freedom - 1990 - John Sidney Howard TV movie
Civvies - 1992 - Barry Newman TV movie
Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III - 1994 -  Sam Trump miniseries
Heavy Weather - 1995 - Clarence, Earl of Emsworth TV movie
Gulliver's Travels - 1996 - Emperor of Lilliput TV movie
Coming Home - 1998 - Colonel Carey-Lewis TV movie
Joan of Arc - 1999 - Bishop Cauchon Won Emmy
Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell - 1999 - Jeffrey Bernard TV movie
The Education of Max Bickford - 2002 - Sidney McKnight TV show 1 episode
Hitler: The Rise of Evil - 2003 - President Paul von Hidenberg TV movie
Imperium: Augustus - 2003 - Augustus Caesar TV movie
Casanova - 2005 - Older Casanova TV movie
The Tudors - 2008 -  Pope Paul III TV show
Iron Road - 2008 - Relic - 2003 miniseries

Stage:

1955-58 Bristol Old Vic:
King Lear - 1956 - Cornwall
The Recruiting Officer - 1956 - Bullock
Major Barbara - 1956 - Peter Shirley
Othello - 1956 - Lodovico
Pygmalion - 1957 - Henry Higgins
A Midsummer Night's Dream - 1957 - Lysander
Look Back in Anger - 1957 - Jimmy Porter
Man and Superman - 1958 - Tanner
Hamlet - 1958 - Hamlet
Amphitryon '38 - 1958 - Jupiter
Waiting For Godot - 1957 - Vladimir

1959 Royal Court Theatre:
The Long and the Short and the Tall - Bamforth

1960 Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford:
The Taming of the Shrew - Petruchio
The Merchant of Venice - Shylock
Troilus and Cressida - Thersites

1963 National Theatre:
Hamlet - title role

1966 Gaiety Theatre, Dublin:
Juno and the Paycock - Jack Boyle
Man and Superman - Tanner

1969 Abbey Theatre, Dublin:
Waiting for Godot - Vladimir

1973-74 Bristol Old Vic:
Uncle Vanya - Vanya
Plunder
The Apple Cart - King Magnus
Judgement - monologue

1978 Toronto, Washington, and Chicago:
Uncle Vanya - Vanya
Present Laughter - Gary Essendine                          

Wife Siân Phillips (1959-1979), two children, Kate and
Patricia, divorced.
Ex-girlfriend, Karen Brown, have a son, Lorcan, born 1983.                          

Peter O’Tooles’ birthplace is unclear.
Two birth certificates exist, one for Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, and one for Leeds, West Yorkshire, England; 
O'Toole himself is uncertain. Most sources list Connemara.
While studying at RADA in the early 1950s he was active in protesting British involvement in the Korean War. Later in the 1960s he was an active opponent of the Vietnam War.