Peter O' Toole: ‘I will stir the smooth sands of monotony’

Peter O’Toole never won an Oscar despite eight nominations. However, in 2003 he was given an honorary award for his body of work.

Peter O’Toole, the acclaimed Irish actor who starred in Lawrence of Arabia, has died at the age of 81.

He was the hell-raising actor with a one-time prodigious capacity for drink whose wild living often eclipsed, in the public mind, his brilliance as a performer both on stage and screen.