Cast: Peter O'Toole

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Peter O'Toole. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Casanova (TV Miniseries)

2005 · Series · 174 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sheree Folkson

Cast David Tennant · Peter O'Toole · Rose Byrne · Laura Fraser

Plot Europe, 18th century. As an elderly librarian, Giacomo Casanova (Peter O'Toole), has a lot of exciting memories. A young servant girl, Edith (Rose Byrne), is treated to his lurid recollections...

6.4

137 votes

6.4

137 votes

My Favorite Year

1982 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Richard Benjamin

Cast Peter O'Toole · Mark Linn-Baker · Jessica Harper · Joseph Bologna

Plot Benjy Stone is the junior writer on the top rated variety/comedy show, in the mid 50s (the early years). Its a new medium and the rules were not fully established....

6.3

414 votes

6.3

414 votes

Venus

2006 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roger Michell

Cast Peter O'Toole · Leslie Phillips · Jodie Whittaker · Vanessa Redgrave

Plot Maurice (Peter O'Toole), Ian (Leslie Phillips) and Donald (Richard Griffiths) are three semi-ancient retirees who meet every day at their favourite pub to raise a glass, commiserate about the state...

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

Man Friday

1975 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Peter O'Toole · Richard Roundtree · Peter Cellier · Christopher Cabot

Plot Daniel Defoe's classic story of survival and heroism takes on a whole new perspective in this action-adventure tour de force. Peter O'Toole stars as Robinson Crusoe and Richard Rountree is...

6.2

256 votes

6.2

256 votes

Man of La Mancha

1972 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Peter O'Toole · Sophia Loren · James Coco · Harry Andrews

Plot In the sixteenth century, Miguel de Cervantes, poet, playwright, and part-time actor, has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisition. They are accused of presenting an entertainment...

6.1

569 votes

6.1

569 votes

What's New, Pussycat?

1965 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Clive Donner

Cast Woody Allen · Peter O'Toole · Romy Schneider · Howard Vernon

Plot Reputed playboy Michael James is incapable of staying faithful to his fiancée, partly because all of the women he knows find him irresistibly attractive. Concerned, he seeks the help of...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

Murphy's War

1971 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Peter O'Toole · Philippe Noiret · Sian Phillips · Horst Janson

Plot Late WWII. Murphys' ship sunk by German U-boat, and survivors are brutally shot up in the water. Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew. He lands on a forgotten...

6.0

500 votes

6.0

500 votes

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

2022 · Documentary · 90 min. · Ireland

Direction Jim Sheridan

Cast Peter O'Toole · Sian Phillips · Steven Spielberg · Anthony Hopkins

Plot The legendary actor Peter O'Toole brought a touch of danger to his art and a stroke of madness to his life yet inspired a generation of movie makers. This film...

5.9

57 votes

5.9

57 votes

The Stunt Man

1980 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Richard Rush

Cast Peter O'Toole · Barbara Hershey · Steve Railsback · John Garwood

Plot Cameron is an ex-soldier on the run. He stumbles onto a movie location at a beach resort, and megalomaniacal director Eli Cross compels him to take the job of a...

5.8

542 votes

5.8

542 votes

Fairytale: A True Story

1997 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Florence Hoath · Peter O'Toole · Harvey Keitel · Elizabeth Earl

Plot When her father is declared missing in action during World War I, Elsie Wrigth (Florence Hoath) goes to live in England with her cousin Frances Griffiths (Elizabeth Earl) for whom...

5.8

390 votes

5.8

390 votes

Country Dance

1970 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Peter O'Toole · Susannah York · Michael Craig · Harry Andrews

Plot In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm,...

5.8

48 votes

5.8

48 votes

Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped

1959 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Peter Finch · James MacArthur · Bernard Lee · Niall MacGinnis

Plot Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading...

5.8

71 votes

5.8

71 votes

The Bible: In the Beginning...

1966 · Movie · 174 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Michael Parks · Ulla Bergryd · Richard Harris · John Huston

Plot An elaborate Hollywood retelling of the Bible stories narrated by the film's director John Huston. We open with the Creation of the World and arrive at the Garden of Eden...

5.7

2K votes

5.7

2K votes

Augustus: The First Emperor (TV)

2003 · Movie · 200 min. · Italy

Direction Roger Young

Cast Peter O'Toole · Charlotte Rampling · Vittoria Belvedere · Benjamin Sadler

Plot In 42 BC Rome is in the middle of a civil war. Together with his friend AGRIPPA, the young Augustus goes to Spain in order to help JULIUS CAESAR in...

5.7

255 votes

5.7

255 votes

The Rainbow Thief

1990 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alejandro Jodorowsky

Cast Omar Sharif · Peter O'Toole · Christopher Lee · Jude Alderson

Plot A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.

5.7

206 votes

5.7

206 votes

Gulliver's Travels (TV)

1996 · Movie · 187 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Ted Danson · Mary Steenburgen · James Fox · Ned Beatty

Plot All star adaptation of Jonathan Swift's satirical tale about a normal man who, after returning home following eight years of absence, relates fantastical tales about how he was thought to...

5.5

4K votes

5.5

4K votes

One Night with the King

2006 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Michael O. Sajbel

Cast Tiffany Dupont · Peter O'Toole · Omar Sharif · Luke Goss

Plot "One Night With The King" chronicles the life of the young Jewish girl, Hadassah, who goes on to become the Biblical Esther...

5.5

132 votes

5.5

132 votes

For Greater Glory

2012 · Movie · 142 min. · Mexico

Direction Dean Wright

Cast Andy García · Oscar Isaac · Mauricio Kuri · Eva Longoria

Plot A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

5.5

693 votes

5.5

693 votes

Iron Road (TV Miniseries)

2008 · Series · 180 min. · Canada

Direction David Wu

Cast Sun Li · Peter O'Toole · Sam Neill · Luke Macfarlane

Plot TV Miniseries (2008). 2 Episodes. A young Chinese girl with no money, disguised as a boy, manages to work on the construction of a railroad in the Rocky Mountains thanks...

5.5

275 votes

5.5

275 votes

Molokai: The Story Of Father Damien

1999 · Movie · 113 min. · Australia

Direction Paul Cox

Cast David Wenham · Sam Neill · Peter O'Toole · Kris Kristofferson

Plot This biography of Father Damien, the Catholic priest who in 1873 volunteered for service on the eponymous Hawaiian leper colony, doesn't hesitate to idolize its subject, and why should it?...

5.5

111 votes

5.5

111 votes