He was nominated for this award another seven times – for playing King Henry II in both Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) for which he received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Making his film debut in 1959, O'Toole achieved international recognition playing T. Excelling on the London stage, O'Toole was known for his 'hellraiser' lifestyle off it. 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. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company. Peter Seamus O'Toole (2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was a British stage and film actor.
As his character was part of the pipe band that Vesper machine gunned with her bagpipe Weapon, he may have died within the film. Peter Seamus O'Toole was a highly respected British/Irish actor who briefly appeared as himself in the 1967 Spy spoof Casino Royale'.
