Taped the week before, April 11. O'Toole's first appearance on the show. It took a while for him orient himself, not certain where he was, what day it was, and who Dave was.
I've watched this 100 times at random times, to get regrounded from the dystopian world of 2023 - please never remove these clips, they'll be needed even more in 2123
The magnificent Peter O’Toole on asked about exercise, “The only exercise I take is walking behind coffins of friends who took exercise”. It’s shameful that he never won an Oscar for so many memorable performances but for me his portrayal of Lawrence was mesmerising. RIP
Lo boicottavano. Almeno tre Oscar....ma 🤷 è stato un attore memorabile e mastodontico. È stato un istrione. È stato un attore favoloso. Ha sofferto molto perché meritava. Ha sofferto. Ma non è stato dimenticato 😊 riposare in Pace ☮️ maestro. Baci 💋 Dalla mia ITALIA 🌸
@@watchtellyinuk True, he wasn't, just as he never on an Academy Award for any one great performance. Someone on this forum has observed that he was too good for an Oscar -- and indeed he was!
Aside his immense style, dignity and presence, I love that he calls out to Hiram Bullock on guitar. Hiram is indeed amazing. Speaks to Mr, O’Toole’s ear for music.
An absolute FUCKING legend. My gosh what I would've given to be young and to hang out just a few nights with a young O'Toole, Harris,and Reed out on the town
It must really be something to have that long a life's worth of memories, stories, laughs, thrills, honors, and experiences in one's head, to be at that age surrounded by admiration and accomplishment, and yet to be able to look back on everything and laugh, to not be burned out, to have so many stories to choose from and yet to be easygoing and understated. The definition of class.
Booze was his friend but not really his friend ... still, what an amazing actor and raconteur if allowed to just go with it. He was born in 1932 which would make him 51 but your point is made.
Class, America please take note this is a gentleman who behaves on stage in front of a camera with class. Peter O Toole an artist who has gifted the world with his craft.
Calling him "Sir," and having seen and enjoyed his work definitely helped. I was so glad that they became friends! About 12 years later, when O'Toole, perfectly dressed and groomed, rode the Camel in and then gave him the beer was PRICELESS! indiabright.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/667844956-Good-Morning-Quotes-For-Friends-17.jpg
A truly great man unlike the mediocrities of the present time. He walks on smoking as he passes a 'No Smoking ' sign in doing, so unlike today's stars with their bottled mineral water.
I mean who gives a shit? Two different times. Both had their equal amount of narcissists in their business. Al Martino stole shirts. That don't mean jackshit.
It's a crying shame that Peter O'Toole never won an Oscar. He was nominated eight times and eventually received an honorary award. The year he was nominated for My Favorite Year, Ben Kingsley won for Gandhi. But check out the other nominees: Paul Newman, Jack Lemmon and Dustin Hoffman. In World Cup soccer terms, that's a definite "group of death".
I love the comparison. Neither one gives a damn about how they look..hair all messed up..elegantly wasted...Keith ..not so much. But theyre so damned good at it!!!!
Love love love this. That voice! Letterman is the perfect foil to his stories. Thanks Dave for bringing a wonderful remembrance of this great man. Love every interview with him. A treasure
Thanks Don. I never get tired of watching them. A special insight and friendship with Dave of a private and guarded of his personal life genius of an artist. So glad that they made the connection. Adore Mr O Toole !
Letterman is absolutely shocking in this. O'Toole's in the middle of a wonderful story about himself and Harris climbing up a building to see some ladies, Harris is literally left on a cliffhanger and Letterman asks him whether he always wears green socks or not... C'mon dude.
I agree, incredibly irritating. The sign of worse things yet to come! If you're interested in the story, I heard O'Toole tell the whole thing in more detail in another interview: when Harris got stuck, they phoned the fire brigade, and the police turned up as well. O'Toole did indeed lean out of the window and shout down at the police that an Irish hoodlum had come to burgle them. Not sure how it was eventually resolved...
@@spangalang you may be right that the main point of the story was over, but firstly Letterman couldn't have known this, and secondly clearly by looking at these comments more than one person was left hanging without the story coming to a satisfying conclusion. The difference between American chat show hosts like these and actually good ones like Graham Norton is that the latter don't interrupt and change the subject- they let the interviewee take the story to where they want to and if they feel it's fizzling out they make some sort of clever joke to bring the interviewee back on point- they don't just cut across them. In any case, all I was doing was providing the people who also felt that Letterman behaved rudely with the satisfying conclusion they so clearly desired to an interrupted story, since I had heard it elsewhere.
What a character. I love the stories of these British/Irish scoundrels..... I have seen many movies and lots of times saw movies that now have me go 'Oh really that was ....so and so in it?' Like Richard Harris in Gladiator and then realizing he was also the lead in 'A man called horse', a movie I saw as a kid and always stuck with me. Same with O'Toole....I immediately associate him with 'Murphy's war', which I also saw as a kid and has eluded me on dvd for a long time.....have to put on some dough and obtain it one of these days. After watching clips of these notorious scoundrels yesterday I ordered that book about them, 'Hellraisers' and the graphic novel version.
I love that sense he gives you of always being on the edge of saying something witty and funny - so that even when he says something mundane it comes out as seemingly profound wit. They don't make 'em like that anymore!
What a man, drinker or not he was fabulous, The physical effects of alcohol are clear, he was the most beautiful man in his youth, but his mind is as sharp as ever
The Ruling Class ahead of its time, WOW! What a film, I saw the 1st uncut version and people were complaining to the manager of the theater about the content of the film. I still strongly recommend everyone see this film. Peter should of gotten the best actor award, his performance was beyond anything anyone has even done today! His best work!
April Mae I'm with you kid! He was playing a paranoid schizophrenic...with song and dance thrown in. You either appreciate dark comedy or you don't. But seeing him do the Varsity Drag alone makes this an incredible performance. His delivery of some pretty complex dialogue is a thing of beauty. Great film! Great cast.
I have probably watched this one 20 times. I'm so sorry I've only just now discovered what a true gentleman he was. I knew he was funny, but he was also very, very smart!
Peter was undoubtedly one of the most charming and pleasant personalities to be around with and certainly the best mate to raise hell in any working-class pub in England or Ireland. Just imagine how many mind-blowing anecdotes he must've taken to the his grave.
The newborn kid that he mentioned here, that was born on Saint Patrick’s Day, is now grown and he has become an actor himself-he’s on Sons of Anarchy. To those who I have made feel old by this statement, I’m terribly sorry.
Poor, Peter!! This is the third interview I've seen him dishevelled with time and day, on his trips to the United States. Thanks for sharing. Classic interview.
It’s fun to watch these interviews in order and see Letterman become enamoured with the man and he steadily growing to like Letterman. It was a sort of great service for posterity that Letterman did interviewing O’Toole and Harris and mine their great resevoir of stories.
Loved peter what a lovely man and Irish man as it goes.cheers old lord man loved you and only you made me feel better for watching you. GOOD luck will miss you something awful. Yous alleyways Kenneth ❣️☘️🌹🍀👋🍻✍🏻️🙌
That was one of MY favorites, too! I couldn't stop laughing. And yet, there was some consideration for the "young man" who had to keep him in check. Peter was a marvelous person.
It's a fantastic move! The scene where he is caught peeing in the ladies toilets...'this is for women only'..O'Toole looks down at the old champ and replies, 'so is this, but I have to pass water thru it occasionally'...something like that anyway, it had me in knots!
Letterman is sitting next to a legend and he's nervous... No man on the world except Richard Harris. He answers in such an elegant yet child like. A man who lived his life on his terms. I fall in love with men like O Toole like a God!
I admire Dave for the patience he showed. Peter obviously was in no hurry to get his responses or stories out and Dave might have been tempted to be a smart-ass about it. But instead he showed Peter the respect that he deserved.
I don't know what you were watching. Letterman kept interrupting at the worst times. I thought he cut him off during the best stories and would have done well to let the man talk. Maybe they cover fewer points but I much preferred listening to O'toole rather than rushing to another talking point. I guess everyone has their own perspective after.
Thats what is wrong with modern folk, they don`t understand that its good to think before you open your gob. Slow down, take it easy, use your noodle.!
Hillarious little vignette! Peter clearly doesn't have TV in mind in his timing. You kind of have to just let Peter be Peter. Dave is clearly alarmed. Fun stuff!
My God. Did everyone before the 90s get super drunk before going on live TV talkshows? I keep watching these old interviews and everybody so far has been liquored.
@Ulysses432 no, he's clearly disoriented and bemused at the start (I didn't keep watching because the state he's in makes me sad... Another time maybe)
was he born in Leeds or Dublin he claimed not to know however his sister was adamant he was born n raised in Leeds,England- he was British just like thousands of us with Irish descent
In later life, Peter O'Toole had become so incredibly Existential that I think he existed completely inside his own mind. Over a period of many years, he had been dealing with super-egos, with incredible thinkers, with great minds of all sorts - all of this became a sort of "norm" to him, and the rest of it, the rest of mundane existence, became no more than sometimes pesky, sometimes amusing, and sometimes irritating background noise. This is not meant in any way as condemnation - he simply slipped into a higher plane, which even he did not understand. Perhaps Oscar Wilde would have understood him.
He just got older, had learnt more about life, acting and himself and, having a good grasp of the English language was able to express himself better. It depends what interviews you watch...there are ones like this that he was doing in the UK in the 90's, still lighthearted and just a bit of a laugh but also he was invited onto ones that required him to talk in depth about his work, which are obviously going to be more serious. He was always down to earth....as I said, he just got older.
One thing here that's just amazing is Dave's interview style here, and how he just shifts gears. He's normally a pretty combative interviewer, which is fine: you know going in that he'll throw barbs right back at you. But here, he manages to get Peter O'Toole into a place where he's like clay and he can mold him. It's just amazing. He's not embarrassing him, he's not goading him: he knows that his guest is in a very loquacious mood and is using that. It's the sign of a great host.
Agree. Letterman could read people beautifully. Eccentric he loved, stupidity and phoniness he loathed and he always called it out. He and O'Toole were great together!