Where to now, St. Peter?

[serai]

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"I'm not an actor, I'm a MOVIE STAR!" - Alan Swann, My Favorite Year


My favorite movie quote from Peter O'Toole. What a wonderful performance in a wonderful film. He was such a great, sardonic, witty performer. He was fantastic in The Ruling Class (what a great Jesus), and phenomenal in The Stunt Man (what a great Satan). Had The Lord of the Rings been made ten years earlier, he would have had my vote to play Gandalf, as he would have played him much closer to the character in the book. (Not that I'm knocking McKellen, just that the Gandalf in the book wasn't nearly so cuddly.) And of course, his Henry II, in Becket and The Lion in Winter was not to be equalled.

*sigh* They're all going, one by one. The way of things, of course, but still...*sigh*

Comments

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

He died? That makes me sad. You're so right, ere losing the great actors one by one.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

He was the last of the Hellraisers. Who is there now to replace them? *sigh*

I added a video of him on The Late Show in London. Now THERE is an entrance!

[shirebound]

Ohhhh, I adored him. What sad news.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

It is. I'm going to spend the evening watching some of his movies.