Peter O’Toole

Peter O'Toole

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Birth Name: Peter J. O’Toole

Date of Birth: 2 August, 1932

Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire, England, U.K.

Date of Death: 14 December, 2013

Place of Death: St John’s Wood, London, England, U.K.

Ethnicity: Irish, Scottish

Peter O’Toole was a British actor.

He was the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a nurse, and Patrick Joseph O’Toole, a metal plater, football player, and bookmaker. His father was Irish. His mother was Scottish. While there is some confusion about his birth name and place, a birth record exists for him in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, with a middle name beginning in J. He had also been said to have been born in Ireland, with the middle name Seamus.

He was initially raised in Hunslet, Leeds, and also spent time during his childhood in major racecourse towns in Northern England. He had two children, including actress Kate O’Toole, with his former wife, actress Siân Phillips; and a son with his former partner, model Karen Brown.

Peter’s paternal grandfather was named James O’Toole.

Peter’s paternal grandmother was named Mary.

Source: Birth record of Peter O’Toole – https://www.familysearch.org

10 Responses

  1. scott says:

    he looks like how I imagine Anglo-Saxons looked like. weird how he doesnt have any English ancestry

    • Alice says:

      Lots of Irish look like him and Scottish. Anglo-Saxon is an overused term. The Anglo-Saxons would have contributed to England but the majority of the people would have ancestry longer in those islands. It’s not like people didn’t move around either.

  2. scott says:

    he looks like how I imagine Anglo-Saxons looked like

  3. andrew says:

    wiki quote: Some sources give his birthplace as Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, and others as Leeds, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, where he grew up. O’Toole himself is not certain of his birthplace or date

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