Peter Seamus O'Toole was an English stage and film actor. He attended RADA and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company. 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. Excelling on the London stage, O'Toole was known for his "hellraiser" lifestyle off it.
O'Toole in 1970
O'Toole studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London from 1952 to 1954
O'Toole in the TV film Present Laughter (1968)
As King Henry II in The Lion in Winter (1968)
Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol. The present company was established in 1946 as an offshoot of the Old Vic in London. It is associated with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which became a financially independent organisation in the 1990s. Bristol Old Vic runs a Young Company for those aged 7–25.
Old and new exterior in 2019
Interior of the main theatre, 2008
The Coopers' Hall served as the theatre's entrance from 1972 to 2016
Weston Studio