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British Film Academy

Date released

1963

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

217

NoS ID

328458

Story no

1 / 1

NoS synopsis: British Academy Film Awards from the London Hilton Hotel received by Peter O’ Toole and Robert Bolt for Lawrence of Arabia.

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Becket (1964 Video)

Director

Peter Glenville

Producer

Hal B Wallis

Subject

Drama; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 142 minutes), £17.99

Newly restored version of the film based on Jean Anouilh’s stage play about the conflict between Thomas a Becket and King Henry II starring Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton. Restored with the aid of...

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Audience on Peter O’Toole in Macbeth (1980 Radio)

Independent local radio programme. Vox pop with members of the audience after seeing Peter O’Toole’s performance as Macbeth at the Old Vic, London directed by Bryan Forbes - "a bit of a comedy, they...

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Hut Pizza of Made We’Re Stuff the Love You’Ll (1996 Film)

An advertisement for Pizza Hut and their ‘stuffed crust pizza’. Peter O’Toole on stage (at an audition?) reciting "to be or not to be that is the question/Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer"....

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Venus (2006 Film)

Director

Roger Michell

Producer

Kevin Loader

Feature film. Maurice Russell (O’Toole) is a fading, ailing, not very famous actor who meets his friend’s grandniece, Jessie (Whittaker), a surly girl in her early twenties. They form a friendship which...

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Rogue Male (1976)

Director

Clive Donner

Subject

Film studies; Literature; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 100 minutes), £14.99

In early 1939, with the Second World War looming, aristocrat Sir Robert Hunter (Peter O’Toole) attempts to avert the impending catastrophe by assassinating Adolf Hitler. But his mission fails. Captured by...

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Collectors’ Library of Ten Great Shakespeare Plays: Concise Acting Versions (1961 Audio)

`Concise acting versions’ of ten plays read by Richard Burton, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Anna Massey, Sarah Churchill, Michael Redgrave, Peter Finch, Peter O’Toole and others. The...

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Monitor [27/10/1963] (1963 Television)

Series

Monitor

Director

Melvyn Bragg

Producer

Huw Wheldon

Anthology arts series. Huw Wheldon chairs a discussion on Hamlet with Orson Welles, Peter O’Toole and Ernest Milton. O’Toole describes Hamlet as a play about three sons all trying to avenge their fathers...

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Taming of the Shrew, The (2007 Multimedia)

Series

Sourcebooks Shakespeare Series, The

Combined book and audio CD. Includes performances by John Cleese as Petruchio (BBC Television Shakespeare series), Peter O’Toole as Petruchio (Living Shakespeare series), Roger Allam and Frances Barber...

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Under Milk Wood (1971)

Director

Andrew Sinclair

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £17.99 (wide screen) £19.99 (definitive)

Adaption of Dylan’ Thomas’ last play, set in the mythical Welsh village of Llareggub, following the thoughts and actions of its inhabitants during the course of a single day. Based on the radio play. The...

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