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Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole was an actor whom Susan Foreman found attractive. He starred in Lawrence of Arabia. (PROSE: Time and Relative) Natasha Nightingale also found him attractive, which was one of the reasons why she enjoyed Lawrence of Arabia. She considered him to be "a national treasure". (GAME: The Lonely Assassins [+]Amelia Chung, Priya Kulasagaran, Rebecca Hee and Gavin Collinson, Maze Theory (2021).)

According to the Ninth Doctor, Laurence Olivier once "embroiled" him in a game of duck, duck, goose at the National Theatre with Joan Plowright and Peter O'Toole. (AUDIO: A Theatre of Cruelty [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Behind the scenes[]

O'Toole was the favourite to play Borusa in a television movie project that eventually became the 1996 telefilm Doctor Who. He expressed interest before the character was removed from the script entirely.[1]

In 1991, O'Toole starred in the comedy film King Ralph alongside John Hurt, Camille Coduri, Julian Glover, and Leslie Phillips.[2] O'Toole played Casanova in his later life in the 2005 BBC miniseries written by Russell T Davies, whilst the younger Casanova was played by David Tennant, who would soon portray the Tenth Doctor. He also later starred in the film Venus alongside Jodie Whittaker (in her first leading film role) who would later go on to portray the Thirteenth Doctor.

He was the ex-husband of Siân Phillips.

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