Peter O'Toole

Oscars 2013: 'Zero Dark Thirty' is undeserving victim of politics

2013-01-11 08:30:00

If you're keeping score this Oscar season — and who isn't? — chalk up this year's nominations as a victory for the bullying power of the United States Senate and an undeserved loss for "Zero Dark Thirty" in general and director Kathryn Bigelow...

Will senators' slam on 'Zero Dark Thirty' hurt it at awards time?

2012-12-21 05:00:00

"Zero Dark Thirty" is a hit with critics and early audiences, but a bipartisan thumbs-down from Washington may dim the once-bright Oscar chances for Kathryn Bigelow's fact-based thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The film, which arrived in...

Christopher Plummer still has 'A Word or Two' to say

2012-08-24 12:20:00

"First you're young. Then you're old. Then you're wonderful." — Alice Roosevelt Longworth STRATFORD, Canada — Christopher Plummer is in the wonderful phase of his career — and at 82 he's seizing the opportunity. In February, the six-...

List of films and release dates in summer 2012

2012-04-29 00:00:00

May 4 The Avengers A team of superheroes including Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk and Thor unite to save the world. With Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo and Chris Hemsworth. Written and directed by Joss Whedon. In Imax 3-D. Walt Disney...

Oscars by the Numbers

2012-02-02 16:41:14

Martin Poll dies at 89; veteran producer best known for 'Lion in Winter'

2012-04-17 00:00:00

Martin Poll, 89, a veteran producer best known for "The Lion in Winter," the Oscar-winning 1968 film that starred Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole, died Saturday in New York. He had pneumonia and kidney failure, according to his son, Jon. Hepburn...

Bob Anderson dies at 89; sword-fight teacher to the stars

2012-01-04 00:00:00

Ten days before Bob Anderson headed to the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki as part of the British fencing team, he responded to a call from a British film studio in need of three fencers to coach the lead actors for sword-fighting scenes in a new pirate...

50+ Leading Men

2012-02-02 16:41:26

Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'POV' on KOCE

2011-07-11 21:36:53

'Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed' by Robert Sellers

2009-12-18 00:00:00

One of life's oddities is how often a series of genuinely comedic incidents congeals into, if not tragedy, then tragic loss. Robert Sellers certainly has no intention of turning readers' thoughts in that moody direction, but "Hellraisers: The Life and...

Saturday's TV Highlights: 'The Men Who Stare at Goats' on Starz

2010-08-27 21:35:45

Film review: The art-house horror of 'Black Swan'

2010-12-01 16:34:27

The 1962 film "Lawrence of Arabia," starring Peter O'Toole, is screening at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival

2013-03-24 17:25:00

A scene from "Lawrence of Arabia" with Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole and Anthony Quinn.

2012-11-26 14:45:00

Nutty as ever, "Lawrence of Arabia" actor Peter O'Toole turns 79 today. (Photo by Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images)

2012-07-10 00:00:00