Peter O'Toole who acted in such hits as: Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter and Beckett. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...48855a-65c2-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html Tom Laughlin who was the star of the Billy Jack movies. I have to say I was obsessed with these films when they came out and I was a teenager. I saw the first 3 at least ten times. Hard to believe he was 82 years old! http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-tom-laughlin-20131216,0,6177630.story#axzz2ncSPqpU4 And Joan Fontaine whom, I'm sorry to say, I only remember because of her lifelong feud with her sister Olivia DeHavilland. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/a...for-hitchcocks-suspicion-dies-at-96.html?_r=0 I believe this is the first time since it's been kept track of that 3 actors who were not together or involved in a disaster(plane crash, boat sinking, automobile accident etc) all died on the same day. To each of them I say Rest in Peace...your legends will live on long after you. I put this in this thread because to me, it is a current event but if a moderator feels it should go elsewhere, please move it. Thank you.
I love that film too! He and Kate Hepburn were truly amazing in that film. It may not have been historically correct but there sure were a lot of one liners that I remembered. "I could peel you like a pear and God himself would call it justice". "I would hang you from the nipples but you'd embarrass the children." "When a king is off his arse nobody sleeps".
ELEANOR I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled. ELEANOR He had a mind like Aristotle and a form like mortal sin.
I can too and I have. Eleanor: "In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible." Eleanor: What would you have me do? Give out? Give up? Give in? Henry II: Give me a little peace. Eleanor: A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now there's a thought.
I agree emphatically! I know it's rare that we two ever agree on anything, but Peter O'Toole was in my estimation one of the greatest actors who ever lived. My favorite Peter O'Toole performance was, like yours, also one with him as King Henry II... but in "Becket". I can so easily recall him thundering at the Bishop of London during Becket's arraignment, "I WANT NO MORE THINKING!" Indeed, I can think of no more magnificent pair of actors to appear in a single film than Richard Burton as Becket, and Peter O'Toole as King Henry.
