Peter O'Toole: Hellraiser, Sexual Outlaw, Irish Rebel (Blood Moon's Babylon)

by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince

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Born to a vagabond bookie working the U.K's racetracks, Peter O'Toole became "the most notorious sailor in Her Majesty's Royal Navy" and then worked as a street vendor, a paparazzo, a newsman, and a steeplejack before drifting into the London theatre. After his spectacular success in David Lean's four-hour epic, Lawrence of Arabia, he announced, "I've arrived! Ignore me at your peril!" He then went on to be nominated for seven Oscars before emerging as the Crown Prince of the British Theatre. An orgiastic hellraiser, he starred in week-long binges and sex orgies of near Biblical proportions, bedding everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Princess Margaret, who relentlessly pursued him. Mercurial acting talent on the screen was combined with a lethal off-screen life that "would have landed most blokes in jail" (his words).
  • ISBN13 9781936003457
  • Publish Date 15 June 2015 (first published 8 June 2015)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Blood Moon Productions, Ltd
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 632
  • Language English