Peter O'Toole's Irish Fib
It took very little effort for author Robert Sellers to uncover the truth.
There is a new biography of the late Peter O’Toole out today in the U.K. Written by Robert Sellers, the book establishes its credentials at the top of Chapter One by tackling the matter of the actor’s place of birth.
It’s not so much the fact that Sellers was able to quickly and authoritatively establish that O’Toole, despite a lifetime of statements to the contrary, was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. Not Ireland. It’s how he frames that information:
Does it really matter, though? Certainly to O’Toole it did not, he loved the idea of being Irish (he owned an Irish passport), and once he’d made that identification he wanted it to be very much central to his life.
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