Crossing to freedom peter otoole biography

          A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany in this adaptation of the novel by Nevil Shute..

          Film and theatre actor, with the full name Peter Seamus O'Toole, had a thriving acting career stretching seven decades.

        1. Film and theatre actor, with the full name Peter Seamus O'Toole, had a thriving acting career stretching seven decades.
        2. Peter O'Toole, born on August 2, , in Connemara, Ireland, was an actor renowned for his charismatic performances and distinctive blue eyes.
        3. A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany in this adaptation of the novel by Nevil Shute.
        4. Peter Seamus O'Toole ( – ) was an actor of stage and screen who achieved film stardom in playing TE Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia.
        5. Crossing to Freedom: Directed by Norman Stone.

          6. O'toole, CBS' `Crossing To Freedom' Are Just Respectable

          Peter O'Toole makes one of his rare TV appearances as the star of ``Crossing to Freedom,'' a new TV movie CBS will air at 9 p.m. tomorrow on KIRO-TV.

          Mare Winningham co-stars and although a capable actress, she's a little tough to believe as a young French woman who becomes involved with O'Toole and a passel of widely divergent youngsters they're trying to spirit out of France in the summer of 1940, just after the Nazis have marched into Paris.

          This film is actually a remake of a 1942 movie, ``The Pied Piper.'' Both are based on a novel by Neville Shute.

          The first movie was a lot more powerful in 1942, shortly after America joined World War II, and the first movie was a lot more fun because the Englishman who gets stuck playing tour guide to these young refugees was played by the acerbic Monty Woolley.

          He gave the character as much fondness for children as W.C. Fields, which meant a great deal of the fun came in