Peter o 'tul

Dmitry Volchek: The man of the day of Radio Liberty on August 2 is an outstanding English actor Peter O 'Tul. On Friday, he turned seventy years old.

Born in 1932 in the city of Connemar of the Irish county Konway. He grew up in England. For some time he worked as a journalist in Yorkshire. Then he served in the Royal Sea Fleet. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He worked at the Shakespearean Theater in Stradford-on-Evon and many other theaters of Great Britain. In the 59th year, he first starred in the cinema. He played in more than forty films. Among them: "The Last Emperor", "How to steal a million", "Tricky", "The ruling class". Laureate of many national and international awards, including several Oscars. Divorced, has three children. The man of the day of Radio Liberty - the English actor Peter O 'Tula - will present our correspondent in London Natalya Golitsyna.

Natalya Golitsyna: his memoirs Peter o Tul entitled “Loitering with Intent” (“intentional idleness”). This name is symbolic - it is heard in regret for the former. It would seem that behind the 'Tula - dozens of films and brilliant theatrical roles of the Shakespearean repertoire. However, it was this double career that caused his life drama, the cause of his frustration and neurotic states. In fact, his whole life was accompanied by an incompatible confrontation between Hollywood and the English theatrical tradition. O 'Tul became an international movie star in the 62nd after the release of Lawrence of Arabia. And almost simultaneously at the Old Vic London Theater, he brilliantly played the role of Hamlet. Before a 30-year-old actor, two poorly compatible paths opened: money and glory or high art and wide fame in narrow circles. The tragedy of his life is that he never made a choice. All his subsequent life can be called a rebellion against himself. Unconsciously, he turned his own life into a stage, on which Peter about Tula played. In principle, the genre of this life can be called tragicomedy. The charming, talented and elegant handsome man was slowly drunk. He quit drinking only at the age of 63, when the doctors predicted his close death. Once during the filming, one of the actors asked him to push the ashtray. “Turn the whole world into your ashtray,” Tul answered him. Words worthy of Shakespeare. They could well become his own credo. Does the 70-year-old actor regret the past? “Only French singers are not worried,” he says. Summing up creative and vital results, Peter O 'Tul has already chosen an epitaph for himself. He found it on a sheet of cardboard attached to a leather jacket received from dry cleaning. “It will upset us,” the inscription read, “if you do not consider our work perfect and return your thing.”