Peter O'Toole Height

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Caesar says on 23/Aug/08
Hugh says on 27/Mar/08
In his younger days maybe 6ft3. He still looks impressively tall. 6ft2-6ft2.25 now.

Absolutely not. In Becket he was 2-3 inches taller than 5'10 Richard Burton and in Lawrence of Arabia he was 2 inches taller than 5'10-5'11 Omar Sharif. With poor posture he could look almost even with Sharif. He does look taller due to his thin physique, but to me he looks much more like a 6'1, 6'1 and change guy than a 6-2-6'3. I doubt he could match a Charlton Heston or Jimmy Stewart. 6'1 or a little over.

Hugh says on 9/May/08
Looks nearer to 6ft3.

Hugh says on 27/Mar/08
In his younger days maybe 6ft3. He still looks impressively tall. 6ft2-6ft2.25 now.

Danimal says on 29/Feb/08
What's scary is that Peter was on David Letterman in the mid 90's and had a full inch on then 6'2" Dave. Now, fast forward a dozen years and Peter comes walking out and Dave is at least 2" taller than Peter. The man was ONCE a full 6'3", but today is lucky if he is 6'0". Scary how age can do such damage.

glenn says on 24/Jan/08
correct marcelo.i regret missing him when he was in town.

Marcelo C. says on 23/Jan/08
Glenn: Sounds accurate for Mr. O´Toole 6´2". Not 1" more, or less.

6-2_Baskman says on 7/Jan/08
In "Friday" Peter looked an inch taller than Richard Roundtree listed in this site as 6´2

Marieno says on 8/Dec/07
In his autobiography, the late Great French actor, Philippe Noiret says that he (Noiret) is 185 cm...He played with Peter O'toole in the movie "Murphy's war" and seemed to be 2 or 3 cm (if not more) smaller than O'toole...so i think that 188 cm is correct for O'toole...

glenn says on 7/Oct/07
argentinian barbecues are pretty good.

Marcelo C. says on 5/Oct/07
I bet "a typical argentinian barbacue ", he´s 6´2/3".

al says on 9/Mar/07
He might now be that height above now but he looked a solid 6ft 3 when he was younger.

dmeyer says on 25/Feb/07
a friend of mine met otoole whalberg and eddie murphy and told me otoole was 185 to 187 cm mark 5 ft 5 to 5 ft 6 and eddie 5'6 to 5'7 and tom hanks at 6 ft

Frank2 says on 22/Apr/06
Mills was short. Here he is next to 5'7" James MacAthur: Click Here

Frank2 says on 22/Apr/06
[Editor Rob: I moved this comment over to the guinness page

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Frank2 says on 22/Apr/06
Believe whatever you want. I met Guinness and he was 5'7".

Frank2 says on 21/Apr/06
I firts met Guinness back in the 1960's then later after he appeared in Star Wars. He was the same height both times. I met Laurence Olivier at a special screening of A Little Romance in 1979. Olivier had been 5'10" when he was younger and by the time of the screening he looked around 5'9". James Mason who I knew and was a good friend of my parents always remained a solid 5'11". I stood right next to him as we spoke when he appeared at the Motion Picture Acadmey's Samuel Goldwyn Theater for a screening of Odd Man Out. We were
eye-to-eye the exact, same height. And by then he was well into his seventies. That was only six months before he passed away.

Frank2 says on 21/Apr/06
Ferrer who I met was 5'9". I'm 5'11" and I was at least two inches taller. And Guinness who I also met was no more than 5'7". I towered over him. Check out the photo of me with Jeff Kramer on his thread. Kramer's 5'8" and Guinness was shorter. Now tell me I'm 6'1" so I can have a good laugh. I need one.

[Editor Rob: what year did you meet Guinness Frank2. The question is if he shrank by a few inches, in Arabia did he really look like a 5ft 8 guy?

For sure the guy in early 1980 did look to be short, on his page here I mention a picture of him looking shorter than Eric Morecamble and a little bigger than Ernie wise...who himself was in the 5ft 5ish range...]

mcfan says on 19/Mar/06
Frank2,
No way was Peter O'Toole that short. He came on Letterman and was like an inch to an inch and a half taller than Dave. If you're claiming that O'Toole was only 6foot then I guess Dave was 5'10.5.

Frank2 says on 19/Mar/06
I doubt O'Tool was ever 6'2". More like 6' or just slightly over. Omar Sharif who I've met is about 5'10" and in Lawrence there's never any scene where there's more than a two inch difference in height. In a few scenes they're almost the same height. O'Tool is another terribly skinny actor (145 lbs) who's lack of beef makes him appear to be taller. Sharif is a professional bridge player and I know some people who've played against him and that's how I met him. In person he has the lowest forehead imaginable, almost like an ape. For his role in Doctor Zhivago they had the shave back his hairline and straighten his hair. The end result being it looked like a damned wig.

Mr. R says on 6/Feb/06
PAT I agree. O'Toole wsas great in the Lawrence movie. However, stars are often chosen to play real figures even if their height is not the same...Joaquin Phoenix, Jamie Foxx, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, etc. Also, while O'Toole deserved the OScar that year, it was hard not to deny Gregory Peck's career performance in To Kill A Mockingbird!

dmeyer says on 6/Feb/06
he looks 2 inches taller than brad pitt in troy ,troy is one of the movie that brad dont apear that tall

PAT says on 5/Feb/06
The real T.E.Lawrence wasn't much above 5'5", so when Peter O'Toole, during the filming of "Lawrence of Arabia", met one of the old Beduoins who had served with T.E. in WW1 as a youngster, the old fellow was upset that O'Toole was so much taller at 6'2" or 6'3". I'm 5'2" usually--5'4" on really good days! And I cannot imagine anyone else playing that role with the same talent and class that Peter O'Toole had. I'm still burned that he didn't receive an Oscar for it.

Tubbs says on 3/Jan/06
Saw Lawrence of Arabia the other day. I was looking to see if O'Toole was really the 6'3 he has been described as. At first I thought there was no chance, but then it struck me that the British officers he was with were all tall guys themselves. Hawkins was about 6'1, Quayle was 6'1, and couple that with thick soled army boots, makes them even taller. O'Toole only wore sandals in most of his scenes, and didn't have the best posture, so maybe this is why he didn't seem to tower over co stars like you would expect a 6'3 guy to.

Anonymous says on 15/Dec/05
just read o'tooles autobiography, he gives his height as 6'2"

John says on 14/Dec/05
O'Toole didn't look anywhere near 5 inches taller than the 5'10 Parkinson, but then he is very bent over and can hardly breathe by the looks of it!

Anonymous says on 10/Dec/05
just seen o'toole on parkinson, he was a good 4 or 5 inches taller than parky, and 1 or 2 taller than robbie williams

Jason says on 25/Nov/05
I'm not sure, I think he looked just a solid 6'1'' without even taking into account others in the film. What you say would explain why so many British officers were around his height, though. But I do recall when he was captured by the Turks, that Turkish general (who was a decent height) walked over to him and sized him up and his men were amused by how much taller Lawrence was. So, if they were trying to de-emphasize his height, it wouldn't have made sense for them to have done that scene. Was the real Lawrence only about 5'6''? In the special features of the DVD it said the real Lawrence towered above the arabs. Or maybe they meant 0'Toole? I can't remember lol.

John says on 10/Nov/05
Compared to the 5'10 Sir Alec Guinness, 6'2 would sound right for O'Toole.

Jason says on 7/Nov/05
I agree with Yao is 7-7. O'Toole was nothing more than 186cm back in the day. I have Lawrence of Arabia at home on DVD and he definitely doesn't look 6'3'' or almost in it. Not unless they hired the droves of British officers in the movie from from a tall persons' club...

[Editor Rob: I forgot to add that his agency CV lists him as 6ft 2, so he's been changed to that anyway.]

CelebHeights Editor says on 31/Aug/05

From some forum, "Saw Peter O'Toole in person January 1978 in NYC....he and his entourage were walking across the lobby area towards the elevators. He looked in my direction, and I remember being struck by how tall he was ... well over six feet"

McFan says on 19/Jul/05
He was on Letterman a few years back and I want to say he was over an inch taller than Dave.