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O ' Toole is one of a handful of actors to be Oscar-nominated for playing the same role in two different films ; he played King Henry II in both 1964's Becket and 1968's The Lion in Winter.

O ' Toole played Hamlet under Laurence Olivier's direction in the premiere production of the Royal National Theatre in 1963.

He has also appeared in Seán O ' Casey's Juno and the Paycock at Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, and fulfilled a lifetime ambition when taking to the stage of the Irish capital's Abbey Theatre in 1970 to perform in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot alongside Donal McCann.

In 1980, he received wide critical acclaim for playing the director in the behind-the-scenes film The Stunt Man.

He received good reviews as John Tanner in Man and Superman and Henry Higgins in Pygmalion, and won a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell ( 1989 ).

O ' Toole was nominated for another Oscar for 1982's My Favorite Year, a light romantic comedy about the behind-the-scenes at a 1950s TV variety-comedy show, much like Your Show of Shows, in which O ' Toole plays an ageing swashbuckling film star strongly reminiscent ( intentionally ) of Errol Flynn.