The best Peter O'Toole’s comedy movies

Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole

02/08/1932- 14/12/2013
We present our ranking of the best Peter O'Toole’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Peter O'Toole.
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Ratatouille

Ratatouille
8.1/10
Remy, a resident of Paris, appreciates good food and has quite a sophisticated palate. He would love to become a chef so he can create and enjoy culinary masterpieces to his heart's delight. The only problem is, Remy is a rat. When he winds up in the sewer beneath one of Paris' finest restaurants, the rodent gourmet finds himself ideally placed to realize his dream.

Casino Royale

Casino Royale
5/10
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.

High Spirits

High Spirits
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyFantasy
  • Release: 18/11/1988
  • Character: Peter Plunkett
When Peter Plunkett's Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the 'Yanks' by having his staff pretend to haunt the castle. The trouble begins when a busload of American tourists arrive - along with some real ghosts.

Club Paradise

Club Paradise
5.1/10
When Chicago firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small Caribbean island, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort. Together they renovate the resort and lure tourists to Club Paradise in an effort to fight off corrupt officials and businessmen who want to claim the resort as their own.

How to Steal a Million

How to Steal a Million
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 13/07/1966
  • Character: Simon Dermott
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.

King Ralph

King Ralph
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/02/1991
  • Character: Sir Cedric Charles Willingham
As the only relative to take over the Royal throne, a down on his luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.

What's New Pussycat?

What's New Pussycat?
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/06/1965
  • Character: Michael James
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.

My Favorite Year

My Favorite Year
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/10/1982
  • Character: Alan Swann
New York City, 1954: Benjy Stone is the junior writer on the top rated variety/comedy show. His idol Alan Swann, an actor with a drinking problem, is to be that week's guest star.

Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/05/2003
In the 1930s, a social set known to the press – who follow their every move – as the “Bright Young Things” are Adam and his friends who are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. Amidst the madness, Adam, who is well connected but totally broke, is desperately trying to get enough money to marry the beautiful Nina. While his attempts to raise cash are constantly thwarted, their friends seem to self-destruct, one-by-one, in an endless search for newer and faster sensations. Finally, when world events out of their control come crashing around them, they are forced to reassess their lives and what they value most.

Man of La Mancha

Man of La Mancha
6.5/10
  • Genre: AdventureComedyDramaMusic
  • Release: 20/12/1972
  • Character: Don Quixote De La Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes / Alonso Quijana
In the sixteenth century, Miguel de Cervantes, poet, playwright, and part-time actor, has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisition. They are accused of presenting an entertainment offensive to the Inquisition. Inside the huge dungeon into which they have been cast, the other prisoners gang up on Cervantes and his manservant, and begin a mock trial, with the intention of stealing or burning his possessions. Cervantes wishes to desperately save a manuscript he carries with him and stages, with costumes, makeup, and the participation of the other prisoners, an unusual defense--the story of Don Quixote.

The Stunt Man

The Stunt Man
7/10
While on the run from the police, Steve Railsback hides in a group of moviemakers where he pretends to be a stunt man. Both aided and endangered by the director he avoids both the police and sudden death as a stuntman. The mixture of real danger and fantasy of the movie is an interesting twist for the viewer as the two blend in individual scenes.

The Ruling Class

The Ruling Class
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 13/09/1972
  • Character: Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney - 14th Earl of Gurney
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.

Venus

Venus
7.1/10
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes absolutely taken with Jessie - the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.

Eldorado

Eldorado
2.2/10
The Stranger, a tall striking creature dressed in white sets into motions a series of events whilst reciting the Edgar Allen Poe Poem "Eldorado", which will have an effect on those heading towards the mythical city.

Creator

Creator
6.1/10
With the help of student assistant Boris and stolen university equipment, Dr. Harry Wolper plans to clone his dead wife. But then he meets Meli, an egg donor for his experiment, and they fall in love. Faced with choosing between his deceased wife and Meli, Dr. Wolper sees his situation in a new light when Boris' own new love, Barbara, falls into a coma. Meanwhile, another professor tries shutting down the cloning project.

Dean Spanley

Dean Spanley
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/12/2008
  • Character: Fisk Senior
Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.

Great Catherine

Great Catherine
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/11/1968
  • Character: Capt. Charles Edstaston
Slapstick comedy based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. A stiff English officer, captain Charles Edstaston (Peter O'Toole), and his fiancée Claire arrive in St. Petersburg. Edstaston is brought to the imperial court to seek audience with the empress Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). He obtains an interview with her courtier, the drunken Potemkin (Zero Mostel), who ends up carrying him in his arms to the empress and dumping him into her royal bed. From this moment on, the hapless Edstaston endeavours to escape from the clutches of the sex-crazed empress and leave the city with his English fiancée.

Global Heresy

Global Heresy
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/2002
  • Character: Lord Foxley
A rock band bursts onto the scene and then their frontman disappears on the eve of a European tour.

Wings of Fame

Wings of Fame
6.9/10
A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as a result of an accident. Next, they both find themselves in after-life, where souls of all famous people are gathered.

Heavy Weather

Heavy Weather
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyTV Movie
  • Release: 24/12/1995
  • Character: Clarence, Earl of Emsworth
At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly unsuitable chorus girl. An adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel of the same name.

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