Peter O'Toole Recalls a Wild Interview in New York & Debilitating Shyness | The Dick Cavett Show

Battling "armour-clad bats" in his stomach, actor Peter O'Toole recounts stories of shyness.
Date aired - September 13th, 1972 - Peter O'Toole
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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[@os5573]

Oh, my goodness! You finally dug up a Peter O'Toole interview. Thank you!

[@NJTDover]

I'm wondering when you are to upload a Richard Harris interview.

[@zenpaganwarrior]

Wow, behold that countenance of O'Toole's here...tall, Mephistophelean, slightly imposing yet jolly. A thespian for the ages and a raconteur without equal. And, interviewed by America's best and most erudite talk show host ever. Makes me proud!

[@rottensquid]

And yet, you can see from his long pauses and his struggle for the right words that he's overcoming crippling shyness moment by moment, forcing himself to carry on and be himself in the face of what I can only imagine must be agonizing self-doubt.

[@antoinepetrov]

@@rottensquid I think what he's overcoming is the booze

[@rottensquid]

@@antoinepetrov Good point. That too.

[@johnwright3815]

Nice wording.

[@michaeltootikian4402]

Peter O’Toole one of the greatest Actors of all time

[@johnwright3815]

Understatement...he lived.

[@terrytragianopoulos9345]

I've seen Peter O Toole in dozens of interviews on talk shows and he never failed in telling a story that just had you wanting more Just an amazing character and Actor

[@rottensquid]

I absolutely love his comments about shyness. I've recently come to realize how much insecurity is an expression of one's inflated self-consequence, because it tells you that you're not living up to a false sense of importance you place on yourself. At some point in my 40s, I began to notice for the first time what it was like to see someone with an open fly, spinach in their teeth, or whatever else, and realize how little it affected my esteem of them. In fact, all it did was reassure me that my own foibles were of far less consequence than I'd ever imagined.

[@kJ922-h3j]

Walked out like a such a boss

[@nkt1]

The Ruling Class is something else. Well worth a watch.

[@ianbauer4703]

The Great O'Toole, there is none better.

[@paulnolan4971]

It's amazing to me that he made it to 81 ha. AND he's chain smoking. Legend

[@rottensquid]

I've heard that about 50% of people who smoke never contract lung cancer. He may well have been one of the lucky ones. But I gotta say, I don't like those odds.

[@gregcruse4647]

An acting giant the likes of which we will never see again

[@samanthab1923]

He looks so different with dark hair & beard.

[@paulnolan4971]

@@samanthab1923 IKR

[@samanthab1923]

@@paulnolan4971 I’m so used to his aged blonde Lawrence of Arabia look. My parents were lucky enough to see him over in the West End. A one man show.

[@lescook9021]

I'm pretty sure that, A. Peter hadn't forgotten who the interviewer was and B. Dick knew exactly who the interviewer was. Because the show was The Tonight Show and the interviewer was Johnny Carson. In the later years of the show, after it had moved to California, Peter was on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson and Johnny brings up the time that Peter was on the show and there were issues related to his "flying in from Japan."

[@ronmackinnon9374]

Although, if the occasion Peter was talking about was in New York, might that not have been at a time when Jack Paar was still the 'Tonight Show' host, before Carson took over?

[@lescook9021]

@@ronmackinnon9374 It was in New York and it was Carson. As I noted, they talked about it on the show when Peter was in California filming The Stunt Man.

[@athenabensing2851]

This is an odd question but where can I find that interview where he passes out? I’m curious to see it

[@michaelreidperry3256]

He is the best, even now.

[@ivanconnolly7332]

The most stylish funny and content loaded interview I have ever seen.

[@DonVal86]

One of my favorite actors. If only I could speak like him. Lotta charm that fellow.

[@madahad9]

My favourite Peter O'Toole film is The Ruling Class. It is an amazing performance as he goes from Jesus to Jack the Ripper. After that would be his performance as the godlike director in The Stunt Man.

[@natashamickle1161]

Oh fantastic! I had been looking everywhere on the internet - for ages - for this Peter O’Toole interview on The Dick Cavett Show!! Thank you for the upload 🙏 I hope you have the full interview and that you are able to upload and share it on KZbin! That would be great! Tons and tons of Peter O’Toole fans looking forward to it!!! Thank you!

[@theovon9732]

'It wasn't a bath he needed'. Good point.

[@jairosantanafigueroa4139]

Hadn’t realized what a tall man O’Toole was.

[@artlover1477]

Well, Cavett was not a terribly tall man 😂

[@Lance-Stroll]

Cavette was 5ft 6in. O'Toole 6ft 2 in

[@alexisurban4473]

@@Lance-Stroll I think you mean "is", as in Cavett is 5'6". Not only still alive but I hope doing well. Best wishes Dick! (From the once callow adolescent I was, when I snuck into the living room every week night to watch your show while my parents and siblings were already fast asleep. Loved every minute of it too.

[@Ashclayton1994]

​@@alexisurban4473 he said was because he's probably shrunk by now

[@changeshifter4852]

Thank you for these. I miss watching this show and am delighted to see these interviews again :)

[@andymassingham]

It was Johnny Carson. Peter had to re-live it when he came back on the Tonight Show years later.

[@NJTDover]

This is gold, dude. Thanks for uploading these great interviews. Well done, chump!

[@cynthiaschultheis1660]

In my top five actor's of all time!💋💋💋💋💋

[@faith2461]

Omggg, I’ve been awaiting this upload for so long!!! Thank you.

[@Billkwando]

That was one of the more disturbing selections from Peter O'Toole's many tales.

[@Dessydd]

Peter O Cool

[@arsofe]

Been wating for this interview for years, I watched the original broadcast back in the day. The full interview would be great.

[@ronmackinnon9374]

On this channel, I only see episodes broken up into clips, this one included.

[@user-rx6ze5uu7n]

I was delighted to have a pint at the Black Swan (aka the Dirty Duck), the closest pub to the back door of the Royal Shakespeare in Stratford - the pub where O'Toole, Burton, Harris and Reed used to run to to get a quick one at intermission when they were on stage. Drinking in the footsteps of the greats.

[@JosephDoody1]

My favourite actor on my favourite talk show. I hope the rest of the interview appears soon!

[@jazminratzlaff5357]

Thank you and thank god you posted your Peter O Toole interview, finally! He is such an inspiration to me as my own passion for acting and performing. And I have such a huge crush on him, what a hottie, those brilliant blue eyes, that voice. Love watching him in interviews and The Ruling class is a top fave film of mine. Love his storytelling, and humour. His giggle/ laugh is the best. 😍🥰👑⚜️💎😘🤩 🌟 ✨ 📺 🎞️ 🎭 🥵 🤤 🇮🇪 😆 🤣😂 🏆 🫶🏻👏🏻

[@kinocappuccino]

Just in time for seeing Lawrence of Arabia on 70mm for the first time ever tomorrow ... Can't wait!!

[@MrCrispian]

THE RULING CLASS IS A GREAT MOVIE

[@sherylreed3558]

That was THE TONIGHT SHOW, w. Johny Carson!!!!!!

[@JD-jc8gp]

Thank you. Would you be so kind to post the rest of the interview?

[@paulnolan4971]

I can never not think of Peter Griffin's line about Peter O' Toole now lol

[@dhh488]

what was the line if I may ask?

[@DonVal86]

Waiting on the answer.

[@OperaJH]

I believe it was “Who’s that rather attractive woman on the camel?” on an episode of Family Guy, while they were watching Lawrence…

[@robertaferugheli4114]

Unique and unrepeatable.

[@ronmackinnon9374]

My, that is some story he tells, I must say! Viewers can only wonder who that 'eminent English theatrical producer' was that this had happened to, and whom he was careful not to mention by name.

[@tyraburn4883]

Great. Where is the rest of the episode?

[@CASTSTONE]

This channel always does this nonsense. I hate how they butcher these interviews.

[@NJTDover]

It'd be even greater if you uploaded the full interview ... these guys are legends, particularly Peter O'Toole. I'll subscribe your channel if you do so.

[@johnaspinall5457]

More Robert Shaw too.

[@neaituppi7306]

I wasn't sure what was going on, until I realized he was terribly nervous. Which that is how I would be if I went in front of an audience. Which I have done. It wasn't so bad when I was playing guitar in a band, because I had something to distract me. But like I went up for a poetry reading at a club, and I literally went blank. I read my poem, but my mind went into a kind of shock.

[@rottensquid]

I think a lot of performers are painfully shy, but yeah, he seems more so than most. It turns out, it's really handy, if you have to be in front of an audience, to have memorized lines, and know exactly how you intend to say them.

[@fromthepeanutgallery1084]

For a moment there I thought O'Toole was on stilts!

[@sanjaivkovic9126]

ADORE HIM GOD SPEED BOYS

[@steg_of_neth.2877]

The Ruling g Class was a great film, used to be on KZbin.

[@eugenemurray2940]

'Staggering'... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@RobinSchoutenRS]

Mr Cavett, do you have preserved your interview with Sam Peckinpah and Stella Stevens (from 1970, promoting The Ballad of Cable Hogue) ? If you have it, please upload it. Thank you.

[@eugenemurray2940]

Max Factor... Maybelliene New York Rimmel London 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Sam_Green____4114]

What happened to the Avon Lady ? Max Factor !!

[@eugenemurray2940]

@@Sam_Green____4114 Good One! Avon is Bristol am I correct Sorry about being biaed about London Then maybe not I am a Londoner after all 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lenovovo]

A lot you might not know it but Peter was in an X rated movie titled "Caligula"

[@samanthab1923]

Helen Mirren too

[@paulnolan4971]

@@samanthab1923 Malcom McDowell.

[@samanthab1923]

Sir John Gielgud (3 Oscar Winners!)

[@brendanryan6740]

a will ferell training video

[@dr.feelicks2051]

Dwarf Cavett✌️

[@samanthab1923]

Revlon declared bankruptcy

[@jimurrata6785]

They had a good run though!

[@Amal757]

Does DC make any appearances anymore?

[@DonVal86]

He made an appearance on a late night talk show a couple of years back.

[@susantunbridge4612]

Quite abusive to his wife though - I've always admired his acting, but his behaviour to Sian Phillips takes the shine off.

[@eileendoherty5317]

And yet Sian Phillips still refers to him as her great love.

[@artlover1477]

Being blotto 80% of the time certainly didn't help. But, still one of my all time favorite actors.

[@rottensquid]

I always feel it's important to remember the failings, darkness, and even ugliness of people I admire. It reminds me that doing great things doesn't make up for doing terrible things. The only thing that makes up for it is making amends. And even that doesn't erase it.

[@mechadayve]

he dunk

[@lisalasoya2898]

With respect to Peter O'Toole who tried to see how the audience would react to an immoral situation, the comeback was rejected by audiences thruout the world. They are not ready for quickies or cheap thrills, the vast social media should slow pace our views but keep them aware of certain dangers, not exploit them.

[@NB-xq4qt]

shyness...or drunk?

[@ruly8153]

Wait for he comments of show cynical bores who go on about how “he’s so much better and more interesting than today’s fake stars”

[@tbone35453]

He is though.