--- title: Peter O'Toole and Joan Fontaine description: Farewell to two indelible stars canonical: https://time.com/archive/6644489/peter-otoole-and-joan-fontaine/ author: Richard Corliss article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2013-12-30T05:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-26T16:40:12.992Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Peter O'Toole and Joan Fontaine og:description: Farewell to two indelible stars og:url: https://time.com/archive/6644489/peter-otoole-and-joan-fontaine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Peter O'Toole and Joan Fontaine twitter:description: Farewell to two indelible stars twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) # Peter O'Toole and Joan Fontaine > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Dec 30, 2013 5:00 AM UTC by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Dec 30, 2013 5:00 AM UTC A generation apart, each burst into fame in a great director’s movie that won the Academy Award for Best Picture: Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940), Peter O’Toole in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962). They also represented two classic, nearly vanished styles of film acting. Fontaine played the gracious lady, quiet and querulous, unsure of her allure. O’Toole was the master thespian, lasering his reckless charisma to the farthest balcony. She was all emotional precision, he theatrical bravado. They took those styles with them when they died: O’Toole at 81 on Dec. 14 in a London hospital, Fontaine at 96 the next day at her home in Carmel, Calif. The son of an Irish bookmaker and a Scottish nurse, Peter Seamus O’Toole had appeared in only a few stage plays and movies when Lean tested him to play the British adventurer T.E. Lawrence. Whether the 6-ft. 2-in. O’Toole was much like the 5-ft. 5-in. Lawrence, he surely proclaimed his subject’s immense stature; he was the spirit of swashbuckling film adventure, a mad, utterly gorgeous Englishman out in the Middle Eastern sun. “If you’d been any prettier,” No\*l Coward told him, “it would have been Florence of Arabia.” Nominated for eight Oscars but never winning–except an honorary lifetime-achievement award in 2003–O’Toole embodied kings (Henry II in both Becket and The Lion in Winter) and other daft, regal creatures: the furious director in The Stunt Man, the inebriated star actor in My Favorite Year. O’Toole, who battled booze, was never a fitness freak. “The only exercise I take,” he said, “is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.” Fontaine, born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, grew up in the shadow of her older sister Olivia de Havilland, herself a two-time Oscar winner. But Fontaine won hers first, in Hitchcock’s Suspicion (1941). Fontaine’s small, sad smile and delicate gestures made her ideal for romantic heroines slow to realize their own strength. Opposite Orson Welles in Jane Eyre and Louis Jourdan in Max Ophuls’ Letter From an Unknown Woman, she created indelible portraits of shy girls who could stand up to stubborn, imperious men. Her lifelong rival was her sister; the two had not spoken in decades. When asked by People in 1978 how she would like to die, Fontaine replied, “At age 108, flying around the stage in Peter Pan, as a result of my sister cutting the wires. Olivia has always said I was first at everything … If I die, she’ll be furious, because again I’ll have got there first!” Talk about stubborn. –RICHARD CORLISS ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6644489/peter-otoole-and-joan-fontaine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6644489/peter-otoole-and-joan-fontaine/"},"headline":"Peter O'Toole and Joan Fontaine","datePublished":"2013-12-30T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T16:40:12.992Z","description":"Farewell to two indelible stars","url":"https://time.com/archive/6644489/peter-otoole-and-joan-fontaine/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Richard Corliss","url":"https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6644489/peter-otoole-and-joan-fontaine/","name":"Peter O'Toole and Joan Fontaine"}}]}] ```