Peter O'Toole aachaa na uigizaji akiwa na miaka 79

MUIGIZAJI maarufu ambaye amekosakosa tuzo za Oscar mara nane na hatimaye kupewa tuzo ya Oscar ya heshima mwaka 2003 veterani Peter O...

MUIGIZAJI maarufu ambaye amekosakosa tuzo za Oscar mara nane na hatimaye kupewa tuzo ya Oscar ya heshima mwaka 2003 veterani Peter O'Toole  ameachana na kuigiza akiwa na umri wa miaka 79.

Muigizaji huyo aliyezaliwa Ireland anayejulikana kwa kuigiza Lawrence wa Arabia  ndani ya  filamu la Sir David Lean ya mwaka 1962  amesema ama hakika amefanya anayostahili kufanya na kwamba sasa ni muda wa "chuck in the sponge".

Baada ya kufanya shughuli za uigizaji na uchezaji sinema kwa miaka 50  amesema kwamba anaachana na tasnia hiyo kwa heshima kubwa. Hamu ya kuendelea kuyigiza imeshaisha na naamini haitarejea tena.

O'Toole  alianzia uigizaji wa jukwani huko Bristol na London akiwa na umri wa miaka 17,  kabla hajapata kigongo kilichomtambulisha cha T E Lawrence.

Sinema hiyo ilimletea matamko manane ya kuingia katika Oscar na nyingien zikija kupitia filamu za Becket, The Lion in Winter na  Goodbye, Mr Chips.

O'Toole alipewa tuzo ya heshima ya Oscar mwaka 2003 , tuzo ambayo awali alikuwa anaikataa na kutaka apewe hizo akiwa na umri wa miaka 80.

"My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfilment and material comfort," the actor said in a statement.

"It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

"However, it's my belief that one should decide for oneself when it is time to end one's stay," he went on.

O'Toole's most recent Oscar nomination was for Venus in 2006, when he lost out to The Last King of Scotland star Forest Whitaker.

The Connemara native, who turns 80 next month, was raised in northern England and initially became a journalist and a radioman for the Royal Navy.

He went on to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where his classmates included Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Richard Harris.

The actor, a legendary hellraiser, said he would now focus on writing a third volume of his memoirs.