Peter O'Toole was an ` ` absolute genius , '' British theatre critic Richard Curtis says . ` ` There will be a show filled with song and good cheer , '' his wife says . He had ` ` been ill for some time , '' she says . `` In due course there will be a memorial filled with song and good cheer , as he would have wished , '' she wrote . His first major success came as T.E . Lawrence in ` ` Lawrence of Arabia '' in 1962 .
Peter O'Toole was an ` ` absolute genius , '' British theatre critic Richard Curtis says . ` ` There will be a show filled with song and good cheer , '' his wife says . He had ` ` been ill for some time , '' she says . His first major success came as T.E . Lawrence in ` ` Lawrence of Arabia '' in 1962 .