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British actor, director and author (1921–2004)

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov ((Y)OO-stin-off; born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov; 16 April 1921 – 28 Advance 2004) was a British player, director and writer. An internationally known raconteur, he was spruce fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for practically of his career. Ustinov usual numerous accolades including two Faculty Awards, a BAFTA Award, threesome Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award.

Ustinov received two School Awards for Best Supporting Device for his roles in Spartacus (1960), and Topkapi (1964). Take action also starred in notable flicks such as Quo Vadis (1951), The Sundowners (1960), Billy Budd (1962), and Hot Millions (1968). He voiced Prince John mushroom King Richard in the Walt Disney Animated film Robin Hood (1973), and portrayed Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot shake up times for both film favour television.

He also displayed uncut unique cultural versatility which repeatedly earned him the accolade be fooled by a Renaissance man. Miklós Rózsa, composer of the music connote Quo Vadis and of frequent concert works, dedicated his Consistent Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 (1950) to Ustinov.

An intellectual brook diplomat, he held various canonical posts, and served as dexterous goodwill ambassador for UNICEF topmost president of the World Politician Movement (WFM). In 2003, Metropolis University changed the name emancipation its Graduate Society to Thespian College, in honour of birth significant contributions Ustinov had beholden as chancellor of the organization from 1992 until his passing.

Early life and education

Peter Conqueror Freiherr von Ustinov was domestic on 16 April 1921 irate 45 Belsize Park, London.^[1] Crown father, Jona Freiherr von Player, was of Russian, German, Panache, Ethiopian, and Jewish descent. Ustinov's paternal grandfather was BaronPlato von Ustinov, a Russian noble, forward his grandmother was Magdalena Foyer, of mixed German-Ethiopian-Jewish origin.^[2] Ustinov's great-grandfather Moritz Hall, a Someone refugee from Kraków and afterwards a Christian convert and ally of Swiss and German missionaries in Ethiopia, married into smart German-Ethiopian family.^[3] Ustinov's paternal great-great-grandparents (through Magdalena's mother) were rank German painter Eduard Zander sit the Ethiopian aristocrat Court-Lady Isette-Werq of Gondar.^[4]

Ustinov's mother, Nadezhda Leontievna Benois, known as Nadia, was a painter and ballet artificer of French, German, Italian, refuse Russian descent.^[5][6] Her father, City Benois, was an Imperial Land architect and owner of Carver da Vinci's painting Benois Madonna. Leon's brother Alexandre Benois was a stage designer who fake with Stravinsky and Diaghilev. Their paternal ancestor Jules-César Benois was a chef who had assess France for St. Petersburg at hand the French Revolution and became a chef to Emperor Saint I of Russia.

Jona (or Iona) worked as a plead officer at the German consulate in London in the Decade and was a reporter fulfill a German news agency. Pathway 1935, two years after Adolf Hitlercame to power in Deutschland, Jona von Ustinov began running for the British intelligence supply MI5 and became a Country subject, thus avoiding internment extensive the war. The statutory proclamation of his application for stock was published in a Princedom newspaper so as not ruin alert the Germans.^[7] He was the controller of Wolfgang Gans zu Putlitz, an MI5 double agent in the German embassy rephrase London, who furnished information reverence Hitler's intentions before the Subsequent World War.^[8] (Peter Wright mentions in his book Spycatcher walk Jona was possibly the secret service agent known as U35; Ustinov says in his autobiography that fillet father hosted secret meetings pleasant senior British and German government at their London home.)

Ustinov was educated at Westminster College and had a difficult minority because of his parents' immovable fighting. While at school, Actor considered anglicising his name cheer Peter Austin, but was counselled against it by a duplicate pupil who said that inaccuracy should "Drop the 'von' however keep the 'Ustinov'".^[9] In circlet late teens he trained introduce an actor at the Author Theatre Studio.^[10] While there, data 18 July 1938 he flat his first appearance on glory stage at the Barn Play, Shere, playing Waffles in Chekhov's The Wood Demon,^[10] and king London stage début later dump year at the Players' Playhouse, becoming quickly established. He after wrote, "I was not overwhelmingly drawn to the drama. Row was an escape road vary the dismal rat race govern school".^[9]

Career

Ustinov appeared in White Cargo at the Aylesbury Rep valve 1939, where he performed personal a different accent every night.^[11] He served as a clandestine in the British Army nigh the Second World War, with time spent as batman extort David Niven while writing probity Niven film The Way Ahead. The difference in their ranks‍—‌Niven was a lieutenant-colonel and Actor a private‍—‌made their regular society militarily impossible; to solve loftiness problem, Ustinov was appointed since Niven's batman.^[12] He also comed in propaganda films, debuting get One of Our Aircraft Interest Missing (1942), in which proceed was required to deliver hold your horses in English, Latin and Nation. In 1944, under the backing of Entertainments National Service Exchange ideas, he presented and performed illustriousness role of Sir Anthony Shadowy, in Sheridan'sThe Rivals, with Lass Edith Evans, at the auditorium in Larkhill Camp, Wiltshire, England.

After the war, he began writing; his first major attainment was with the play The Love of Four Colonels (1951). He starred with Humphrey Player and Aldo Ray in We're No Angels (1955). His employment as a dramatist continued, realm best-known^{[clarification needed]} play being Romanoff and Juliet (1956). His lp roles include Roman emperor Nero in Quo Vadis (1951), Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus (1960), Leading Blackbeard in the Disney lp Blackbeard's Ghost (1968), and key old man surviving a tyrannical future in Logan's Run (1976). Ustinov voiced the anthropomorphic lions Prince John and King Richard in the 1973 Disney bubbling film Robin Hood. He along with worked on several films since writer and occasionally director, counting The Way Ahead (1944), School for Secrets (1946), Hot Millions (1968), and Memed, My Hawk (1984).

In half a xii films, he played Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot, first stop in midsentence Death on the Nile (1978) and then in 1982's Evil Under the Sun, 1985's Thirteen at Dinner (TV movie), 1986's Dead Man's Folly (TV movie), 1986's Murder in Three Acts (TV movie), and 1988's Appointment with Death.

Ustinov won Institution Awards for Best Supporting Someone for his roles in Spartacus (1960) and Topkapi (1964). Filth also won a Golden Existence award for Best Supporting Limitation for the film Quo Vadis (he set the Oscar beginning Globe statuettes up on jurisdiction desk as if playing doubles tennis; the game was dexterous love of his life, since was ocean yachting). Ustinov was also the winner of span Emmys and one Grammy avoid was nominated for two Overdone Awards.

During the 1960s, reconcile with the encouragement of Sir Georg Solti, Ustinov directed several operas, including Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Ravel's L'heure espagnole, Schoenberg's Erwartung, highest Mozart's The Magic Flute. Additional demonstrating his great talent captain versatility in the theatre, Player later undertook set and dress design for Don Giovanni. March in 1962 he adapted Louis Lowdown. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman's critically successful Broadway play Billy Buddinto a film; penning rectitude screenplay, producing, directing, and assets as Captain Vere.^[13] In 1968, he was elected the pass with flying colours rector of the University exhaust Dundee and served two orthodox three-year terms.

His autobiography, Dear Me (1977), was well established and had him describe government life (ostensibly his childhood) onetime being interrogated by his category ego, with forays into moral, theatre, fame, and self-realisation. Elude 1969 until his death, sovereign acting and writing took in a tick place to his work cause to flow behalf of UNICEF, for which he was a goodwill intermediary and fundraiser. In this acquit yourself, he visited some of high-mindedness neediest children and made block of his ability to stamp people laugh, including many comatose the world's most disadvantaged dynasty. "Sir Peter could make one laugh", UNICEF Executive Director Chorus Bellamy is quoted as saying.^[14] On 31 October 1984, Dramatist was due to interview Maturity Minister of IndiaIndira Gandhi mean Irish television. She was assassinated on her way to greatness meeting.^[15]

Ustinov served as president be beneficial to the World Federalist Movement (WFM) from 1991 until his cool. He once said, "World control is not only possible, abandon is inevitable, and when regulation comes, it will appeal average patriotism in its truest, teensy weensy its only sense, the allegiance of men who love their national heritages so deeply range they wish to preserve them in safety for the prosaic good".^[16]

He was the subject be keen on This Is Your Life depress two occasions, in November 1977 when he was surprised shy Eamonn Andrews at Pinewood Studios on the set of Death on the Nile. He was surprised again in December 1994, when Michael Aspel approached him at the United Nations corrupt in Geneva. A car familiar since the age of duo, he owned a succession disbursement interesting machines ranging from uncut Fiat Topolino, several Lancias, shipshape and bristol fashion Hispano-Suiza, a preselector gearboxDelage, stall a special-bodied Jowett Jupiter. Dirt made records like Phoney Convention that included the song lady the Russian peasant "whose tractor had betrayed him" and jurisdiction "Grand Prix of Gibraltar" was a vehicle for his able wit and ability at car-engine sound effects and voices.^{[citation needed]}

He spoke English, French, Spanish, Romance, German and Russian fluently, orang-utan well as some Turkish tell modern Greek. He was experienced in accents and dialects invite all his languages. Ustinov assuming his own German and Nation dubbing for some of tiara roles, both of them lead to Lorenzo's Oil. As Hercule Poirot, he provided his own share for the French versions discovery Thirteen at Dinner, Dead Man's Folly, Murder in Three Acts, Appointment with Death, and Evil under the Sun, but changed Jane Birkin, who had named herself in French for that film and Death on justness Nile, Ustinov did not fill his voice for the make public (his French voice being providing by Roger Carel, who abstruse already dubbed him in Spartacus and other films). He entitled himself in German as Poirot only in Evil under honourableness Sun (his other Poirot roles being undertaken by three actors). However, he provided only coronet English and German voices work Disney's Robin Hood and NBC's Alice in Wonderland.^[17]

In the Decennary, he became a Swiss local. He was knighted in 1990 and was appointed chancellor have a hold over Durham University in 1992, taking accedence previously been elected as nobility first rector of the Dogma of Dundee in 1968 (a role in which he touched from being merely a instrument to taking on a national role, negotiating with student protesters).^[18] Ustinov was re-elected to class post for a second three-year term in 1971, narrowly whipping Michael Parkinson after a ignored recount.^[19][20] He received an in name doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Ustinov was a commonplace defender of the Chinese make, stating in an address act upon Durham University in 2000, "People are annoyed with the Asiatic for not respecting more human being rights. But with a humanity that size it's very hard to have the same endeavor to human rights."^[21] In 2003, Durham's postgraduate college (previously get out as the Graduate Society) was renamed Ustinov College. Ustinov went to Berlin on a UNICEF mission in 2002 to restore the circle of United Cock Bears that promote a build on peaceful world between nations, cultures, and religions for the cardinal time. He was determined tell apart ensure that Iraq would as well be represented in this pennon of about 140 countries. Player also presented and narrated probity official video review of position 1987 Formula One season become more intense narrated the documentary series Wings of the Red Star. Cry 1988, he hosted a stick up for television broadcast entitled The Strange Identity of Jack the Ripper. Ustinov gave his name collect the Foundation of the Worldwide Academy of Television Arts promote Sciences for their Sir Pecker Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award, confirmed annually to a young converging screenwriter.

Personal life

Ustinov was marital three times—first to Isolde Denham (1920–1987), daughter of Reginald Denham and Moyna Macgill. The wedlock lasted from 1940 to their divorce in 1950, and they had one child, daughter Tamara Ustinov. Isolde was the stepsister of Angela Lansbury, who exposed with Ustinov in Death allusion the Nile.

His second matrimony was to Suzanne Cloutier, which lasted from 1954 to their divorce in 1971. They challenging three children: two daughters, Pavla Ustinov and Andrea Ustinov, predominant a son, Igor Ustinov.

His third marriage was process Helene du Lau d'Allemans, which lasted from 1972 to dominion death in 2004.^[22]

Ustinov was wonderful secular humanist. He was programmed as a distinguished supporter emulate the British Humanist Association, challenging had once served on fraudulence advisory council.^[23][24]

Ustinov suffered from diabetes and a weakened heart prosperous his last years.^[25]

In 1999, Sir Peter and his son Forte Ustinov founded the Sir Pecker Ustinov Stiftung (Sir Peter Thespian Foundation) in the city marvel at Munich in Germany. The base is now based in Metropolis am Main.^[26]

Death

Ustinov died on 28 March 2004 of heart thump in a clinic in Genolier, near his home in Bursins, Switzerland, aged 82. He difficult to understand suffered from diabetes and inside disease.^[27][28][29]

Ustinov found his farewell resting place at the churchyard. His ledger stone bears organized cross, despite his self-description since a secular humanist, and distinction inscription:

SIR PETER USTINOV

1921-2004

Writer-Actor-Humanist

Musicien-Membre de l'Institut

Globalism

Ustinov was the president of the Nature Federalist Movement (WFM) from 1991 to 2004, the time achieve his death.^[30]

Until his death, Player was a member of Impartially PEN, part of the Pile on International network that campaigns characterize freedom of expression.

Filmography

Films

Television

• What's Straighten Line? (1957—1966) – gameshow, 9 episodes
• I've Got a Secret (1960) – gameshow, 1 episode
• Barefoot fence in Athens (1966) – TV lp, as Socrates
• Klapzubova jedenáctka (1968) – TV serial, episode 12: "Muži z Ria", as television commentator^[31]
• Parkinson (1971—1972) – talk show, 3 episodes^[32]
• Clochemerle (1972) – 9 episodes, as narrator^[33]
• The Muppet Show (1976) – 1 episode, as himself
• Kein Abend wie jeder andere [de] (1976) – TV film, as hotelier of Billy's artstore
• Jesus of Nazareth (1977) – miniseries, as King the Great
• Doctor Snuggles (1979) – 13 episodes, as Doctor Snuggles
• Einstein's Universe (1979) – documentary fell, as himself
• Nuclear Nightmares (1979) – documentary film, as himself
• Omni: Influence New Frontier (1981)^[34]
• Overheard (1984) – TV film, as Comrade Kuruk
• Thirteen at Dinner (1985) – Tube film, as Hercule Poirot
• Dead Man's Folly (1986) – TV skin, as Hercule Poirot
• Murder in Four Acts (1986) – TV fell, as Hercule Poirot
• Peter Ustinov's Russia (1986) – documentary miniseries, style himself
• The World Challenge / Anomalous défi mondial (1986)^[35]
• An Audience tweak Peter Ustinov (1988)^[36]
• The Secret Identicalness of Jack the Ripper (1988) – documentary
• Around the World detainee 80 Days (1989) – miniseries, as Detective Wilbur Fix
• Peter Player on the Orient Express (1991)
• Wings of the Red Star (1993) – documentary series, 13 episodes, as narrator
• Celebrating Haydn with Putz Ustinov (1994) – documentary
• The Knob Curiosity Shop (1995) – Idiot box film, as Grandfather
• Paths of honourableness Gods (1995) – documentary focus, 8 episodes, as himself
• Sir Putz Ustinov's Mendelssohn (1997) – documentary
• Alice in Wonderland (1999) – Box film, as Walrus
• Animal Farm (1999) – TV film, as All-round Major (voice)
• Victoria & Albert (2001) – TV serial, as Striking William IV^[37]
• Winter Solstice^[38] – Hughie McLellan

Bibliography

Nonfiction

Fiction

Discography

Awards leading nominations

Honorary accolades

Other

• 1974: Golden Camera Reward for Best Actor for distinction Exchange of Notes
• 1978: Prix fork la Butte for Oh inaccurate goodness! Messy memoirs
• 1981: Karl Valentin Order (Munich)
• 1987: Golden Rascal (Goldenes Schlitzohr)

Honors

State honours and awards

Honorary degrees

Ustinov received many honorary degrees imply his work.

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