Peter Ustinov
Birthday: 1921-04-16
Place of Birth: Camden, London, England, UK
Biography: Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE (16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter. A noted wit and raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. He was also a respected intellectual and diplomat who, in addition to his various academic posts, served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and President of the World Federalist Movement. Ustinov was the winner of numerous awards over his life, including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Emmy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards for acting, a Grammy Award for best recording for children, as well the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. He displayed a unique cultural versatility that has frequently earned him the accolade of a Renaissance man. Miklós Rózsa, composer of the music for Quo Vadis and of numerous concert works, dedicated his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 (1950) to Ustinov. In 2003, shortly before his death in 2004, Durham University renamed its Graduate Society as Ustinov College in honour of the significant contributions Sir Peter had made while serving as Chancellor of the University from 1992 onwards.
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Spartacus
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Animal Farm
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Imaginary Friends
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Lorenzo's Oil
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The Bachelor
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Evil Under the Sun
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Death on the Nile
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The French Revolution
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...
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Appointment with Death
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Logan's Run
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Billy Budd
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Topkapi
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Luther
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We're No Angels
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The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
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Thirteen at Dinner
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Dead Man's Folly
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Murder in Three Acts
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Quo Vadis
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Robin Hood
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The Egyptian
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Hot Millions
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The Way Ahead
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Lola Montès
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
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The Mouse and His Child
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The Sundowners
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Beau Brummell
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Blackbeard's Ghost
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Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
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The Old Curiosity Shop
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Everyman
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Viva Max!
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
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The Spies
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Odette
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The Magic Box
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Lady L
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Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste
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Ashanti
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Hammersmith Is Out
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a...
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The Comedians
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The Purple Taxi
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Stiff Upper Lips
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory pro...
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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
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The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet
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The Man Who Wagged His Tail
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Romanoff and Juliet
Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the c...
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Diaghilev: The Years Abroad
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Winter Solstice
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After Mein Kampf
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The Thief of Baghdad
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Granpa
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Grendel Grendel Grendel
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The Goose Steps Out
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Not an Evening like any Other
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An Audience with Peter Ustinov
A classic live performance of Peter Ustinov, actor and raconteur, in which he shares his comical sto...
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Parkinson at 50
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The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper
A panel of experts examines the five main suspects in the Jack the Ripper murders and determines whi...
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Memed My Hawk
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A Storm in Summer
A story of the friendship between an elderly Jewish man and a young African-American boy set during ...
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My Khmer Heart
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Death on the Tagus
A curious fictional documentary filmed in London about two actors from the film "Death on the Nile,"...
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The Great Muppet Caper
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The Peaches
A film fantasy concerning the adventures of a modern girl whose passion for peaches is eventually r...
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Metamorphoses
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Treasure of Matecumbe
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets charact...
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Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Magic Flute
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Salem Witch Trials
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Gideon
The Angel of God and an ordinary shepherd named Gideon debate obedience versus disobedience to God....
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Tarka the Otter
Set in the English countryside of the 1920s - when otter hunting was still legal - this film follows...
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Riders of the Wind
World-famous underwater adventurer Jacques Cousteau is on a journey on the surface of the sea. Along...
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. ...
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Big Truck and Sister Clare
A middle-aged truck driver travelling through the desert with his good-for-nothing nephew and a pret...
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The New Lot
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is sh...
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Victoria & Albert
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in...
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Women of the World
A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world....
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The Trouble With Agatha Christie
An investigation into the mysterious world of the crime novelist Agatha Christie, with comments from...
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Einstein's Universe
A documentary produced in 1979 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein. Narrated ...
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Peep and the Big Wide World
Peep the chicken ventures out on an adventure into the Big Wide World and makes some friends along t...
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The Marshal of Madrid
A gang of smugglers headed by an oil dealer are brought to justice by a lawman....
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The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant
After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city, where he is be...
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The Comedians in Africa
Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians....
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Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
In a series of four documentaries, Marcel Ophuls pays tribute to his father Max, and in this last on...
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Le Plaisir
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep ...
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An Evening with Peter Ustinov
An Evening with Peter Ustinov is a fireworks of polyglot humour. Two-time Oscar winner and ennobled ...
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Julie's Christmas Special
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without some traditional Christmas favourites such as Julie’s Christ...
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F1 Review 1987
Seven years after the sport came under the control of FOCA, Formula 1 was more intercontinental than...
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The Bible According to Hollywood
Filmmaker Phillip Dye's documentary explores the many biblical adaptations Hollywood has produced th...
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Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
Employees remember the director Max Ophüls, who was forced to emigrate in 1933 - his fifth film "Lie...
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The Ten Commandments of Creativity
Having struggled to crack his brief, Dennis Hopper decides the only honourable act is to throw himse...
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Through Joy and Beyond
A biography of C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis, one of the 20th century's most influential Christian wri...
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The True Glory
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage...
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Private Angelo
Angelo has been drafted into the Italian Army in World War II. He does not like people shooting at h...
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Double Murder
Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return t...
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Nuclear Nightmares
Peter Ustinov hosts this haunting 1980 documentary exploring the world's nuclear weaponry and the fr...
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The Mermaid Frolics
In May 1977 a second Amnesty benefit was held to build on the success of the first show and with the...
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We'll Grow Thin Together
Victor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer. To ad...
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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Let the People Sing
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a vill...
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Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Abduction from the Seraglio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" is a famous spectacle that is enigmatic and ...
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Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Marriage of Figaro
With the opera "Le nozze di Figaro" commenced the remarkably successful cooperation between Mozart a...
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Salzburg Marionette Theatre: Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni, opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte) th...
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Salzburg Marionette Theatre: Così fan tutti
Così fan tutte, comic opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that premiered in Vienna on Janua...
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Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews
A selection of highlights from Sir Peter Ustinov's appearances on Parkinson. A look back at a multit...
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