Peter Ustinov

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1921-04-16 (83 years old)

Deathday

2004-03-28

Place of Birth

Camden, London, England, UK

Peter Ustinov

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 ...

Acting

1960

Spartacus

as Lentulus Batiatus

1999

Animal Farm

as Old Major (voice)

1982

Imaginary Friends

as Philip Lester

1992

Lorenzo's Oil

as Professor Nikolais

1999

The Bachelor

as Grandad

1982

Evil Under the Sun

as Hercule Poirot

1978

Death on the Nile

as Hercule Poirot

1989

The French Revolution

as Vicomte de Mirabeau

1988

Appointment with Death

as Hercule Poirot

1976

Logan's Run

as Old Man

1962

Billy Budd

as Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain

1964

Topkapi

as Arthur Simon Simpson

2003

Luther

as Frederick

1955

1985

Thirteen at Dinner

as Hercule Poirot

1986

Dead Man's Folly

as Hercule Poirot

1986

Murder in Three Acts

as Hercule Poirot

1951

Quo Vadis

as Nero

1973

Robin Hood

as Prince John - A Lion / King Richard (voice)

1954

The Egyptian

as Kaptah

1968

Hot Millions

as Marcus Pendleton / Caesar Smith

1944

The Way Ahead

as Rispoli

1955

Lola Montès

as Circus Master

1975

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

as Prince John/ Hnup Wan ''Hunp''

1977

The Mouse and His Child

as Manny the Rat (voice)

1960

The Sundowners

as Rupert Venneker

1954

Beau Brummell

as George, Prince of Wales

1968

Blackbeard's Ghost

as Captain Blackbeard

1995

1963

Everyman

as Narrator (English)

1969

Viva Max!

as General Maximilian Rodrigues De Santos

1951

1957

The Spies

as Michel Kiminsky

1950

Odette

as Lt. Alex Rabinovich

1952

The Magic Box

as Industry Man

1965

Lady L

as Prince Otto of Bavaria

1971

Babar Comes to America

as Narrator (voice)

1977

1979

Ashanti

as Suleiman

1972

1967

The Comedians

as Ambassador Manuel Pineda

1977

The Purple Taxi

as Taubelman

1998

Stiff Upper Lips

as Horace Wiggins

1995

The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet

as Grandfather / Phoenix (voice)

1961

Romanoff and Juliet

as The General

2003

Winter Solstice

as Hughie McLellan

1940

After Mein Kampf

as Marinus van der Lubbe

1978

1989

Granpa

as Granpa (voice)

1981

Grendel Grendel Grendel

as Grendel (voice)

1942

1976

Not an Evening like any Other

as Antiquiätenhändler 'Billy's Kunstshop'

2021

Parkinson at 50

as Self (archive footage)

2023

The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling

as Self (archive footage)

1984

Memed My Hawk

as Abdi Aga

1970

A Storm in Summer

as Abel Shaddick

2000

1956

1995

1981

The Great Muppet Caper

as Truck Driver

1964

The Peaches

as Narrator (voice)

1978

Metamorphoses

as Narrator (voice)

1976

Treasure of Matecumbe

as Dr. Snodgrass

1988

Beethovens Zehnte

as Beethoven

1999

2002

Salem Witch Trials

as William Stroughton

1966

1984

Abgehört

as Genosse Kuruk

1971

Gideon

as Gideon

1979

Tarka the Otter

as Narrator (voice)

1986

Riders of the Wind

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1972

Big Truck and Sister Clare

as Israeli Truck Driver

1943

The New Lot

as Keith

2001

Victoria & Albert

as König William IV.

1963

Women of the World

as English Narration (voice)

1979

1988

Peep and the Big Wide World

as Narrator (voice)

1968

The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant

as Narrator / All voices (voice)

1967

The Comedians in Africa

as Self (uncredited)

2009

Max par Marcel: Lola Montès

as Self (archive footage)

1952

Le Plaisir

as Narrator (uncredited) (voice) (English edit)

1973

Julie's Christmas Special

as Self / Santa Claus

1987

F1 Review 1987

as Narrator

1979

Through Joy and Beyond

as Voice of C. S. Lewis

1945

The True Glory

as Commentator

1949

Private Angelo

as Pvt. Angelo

1977

Double Murder

as Harry Hellman

1979

1979

We'll Grow Thin Together

as Victor Lasnier

1988

Children of Ghana

as Voice-over (English)

1942

Let the People Sing

as Dr. Bentika

1999

Majestät brauchen Sonne

as (uncredited voice)

Production

1962

Billy Budd

as Director

1962

Billy Budd

as Screenplay

1948

Vice Versa

as Producer

1968

Hot Millions

as Writer

1944

The Way Ahead

as Screenplay

1965

Lady L

as Director

1946

1946

1972

1961

1961

1984

Memed My Hawk

as Producer

1984

Memed My Hawk

as Director

1984

Memed My Hawk

as Writer

1948

Vice Versa

as Director

1948

Vice Versa

as Writer

1965

Lady L

as Writer

1960

Spartacus

as Screenplay

1943

The New Lot

as Writer

1971

Die Zauberflöte

as Director

1962

Billy Budd

as Producer

1949

Under Capricorn

as Screenplay

1946

1949

Private Angelo

as Producer

1949

Private Angelo

as Director

1949

Private Angelo

as Screenplay

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