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      Peter Ustinov

      Peter Ustinov

      Highest Rated: 100% The Way Ahead (1944)

      Lowest Rated: 8% The Bachelor (1999)

      Birthday: Apr 16, 1921

      Birthplace: London, England, UK

      By his mid-20s, this multi-faceted talent had achieved considerable success in both theater and cinema directing, writing and acting in cultivated, witty comedies. Peter Ustinov later won international acclaim and reached the peak of his fame in the early 1960s for his appearances in sweeping epics and lighthearted romps. He won two Best Supporting Actor Oscars, for his clown in "Spartacus" (1960) and his engaging con man in "Topkapi" (1964). Ustinov has also earned critical praise for his directorial efforts (which he also produced, starred in and wrote): "Romanoff and Juliet" (1962), a biting Cold War satire based on his own play, the bracing "Billy Budd" (1962) and the "Faust"-inspired Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton vehicle "Hammersmith Is Out" (1972). The spotlight fell on Ustinov as a personality, too. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, he was a favored raconteur on talk shows whether or not he was publicizing a film.

      Highest rated movies

      The Way Ahead
      Topkapi Spartacus
      Lorenzo's Oil
      Evil Under the Sun
      Billy Budd
      Quo Vadis?
      Blackbeard's Ghost

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      EINSTEIN'S UNIVERSE, PETER USTINOV, (AIRED MARCH 13, 1979), 1979 TOPKAPI, Peter Ustinov, 1964 SPARTACUS, Peter Ustinov, 1960 APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH, Peter Ustinov, 1988, as Hercule Poirot THE EGYPTIAN, Peter Ustinov, 1954 WE'RE NO ANGELS, Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov, 1955 TOPKAPI, Peter Ustinov, 1964 THE SUNDOWNERS, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, 1960 SPARTACUS, Peter Ustinov, clowning around on-set, 1960 ROMANOFF AND JULIET, Sandra Dee, John Gavin, Peter Ustinov, 1961 TOPKAPI, from left: Maximillian Schell, Gilles Segal (back), Peter Ustinov, 1964 QUO VADIS, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan, 1951 QUO VADIS, Peter Ustinov, 1951 EVIL UNDER THE SUN, Peter Ustinov, 1982, ©Universal HOT MILLIONS, Peter Ustinov, 1968 HOT MILLIONS, Peter Ustinov, 1968 QUO VADIS, Peter Ustinov, 1951 QUO VADIS, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan, 1951 HOTEL SAHARA, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov, 1951 QUO VADIS, Peter Ustinov, 1951
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      45% 74% Luther Frederick the Wise (Character) $5.7M 2003
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Winter Solstice Hughie McLellan (Character) - 2003
      No Score Yet 78% Victoria & Albert King William IV (Character) - 2001
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Deutschlandspiel Igor Maximytschew (Character) - 2000
      No Score Yet 38% Animal Farm Old Major (Voice) - 1999
      33% 62% Alice in Wonderland Walrus (Character) - 1999
      8% 28% The Bachelor Grandad Shannon (Character) $21.7M 1999
      40% 44% Stiff Upper Lips Horace (Character) $71.8K 1997
      No Score Yet 42% The Old Curiosity Shop Grandfather (Character) - 1995
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet Grandfather/Phoenix (Voice) - 1995
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bible According to Hollywood Unknown (Character) - 1994
      93% 80% Lorenzo's Oil Professor Nikolais (Character) $6.9M 1992
      No Score Yet No Score Yet C'era un castello con 40 cani Le vétérinaire Muggione (Character) - 1990
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The French Revolution: The Terrible Years André-Boniface-Louis Riquetti, vicomte de Mirabeau (Character) - 1989
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The French Revolution André-Boniface-Louis Riquetti (Character) - 1989
      No Score Yet 88% The French Revolution: The Light Years André-Boniface-Louis Riquetti, vicomte de Mirabeau (Character) - 1989
      No Score Yet 42% Appointment With Death Hercule Poirot (Character) $603.6K 1988
      No Score Yet 43% Dead Man's Folly Hercule Poirot (Character) - 1986
      No Score Yet 35% Murder in Three Acts Hercule Poirot (Character) - 1986
      No Score Yet 31% Thirteen at Dinner Hercule Poirot (Character) - 1985
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Memed My Hawk Abdi Aga (Character),
      Director       		- 1984
      92% 73% Evil Under the Sun Hercule Poirot (Character) - 1982
      78% 78% The Great Muppet Caper Truck Driver (Character) - 1981
      29% 32% Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen Charlie Chan (Character) - 1981
      No Score Yet 67% Grendel Grendel Grendel Grendel (Voice) - 1980
      No Score Yet 27% Ashanti Suleiman (Character) - 1979
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Strumpet City Unknown (Character) - 1979
      No Score Yet 74% Tarka the Otter Narrator - 1979
      No Score Yet 44% The Thief of Baghdad The Caliph (Character) - 1978
      80% 79% Death on the Nile Hercule Poirot (Character) - 1978
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Metamorphoses Narrator - 1978
      50% 63% The Last Remake of Beau Geste Markov (Character) - 1977
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Purple Taxi Taubelman (Character) - 1977
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Double Murder Harry Hellman (Character) - 1977
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Jesús de Nazaret Unknown (Character) - 1977
      No Score Yet 62% The Mouse and His Child Manny the Rat (Voice) - 1977
      No Score Yet 47% Treasure of Matecumbe Dr. Ewing T. Snodgrass (Character) - 1976
      58% 67% Logan's Run Ballard:The Old Man (Character) - 1976
      No Score Yet 68% One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing Hnup Wan (Character) - 1975
      58% 81% Robin Hood Prince John/King Richard (Voice) - 1973
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Robin Hood Prinz John (Voice) - 1973
      29% 56% Hammersmith Is Out Doctor (Character),
      Director       		- 1972
      No Score Yet No Score Yet A Storm in Summer Abel Shaddick (Character) - 1970
      No Score Yet 59% Viva Max General Maximilian Rodrigues De Santos (Character) - 1969
      67% 74% Hot Millions Marcus Pendleton/Caesar Smith (Character) - 1968
      82% 71% Blackbeard's Ghost Captain Blackbeard (Character) - 1968
      27% 47% The Comedians Ambassador Manuel Pineda (Character) - 1967
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Comedians In Africa Self - 1967
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Barefoot in Athens Socrates (Character) - 1966
      29% 29% Lady L Prince Otto of Bavaria (uncredited) (Character),
      Director,
      Screenwriter       		- 1965
      No Score Yet 18% John Goldfarb, Please Come Home King Fawz (Character) - 1965
      95% 67% Topkapi Arthur Simon Simpson (Character) - 1964
      No Score Yet 55% Women of the World English Narration (Character) - 1963
      No Score Yet 41% Mondo Cane II Narrator - 1962
      92% 86% Billy Budd Edwin Fairfax Vere (Character),
      Director,
      Producer,
      Screenwriter       		- 1962
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Romanoff and Juliet The General (Character),
      Director,
      Producer       		- 1961
      79% 64% The Sundowners Rupert Venneker (Character) - 1960
      94% 87% Spartacus Lentulus Batiatus (Character) $1.7M 1960
      No Score Yet 67% Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird Wonderbird (Voice) - 1959
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Man Who Wagged His Tail Mr. Bossi (Character) - 1957
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Spies Michel Kiminsky (Character) - 1957
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wanderers Don Alfonso Pugliesi (Character) - 1956
      82% 77% Lola Montes Circus Master (Character) $107.3K 1955
      No Score Yet 81% We're No Angels Jules (Character) - 1955
      No Score Yet 52% Beau Brummell Prince of Wales (Character) - 1954
      No Score Yet 61% The Egyptian Kaptah (Character) - 1954
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Mr. Wonderbird Wonderbird (Voice) - 1952
      84% 73% Quo Vadis? Nero (Character) - 1951
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Hotel Sahara Emad (Character) - 1951
      No Score Yet 50% Odette Lt Alex Rabinovich/Arnauld (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet 40% Vice Versa Director - 1947
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Secret Flight Director - 1946
      No Score Yet No Score Yet School for Secrets Director,
      Writer       		- 1946
      100% 72% The Way Ahead Rispoli (Character),
      Screenwriter       		- 1944
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Immortal Battalion Rispoli (Character) - 1944
      No Score Yet 33% The Goose Steps Out Krauss (Character) - 1942
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Olympics: Hippocrates in Olympia Unknown (Character) - 0000

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Around the World in 80 Days Unknown (Character) 1989
      No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1961 1963 1966 1974
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Danny Kaye Show Guest 1966
      No Score Yet No Score Yet I've Got a Secret Guest 1960