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Actor, playwright, director, novelist, wit, and raconteur, Peter Ustinov is a show business polymath. He wrote his first play before he was 20, and has since had more than a dozen produced, three of which were later filmed. As an actor his films includeSpartacus and Topkapi, for which he won an Academy Award, and he has more recentlydirected operas in every major opera house in Europe. His one-man show,An Evening with Peter Ustinovwas hit in London and on Broadway.
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Peter Ustinov was renowned throughout the world as an actor, playwright, director, novelist, wit and raconteur. Born in England in 1921 of Russian immigrant parents, he discovered an ability to mimic while at school. He wrote his first play before he was 20 and he had more than a dozen produced, three of which were later filmed. As an actor he won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor in SPARTACUS and TOPKAPI, and he ... made three appearances as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. More recently he directed operas in every major opera house in Europe. His one-man show, AN EVENING WITH PETER USTINOV was a hit in London and on Broadway, and he published several novels and one early volume of memoirs.
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As actor, playwright, screenwriter, director, novelist, historian, and raconteur, the name of Peter Ustinov is one to conjure in the worlds of theater, film, television, and opera. Born in England in 1921, he wrote his first play at 20—he has since had over a dozen produced. As an actor, his films include Spartacus and Topkapi—with Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor—Quo Vadis, Death on the Nile—one of three appearances as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot—and Billy Budd, which he ... wrote and directed. Recently, he has directed operas in every major house in Europe, and his one–man show, An Evening with Peter Ustinov, has been a hit in London and on Broadway. He has published novels, and in his 80s, he has become an ardent human rights campaigner. Now John Miller tells the story of a man who has been delighting the world for more than six decades.
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Ustinov was only 17 years old when he made his stage debut in "The Wood Demon" in the provinces. The following year, he made his London debut in the title role of "The Bishop of Limpopoland", a sketch at the Players Club, which he ... wrote. His first play to reach NYC was "The Loves of Four Colonels" (1953) but it was not until 1957 that he made his Broadway acting debut as The General in "Romanoff and Juliet", which he wrote. (He later toured the USA and the Soviet Union with the show.) By the time of his American debut, Ustinov was a top draw in England, having either written or starred in numerous stage productions. He continued playing roles on stage well into the 80s and in 1990 performed internationally in the one-man show "An Evening With Peter Ustinov". Proving to be a true man of the theater, Ustinov has not only performed in and written shows but also has directed (e.g., "Fishing for Shadows" 1940) and designed sets and costumes (for the 1973 London production of "The Unknown Soldier and His Wife"). Among his successes as playwright are "Who's Who in Hell" (1974), and "Beethoven's Tenth" (1984).
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