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If you ask people who Sir Peter Ustinov was the most common answer will be: an actor. This is not wrong, but only one aspect of Sir Peter's personality – actually, he ... wrote books, was stage director for operas, chancellor of Durham University, and fought against prejudices.
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Despite a successful career as journalist, actor, playwright and author, Sir Peter Ustinov was at his best telling his own stories, and reveled in the role of raconteur. Famous for his rich, musical speaking voice, he was ... fluent in French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish, and could also speak Greek and Turkish.
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Sir Peter Ustinov has written numerous plays, books, and film scripts, and he has starred in 40 films and 14 plays. He has directed eight films, eight plays and 10 operas; recorded eight best-selling records, starred in his own radio show, appeared in dozens of top television shows all over the world, and narrated many others. Over his life, Sir Peter accumulated a considerable list of credits and awards for his professional life, among them two Academy Awards for Best Actor (Spartacus in 1961 and Topkapi in 1964) and numerous Academy nominations, Emmys, a Grammy, the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for "Services to the Arts," and was honored in France when he was chosen in 1989 to become the Membre tranger de l'Academie des Beaux Arts et de l'Institut de France. In June 1990, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II made him a Knight of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of his artistic and humanitarian achievements. But it wasn't the glamour and or the the glitz that Sir Peter sought through his brilliant longstanding career. One of his major objectives was to build friendship and understanding between East, West, North and South—and between generations.
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March 29/30 ~ Sir Peter Ustinov has died. Some of his quotations can be found in the Telegraph e.g. "People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom."
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Sir Peter Ustinov enjoyed a long career. His first movie, Mein Kampf, was released in 1940. He played Marinus van der Lubbe, the man – probably a mental defective – who started the Reichstag fire in 1933. The fire enabled Hitler to gain dictatorial power in Germany under emergency laws. There was never another free election in Nazi Germany. Indeed, that event is what made Germany Nazi Germany.
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Sir Peter Ustinov has worked extensively in film, television and theater. He has won Academy Awards for his roles in the films "Spartacus" and "Topkapi" and Emmy Awards for the television movies "Barefoot in Athens," "A Storm in Summer" and "Omnibus." His additional film credits include "Lorenzo's Oil," "Logan's Run," "Billy Budd," "Death on the Nile," "Evil Under the Sun" and "Appointment with Death." Among his additional television credits are the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation "Gideon" and the CBS movie "13 at Dinner." In addition to numerous London productions, Ustinov's theater credits include Broadway productions of "Romanoff and Juliet," which he ... authored, "Beethoven's Tenth," "Photo Finish" and "The Love of Four Colonels."
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