LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Peter Ustinov
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Synopsis: In this comedy, Victor (Peter Ustinov) is a film director whose career has taken a nose dive. He believes that his job difficulties are the result of his increasingly overweight physique, and he becomes the victim of every fad diet and quack physician he can find. Despite this, he has a varied andRead More
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Baron Peter Ustinov was the owner of the Park Hotel (Hotel du Parc) in Jaffa, Israel. The mansion that became the hotel was built originally for the prophet George Adams. It was later acquired by the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews and is today a youth hostel and community centre.
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Peter Ustinov has an astonishing range of accomplishments and credits to his name. He has written 23 plays and 13 books, appeared in 50 films, and has in his time collected two Oscars, three Emmys and a Grammy. He is ... a director, producer, graphic artist, photographer, raconteur and the recipient of many humanitarian awards.
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Peter Ustinov's talents are as diverse as his origins. A writer, he sold his first film script in 1945 for The True Glory, and in 1956 he wrote Romanoff and Juliet. An actor, he played in major epic films such as Quo Vadis in 1951, for which he won an Oscar. He received international acclaim with Stanley Kubrick'sSpartacus in 1962. Film director, he directed Billy Budd that same year and Lady L in 1966, films he wrote himself and in which he ... performed. With Death on the Nile in 1978, he took on the role of Hercules Poirot from the cult series of mystery novels by Agatha Christie.
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Peter Ustinov, the British actor who was as well known as an offscreen mimic and raconteur as for his Oscar-winning movie roles, died Sunday at age 82 at a clinic near his home in Bursins, Switzerland. He succumbed to heart failure, his son Igor told Reuters. Best known in recent years for his TV and movie portrayals of Agatha Christie sleuth Hercule Poirot, Ustinov enjoyed a nearly seven-decade career as an actor, director, playwright, screenwriter, producer, and author.
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From All Movie Guide: Hirsute, puckish "renaissance man" Peter Ustinov was born in England to parents of Russian lineage. Trained at the London Theatre Studio, Ustinov was on stage from the age of 17, performing sketches written by himself in the 1939 revue Late Joys. In 1940, the year that his first play, Fishing for Shadows, was staged, the 19-year-old Ustinov appeared in his first film. Just before entering the British army, Ustinov penned his first screenplay, The True Glory (1945). School for Secrets (1946) was the first of several films starring, written, and directed by Ustinov; others include Vice Versa (1946), Private Angelo (1949), Romanoff and Juliet (1961) (adapted from his own stage play), and Lady L (1965). Perhaps Ustinov's most ambitious film directorial project was Billy Budd (1962), a laudable if not completely successful attempt to transfer the allegorical style of Herman Melville to the screen.
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