First Name
Peter
Last Name
Ustinov
Date of Birth
16 April 1921
Height
71.5
Build
Large
Hair Color
Grey
Place of Birth
London, England
Star Sign
Aries
Date of Death
28 March 2004
Place of Death
Genolier, Vaud, Switzerland
Cause of Death
Heart Failure
Ethnicity
White
Religion
Secular Humanist
Gender
Male
Claim to Fame
Evil Under the Sun
Nationality
British
Wikipedia Text
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE (or Russian: ; 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theater and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter. A noted wit and raconteur, he was, for much of his career, a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits, as well as 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.
Couple Profile
Peter Ustinov was two times Academy Award-winning film actor, director, writer, journalist, and raconteur. He wrote and directed many acclaimed stage plays and led numerous international theatrical productions. He was born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov on April 16, 1921, in Swiss Cottage, London, England. Ustinov was of Russian, German, French, Italian and Ethiopian descent, with ancestral connections to Russian nobility as well as the Ethiopian Royal Family. His grandmother, Magdalena, was daughter of a Swiss military engineer and Ethiopian princess. His father, Iona von Ustinov, also known as "Klop" in Russian and Yiddish, was a pilot in Luftwaffe during the First World War. In 1919 he joined his mother and sister in St. Petersburg, Russia. There he met artist Nadia Benois who worked for the Imperial Mariinsky Ballet and Opera House in St. Petersburg. In 1920, in a modest and discrete ceremony at a Russian-German Church in St. Petersburg, Ustinov`s father married Nadia Benois. Later, when she was 7 months pregnant with Peter Ustinov, the couple emigrated from Russia in 1921, in the aftermath of the Communist Revolution.
Outside of his film and acting professions, Ustinov served as a roving ambassador for the United Nations Children`s Fund. He was knighted Sir Peter Ustinov in 1990. From 1971 to his death in 2004, Ustinov lived in his Chateau in the village of Bursins, Vaud, Switzerland, He died of a heart failure on March 28, 2004, in Genolier, Vaud, Switzerland. His funeral service was held at Geneva`s historic cathedral of St. Pierre, and he was laid to rest in the village cemetery of Bursins, Switzerland. He was survived by three daughters, Tamara, Pavla, and Andrea, and son, Igor Ustinov.
Couple Profile Source
www.imdb.com/name/nm0001811/bio
Full Name at Birth
Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov
Count - Awards
31
Role ID
Actor/Actress, Writer, Director
Has Detailed Data (New)
1
Friend
David Niven
Age
82
Has Detailed Data (Music)
1
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