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Ustinov, Peter Filmography
- Hollywood Invasion (2011)
- Il falso bugiardo (2008)
- Lord Lichfield: A Tribute (2006)
- Deutschland spielt auf (2006)
- 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2005)
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- Charlie Chaplin - Les années suisses (2003)
- The Quest for the Athlos (2003)
- 75 Years of the Academy Awards: An Unofficial History (2003)
- Luther (2003)
- Salem Witch Trials (2002)
- Hippocrates in Olympia (2002)
- In 80 Jahren um die Welt (2001)
- Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)
- The 100 Greatest Kids TV Shows (2001)
- Victoria & Albert (2001)
- Die zehn Gebote der Kreativität (2001)
- My Khmer Heart (2000)
- Deutschlandspiel (2000)
- Majestät brauchen Sonne (2000)
- Animal Farm (1999)
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- Die Nacht der Stars (1996)
- Life on Earth: A True Civilisation (1996)
- Happy Birthday Ma'am (1996)
- The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet (1995)
- Paths of the Gods (1995)
- Queen: Champions of the World (1995)
- An Evening with Sir Peter Ustinov (1995)
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- The Old Curiosity Shop (1995)
- The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet (1995)
- Celebrating Haydn with Peter Ustinov (1994)
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- Inside the Vatican (1993)
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- The Trouble with Agatha Christie (1991)
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- Peter Ustinov in China (1990)
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- La révolution française (1989)
- Granpa (1989)
- Peep and the Big Wide World (1988)
- The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper (1988)
- Appointment with Death (1988)
- An Audience with Peter Ustinov (1988)
- The Immortal Beethoven (1987)
- Queen: Magic Years, Volume One - A Visual Anthology (1987)
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- Hot Millions (1968)
- The 22nd Annual Tony Awards (1968)
- The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant (1968)
- The Comedians (1967)
- The Comedians in Africa (1967)
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- Das Leben in meiner Hand (1966)
- Michelangelo: The Last Giant (1966)
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- Lady L (1965)
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- The 36th Annual Academy Awards (1964)
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- Billy Budd (1962)
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- Romanoff and Juliet (1961)
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- Spartacus (1960)
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- The Indifferent Shepherd (1957)
- Un angelo è sceso a Brooklyn (1957)
- Les espions (1957)
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- Lola Montès (1955)
- We're No Angels (1955)
- Lola Montès (1955)
- Beau Brummell (1954)
- The Egyptian (1954)
- Peer Gynt (1954)
- La bergère et le ramoneur (1952)
- Le plaisir (1952)
- The Magic Box (1951)
- Hotel Sahara (1951)
- Quo Vadis (1951)
- Odette (1950)
- Odette (1950)
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- Private Angelo (1949)
- Private Angelo (1949)
- Private Angelo (1949)
- Private Angelo (1949)
- Vice Versa (1948)
- Vice Versa (1948)
- Vice Versa (1948)
- School for Secrets (1946)
- School for Secrets (1946)
- School for Secrets (1946)
- The True Glory (1945)
- The True Glory (1945)
- The Way Ahead (1944)
- The Way Ahead (1944)
- The New Lot (1943)
- The New Lot (1943)
- Let the People Sing (1942)
- Let the People Sing (1942)
- The Goose Steps Out (1942)
- One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
- Hullo, Fame! (1940)
- Mein Kampf - My Crimes (1940)
Famous quotes by Peter Ustinov:
"Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."
"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
"The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."
"Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of."
"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously."
"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them"
"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much."
"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."
"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."
"The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation."
"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."
"The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill."
"Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
"Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus."
"I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal."
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- Sir Peter Ustinov / Introduction
- Sir Peter Ustinov / The Tale: 'Once upon a time...'
- Camille Saint - Saens / Introduction and Royal March of the Lion
- Camille Saint - Saens / Hens and Cock
- Camille Saint - Saens / Wild Asses
- Camille Saint - Saens / Turtles
- Camille Saint - Saens / The Elephant
- Camille Saint - Saens / Kangaroos
- Camille Saint - Saens / Aquarium
- Camille Saint - Saens / Person with long ears
- Camille Saint - Saens / The cuckoos at the bottom of the wood
- Camille Saint - Saens / Aviary
- Camille Saint - Saens / Pianists
- Camille Saint - Saens / Fossils
- Camille Saint-Saens / The Swan
- Camille Saint - Saens / Finale
- Leopold Mozart / I Allegro
- Leopold Mozart / II Menuetto
- Leopold Mozart / III Allegro
Born: 1921-04-16
Died: 2004-03-28
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An Audience with Peter Ustinov 1
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- Duration: 10:24
- Updated: 09 Aug 2013
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Peter Ustinov - the Parkinson Interviews compilation
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- Duration: 58:09
- Updated: 16 Aug 2013
The late, great man of modern storytelling. As Parkinson said of him "gods gift to talk show hosts". This compilation of clips of interviews that parkinson d...
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The late, great man of modern storytelling. As Parkinson said of him "gods gift to talk show hosts". This compilation of clips of interviews that parkinson d...
- published: 23 Apr 2013
- views: 6089
- author: Neville Williams
Peter Ustinov Interview 1
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- Duration: 10:04
- Updated: 24 Jul 2013
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Peter Ustinov does Charles Laughton Impressions
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- Duration: 23:01
- Updated: 12 Aug 2013
Criterion extras for Spartacus. Abbreviated at the start. Missing Ustinov talking about the secular uniqueness of this type of costume drama. I was blown awa...
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Criterion extras for Spartacus. Abbreviated at the start. Missing Ustinov talking about the secular uniqueness of this type of costume drama. I was blown awa...
- published: 16 Apr 2013
- views: 2796
- author: plazpastic
An Audience with Peter Ustinov 3
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- Duration: 10:18
- Updated: 02 Aug 2013
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Peter Ustinov Interview 2
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- Duration: 10:06
- Updated: 28 Jul 2013
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Peter Ustinov zu Gast bei der Harald Schmidt Show
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- Duration: 16:58
- Updated: 10 Aug 2013
Sir Peter Ustinov zu Gast bei der Harald Schmidt Show (SAT1)
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Sir Peter Ustinov zu Gast bei der Harald Schmidt Show (SAT1)
- published: 12 Dec 2010
- views: 20411
- author: Girardi2000
An Audience with Peter Ustinov 2
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- Duration: 10:20
- Updated: 04 Aug 2013
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Ak 09 der Peter-Ustinov-Schule
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- Duration: 3:45
- Updated: 17 Jun 2013
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Peter Ustinov Interview 3
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- Duration: 10:02
- Updated: 14 Jul 2013
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Peter Ustinov Interview 5
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- Duration: 10:01
- Updated: 14 Jul 2013
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Peter Ustinov On The Orient Express
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- Duration: 53:53
- Updated: 05 Aug 2013
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The Muppet Show - Peter Ustinov explains Post-Keynesian Economics
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- Duration: 2:13
- Updated: 01 Aug 2013
A classic raconteur explaining economics to a bear. The Muppet Show S1 E12.
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A classic raconteur explaining economics to a bear. The Muppet Show S1 E12.
- published: 26 Mar 2013
- views: 1386
- author: Matthew Andrea
Supreme Artist: Nero's Speech, Quo Vadis
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- Duration: 4:25
- Updated: 05 Aug 2013
Can anyone not relate? Equally memorable to Ustinov's monologue is the DVD cover art, which is possibly the most phallic image ever produced.
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Can anyone not relate? Equally memorable to Ustinov's monologue is the DVD cover art, which is possibly the most phallic image ever produced.
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 12611
- author: gtsvideodotcom
Michael Aspel interview 4/4 - Peter Cook, Peter Ustinov
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- Duration: 9:02
- Updated: 23 Jun 2013
Ustinov as raconteur and impressionist is on good form. Peter Cook remembers a schoolmaster with a beating fetish.
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Ustinov as raconteur and impressionist is on good form. Peter Cook remembers a schoolmaster with a beating fetish.
- published: 24 Aug 2008
- views: 27055
- author: frogandpeach1
Peter Ustinov on the Late late Show.
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- Duration: 2:43
- Updated: 14 Aug 2013
Here is a short clip of Sir Peter Ustinov on the Late Late Show.
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Here is a short clip of Sir Peter Ustinov on the Late Late Show.
- published: 22 Jun 2011
- views: 22958
- author: pddybrry
What's my Line? Peter Ustinov
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- Duration: 6:27
- Updated: 06 Jul 2013
What's my Line? Peter Ustinov.
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Sir Peter Ustinov Interview 2004 - "Vesa Show" (Germany 3Sat)
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- Duration: 9:06
- Updated: 05 Aug 2013
One of, if not, the last interview with the great genious Sir Peter Ustinov, in German. One of the many languages he spoke.
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One of, if not, the last interview with the great genious Sir Peter Ustinov, in German. One of the many languages he spoke.
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 24047
- author: planetthunderstorm
Interview With Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award Winner Craig Ferguson - Banff 2013
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- Duration: 57:59
- Updated: 15 Aug 2013
CONTENT WARNING*** MAY CONTAIN FOUL LANGUAGE Filmed live at the Banff World Media Festival, an Interview with the 2013 "Sir Peter Ustinov" Award Winner, C...
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CONTENT WARNING*** MAY CONTAIN FOUL LANGUAGE Filmed live at the Banff World Media Festival, an Interview with the 2013 "Sir Peter Ustinov" Award Winner, C...
- published: 24 Jun 2013
- views: 2268
- author: VillageGamerNews
NBC LETTERMAN, 1/7/86 - PETER USTINOV
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- Duration: 12:42
- Updated: 08 Aug 2013
NBC Letterman, 1/7/86 - Peter Ustinov talks about "Dead Man's Folly", his experience with two Man of War jellyfish on "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous", working with Olivier in "Spartacus" and Humphrey Bogart, being knighted, and the Royal Family.
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NBC Letterman, 1/7/86 - Peter Ustinov talks about "Dead Man's Folly", his experience with two Man of War jellyfish on "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous", working with Olivier in "Spartacus" and Humphrey Bogart, being knighted, and the Royal Family.
- published: 08 Aug 2013
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Agatha Christie's Appointment with Death
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- Duration: 1:48
- Updated: 02 Jul 2013
Clip from the classic feature film based on the best-selling Agatha Christie novel. Available on DVD now at www.acornmediauk.com.
http://wn.com/Agatha_Christie's_Appointment_with_Death
Clip from the classic feature film based on the best-selling Agatha Christie novel. Available on DVD now at www.acornmediauk.com.
- published: 27 Mar 2012
- views: 2956
- author: AcornUKDVD
Sir Peter Ustinov interview "Selina Scott Show" 1995
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:56
- Updated: 05 Aug 2013
The extraordinary and multi-talented film and stage actor Sir Peter Ustinov being interviewed by Selina Scott on the "Selina Scott Show" 1995.
http://wn.com/Sir_Peter_Ustinov_interview_Selina_Scott_Show_1995
The extraordinary and multi-talented film and stage actor Sir Peter Ustinov being interviewed by Selina Scott on the "Selina Scott Show" 1995.
- published: 08 Oct 2012
- views: 2858
- author: stargirlpower
Peter Ustinov - My Russia
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:55
- Updated: 30 Jul 2013
This is history told with a difference in Peter Ustinov's special brand of humour known to many who saw him on television as a raconteur. This series was mad...
http://wn.com/Peter_Ustinov_My_Russia
This is history told with a difference in Peter Ustinov's special brand of humour known to many who saw him on television as a raconteur. This series was mad...
- published: 14 Nov 2012
- views: 658
- author: Concord Media
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The Muppet Show S01e12 - Peter UStinov
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 25:27
- Updated: 05 Aug 2013
The Muppet Show is a comedy-variety television series produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and featuring the Muppets. After two pilot episodes produced in 1974 a...
http://wn.com/The_Muppet_Show_S01e12_Peter_UStinov
The Muppet Show is a comedy-variety television series produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and featuring the Muppets. After two pilot episodes produced in 1974 a...
- published: 02 Apr 2013
- views: 636
- author: YoJo Jo
Peter Ustinov presenta: Felix Mendelssohn
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 54:13
- Updated: 05 Aug 2013
Con su temprana desaparición a los 38 años de edad Félix Mendelssohn culminaba en realidad más de 20 años como compositor de obras que se han ganado un lugar...
http://wn.com/Peter_Ustinov_presenta_Felix_Mendelssohn
Con su temprana desaparición a los 38 años de edad Félix Mendelssohn culminaba en realidad más de 20 años como compositor de obras que se han ganado un lugar...
- published: 27 Jul 2013
- views: 18
- author: Enrique Añi
''DOPPIO DELITTO'' film con M.Mastroianni-Peter Ustinov
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 100:58
- Updated: 05 Aug 2013
http://wn.com/''DOPPIO_DELITTO''_film_con_MMastroianni-Peter_Ustinov
- published: 05 Aug 2013
- views: 110
Prokofiev / Peter Ustinov / Herbert von Karajan, 1960: Peter And The Wolf / Петя и Волк
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:18
- Updated: 16 Aug 2013
From the LP shown above, issued in 1960 on the Angel label, catalogue number 35638. Peter Ustinov narrates, while Herbert von Karajan leads the Philharmonia ...
http://wn.com/Prokofiev_Peter_Ustinov_Herbert_von_Karajan,_1960_Peter_And_The_Wolf_Петя_и_Волк
From the LP shown above, issued in 1960 on the Angel label, catalogue number 35638. Peter Ustinov narrates, while Herbert von Karajan leads the Philharmonia ...
- published: 29 Jul 2012
- views: 5289
- author: davidhertzberg
Le Défi Algérien, Documentaire de Peter Ustinov
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 50:05
- Updated: 29 Jul 2013
Le Défi Algérien : Le plus grand pays d'Afrique par Peter Ustinov Pour plus de vidéo allez sur : http://www.toutdunet.com/ Et Sur la page Facebook :http://ww...
http://wn.com/Le_Défi_Algérien,_Documentaire_de_Peter_Ustinov
Le Défi Algérien : Le plus grand pays d'Afrique par Peter Ustinov Pour plus de vidéo allez sur : http://www.toutdunet.com/ Et Sur la page Facebook :http://ww...
- published: 21 Aug 2012
- views: 1525
- author: ToutDuNet1
S11E07&08 Appointment With Death
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 93:05
- Updated: 16 Aug 2013
While accompanying her husband on an archaeological dig in 1937 Syria, overbearing, abusive Lady Boynton is found stabbed to death.
http://wn.com/S11E07&08_Appointment_With_Death
While accompanying her husband on an archaeological dig in 1937 Syria, overbearing, abusive Lady Boynton is found stabbed to death.
- published: 09 Jan 2013
- views: 8792
- author: Hercule Poirot
Billy Budd (1962) subtítulos en español
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 123:04
- Updated: 19 Aug 2013
Peter Ustinov - Robert Ryan - Terence Stamp.
http://wn.com/Billy_Budd_1962_subtítulos_en_español
Peter Ustinov presenta: Bach bien temperado II
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 57:56
- Updated: 01 Aug 2013
La segunda entrega de este entrañable documental sigan disfrutando de este canal y aprecie la sublime belleza de la creación entre ellas el talento que Jehov...
http://wn.com/Peter_Ustinov_presenta_Bach_bien_temperado_II
La segunda entrega de este entrañable documental sigan disfrutando de este canal y aprecie la sublime belleza de la creación entre ellas el talento que Jehov...
- published: 16 Jul 2013
- views: 48
- author: Enrique Añi
Peter Ustinov presenta: Bach bien temperado I
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 58:59
- Updated: 15 Jul 2013
Las cualidades musicales de este compositor son reconocidas en el mundo entero, pero ¿qué sabemos de su pasión por ese arte?, ¿acaso solo podemos imaginarnos por la belleza de sus composiciones alguna de sus vivencias?, esta serie de dos documentales narran exquisitas anécdotas y vicisitudes poco conocidas del tal vez más grande compositor de todos los tiempos, la inspiración de grandes genios, Johann Sebastian Bach.
http://wn.com/Peter_Ustinov_presenta_Bach_bien_temperado_I
Las cualidades musicales de este compositor son reconocidas en el mundo entero, pero ¿qué sabemos de su pasión por ese arte?, ¿acaso solo podemos imaginarnos por la belleza de sus composiciones alguna de sus vivencias?, esta serie de dos documentales narran exquisitas anécdotas y vicisitudes poco conocidas del tal vez más grande compositor de todos los tiempos, la inspiración de grandes genios, Johann Sebastian Bach.
- published: 15 Jul 2013
- views: 45
Peter Ustinov presenta: Felix Mendelssohn II
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 57:01
- Updated: 05 Aug 2013
"Se habla tanto acerca de la música y se dice tan poco que creo, sobre todo, que las palabras no son suficientes para esto, si pensaría que lo fuera, dejaría...
http://wn.com/Peter_Ustinov_presenta_Felix_Mendelssohn_II
"Se habla tanto acerca de la música y se dice tan poco que creo, sobre todo, que las palabras no son suficientes para esto, si pensaría que lo fuera, dejaría...
- published: 27 Jul 2013
- views: 16
- author: Enrique Añi
Peter Ustinov Presenta: Celebrando a Haydn
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 54:16
- Updated: 08 Aug 2013
Exquisitas anécdotas y sucesos de la vida de este magnífico compositor austríaco son narradas con elegancia y fino humor por Peter Ustinov, seguro que tambié...
http://wn.com/Peter_Ustinov_Presenta_Celebrando_a_Haydn
Exquisitas anécdotas y sucesos de la vida de este magnífico compositor austríaco son narradas con elegancia y fino humor por Peter Ustinov, seguro que tambié...
- published: 03 Aug 2013
- views: 26
- author: Enrique Añi
Mozart, Die Zauberflöte 1971, Stein, Ustinov
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 155:54
- Updated: 17 Aug 2013
In 1971 there was an acclaimed new production of Die Zauberflöte at the Hamburg Opera directed by Peter Ustinov; this was during that house's golden period u...
http://wn.com/Mozart,_Die_Zauberflöte_1971,_Stein,_Ustinov
In 1971 there was an acclaimed new production of Die Zauberflöte at the Hamburg Opera directed by Peter Ustinov; this was during that house's golden period u...
- published: 01 Feb 2013
- views: 47054
- author: Herur22
S09E05&06 Death on the Nile
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 96:41
- Updated: 14 Aug 2013
A wealthy British heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband.
http://wn.com/S09E05&06_Death_on_the_Nile
A wealthy British heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband.
- published: 08 Jan 2013
- views: 12860
- author: Hercule Poirot
Besi Bekteshi "Rozafa TV History", Peter Ustinov-flv.flv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 46:03
- Updated: 24 Feb 2013
Emisioni i dates se 22 shkurt 2013 mbi viziten e aktorit te madh Peter Ustinov ne Shkoder.
http://wn.com/Besi_Bekteshi_Rozafa_TV_History,_Peter_Ustinov-flvflv
Emisioni i dates se 22 shkurt 2013 mbi viziten e aktorit te madh Peter Ustinov ne Shkoder.
- published: 24 Feb 2013
- views: 19
- author: Besi Bekteshi
Einstein's Universe, 1970's
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 84:31
- Updated: 30 Jul 2013
an older documentary. You can see that it's very low budget and slow paced. very similar to Carl Sagan's Cosmos, which would shortly follow. But, it's still ...
http://wn.com/Einstein's_Universe,_1970's
an older documentary. You can see that it's very low budget and slow paced. very similar to Carl Sagan's Cosmos, which would shortly follow. But, it's still ...
- published: 18 Apr 2011
- views: 6765
- author: topgamelord
Prokofiev / Boris Karloff, Late 1940s: Peter and the Wolf / Петя и волк (Complete)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 26:01
- Updated: 15 Aug 2013
Boris Karloff (1887-1969) narrates in this 1940s-era recording of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," Op. 67. The Vienna State Opera Orchestra is conducted by ...
http://wn.com/Prokofiev_Boris_Karloff,_Late_1940s_Peter_and_the_Wolf_Петя_и_волк_Complete
Boris Karloff (1887-1969) narrates in this 1940s-era recording of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," Op. 67. The Vienna State Opera Orchestra is conducted by ...
- published: 23 Dec 2010
- views: 56391
- author: davidhertzberg
Die Heirat nach Sir Peter Ustinov
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 57:33
- Updated: 20 Mar 2013
Die Theatergruppe der Volkshochschule Salzwedel hat ihr erstes Stück vor Publikum Aufgeführt. Es handelt sich um einen Teil aus dem Stück, Die Heirat, von Si...
http://wn.com/Die_Heirat_nach_Sir_Peter_Ustinov
Die Theatergruppe der Volkshochschule Salzwedel hat ihr erstes Stück vor Publikum Aufgeführt. Es handelt sich um einen Teil aus dem Stück, Die Heirat, von Si...
- published: 02 Mar 2013
- views: 71
- author: Theatergruppesaw
The Last Remake Of Beau Geste (1977) - Marty Feldman - Full Movie
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 80:59
- Updated: 18 Aug 2013
The Last Remake Of Beau Geste (1977) - Full Movie Directed By Marty Feldman Cast - Marty Feldman - Michael York - Peter Ustinov Original Aspect ratio: 1.85X1...
http://wn.com/The_Last_Remake_Of_Beau_Geste_1977_Marty_Feldman_Full_Movie
The Last Remake Of Beau Geste (1977) - Full Movie Directed By Marty Feldman Cast - Marty Feldman - Michael York - Peter Ustinov Original Aspect ratio: 1.85X1...
- published: 05 Jun 2013
- views: 2485
- author: Gunga Din
Poirot Agatha Christie - Lord Edgware Dies 2000 (Full episode series 7)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 99:18
- Updated: 14 Aug 2013
Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV since 1989. It stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercu...
http://wn.com/Poirot_Agatha_Christie_Lord_Edgware_Dies_2000_Full_episode_series_7
Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV since 1989. It stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercu...
- published: 25 Feb 2013
- views: 60694
- author: PoirotAgathaChristie
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An Audience with Peter Ustinov 5
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:08
- Updated: 17 Jul 2013
http://khalatnost.wordpress.com/
http://wn.com/An_Audience_with_Peter_Ustinov_5
Peter Ustinov Interview 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:01
- Updated: 14 Jul 2013
http://wn.com/Peter_Ustinov_Interview_4
Michael Aspel interview 3/4 - Peter Cook, Peter Ustinov
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:19
- Updated: 16 Jun 2013
Peter Cook gives his views on power dressing and posing naked, and describes his experience of sex education at public school. Peter Ustinov joins the discus...
http://wn.com/Michael_Aspel_interview_3_4_Peter_Cook,_Peter_Ustinov
Peter Cook gives his views on power dressing and posing naked, and describes his experience of sex education at public school. Peter Ustinov joins the discus...
- published: 24 Aug 2008
- views: 10098
- author: frogandpeach1
What's My Line? - Peter Ustinov (1963, TV Show)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:35
- Updated: 31 Jul 2013
The mystery guest segment of the popular game show What's My Line? with actor, writer, and director Peter Ustinov. Guests Kitty Carlisle and (British WML hos...
http://wn.com/What's_My_Line?_Peter_Ustinov_1963,_TV_Show
The mystery guest segment of the popular game show What's My Line? with actor, writer, and director Peter Ustinov. Guests Kitty Carlisle and (British WML hos...
- published: 17 Dec 2009
- views: 17008
- author: rmm413d
Peter Ustinov Interview 6
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:58
- Updated: 02 Aug 2013
http://khalatnost.wordpress.com/
http://wn.com/Peter_Ustinov_Interview_6
Gerwin Trifft Sir Peter Ustinov
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:55
- Updated: 25 Feb 2013
Intelligenz, Talent, Humor, Bescheidenheit und ein weiches Herz das zeichnete den internationalen und weltberühmten Schauspieler Sir Peter Ustinov aus. Er ge...
http://wn.com/Gerwin_Trifft_Sir_Peter_Ustinov
Intelligenz, Talent, Humor, Bescheidenheit und ein weiches Herz das zeichnete den internationalen und weltberühmten Schauspieler Sir Peter Ustinov aus. Er ge...
- published: 29 Mar 2010
- views: 4966
- author: Gerwin Trifft
Peter Ustinov defends television - Talk Collection - BBC Four
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:57
- Updated: 07 Jun 2013
Available online to watch in full: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p00p2k2v/talk Part of the Talk collection. A collection of BBC programmes where c...
http://wn.com/Peter_Ustinov_defends_television_Talk_Collection_BBC_Four
Available online to watch in full: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p00p2k2v/talk Part of the Talk collection. A collection of BBC programmes where c...
- published: 16 Mar 2012
- views: 1931
- author: BBC
25:27
The Muppet Show S01e12 - Peter UStinov
The Muppet Show is a comedy-variety television series produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and...
published: 02 Apr 2013
author: YoJo Jo
The Muppet Show S01e12 - Peter UStinov
The Muppet Show is a comedy-variety television series produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and featuring the Muppets. After two pilot episodes produced in 1974 a...
- published: 02 Apr 2013
- views: 636
- author: YoJo Jo
54:13
Peter Ustinov presenta: Felix Mendelssohn
Con su temprana desaparición a los 38 años de edad Félix Mendelssohn culminaba en realidad...
published: 27 Jul 2013
author: Enrique Añi
Peter Ustinov presenta: Felix Mendelssohn
Con su temprana desaparición a los 38 años de edad Félix Mendelssohn culminaba en realidad más de 20 años como compositor de obras que se han ganado un lugar...
- published: 27 Jul 2013
- views: 18
- author: Enrique Añi
29:18
Prokofiev / Peter Ustinov / Herbert von Karajan, 1960: Peter And The Wolf / Петя и Волк
From the LP shown above, issued in 1960 on the Angel label, catalogue number 35638. Peter ...
published: 29 Jul 2012
author: davidhertzberg
Prokofiev / Peter Ustinov / Herbert von Karajan, 1960: Peter And The Wolf / Петя и Волк
From the LP shown above, issued in 1960 on the Angel label, catalogue number 35638. Peter Ustinov narrates, while Herbert von Karajan leads the Philharmonia ...
- published: 29 Jul 2012
- views: 5289
- author: davidhertzberg
50:05
Le Défi Algérien, Documentaire de Peter Ustinov
Le Défi Algérien : Le plus grand pays d'Afrique par Peter Ustinov Pour plus de vidéo allez...
published: 21 Aug 2012
author: ToutDuNet1
Le Défi Algérien, Documentaire de Peter Ustinov
Le Défi Algérien : Le plus grand pays d'Afrique par Peter Ustinov Pour plus de vidéo allez sur : http://www.toutdunet.com/ Et Sur la page Facebook :http://ww...
- published: 21 Aug 2012
- views: 1525
- author: ToutDuNet1
93:05
S11E07&08 Appointment With Death
While accompanying her husband on an archaeological dig in 1937 Syria, overbearing, abusiv...
published: 09 Jan 2013
author: Hercule Poirot
S11E07&08 Appointment With Death
While accompanying her husband on an archaeological dig in 1937 Syria, overbearing, abusive Lady Boynton is found stabbed to death.
- published: 09 Jan 2013
- views: 8792
- author: Hercule Poirot
57:56
Peter Ustinov presenta: Bach bien temperado II
La segunda entrega de este entrañable documental sigan disfrutando de este canal y aprecie...
published: 16 Jul 2013
author: Enrique Añi
Peter Ustinov presenta: Bach bien temperado II
La segunda entrega de este entrañable documental sigan disfrutando de este canal y aprecie la sublime belleza de la creación entre ellas el talento que Jehov...
- published: 16 Jul 2013
- views: 48
- author: Enrique Añi
58:59
Peter Ustinov presenta: Bach bien temperado I
Las cualidades musicales de este compositor son reconocidas en el mundo entero, pero ¿qué ...
published: 15 Jul 2013
Peter Ustinov presenta: Bach bien temperado I
Las cualidades musicales de este compositor son reconocidas en el mundo entero, pero ¿qué sabemos de su pasión por ese arte?, ¿acaso solo podemos imaginarnos por la belleza de sus composiciones alguna de sus vivencias?, esta serie de dos documentales narran exquisitas anécdotas y vicisitudes poco conocidas del tal vez más grande compositor de todos los tiempos, la inspiración de grandes genios, Johann Sebastian Bach.
- published: 15 Jul 2013
- views: 45
57:01
Peter Ustinov presenta: Felix Mendelssohn II
"Se habla tanto acerca de la música y se dice tan poco que creo, sobre todo, que las palab...
published: 27 Jul 2013
author: Enrique Añi
Peter Ustinov presenta: Felix Mendelssohn II
"Se habla tanto acerca de la música y se dice tan poco que creo, sobre todo, que las palabras no son suficientes para esto, si pensaría que lo fuera, dejaría...
- published: 27 Jul 2013
- views: 16
- author: Enrique Añi
54:16
Peter Ustinov Presenta: Celebrando a Haydn
Exquisitas anécdotas y sucesos de la vida de este magnífico compositor austríaco son narra...
published: 03 Aug 2013
author: Enrique Añi
Peter Ustinov Presenta: Celebrando a Haydn
Exquisitas anécdotas y sucesos de la vida de este magnífico compositor austríaco son narradas con elegancia y fino humor por Peter Ustinov, seguro que tambié...
- published: 03 Aug 2013
- views: 26
- author: Enrique Añi
155:54
Mozart, Die Zauberflöte 1971, Stein, Ustinov
In 1971 there was an acclaimed new production of Die Zauberflöte at the Hamburg Opera dire...
published: 01 Feb 2013
author: Herur22
Mozart, Die Zauberflöte 1971, Stein, Ustinov
In 1971 there was an acclaimed new production of Die Zauberflöte at the Hamburg Opera directed by Peter Ustinov; this was during that house's golden period u...
- published: 01 Feb 2013
- views: 47054
- author: Herur22
96:41
S09E05&06 Death on the Nile
A wealthy British heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend...
published: 08 Jan 2013
author: Hercule Poirot
S09E05&06 Death on the Nile
A wealthy British heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband.
- published: 08 Jan 2013
- views: 12860
- author: Hercule Poirot
46:03
Besi Bekteshi "Rozafa TV History", Peter Ustinov-flv.flv
Emisioni i dates se 22 shkurt 2013 mbi viziten e aktorit te madh Peter Ustinov ne Shkoder....
published: 24 Feb 2013
author: Besi Bekteshi
Besi Bekteshi "Rozafa TV History", Peter Ustinov-flv.flv
Emisioni i dates se 22 shkurt 2013 mbi viziten e aktorit te madh Peter Ustinov ne Shkoder.
- published: 24 Feb 2013
- views: 19
- author: Besi Bekteshi
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84:31
Einstein's Universe, 1970's
an older documentary. You can see that it's very low budget and slow paced. very similar t...
published: 18 Apr 2011
author: topgamelord
Einstein's Universe, 1970's
an older documentary. You can see that it's very low budget and slow paced. very similar to Carl Sagan's Cosmos, which would shortly follow. But, it's still ...
- published: 18 Apr 2011
- views: 6765
- author: topgamelord
26:01
Prokofiev / Boris Karloff, Late 1940s: Peter and the Wolf / Петя и волк (Complete)
Boris Karloff (1887-1969) narrates in this 1940s-era recording of Prokofiev's "Peter and t...
published: 23 Dec 2010
author: davidhertzberg
Prokofiev / Boris Karloff, Late 1940s: Peter and the Wolf / Петя и волк (Complete)
Boris Karloff (1887-1969) narrates in this 1940s-era recording of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," Op. 67. The Vienna State Opera Orchestra is conducted by ...
- published: 23 Dec 2010
- views: 56391
- author: davidhertzberg
57:33
Die Heirat nach Sir Peter Ustinov
Die Theatergruppe der Volkshochschule Salzwedel hat ihr erstes Stück vor Publikum Aufgefüh...
published: 02 Mar 2013
author: Theatergruppesaw
Die Heirat nach Sir Peter Ustinov
Die Theatergruppe der Volkshochschule Salzwedel hat ihr erstes Stück vor Publikum Aufgeführt. Es handelt sich um einen Teil aus dem Stück, Die Heirat, von Si...
- published: 02 Mar 2013
- views: 71
- author: Theatergruppesaw
80:59
The Last Remake Of Beau Geste (1977) - Marty Feldman - Full Movie
The Last Remake Of Beau Geste (1977) - Full Movie Directed By Marty Feldman Cast - Marty F...
published: 05 Jun 2013
author: Gunga Din
The Last Remake Of Beau Geste (1977) - Marty Feldman - Full Movie
The Last Remake Of Beau Geste (1977) - Full Movie Directed By Marty Feldman Cast - Marty Feldman - Michael York - Peter Ustinov Original Aspect ratio: 1.85X1...
- published: 05 Jun 2013
- views: 2485
- author: Gunga Din
10:08
An Audience with Peter Ustinov 5
http://khalatnost.wordpress.com/...
published: 08 Aug 2009
author: CountPierreBezukhov
An Audience with Peter Ustinov 5
http://khalatnost.wordpress.com/
- published: 08 Aug 2009
- views: 42261
- author: CountPierreBezukhov
10:01
Peter Ustinov Interview 4
...
published: 08 Aug 2009
author: CountPierreBezukhov
Peter Ustinov Interview 4
- published: 08 Aug 2009
- views: 26499
- author: CountPierreBezukhov
9:19
Michael Aspel interview 3/4 - Peter Cook, Peter Ustinov
Peter Cook gives his views on power dressing and posing naked, and describes his experienc...
published: 24 Aug 2008
author: frogandpeach1
Michael Aspel interview 3/4 - Peter Cook, Peter Ustinov
Peter Cook gives his views on power dressing and posing naked, and describes his experience of sex education at public school. Peter Ustinov joins the discus...
- published: 24 Aug 2008
- views: 10098
- author: frogandpeach1
6:35
What's My Line? - Peter Ustinov (1963, TV Show)
The mystery guest segment of the popular game show What's My Line? with actor, writer, and...
published: 17 Dec 2009
author: rmm413d
What's My Line? - Peter Ustinov (1963, TV Show)
The mystery guest segment of the popular game show What's My Line? with actor, writer, and director Peter Ustinov. Guests Kitty Carlisle and (British WML hos...
- published: 17 Dec 2009
- views: 17008
- author: rmm413d
7:58
Peter Ustinov Interview 6
http://khalatnost.wordpress.com/...
published: 08 Aug 2009
author: CountPierreBezukhov
Peter Ustinov Interview 6
http://khalatnost.wordpress.com/
- published: 08 Aug 2009
- views: 30825
- author: CountPierreBezukhov
3:55
Gerwin Trifft Sir Peter Ustinov
Intelligenz, Talent, Humor, Bescheidenheit und ein weiches Herz das zeichnete den internat...
published: 29 Mar 2010
author: Gerwin Trifft
Gerwin Trifft Sir Peter Ustinov
Intelligenz, Talent, Humor, Bescheidenheit und ein weiches Herz das zeichnete den internationalen und weltberühmten Schauspieler Sir Peter Ustinov aus. Er ge...
- published: 29 Mar 2010
- views: 4966
- author: Gerwin Trifft
1:57
Peter Ustinov defends television - Talk Collection - BBC Four
Available online to watch in full: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p00p2k2v/talk ...
published: 16 Mar 2012
author: BBC
Peter Ustinov defends television - Talk Collection - BBC Four
Available online to watch in full: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p00p2k2v/talk Part of the Talk collection. A collection of BBC programmes where c...
- published: 16 Mar 2012
- views: 1931
- author: BBC
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17 Sep 2013
A United Nations report released Monday confirmed that a chemical arms attack caused a mass killing in Syria last month and for the first time provided extensive forensic details of the weapons used, which strongly implicated the Syrian government ... 21. The repercussions have elevated the 30-month-old Syrian conflict into a global political crisis that is testing the limits of impunity over the use of chemical weapons ... Mr ... The U.N ... ....(size: 5.8Kb)
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16 Sep 2013
ACAPULCO, Mexico — The remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel continued to deluge Mexico’s southwestern Pacific shoulder with dangerous rains while Hurricane Ingrid headed for a Monday landfall on the country’s opposite coast in an unusual double onslaught that federal authorities said had caused at least 21 deaths ... The U.S ... The U.S. National Hurricane Center predicted the system would dissipate Monday ... ....(size: 3.5Kb)
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The nation’s capital was in mourning today as officials began the grim task of notifying the families of the dozen victims of a massacre at the Washington Navy Yard unleashed, police say, by disturbed former reservist Aaron Alexis, who fired away heartlessly into a cafeteria crowd. “We are confronting yet another mass shooting ... Witnesses reported hearing gunfire erupt just after 8.20 a.m ... Tim Jirus, a 48-year-old U.S ... Maj ... ....(size: 4.3Kb)
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17 Sep 2013
Swaziland's King Mswati III has chosen an 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant as his 14th wife, a palace spokesman said Tuesday, days before a much-criticised parliamentary vote. "I can confirm that the king has introduced to the nation a new liphovela (royal fiancee)," said Ludzidzini palace governor Timothy Mtetwa ... She wore red feathers on her head -- a sign of royalty. The young woman graduated from Mbabane's St ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Language exists to express and communicate," writes Roy F. Baumeister in Evil, Inside Human Violence and Cruelty, "but perpetrators reluctant to face up to their guilt often find ways to use language to conceal, confuse, and mislead." It is a process that begins with the words themselves ... Now that it appears another Cold War is brewing between the U.S ... forces in Vietnam ... While some U.S ... 68.....(size: 6.4Kb)
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16 Sep 2013
English Touring Theatre is on a mission to find the nation's best-loved theatre piece ... Photograph ... On the other hand, Peter Ustinov and John Galsworthy are both celebrated in the book as significant playwrights, but you would have to be a pretty avid theatregoer to catch a revival of one of their plays now (although Galsworthy was seen in 2007 at the Orange Tree in Richmond and Ustinov earlier this year at Southwark Playhouse) ... ....(size: 3.3Kb)
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13 Sep 2013
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06 Sep 2013
PA Photos. Who can forget that day José Mourinho bowled into the press area at Stamford Bridge? "Boys," he said, "have I got a story for you!". Well, we can all forget that day, because it never happened. This is the great myth about Mourinho, that journalists love him for his quotes. Mourinho is an entertaining talker, but so is Ian Holloway, so was Peter Ustinov. A way with words alone isn't enough to create a buzz ... Cruyff was right ... ....(size: 5.3Kb)
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02 Sep 2013
Playwright Peter Morgan, who wrote Frost/Nixon, said he was “a legendary broadcasting figure”, “a pioneer” who “combined being a satirist and someone who one satirised” ... Outside world affairs, his roster included such greats as Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward, Peter Ustinov, Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, Clint Eastwood, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Norman Mailer, Warren Beatty and many more....(size: 4.4Kb)
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Playwright Peter Morgan, who wrote Frost/Nixon, said he was “a legendary broadcasting figure”, “a pioneer” who “combined being a satirist and someone who one satirised” ... Outside world affairs, his roster included such greats as Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward, Peter Ustinov, Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, Clint Eastwood, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Norman Mailer, Warren Beatty and many more....(size: 4.4Kb)
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Playwright Peter Morgan, who wrote Frost/Nixon, said he was “a legendary broadcasting figure”, “a pioneer” who “combined being a satirist and someone who one satirised” ... Outside world affairs, his roster included such greats as Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward, Peter Ustinov, Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, Clint Eastwood, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Norman Mailer, Warren Beatty and many more....(size: 4.4Kb)
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02 Sep 2013
... spoof of TV and they approached Footlights and asked Sir David and the comedian Peter Cook to write it ... Outside world affairs, his roster ranged from Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward, Peter Ustinov, Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, Clint Eastwood, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Norman Mailer, Warren Beatty and many more....(size: 7.4Kb)
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01 Sep 2013
Sir David Frost, the revered British broadcaster whose encounter with Richard Nixon led to an apology for Watergate, has died at the age of 74 ... A statement released this morning said ... Outside world affairs, his roster ranged from Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward, Peter Ustinov, Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, Clint Eastwood, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Norman Mailer, Warren Beatty and many more. ....(size: 3.9Kb)
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01 Sep 2013
Tributes have poured in for "peerless broadcaster" Sir David Frost after he died from a heart attack aged 74 ... His family said in a statement ... He was a peerless broadcaster." ... Outside world affairs, his roster ranged from Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward, Peter Ustinov, Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, Clint Eastwood, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Norman Mailer, Warren Beatty and many more ... ....(size: 4.3Kb)
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01 Sep 2013
... spoof of TV and they approached Footlights and asked Sir David and the comedian Peter Cook to write it ... Outside world affairs, his roster ranged from Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward, Peter Ustinov, Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, Clint Eastwood, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Norman Mailer, Warren Beatty and many more....(size: 7.5Kb)
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01 Sep 2013
... spoof of TV and they approached Footlights and asked Sir David and the comedian Peter Cook to write it ... Outside world affairs, his roster ranged from Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward, Peter Ustinov, Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, Clint Eastwood, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Norman Mailer, Warren Beatty and many more....(size: 7.6Kb)
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21 Aug 2013
... with his partner, Peter Pears, on the eve of the Second World War ... It went on to inspire DH Lawrence, Albert Camus and CLR James, who found its utter darkness almost unbearable; Peter Ustinov filmed it in 1962, with Terence Stamp making his movie debut as a bleached-blond Billy; and Morrissey recycled the title for one of his plangent songs....(size: 9.5Kb)
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10 Aug 2013
The British broadcaster and music critic John Amis, who has died aged 91, became a national figure thanks to the long- running BBC radio quiz My Music ... Muir told told him he was no good at repartee and should stick to stories ... Packed off to study harmony and counterpoint, he also worked in the EMG specialist record shop in London, where his customers included Peter Ustinov and TS Eliot ... He is survived by his partner, Isla Baring. ....(size: 2.6Kb)
| Sir Peter Ustinov CBE |
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 Peter Ustinov in 1973 |
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| Born | Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinow (1921-04-16)16 April 1921 London, England |
| Died | 28 March 2004(2004-03-28) (aged 82) Genolier, Vaud, Switzerland |
| Cause of death | Heart Failure |
| Residence | Bursins, Vaud, Switzerland |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Westminster School |
| Occupation | Actor, writer, filmmaker |
| Years active | 1940–2004 |
| Home town | London, England |
| Spouse | Isolde Denham (1940–50) Suzanne Cloutier (1954–71) Helene de Lau d'Allemans (1972–2004) |
| Children | 4 |
| Parents | Jona von Ustinov Nadezhda Benois |
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE (
/ˈjuːstɪnɒf/ or /ˈuːstɪnɒf/;[1] 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter. A noted wit and raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. He was also 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.
Ustinov was the winner of numerous awards over his life, including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Emmy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards for acting, a Grammy Award for best recording for children, as well the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. He displayed a unique cultural versatility that has frequently earned him the accolade of a Renaissance man. Miklós Rózsa, composer of the music for Quo Vadis and of numerous concert works, dedicated his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 (1950) to Ustinov.
In 2003, shortly before his death in 2004, Durham University renamed its Graduate Society as Ustinov College in honour of the significant contributions Sir Peter had made while serving as Chancellor of the University from 1992 onwards.
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Childhood and early life[link]
Ustinov was born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinow in Swiss Cottage, London. His father, Jona (born Jonah Freiherr von Ustinow), nicknamed "Klop" (Russian: Клоп, "bed-bug"), was of Russian, German and Ethiopian noble[2] descent, and had served as a lieutenant in the Imperial German Air Force in World War I. Jona's father was Plato von Ustinov. Jona (or Iona) worked as a press officer at the German Embassy in London in the 1930s, and was a reporter for a German news agency. In 1935, two years after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Iona von Ustinov began working for the British intelligence service MI5 and became a British citizen, thus avoiding internment during the war. He was the controller of Wolfgang zu Putlitz, an MI5 spy in the German embassy in London who furnished information on Hitler's intentions before World War II.[3] (Peter Wright mentions in his book Spycatcher that Klop was possibly the spy known as U35; Ustinov says in his autobiography that his father hosted secret meetings of senior British and German officials at their London home.) Ustinov's great-grandfather Moritz Hall,[4] a Jewish refugee from Krakow and later a convert and collaborator of Swiss and German missionaries in Ethiopia, married into a German-Ethiopian family.
Ustinov's mother, Nadezhda Leontievna "Nadia" Benois, was a painter and ballet designer of Russian, French and Italian ancestry. Her father Leon Benois was an imperial Russian architect and owner of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Madonna Benois. His brother Alexandre Benois was a stage designer who worked with Stravinsky and Diaghilev. Their paternal ancestor Jules-César Benois was a chef who had left France for St Petersburg during the French Revolution and became a chef to Tsar Paul.
Ustinov was educated at Westminster School and had a difficult childhood because of his parents' constant fighting. One of his schoolmates was Rudolf von Ribbentrop, the eldest son of the Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. While at school Ustinov considered anglicising his name to "Peter Austin" but was counselled against it by a fellow pupil who said that he should “Drop the ‘von’ but keep the ‘Ustinov’”. After training as an actor in his late teens, along with early attempts at playwriting, he made his stage début in 1938 at the Players' Theatre, becoming quickly established. He later wrote, "I was not irresistibly drawn to the drama. It was an escape road from the dismal rat race of school."[5]
Career highlights[link]
Ustinov served as a private soldier in the British Army during World War II, including time spent as batman to David Niven while writing a Niven film. In 1939 he appeared in White Cargo at the Aylesbury Rep, where he had a different accent every night.[6] He also appeared in propaganda films, debuting in One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942), in which he was required to deliver lines in English, Latin and Dutch. After the war he began writing; his first major success was with the play The Love of Four Colonels (1951). He starred with Humphrey Bogart and Aldo Ray in We're No Angels (1955). His career as a dramatist continued, his best-known play being Romanoff and Juliet (1956). His film roles include Roman emperor Nero in Quo Vadis (1951), Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus (1960), Captain Vere in Billy Budd (1962), an old man surviving a totalitarian future in Logan's Run (1976), and, in half a dozen films, Hercule Poirot, a part he first played in Death on the Nile (1978). Ustinov voiced the anthropomorphic lion Prince John of the 1973 Disney animated film Robin Hood. He also worked on several films as writer and occasionally director, including The Way Ahead (1944), School for Secrets (1946), Hot Millions (1968) and Memed, My Hawk (1984).
Ustinov won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in Spartacus (1960) and Topkapi (1964). He could arguably be considered the first man of known Russian descent to have won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He also won one Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Quo Vadis (he set the Oscar and Globe statuettes up on his desk as if playing doubles tennis; the game was also a love of his life, as was ocean yachting). Furthermore, Ustinov was the winner of three Emmys and one Grammy, and was nominated for two Tony Awards.
Between 1952 and 1955, he starred with Peter Jones in the BBC radio comedy In All Directions. The series featured Ustinov and Jones as themselves in a London car journey perpetually searching for Copthorne Avenue. The comedy derived from the characters they met, whom they often also portrayed. The show was unusual for the time as it was improvised rather than scripted. Ustinov and Jones improvised on a tape, which was very difficult then edited for broadcast by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who also sometimes took part. The favourite characters were Morris and Dudley Grosvenor, two rather stupid East End spivs whose sketches always ended with the phrase "Run for it Morry" (or Dudley as appropriate.)
During the 1960s, with the encouragement of Sir Georg Solti, Ustinov directed several operas including Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Ravel's L'heure espagnole, Schoenberg's Erwartung and Mozart's The Magic Flute. Further demonstrating his great talent and versatility in the theatre, Ustinov later did set and costume design for Don Giovanni.
His autobiography, Dear Me (1977), was well received and saw him describe his life (ostensibly his childhood) while being interrogated by his own ego, with forays into philosophy, theatre, fame, and self-realization. In concluding, Ustinov muses "We have gone through much together, Dear Me, and yet it suddenly occurs to me we don't know each other at all".
In the later part of his life (from 1969 until his death), his acting and writing tasks took second place to his work on behalf of UNICEF, for which he was a Goodwill Ambassador and fundraiser. In this role he visited some of the neediest children and made use of his ability to make just about anybody laugh, including many of the world's most disadvantaged children. "Sir Peter could make anyone laugh," UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy is quoted as saying. "His one-man show in German was the funniest performance I have ever seen – and I don’t speak a word of German."
On 31 October 1984, Ustinov was to meet with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. She was assassinated on her way to the meeting.[7]
Ustinov also served as President of the World Federalist Movement from 1991 until his death. He once said, "World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest, in its only sense, the patriotism of men who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good."[8]
He is best known to many Britons and Americans as a chat-show guest, a role to which he was ideally suited. He was an extremely frequent guest of Jack Paar's Tonight Show in the early 1960s and was a guest on the famous "upside down" episode of the American talk show Late Night, during which the camera, mounted on a slowly revolving wheel, gradually rotated the picture 360 degrees during the course of an hour; Ustinov appeared midway through and was photographed upside down in close-up as he spoke while his host only appeared in long shots. Toward the end of Ustinov's life he undertook some one-man stage shows in which he let loose his raconteur streak – he told the story of his life, including some moments of tension with the national society he was born into (as just one example, he took a test as a child which asked him to name a Russian composer; he wrote Rimsky-Korsakov but was marked down, told the correct answer was Tchaikovsky since they had been studying him in class, and told to stop showing off).
A car enthusiast since the age of four, he owned a succession of interesting machines ranging from a Fiat Topolino, several Lancias, a Hispano-Suiza, a pre-selector Delage and a special-bodied Jowett Jupiter. He made records like Phoney Folklore which included the song of the Russian peasant "whose tractor had betrayed him" and his "Grand Prix of Gibraltar" was a vehicle for his creative wit and ability at car engine sound-effects and voices.
He spoke English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Russian fluently, as well as some Turkish and modern Greek. He was proficient in accents and dialects in all his languages.
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In the late 1960s, he became a Swiss citizen to avoid the British tax system of the time, which heavily taxed the earnings of the wealthy. However, he was knighted in 1990, and was appointed Chancellor of Durham University in 1992, having previously served as Rector of the University of Dundee in the late 1970s (a role in which he moved from being merely a figurehead to taking on a political role, negotiating with militant students).
He received an honorary doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium).
Ustinov was a frequent defender of the Chinese government, stating in an address to Durham University in 2000, "People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights." In 2003, Durham's postgraduate college (previously known as the Graduate Society) was renamed Ustinov College.
Ustinov came to Berlin on a UNICEF mission in 2002 to visit the circle of United Buddy Bears that promote a more peaceful world between nations, cultures and religions for the first time. He was determined to ensure that Iraq would also be represented in this circle of about 140 countries. In 2003, he sponsored and opened the second exhibition of the United Buddy Bears in Berlin.[9]
Amongst his lesser known works, Ustinov presented and narrated the official video review of the 1987 Formula One season. His commentary proved highly entertaining. Ustinov also narrated the documentary series Wings of the Red Star.
Ustinov gave his name to the Foundation of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for their prestigious Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award, given annually to a young television screenwriter.
Ustinov appeared as a guest star during the first season of The Muppet Show in 1976. The theme of the show had Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Hilda "The Wardrobe Lady" and Scooter openly saying to Kermit the Frog how much they admired and wanted to be like Peter Ustinov. Kermit was under the impression that they harboured these feeling towards him but hastily altered them when Ustinov was on the show, and so to cheer himself up Kermit goes off and sings "It's Not Easy Bein' Green". At the end of the episode Kermit admits to Ustinov that he feels a bit jealous and Ustinov responds by saying "...I'm jealous of you. I've always wanted to be a frog". One of the highlights of the episode is when Ustinov becomes "The Robot Politician", which was Bunsen Honeydew's latest invention. In the sketch when "The Robot Politician" inevitably breaks down, Ustinov accidentally punches Dr. Bunsen Honeydew in the face before blowing up. In a later interview about his time with Jim Henson's creations he said "...you took the characters absolutely seriously and paid no attention to the manipulator..." adding "...there's an old theatrical saying...'never work with children or animals'...I would add puppets to that list because they always steal the limelight."
Personal life[link]
Ustinov was married three times – first to Isolde Denham, daughter of Reginald Denham and Moyna MacGill. The marriage lasted from 1940 to their divorce in 1950, and they had one child, daughter Tamara Ustinov. Isolde was the half-sister of Angela Lansbury.
His second marriage was to Suzanne Cloutier, which lasted from 1954 to their divorce in 1971. They had three children, two daughters, Pavla Ustinov and Andrea Ustinov, and a son, Igor Ustinov.
His third and final marriage was to Helene du Lau d' Allemans, which lasted from 1972 to his death.[10]
Death[link]
He died on 28 March 2004 of heart failure in a clinic in Genolier, near his home in Bursins, Vaud, Switzerland.[11] He was so well regarded as a goodwill ambassador that UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy spoke at his funeral and represented United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
World politics[link]
Ustinov was the President of the World Federalist Movement from 1991 to 2004, the time of his death. WFM is a global NGO that promotes the concept of global democratic institutions. WFM lobbies those in powerful positions to establish a unified human government based on democracy and civil society. The United Nations and other world agencies would become the institutions of a World Federation. The UN would be the federal government and nation states would become like provinces.
He was also unintentionally a part witness[clarification needed] to the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. She was on her way to be interviewed by him for a documentary for Irish television, at her residence, when two of her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, opened fire and riddled her with bullets.
Novels and plays[link]
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Filmography[link]
- Hullo Fame (1940) (documentary)
- Mein Kampf — My Crimes (1940) (documentary)
- One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
- Let the People Sing (1942)
- The Goose Steps Out (1942)
- The New Lot (1943)
- The Way Ahead (1944)
- The True Glory (1945) (documentary)
- School for Secrets (1946) (director and writer)
- Carnival (1946) (screenwriter)
- Vice Versa (screenwriter, director, and producer)
- Private Angelo (1949)
- Odette (1950)
- Hotel Sahara (1951)
- The Magic Box (1951)
- Quo Vadis (1951)
- The King and the Mockingbird (1952) (voice)
- Pleasure (1952) (narrator of English version)
- The Egyptian (1954)
- Beau Brummell (1954)
- We're No Angels (1955)
- Lola Montès (1955)
- The Wanderers (1956)
- The Spies (1957)
- An Angel Passed Over Brooklyn (1957)
- Spartacus (1960)
- The Sundowners (1960)
- Romanoff and Juliet (1961) (director)
- Billy Budd (1962)
- Alleman (1963) (documentary) (narrator)
- Women of the World (1963) (documentary) (narrator)
- Topkapi (1964)
- The Peaches (1964) (narrator)
- John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965)
- Lady L (1965)
- The Comedians (1967)
- The Comedians in Africa (1967)
- Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
- Hot Millions (1968)
- Viva Max! (1969)
- The Festival Game (1970) (documentary)
- Hammersmith Is Out (1972)
- Robin Hood (1973) (voice)
- One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975)
- Logan's Run (1976)
- Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)
- The Muppet Show (1976)
- The Purple Taxi (1977)
- The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)
- Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (Herod the Great)
- The Mouse and His Child (1977)
- Double Murder (1977)
- Death on the Nile (1978)
- Thief of Baghdad (1978 film) (The Calif)
- Winds of Change (1979) (narrator)
- Tarka the Otter (1979) (narrator)
- Morte no Tejo (1979) (documentary)
- My Friend as the Alien (1999) (voice)
- Ashanti (1979)
- We'll Grow Thin Together (1979)
- Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
- The Great Muppet Caper (1981) (cameo)
- Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981) (voice)
- Evil Under the Sun (1982)
- Memed, My Hawk (1984)
- Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
- Dead Man's Folly (1986)
- Peter Ustinov's Russia (documentary) (1986)
- Murder in Three Acts (1986)
- Appointment with Death (1988)
- Peep and the Big Wide World (1988) (narrator)
- La Révolution française (1989)
- Granpa (pencil animation) (1989) (voice talent)
- Around the World in 80 Days (1989)
- There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs (1990)
- Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
- The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet (1995)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (1995)
- Paths of the Gods (1995) (documentary)
- Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
- The Bachelor (1999)
- Alice in Wonderland (1999)
- Animal Farm (1999) (voice)
- My Khmer Heart (2000) (documentary)
- Majestät brauchen Sonne (2000) (documentary)
- Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) (documentary)
- The Will to Resist (2002)
- Luther (2003)
- Winter Solstice (film) (2003)
- Siberia: Railroad Through the Wilderness (2004) (narrator)
- Wings of the Red Star (narrator) (year?)
Awards[link]
[edit] Academy Award
- 1952 nominated: Best Supporting Actor (Quo Vadis)
- 1961 won: Best Supporting Actor (Spartacus)
- 1965 won: Best Supporting Actor (Topkapi)
- 1969 nominated: Best Original Screenplay (Hot Millions)
[edit] BAFTA Award
- 1962 nominated: Best British Screenplay (Billy Budd)
- 1978 nominated: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Death on the Nile)
- 1992 won: Britannia Award
- 1995 nominated: Best Light Entertainment Performance (An Evening with Sir Peter Ustinov)
[edit] Berlin International Film Festival
- 1961 nominated: Golden Bear (Romanoff and Juliet)[13]
- 1972 won: Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution (Hammersmith Is Out)[14]
[edit] Emmy Award
- 1958 won: Best Single Performance by a Leading or Supporting Actor (Omnibus: The Life of Samuel Johnson)
- 1967 won: Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Barefoot in Athens)
- 1970 won: Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (A Storm in Summer)
- 1982 nominated: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Informational Programming (Omni: The New Frontier)
- 1985 nominated: Outstanding Classical Program in the Performing Arts (The Well-Tempered Bach with Peter Ustinov)
[edit] Golden Globe Award
- 1952 won: Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Quo Vadis)
- 1961 nominated: Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Spartacus)
- 1965 nominated: Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Topkapi)
[edit] Grammy Award
- 1960 won: Best Recording for Children (Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf) with the Philharmonia Orchestra directed by Herbert von Karajan
[edit] Tony Award
- 1958 nominated: Best Play (Romanoff and Juliet)
- 1958 nominated: Best Actor in a Play (Romanoff and Juliet)
References[link]
- ^ The pronunciations accepted by Sir Peter himself according to Miller, Gertrude M. Miller (Editor). BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names. Oxford University Press, 1971. ISBN 0-19-431125-2.
- ^ Previous rumours about an Ethiopian royal ancestry could not be confirmed by family documents. A recent publication based on genealogical documents preserved from his grandmother's family has clarified this open question. Peter's grandmother was Magdalena Hall, daughter of Katharina Hall, also known as Welette-Iyesus (wife of Tewodros II' cannon-caster Moritz Hall, a Jewish convert and employee of the Protestant mission in Ethiopia, later Jaffa), a confidante of Empress Taytu in the early 20th century. She was of mixed Ethiopian-German origin, the daughter of the German painter and immigrant to Ethiopia Eduard Zander and the court lady Isette-Werq in Gondar, daughter of an Ethiopian general called Meqado (active before the mid-19th century). See: Wolbert G.C. Smidt: Verbindungen der Familie Ustinov nach Äthiopien, in: Aethiopica, International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 8, 2005, pp. 29–47; for older speculations on Ustinov's Ethiopian ancestry, which have been disproved, see Frontline: Ustinov, which wrongly claimed that Peter Ustinov's alleged ancestor, Susan Bell, was the daughter of Tewodros II. The supposed connection with Susan Bell is based on Ustinov's memory of some family relation with the Swiss missionary Theophilus Waldmeier (husband of Susan Sara Yewubdar Bell), who, however, was a colleague and friend of Ustinov's great-grandfather, not his great-grandfather himself.
- ^ MI5 monitored union and CND leaders with ministers' backing, book reveals Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, October 5, 2009
- ^ For his biography, with references to archival documentation and publications on him and his family, see: Holtz: "Hall, Moritz", in: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 2, Wiesbaden 2005. There is also a family photo, which shows Ustinov's grandmother with her husband and their children, including Ustinov's father Jona.
- ^ Ustinov, Peter (1977). Dear Me (1st edition ed.). Boston: Little, Brown. pp. 95. ISBN 0-316-89051-0. OCLC 3071948.
- ^ Exit Through the Fireplace by Kate Dunn, 1998
- ^ Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. University of California Press; 2003.
- ^ World Federalist Movement: President
- ^ Ustinov and United Bears 2003 in Berlin[dead link]
- ^ Leninimports.com
- ^ Sir Peter Ustinov, President of the World Federalist Movement from 1991 to 2004, Dies at Age 82, World Federalist Movement, March 29, 2004.
- ^ Omni: The New Frontier (TV Series 1981–1982) - IMDb
- ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for Romanoff and Juliet". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055383/awards. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
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Critical viewpoints[link]
- Pollard, Stephen (2004-04-04). "I Can Only Speak Ill of Sir Peter". The Daily Telegraph (London: Telegraph Media Group). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3604443/I-can-only-speak-ill-of-Sir-Peter.html. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
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| Short description | Academy Award-winning British-born actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur |
| Date of birth | 16 April 1921 |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of death | 28 March 2004, aged 82 |
| Place of death | Genolier, Vaud, Switzerland |
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| Charles Laughton | |
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 In film The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) |
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| Born | (1899-07-01)1 July 1899 Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Died | 15 December 1962(1962-12-15) (aged 63) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, screenwriter, producer, director |
| Years active | 1926–1962 |
| Spouse | Elsa Lanchester (m.1929-1962; his death) |
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English-born American stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and director.[1]
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Early life and career[link]
Laughton was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, the son of Robert Laughton and his wife Elizabeth (née Conlon), Yorkshire hotel keepers.[2] His mother was a devout Roman Catholic of Irish descent. He attended Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit school, in Lancashire.[3] He served during World War I (in which he was gassed) first with the 2/1st Battalion of the Huntingdonshire Cyclist Regiment[4] and later with the 7th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment.
He started work in the family hotel business, while participating in amateur theatricals in Scarborough. Finally allowed by his family to become a drama student at RADA in 1925, Laughton made his first professional stage appearance on 28 April 1926 at the Barnes Theatre, as Osip in the comedy The Government Inspector, in which he also appeared at the London Gaiety Theatre in May. Despite not having the looks for a romantic lead, he impressed audiences with his talent and played classical roles in two plays by Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters. Laughton played the lead role of Harry Hegan in the world premiere of Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie in 1928 in London. He played the title roles in Arnold Bennett's Mr Prohack (Elsa Lanchester was also in the cast) and in Mr Pickwick. He also played Tony Perelli in Edgar Wallace's On the Spot and William Marble in Payment Deferred. He took the last role across the Atlantic and made his United States debut on 24 September 1931, at the Lyceum Theatre. He returned to London for the 1933–34 Old Vic Season and was engaged in four Shakespeare roles (as Macbeth and Henry VIII, Angelo in Measure for Measure and Prospero in The Tempest). In 1936, he went to Paris and on 9 May appeared at the Comédie-Française as Sganarelle in the second act of Molière's Le Médecin malgré lui, the first English actor to appear at that theatre, where he acted the part in French and received an ovation.[citation needed]
Laughton commenced his film career in England while still acting on the London stage. He took small roles in three short silent comedies starring his wife Elsa Lanchester, Daydreams, Blue Bottles and The Tonic (all 1928) which had been specially written for her by H. G. Wells. He made a brief appearance as a disgruntled diner in another silent film Piccadilly with Anna May Wong in 1929. He appeared with Elsa Lanchester again in a "film revue", featuring assorted British variety acts, called Comets (1930) in which they duetted in 'The Ballad of Frankie and Johnnie', and made two other early British talkies: Wolves with Dorothy Gish (1930) from a play set in a whaling camp in the frozen north, and Down River (1931) in which he played a murderous, half-oriental drug-smuggler.
His New York stage debut in 1931 immediately led to film offers and Laughton's first Hollywood film was The Old Dark House (1932) with Boris Karloff in which he played a bluff Yorkshire businessman marooned during a storm with other travellers in a creepy mansion in the Welsh mountains. He then played a demented submarine commander in Devil and the Deep with Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper and Cary Grant and followed this with his best-remembered film role of that year as Nero in Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross. He also turned out a number of other memorable performances during that first Hollywood trip, repeating his stage role as a murderer in Payment Deferred, playing H. G. Wells' mad vivisectionist Dr. Moreau in Island of Lost Souls, and the meek raspberry-blowing clerk in the brief segment of If I Had a Million that was directed by Ernst Lubitsch. In all, he appeared in six Hollywood films during 1932.
His association with film director Alexander Korda began in 1933 with The Private Life of Henry VIII (loosely based on the life of King Henry VIII), for which Laughton won an Academy Award, the first British actor to do so. However, he continued to act occasionally in the theatre, including his American production of Life of Galileo by (and with) Bertolt Brecht.
Film career[link]
1933–1943[link]
Laughton soon gave up the stage in preference for a film career and returned to Hollywood where his next film was White Woman (1933) in which he co-starred with Carole Lombard as a Cockney river trader in the Malaysian jungle. Then came The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) as Norma Shearer's malevolent father; Les Misérables (1935) as Javert, the police inspector; Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) as Captain William Bligh, one of his most famous screen roles, co-starring with Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian; and Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) as the very English butler transported to early 1900s America. He was also signed to play Micawber in David Copperfield (1934) but after a few days shooting asked to be released from the part, as he did not feel suited to it, and was replaced by W. C. Fields.
Back in England, and again with Korda, he played the title role in Rembrandt (1936). In 1937, also for Korda, he starred in an ill-fated film version of the classic novel, I, Claudius, by Robert Graves, which was abandoned during filming owing to the injuries suffered by co-star Merle Oberon in a car crash. After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath (US Title The Beachcomber) (1938), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which Laughton's wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred; St. Martin's Lane (US Title Sidewalks of London), a story about London street entertainers that also featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O'Hara and Robert Newton, based on a novel about Cornish smugglers by Daphne du Maurier, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.[citation needed]
The films produced were not successful enough, and the company was saved from bankruptcy only when RKO Pictures offered Laughton the title role of Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939). Laughton and Pommer had plans to make further films, but the outbreak of World War II, which implied the loss of many foreign markets, meant the end of the company. Laughton's early success in The Private Life of Henry VIII established him as one of the leading interpreters of the costume and historical drama parts for which he is best remembered (Nero, Henry VIII, Mr. Barrett, Inspector Javert, Captain Bligh, Rembrandt, Quasimodo and others); he was also type-cast for arrogant, unscrupulous characters.[citation needed]
He largely moved away from historical parts when he played an Italian vineyard owner in California in They Knew What They Wanted (1940); a South Seas patriarch in The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942); and an American admiral during World War II in Stand by for Action (1942). He played a Victorian butler in Forever and a Day (1943) and an Australian bar-owner in The Man from Down Under (1943). Simon Callow's 1987 biography quotes a number of contemporary reviews of Laughton's performances in these films. James Agate, reviewing Forever and a Day, wrote: "Is there no-one at RKO to tell Charles Laughton when he is being plain bad?" On the other hand, Bosley Crowther of the New York Times declared that Forever and a Day boasted "superb performances".[5]
C. A. Lejeune, wrote Callow, was "shocked" by the poor quality of Laughton's recent work: "One of the most painful screen phenomena of latter years", she wrote in The Observer, "has been the decline and fall of Charles Laughton." On the other hand, David Shipman, in his book The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years, said "Laughton was a total actor. His range was wide".[6]
1943–1962[link]
Laughton played a cowardly schoolmaster in occupied France in This Land is Mine (1943), by Jean Renoir, in which he engaged himself most actively;[7] in fact, while Renoir was still working on an early script, Laughton would talk to him about Alphonse Daudet's story "The Last Lesson", which suggested to Renoir a relevant scene of the film.[8] He played a henpecked husband who eventually murders his wife in The Suspect (1944), directed by Robert Siodmak, who later became a good friend of his.[9] He played sympathetically an impoverished composer-pianist in Tales of Manhattan (1942) and starred in an updated version of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost in 1944.
Laughton appeared in two comedies with Deanna Durbin, It Started with Eve (1941) and Because of Him (1946). He portrayed a bloodthirsty pirate in Captain Kidd (1945) and a malevolent judge in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1948). Laughton played a megalomaniac press tycoon in The Big Clock (1948). He had supporting roles as a Nazi in pre-war Paris in Arch of Triumph (1948), as a bishop in The Girl from Manhattan (1948), as a seedy go-between in The Bribe (1949), and as a kindly widower in The Blue Veil (1951). He played a Bible-reading pastor in the multi-story A Miracle Can Happen (1947), but his sequence was deleted and replaced with another featuring Dorothy Lamour, and in this form the film was retitled On Our Merry Way. However, an original print of A Miracle Can Happen was sent abroad for dubbing before the Laughton sequence was deleted, and in this form it was shown in Spain under the title Una Encuesta Llamada Milagro.
Laughton made his first color film in Paris as Inspector Jules Maigret in The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) and, wrote the Monthly Film Bulletin, "appeared to overact" alongside Boris Karloff as a mad French nobleman in a version of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Door in 1951. He played a tramp in O. Henry's Full House (1952), in which he had a one-minute scene with Marilyn Monroe. He became a pirate again, buffoon style this time, in Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952). He guest-starred in an episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour on TV that also featured Abbott and Costello and that was notable for his delivery of the Gettysburg Address. He played Herod Antipas in Salome (1953, with Rita Hayworth in the title role) and repeated his role as Henry VIII in Young Bess (1953). He returned to England to star in Hobson's Choice (1954) directed by David Lean. Kevin Brownlow's biography of David Lean (1996) reveals in Chapter 26 that Lean was a great admirer of Laughton and briefly considered him for the part of Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, hoping that Laughton would lose weight for the role. Other possible contenders for the part included Cary Grant and Laurence Olivier, though in the end it went to Alec Guinness.
Laughton received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for his role as Sir Wilfrid Robarts in the screen version of Agatha Christie's play Witness for the Prosecution (1957).
He played a British admiral in Under Ten Flags (1960) and worked for the only time with Laurence Olivier in Spartacus (1960) as a wily Roman senator.
His final film was Advise and Consent (1962), for which he received favorable comments for his performance as a southern US Senator (for which accent he studied recordings of Mississippi Senator John Stennis). Laughton worked on the film, which was directed by Otto Preminger, while he was dying from metastatic renal cell carcinoma (cancer of the kidney).[10]
[edit] The Night of the Hunter
In 1955, Laughton directed (but did not act in) The Night of the Hunter, starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The film is often cited among today's critics as one of the best of the 1950s,[11] and has been selected by the United States National Film Registry for preservation in the Library of Congress. At the time of its original release, however, it was a critical and box-office failure, and Laughton never had another chance to direct. The documentary Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter by Robert Gitt (2002) features preserved rushes and outtakes with Laughton's audible off-camera direction.[12]
Theatre[link]
Laughton made his London stage debut in Gogol's The Government Inspector (1926). He appeared in many West End plays in the following few years and his earliest successes on the stage were in roles like Hercule Poirot in Alibi (1928, the first actor to portray Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot) - a stage adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) and William Marble in Payment Deferred, in which he made his Lyceum Theatre (New York) debut in 1931.
In 1926, he played the role of the criminal Ficsur in the original London production of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom (The play was musicalized in 1945 by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Carousel, where Ficsur became Jigger Craigin, but Laughton never appeared in the musical version). While Laughton is most remembered for his film career, he continued to work in the theatre, as when, after the success of The Private Life of Henry VIII he appeared at the Old Vic Theatre in 1933 as roles Macbeth, Lopakin in The Cherry Orchard, Prospero in The Tempest and Angelo in Measure for Measure. In America, Laughton worked closely with Bertolt Brecht on a new English version of Brecht's play Galileo. Laughton played the title role at the play's premiere in Los Angeles on 30 July 1947 and later that year in New York. This staging was directed by Joseph Losey. The processes by which Laughton painstakingly, over many weeks, created his Galileo—and incidentally, edited and translated the play along with Brecht—are detailed in an essay by Brecht, "Building Up A Part: Laughton's Galileo."[13] Brecht's essay offers a sympathetic and detailed portrait of an actor at work.
Laughton had one of his most notable successes in the theatre by directing and playing the Devil in Don Juan in Hell beginning in 1950. The piece is actually the third act sequence from George Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman, frequently cut from productions to reduce its playing time, consisting of a philosophical debate between Don Juan and the Devil with contributions from Doña Ana and the statue of Ana's father. Laughton conceived the piece as a staged reading and cast Charles Boyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and Agnes Moorehead (billed as "The First Drama Quartette") in the other roles. Boyer won a special Tony Award for his performance. The performance, recorded complete by Columbia Masterworks, is now available as an MP3 download.
He directed several plays on Broadway. His most notable box-office success as a director came in 1954, with The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, a full-length stage dramatization by Herman Wouk of the court-martial scene in Wouk's novel The Caine Mutiny. The play, starring Henry Fonda as defense attorney Barney Greenwald, opened the same year as the film starring Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg and José Ferrer as Greenwald based on the original novel, but did not affect that film's box-office performance. Laughton also directed a staged reading in 1953 of Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body, a full-length poem about the American Civil War and its aftermath. The production starred Tyrone Power, Raymond Massey (re-creating his film characterizations of Abraham Lincoln and John Brown), and Judith Anderson. Laughton did not appear himself in either of these productions, but John Brown's Body was recorded complete by Columbia Masterworks.
Laughton returned to the London stage in May 1958 to direct and star in Jane Arden's The Party at the New Theatre which also had Elsa Lanchester and Albert Finney in the cast. He made his final theatre appearances as Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and as King Lear at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1959, although failing health resulted in both performances being disappointing, according to some British critics. His performance as King Lear came in for particular lambasting by critics, with many reviews saying that the portly actor looked more like Old King Cole than Shakespeare's creation, and critic Kenneth Tynan wrote that Laughton's Nick Bottom "...behaves in a manner that has nothing to do with acting, although it perfectly hits off the demeanor of a rapscallion uncle dressed up to entertain the children at a Christmas party". Although a British production of A Midsummer Night's Dream did air on television around this time, it was not the one with Laughton, but rather a 1958 production with Paul Rogers as Bottom.
Although he did not appear in any later plays, he continued to tour the US with staged readings, including a very successful appearance on the Stanford University campus in 1960.
Recordings[link]
Laughton's voice first appeared on 78-rpm records with the release of five British Regal Zonophone 10-inch discs entitled Voice of the Stars issued annually from 1934 to 1938. These featured short soundtrack snippets from the year's top films. He is heard on all five records in, respectively, The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bounty, I, Claudius (curiously, since this film was unfinished and thus never released), and Vessel of Wrath. In 1937 he recorded Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on a 10-inch Columbia 78, having made such an impression with it in Ruggles of Red Gap.
He made several other spoken-word recordings, one of his most famous being his one-man album of Charles Dickens's Mr. Pickwick's Christmas, a twenty-minute version of the Christmas chapter from Dickens's The Pickwick Papers. It was first released by American Decca in 1944 as a four-record 78-rpm set, but was afterward transferred to LP. It frequently appeared on LP with a companion piece, Decca's 1941 adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, starring Ronald Colman as Scrooge. Both stories were released together on a Deutsche Grammophon CD for Christmas 2005.
In 1943, Laughton recorded a reading of the Nativity story from St. Luke's Gospel, and this was released in 1995 on CD on a Nimbus Records collection entitled Prima Voce: The Spirit of Christmas Past.
A Brunswick/American Decca LP entitled Readings from the Bible featured Laughton reading Garden of Eden, The Fiery Furnace, Noah's Ark, and David and Goliath. It was released in 1958. Laughton had previously included several Bible readings when he played the title role in the film Rembrandt.
Laughton was also heard narrating the story on the soundtrack album of the film that he directed, Night of the Hunter, accompanied by the film's score. This album has also been released on CD.
Also, and derived from the film they made together, a complete radio show (18 June 1945) of The Canterville Ghost was broadcast which featured Laughton and Margaret O'Brien. It has been issued on a Pelican LP.
His wife Elsa Lanchester made three LPs in the 1950s: Songs for a Shuttered Parlour, Songs for a Smoke-Filled Room, and Cockney London. Laughton introduced the various numbers with spoken introductions on the first two and wrote the sleeve notes for the third.
An online version of the complete, two-LP Columbia Masterworks recording of the 1950 Broadway staging of George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell was re-released [Saland Publishing] in April, 2009. It is available only as a download from various vendors.
However, none of Laughton's other record albums have been made available on CD as of yet. A two-LP Capitol Records album was released in 1962, the year of Laughton's death, entitled The Story Teller: A Session with Charles Laughton. Taken from Laughton's one-man stage shows, it culls together dramatic readings from several sources. Three of the excerpts are broadcast annually on a Minnesota Public Radio Thanksgiving programme entitled Giving Thanks. The Story Teller won a Grammy in 1962 for Best Spoken Word Recording. However, although the album has yet to be released on compact disc, it can now be heard in its entirety online.[14]
Television[link]
Laughton was the fill-in host on 9 September 1956, when Elvis Presley made his first of three appearances on CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show, which garnered 72 million viewers (Ed Sullivan was recuperating from a car accident). That same year, Laughton also hosted the first of two programs devoted to classical music entitled "Festival of Music", and telecast on the NBC television anthology series Producers' Showcase. He appeared multiple times on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.
In 1959, Laughton appeared in the episode "Eleanor" of the anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show, broadcast over CBS.
One of his last performances was on the TV series Checkmate, in which he played a missionary recently returned from China. He threw himself into the role, traveling to China for several months in order to better understand his character.[15] Bugs Bunny spoofed Laughton playing Captain Bligh in Buccaneer Bunny (1947), Laughton's Mutiny on the Bounty as Mutiny on the Bunny (1948), The Sign of the Cross with Laughton as Nero in Roman Legion-Hare (1955), and as a spoiled king in Shishkabugs (1962). Laughton also appeared in the popular Western TV series Wagon Train.
Private life and death[link]
In 1927, Laughton began a relationship with Elsa Lanchester, at the time a cast mate in a stage play. The two were married in 1929, became American citizens in 1950, and remained together until Laughton's death. Over the years, they appeared together in several films, including Rembrandt (1936), Tales of Manhattan (1942) and The Big Clock (1948). Lanchester portrayed Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife, opposite Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII. They both received Academy Award nominations for their performances in Witness for the Prosecution (1957) — Laughton for Best Actor, and Lanchester for Best Supporting Actress—but neither won. Laughton and Lanchester had no children.[16][17] Laughton's bisexuality has been corroborated by several of his contemporaries and is generally accepted by Hollywood historians,[18][19][20][21] However, actress Maureen O'Hara, a friend and co-star of Laughton, claimed that Laughton told her that he and his wife never had children because of a botched abortion which Lanchester had early in her career while performing burlesque and that indeed his biggest regret was never having children of his own.[22] In her own autobiography, Lanchester acknowledged having had two abortions in her youth (one of the pregnancies purportedly by Laughton) although she didn't mention whether this had indeed left her incapable of becoming pregnant again. According to her biographer Charles Higham, the reason she didn't have children was that she didn't want any.[23]
Death[link]
Charles Laughton died 15 December 1962, after a battle with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer) at age 63. The cremated remains of Laughton are interred in a marbled crypt of the Court of Remembrance courtyard, at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.[24]
Awards and nominations[link]
Laughton won the New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Mutiny on the Bounty and Ruggles of Red Gap in 1935.
- Academy Awards
- 1933 Won Best Actor in a Leading Role, The Private Life of Henry VIII
- 1936 Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role, Mutiny on the Bounty
- 1958 Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role, Witness for the Prosecution
Filmography[link]
Main article: Charles Laughton filmography
Theatre performances[link]
Actor[link]
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- 1926: The Revizor [written] by Nikolai Gogol
- first appearance, debut on the London stage (aka The Government Inspector)
- 1928: Alibi adapted from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- police drama, he is the first actor to play detective Hercule Poirot
- 1928: The Silver Tassie (premiere)
- 1931: Payment Deferred adapted from the novel by C. S. Forester
- debut on the New York stage
- 1932: The Fatal Alibi adapted from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- police drama, Laughton is also the director (American version of Alibi)
- 1947: Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
- 1950: The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
- 1951 and 1952: Don Juan in Hell, the third act of Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
- drama, Laughton is also the director
- 1956–1957: Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
- comedy, Laughton is also the director
- 1959: King Lear by William Shakespeare
- classic tragedy
Director[link]
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- 1932: The Fatal Alibi adapted from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- police drama, Laughton also acts in the play.
- 1951 and 1952: Don Juan in Hell (the third act of Man and Superman) by George Bernard Shaw
- drama, Laughton also acts in the play.
- 1953: John Brown's Body, adapted by Laughton from Stephen Vincent Benét
- with Judith Anderson
- 1956–1957: Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
- comedy, Laughton also acts in the play
- 1954–1955: The Caine Mutiny Court Martial adapted from the novel by Herman Wouk
- drama, with Henry Fonda, transferred in 1954 to the screen by Edward Dmytryk
Producer[link]
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- 1955: 3 for Tonight
- musical revue, with Harry Belafonte
Footnotes[link]
- ^ Obituary Variety, 19 December 1962, p. 67.
- ^ "Charles Laughton Biography". Biography.com. http://www.biography.com/articles/Charles-Laughton-9374728. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
- ^ RonaldBruceMeyer.com "1 July Almanac." Retrieved 12 August 2007.
- ^ The Charles Laughton pages
- ^ Crowther, Bosley (13 March 1943). "'Forever and a Day', Pageant of Some English People, Made Cooperatively in Hollywood, Is Attraction at the Rivoli". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F00E5D61E39E33BBC4B52DFB5668388659EDE.
- ^ Amazon.com: The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years (9780316784870): David Shipman Books
- ^ Lourié, Eugène (1985) My Work in Films. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ISBN 0-15-164019-X Lourié, who worked after hours to work on the decors, once found Laughton working after hours to get used to move in the scenery.
- ^ Sesonske, Alexander (1996) "Jean Renoir in America: 1942, This Land Is Mine", in: Persistence of Vision (Maspeth), no. 12–13, 1996
- ^ Dumont, Hervé (1981) Robert Siodmak. Lausanne: L'Age d'homme
- ^ http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/l/charles%20laughton/dc.jpg
- ^ Ebert, Roger (1996). "Review: Night of the Hunter". Chicago Sun-Times. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19961124/REVIEWS08/401010344/1023.
- ^ Robert Gitt in The Guardian, 6 June 2003 "Charles Laughton directs The Night of the Hunter." Retrieved 25 October 2008.
- ^ Brecht, Life of Galileo. Ed John Willett. London: Methuen, 1980. 131–61.
- ^ THE STORY-TELLER : Charles Laughton : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
- ^ Booklet/Insert, "The Best of 'Checkmate'", Timeless Media Group
- ^ Lanchester 1983, p. 336
- ^ Houseman, John. The Bride of Frankenstein. The New York Times. 17 April 1983. Access date: 12 August 2007.
- ^ Callow
- ^ Crowe
- ^ Higham
- ^ Jones
- ^ O'Hara
- ^ Higham & Page 27 This biography was backed by Lanchester.
- ^ Charles Laughton at Find a Grave
References[link]
- Brown, William (1970). Charles Laughton A Pictorial Treasury of his Films. New York: Falcon Enterprises.
- Callow, Simon (1988). Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor. New York: Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-1047-9.
- Crowe, Cameron (2001). Conversations With Wilder. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0-375-70967-3.
- Higham, Charles (1976). Charles Laughton: An Intimate Biography. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-09403-5.
- Jones, Preston Neal (2004). Heaven and Hell to Play With: The Filming of The Night of the Hunter. New York: Limelight Editions. ISBN 0-87910-974-2.
- Lanchester, Elsa (1938). Charles Laughton and I. London: Faber and Faber. p. 271.
- Lanchester, Elsa (1983). Elsa Lanchester Herself. London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 0-7181-2309-3.
- Lyon, James K. (1980). Bertolt Brecht in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-19-502639-X.
- O'Hara, Maureen (2005). 'Tis Herself. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-4693-4.
- Parker, John (ed), (1947). Who's Who in the Theatre 10th revised edition. London. pp. 892–3..
- Singer, Kurt (1954). The Charles Laughton Story. London: John C. Winston Company.
- Tell Me a Story (1957) and The Fabulous Country (1962). Two literary anthologies selected by Charles Laughton. They contain pieces which were presented by him in his reading tours across America, with written introductions which give some insight about Laughton's thoughts. This selection presents texts from the Bible, Charles Dickens, Thomas Wolfe, Ray Bradbury, and James Thurber to name just a few.
- Diverse authors, articles in The Stonyhurst magazine: Charles Laughton at Stonyhurst by David Knight (Volume LIV, No. 501, 2005), Charles Laughton. A Talent in Bloom (1899–1931), by Gloria Porta (Volume LIV, No. 502, 2006)
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| Name | Laughton, Charles |
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| Short description | English-American stage and film actor |
| Date of birth | 1 July 1899 |
| Place of birth | Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, U.S. |
| Date of death | 15 December 1962 |
| Place of death | Hollywood, California, U.S. |
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| Harald Schmidt | |
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| Born | (1957-08-18) August 18, 1957 (age 54) Neu-Ulm, West Germany |
| Occupation | talk show host, comedian and television producer |
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Harald Franz Schmidt (born August 18, 1957 in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria) is a German actor, writer, comedian and television entertainer best known as host of two popular German late-night shows.
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Biography[link]
Early life[link]
As son of refugees who fled from South Moravia (now Czech Republic) in 1945, Schmidt spent his youth in Swabian Nürtingen, where he went to grammar school. Due to his strict Catholic upbringing he devoted time to the Roman Catholic church, serving as choirmaster and playing the organ.
At the age of 21, Schmidt went to Stuttgart to attend drama school for three years. After that, he gained on-stage experience at Städtische Bühne (Municipal Stage) in Augsburg. His first role was that of the 2nd Mamaluke in Lessing's Nathan the Wise. In 1984, Harald Schmidt became a text writer for the cabaret Kom(m)ödchen in Düsseldorf and in 1986, was honoured as "Best Newcomer cabaret artist" and toured through Germany with his own show.
Television[link]
Before long, TV noticed the talented young comedian and in 1988 Schmidt began to host his first TV show, MAZ ab. This was followed by shows like Psst! and Schmidteinander, but the biggest boost to his career occurred in 1992, when he started hosting the popular Saturday night show, Verstehen Sie Spaß? (a variation of Candid Camera). Schmidt was awarded Germany's most important TV award, "Adolf-Grimme-Preis", which would be followed by many others. Just one year later, he was honoured as the "Entertainer of the year" and awarded the famous Bambi award and the Golden Camera.
In 1995, Schmidt changed from the publicly funded TV station ARD to the privately owned channel Sat.1 and started the late night talk and variety show, Die Harald Schmidt Show. From 30 June 2003 the show was broadcast five days a week, including Monday evening. On the 8th December 2003, Schmidt suddenly announced the end of the show, following a change of management of Sat.1. The last show was aired on the 23rd December 2003.
"Creative break" and show relaunch[link]
In 2004, Schmidt toured through Germany with a live comedy show, featuring his former late night show sidekick Manuel Andrack. On December 23 of the same year, the new show Harald Schmidt began featuring Andrack, back on ARD, where Schmidt had begun his television career 16 years earlier.
In October 2005, his daughter Amelie was born.
Harald Schmidt resides in Cologne with his partner Ellen Hantsch, a school teacher, and five children, the eldest being from a former relationship. Little is known about the children and their two mothers as Schmidt shields them from the public. In interviews he hardly talks about them.
Shows[link]
[edit] Harald Schmidt Show (Sat.1)
Schmidt is host of the German late night show comparable to Late Night with Conan O'Brien or Late Night with David Letterman, which has now begun a second run after a year-long "creative break". The original show, named Die Harald Schmidt Show and shown on German television network Sat.1, featured stand-up comedy as well as famous national and international guests.
In its later years, the show became a critics' favourite due to Schmidt's "intellectual" sense of humour. For example, he hosted one show completely in French. On another occasion, the screen was blacked for half of the show making it into a "radio broadcast". Another time, he disproved a critic who had written that it is impossible to spend several minutes on TV just cracking nuts.
[edit] Harald Schmidt (ARD)
Schmidt began a second run with a new show on publicly funded ARD, this time without "celebrity" interviews and with even more discussion of current events in a rather freely associative manner. As the German entertainer Thomas Gottschalk recently quipped, Schmidt will always attract the student and intellectual crowd, Gottschalk himself will take care of the rest.
On his first show after the break Schmidt appeared with long hair and a fluffy full beard (which looked kind of grey-white-blond-yellowish and reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway and made it to the newspaper headlines the next morning) making fun of his long absence from the public. Although he claimed right on: "I swear, I shaved this morning!". After summer break in 2005 the "celebrity guest" segment was reintroduced.
[edit] Schmidt & Pocher (ARD)
Late in 2007, Manuel Andrack was replaced by Comedian Oliver Pocher, who had a more active part than his predecessor, and some other elements changed as well. The broadcast's title was changed to "Schmidt & Pocher", trying to attract a younger audience. Oliver Pocher was less educated and "less intellectual", a fact that caused some criticism among Harald Schmidt's core audience and broadsheet newspaper comments in Germany.
[edit] Harald Schmidt (Das Erste)
As of 2011, Schmidt hosts a live show for Das Erste each week.
[edit] Return to Sat. 1 as Harald Schmidt Show again
On September 15, 2011 Schmidt returned to his former network Sat.1 picking up is former show name of Die Harald Schmidt Show again. Sat.1 cancelled the show after one season due to low viewer levels.[1]
[edit] Harald Schmidt Show (Sky Deutschland)
Starting September 11, 2012 new episodes will be shown on Sky Hits HD and Sky Atlantic HD, two channels of the German Pay-TV network Sky Deutschland.[2]
Concept/crew[link]
The self-proclaimed hypochondriac became popular for his cynical jokes, cruel remarks and wry intellectual wit. (Even though he is obsessed with health he was able to lampoon this weak spot in a self ironic TV commercial for a medicine curing colds.) Schmidt models himself after people like Johnny Carson and Conan O'Brien, but adds few factors and qualities to his show himself.
He engaged in long, seemingly boring conversations with his "supervising producer" Manuel Andrack (known as "chief dramatic adviser"), who sat at a desk next to Schmidt's, and, like Letterman, also included his staff in the show, for instance, his band leader Helmut Zerlett and his cue card girl Suzana Novinscak (both omitted in the new show). After a few new shows, Schmidt celebrated the return of French woman Nathalie Licard. Previously Schmidt's reporter in the old show, she sat on a stool, opposite Manuel Andrack, in front of the band. On occasion, she was involved in the goings-on (like dressing up as Eliza Doolittle in front of the audience, helping Schmidt to bring people from the audience who were chosen to form an impromptu choir etc.). It has been announced on the 28th of March 2012 that the "Harald Schmidt Show" will end on the 3rd of May 2012 on SAT1.
Criticism[link]
Especially during the first years of Die Harald Schmidt Show, Schmidt was sometimes criticised for making fun of minorities like foreigners or gays. He also did some Adolf Hitler imitations in his show (in one of these he as Hitler warned young people not to vote for racist and nationalistic parties). However, especially Schmidts more unorthodox and politically incorrect jokes have garnered the show a reputation as cult television and his supporters accused critics of being incapable of understanding satire.
Awards[link]
Awards include three German Television Awards, the viewers choice award Bambi, the Grimme Award, the Golden Camera and the Golden Lion as best showmaster.
Related meme[link]
A picture of Schmidt, with a beard and long hair, holding up his index finger, is the basis of an Internet meme known as "fgsfds."
References[link]
External links[link]
- Die Harald Schmidt Show (old site)
- Harald Schmidt at the Internet Movie Database
- Schmidt's new Show (SAT.1)
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| Date of birth | August 18, 1957 |
| Place of birth | Neu-Ulm, Germany |
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| Born | Michael Terence Aspel (1933-01-12) 12 January 1933 (age 79) Battersea, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | TV presenter |
| Spouse | Dian Sessions (1957-61) (divorced)[1] Ann Reed (1962-67[1]) (divorced) Elizabeth Power (1977-1994) (separated)[1] Irene Clarke (1994-)[1] (partnered) |
Michael Terence Aspel,[2] OBE, (born 12 January 1933) is an English television presenter on programmes such as Crackerjack, Aspel and Company, This is Your Life, Strange but True? and Antiques Roadshow.
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Early life[link]
Aspel was born in Battersea, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. During the Second World War he was evacuated and spent nearly five years in Chard, Somerset.[3] He attended Emanuel School after passing his eleven-plus in 1944. He served as a conscript of the National Service, in the ranks of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, from 1951 to 1953.[4]
Early career[link]
He worked as a drainpipe-layer and gardener, and sold advertising space for Western Mail newspaper in Cardiff. According to Aspel "National Service was the catalyst that got me to Wales. Before that I was a teaboy in William Collins publishers, in London, serving tea" to famous authors. He took up a job at the David Morgan department store in Cardiff, before working as newsreader for the BBC in Cardiff in 1957. By the early sixties, he had become one of four regular newsreaders on BBC national television, along with Richard Baker, Corbet Woodall and Robert Dougall.
At the BBC he began presenting a number of other programmes such as the series Come Dancing, Crackerjack, Ask Aspel, and Miss World, a beauty contest, which he covered 14 times. He narrated the now cult BREMA cartoon documentary, The Colour Television Receiver (aka Degaussing), a film to "familiarise engineers of some differences between a mono receiver and a colour receiver, from the point of view of adjustment and installation..", which was shown regularly on BBC2 between August 1967 and January 1971. He also provided narration for the BBC nuclear war documentary The War Game, which was judged too horrifying and politically charged to be shown on BBC TV. It won the Best Documentary Feature Oscar in 1966, but it was not shown on British television until 1985.
In 1969 and 1976 he hosted the BBC's A Song for Europe contest and provided the UK commentary twice at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969 and 1976, also presenting the contest previews. He also had a regular joke slot on the Kenny Everett radio show on Capital Radio, and guest-starred twice on The Goodies, appearing as himself, notably in the episode "Kitten Kong", which won the Silver Rose at the Montreux Light Entertainment Festival.
From 1974 until the mid-80s, Aspel also presented a three-hour weekday, mid-morning music and chat programme on Capital Radio in London,
In 1977 Aspel appeared with a number of other newsreaders and presenters in a song-and-dance routine ("There ain't Nothing Like a Dame") on The Morecambe and Wise Show. The sketch, in which the presenters were dressed as traditional sailors, is often cited as one of the classic moments of British TV comedy. In another episode, Morecambe refers to him as "Michael Aspirin". In the 1970s and 1980s he appeared in popular ITV programmes such as Give Us a Clue, Child's Play and The 6 O'Clock Show, a live current affairs and entertainment programme shown only in the London Weekend Television region.
During the early 1990s, Aspel presented two documentaries on BBC Radio 2 written by Terence Pettigrew, on subjects with which they shared a personal knowledge. Caught In The Draft was a nostalgic look back at compulsory National Service. Both had served, at different times, in West Germany, Aspel in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps and Pettigrew in the REME. Also taking part in the programme were comedian/compere Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Thomas, author of The Virgin Soldiers, and BBC Radio 2 drivetime host John Dunn.
This was followed by Nobody Cried When The Trains Pulled Out, a documentary about the evacuation of children from major British cities during World War 2. Again, the writer and presenter compared evacuation experiences. Aspel had been sent with his younger brother and sister to Chard in Somerset, whilst Pettigrew was shipped along with his older brother to maternal grandparents in Co Waterford, Ireland. Aspel admitted later that the experience had left deep scars on the family. Also taking part in the programme were champion boxer Henry Cooper, actor Derek Nimmo and author Ben Wicks. Both documentaries were produced by Harry Thompson.
[edit] Aspel and Company
One of his best-known roles was as host of his own chat show, Aspel and Company, which ran for several series in the 1980s and 1990s on ITV. Aspel and Company was successful in attracting high-profile guests, including then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher giving a rare non-political interview, and George Harrison and Ringo Starr together in a unique post-Beatles Q&A.
In 1993, Aspel and Company was censured by the Independent Television Commission over a deal with the restaurant chain Planet Hollywood and Matthew Freud's PR company to secure an interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone. The trio effectively hijacked the programme, and at one point Aspel started reading from the menu, asking the guests if hamburgers and fries were really the way to "body beautiful".
For a time, Aspel and Company performed well for ITV in the highly competitive Saturday night ratings. After the Planet Hollywood controversy, Aspel vowed never to host a chat show again.[5]
Later career[link]
Aspel was featured on This is Your Life in 1980, and when host Eamonn Andrews died in 1987 he became presenter of the programme until its run ended in 2003. Although he had guested on The Goodies, Bill Oddie refused at first to be featured and had to be persuaded.[6]
In 1993, Aspel began presenting the ITV supernatural programme Strange But True?, a series exploring supernatural phenomena and unexplained mysteries. The programme ran between 1993 and 1997. He presented a new version of the ITV gameshow Blockbusters for the BBC in 1997; 60 programmes were made.
He presented BBC's Antiques Roadshow from 2000 until 2008, his last programme (recorded at Kentwell Hall, Suffolk) was shown on 30 March 2008 being a tribute to himself.[7]
In 2003, Aspel starred in a BBC Three spoof documentary which claimed he had affairs with Pamela Anderson, Valerie Singleton and Angie Best, among others. Several well known celebrities were claimed to be love children from these and other relationships, including Daniella Westbrook (with Pamela), Shane Lynch (with Valerie), Mel B (with a West German Eurovision Song Contest entrant), Melinda Messenger, Gail Porter, Michelle Heaton and Ben Shephard.[8]
He has guest hosted the topical quiz show Have I Got News for You on two occasions (October 2005 and November 2007).
In 2006, he played the role of the narrator in the UK tour of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show.[9]
He was at one point favourite to be the new host of Countdown, though on 16 October 2006 the Daily Express reported that he had told an audience at a book launch he had already turned the job down.[6]
During July and August 2008, Michael Aspel filmed Evacuees Reunited,[10] a five-part documentary series made by Leopard Films for ITV1, which aired from 15–19 December 2008.[3] Along with fifteen other wartime evacuees, he returned to the locations of his own youth, including his wartime home in Chard, Somerset. He was reunited with his childhood gang of evacuees at Forde Abbey, just outside the town. Later he caught up with his 96 year-old former school teacher, Audrey Guppy.[11]
Personal life[link]
He has been married three times, first to Dian Sessions[1] a "stunning domestic science student" in 1957. "She was particularly fecund," he says, "and we had two children [Greg and Richard][6] in barely the time it takes to have two [sic]." They divorced in 1961 and, on a whim - "I suggested a holiday become a honeymoon" - he married Anne Reed,[1] a TV scriptwriter, in 1962. They had twins, Tom and Jane,[6] but divorced in 1967.
Aspel is married to, but separated from, the actress Elizabeth Power, best known for her role in EastEnders. His current partner is Irene Clarke, who was a production assistant on This Is Your Life at the time of meeting.[12] In April 2008 he was made a Freeman of the Borough of Elmbridge, Surrey.[13]
Since 1994, when their affair made headlines and ended his marriage to Lizzie, an affair which he revealed to Lizzie by telephone when she was hundreds of miles away on tour, he has lived with Irene Clark, a production assistant on This Is Your Life.[3] Aspel also has family in Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire.
In 2004, Aspel announced that he had been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma[14][14][15]
His sanguine attitude toward his health is borne of family tragedy. One of his brothers was killed in a motorbike accident; his son James died at three days old; another son, Patrick, suffers from cerebral palsy. Most poignantly he watched his son Greg fight a long battle against cancer of the sinuses through the second half of his 20s, succumbing to the disease just weeks after turning 30 in 1989. He said:.[14]
"It has made everything else seem no more than a vague toothache. In remission, Greg was reinstated as the handsome, healthy person he had been before, but then it came back to get him. He went through dreadful operations and fought so hard, but he was a ruin when he died. If I'd gone a week later myself, I'd have not cared. It has put my own illnesses into perspective."
Honours[link]
In 1993, Aspel became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to broadcasting", and has been voted TV Times and Variety Club Television Personality of the Year. He was also voted into the Royal Television Society Hall of Fame for outstanding services to television.[16]
He is a supporter of the charity Cancer Research UK and on 9 April 2008 Elmbridge Borough Council, Surrey, appointed him an Honorary Freeman of the Borough:
"...in recognition of the eminent service to the community and local charities, which he has given consistently for more than 30 years. In addition to being very involved with cancer charities, he has continued to support local events, whether to celebrate a resident’s 100th birthday or give his time freely to help raise the profile of local charities."[13]
References[link]
- ^ a b c d e f "Michael Aspel's revenge on the autocuties; Daily Mail report by Moira Petty - has pictures with most of Aspel's wives". London. 17 August 2007. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-475878/Michael-Aspels-revenge-autocuties.html. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ "Picture of Aspel at TV announcers website". http://tvannouncers.thetvroomplus.com/images.php?id=458. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ a b c Johnston, Jenny (2 December 2008). "Daddy, I hated you! TV's smoothest star Michael Aspel reveals his loathing for his own father - includes picture of young Michael and another with son Daniel and former wife Lizzie Power in 1985". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1088390/Daddy-I-hated-TVs-smoothest-star-Michael-Aspel-reveals-loathing-father.html. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ Liverpool Daily Post features
- ^ "and my next guest is...". The Independent (London). 2006-03-04. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/and-my-next-guest-istony-blair--stars-on-the-couch-468523.html. Retrieved 2009-12-27.
- ^ a b c d "Mr Smooth's Half Century - includes pictures - Anna Pukas". 9 August 2007. https://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/15953/Mr-Smooth's-half-century/. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ "Bruce to host Antiques Roadshow". BBC News. (2007-06-22). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6229968.stm. Retrieved 2007-06-22.
- ^ "Pam's fling with antique Aspel". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2003-11-13. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/13/1068674289668.html?from=storyrhs.
- ^ "Game shows website". http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Michael_Aspel. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ http://www.itv.com/Lifestyle/EvacueesReunited/default.html
- ^ Collins, Robert (2008-12-10). "Evacuees Reunited: Michael Aspel". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3703787/Evacuees-Reunited-Michael-Aspel.html. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
- ^ "Michael Aspel: 'I'm just not a happy person'". The Independent. 25 May 2004. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/michael-aspel-im-just-not-a-happy-person-6169234.html. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- ^ a b "Appointment of Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Elmbridge". http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/Elmbridge%20Borough%20Council/Committees/HonoraryFreemanReportCO090408.pdf. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ a b c Petty, Moira (29 January 2007). "Michael Aspel on saying no to cancer treatment". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-432379/Michael-Aspel-saying-cancer-treatment.html. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ "TV star Michael Aspel has cancer". BBC News. 4 January 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3366437.stm.
- ^ "Michael Aspel at the UK TV History Channel Website". http://uktv.co.uk/history/item/aid/530414. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
External links[link]
- Michael Aspel at the Internet Movie Database
- Michael Aspel biography at BFI Screenonline
- Interview with Michael Aspel about leaving the Antiques Roadshow
| Preceded by Tom Sloan |
Eurovision Song Contest UK Commentator 1969 |
Succeeded by David Gell |
| Preceded by Pete Murray |
Eurovision Song Contest UK Commentator 1976 |
Succeeded by Pete Murray |
| Preceded by Hugh Scully |
Host of Antiques Roadshow 2000-2008 |
Succeeded by Fiona Bruce |
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| Name | Aspel, Michael |
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| Date of birth | 1933-01-12 |
| Place of birth | Battersea, London, England, U.K. |
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 Cook (left) with Dudley Moore in 1974 |
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| Born | Peter Edward Cook (1937-11-17)17 November 1937 Torquay, Devon, England |
| Died | 9 January 1995(1995-01-09) (aged 57) Hampstead, London, England |
| Occupation | Comedian, satirist, writer |
| Years active | 1958–1994 |
| Spouse | Wendy Snowden (1963–1971) Judy Huxtable (1973–1989) Lin Chong (1989–1995) |
Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, he is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. Cook has been described by Stephen Fry as "the funniest man who ever drew breath", although his work was also controversial.[1] Cook was closely associated with anti-establishment comedy which emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s.
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Early life[link]
Cook was born at his parents' house "Shearbridge", in Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon. He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward (Alec) Cook (1906–1984), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, née Mayo (1908–1994). He was educated at Radley College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied French and German. As a student, Cook initially intended to become a career diplomat like his father, but Britain "had run out of colonies", as he put it. Although politically largely apathetic, particularly in later life when he displayed a deep distrust of politicians of all hues, he did join the Cambridge University Liberal Club.[2]
It was at Pembroke that Cook performed and wrote comedy sketches as a member of the Cambridge Footlights Club, of which he became president in 1960. His hero was fellow Footlights writer and Cambridge magazine writer David Nobbs.[3]
Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.
The show became a great success in London after being first performed at the Edinburgh Festival and included Cook impersonating the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan. This was one of the first occasions satirical political mimicry had been attempted in live theatre and it shocked audiences. During one performance, Macmillan was in the theatre and Cook departed from his script and attacked him verbally.[4]
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1960s[link]
In 1961 Cook opened the Establishment club at 18 Greek Street in Soho in central London, presenting fellow comedians in a nightclub setting, including American Lenny Bruce. Cook said it was a satirical venue modelled on "those wonderful Berlin cabarets... which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War";[5] as a members-only venue it was outside the censorship restrictions. Cook befriended and supported Australian comedian and actor Barry Humphries, who began his British solo career at the club. Humphries said in his autobiography, My Life As Me, that he found Cook's lack of interest in art and literature off-putting. Cook's chiselled looks and languid manner led Humphries to observe that whereas most people take after their father or mother, Cook seemed more like an aunt. Dudley Moore's jazz trio played in the basement of the club during the early 1960s.
In 1962, the BBC commissioned a pilot for a television series of satirical sketches based on the Establishment club, but it was not picked up straight away and Cook went to New York for a year to perform in Beyond The Fringe on Broadway. When he returned, the pilot had been refashioned as That Was The Week That Was and had made a star of David Frost, something Cook resented. The 1960s satire boom was closing and Cook said that Britain would "sink into the sea under the weight of its own giggling".[citation needed] He complained that Frost's success was based on copying Cook's own stage persona and that his only regret in life had been once saving Frost from drowning.[citation needed] Around this time, Cook provided financial backing for the satirical magazine Private Eye, supporting it through difficult periods, particularly in libel trials. Cook invested his own money and solicited investment from his friends. For a time, the magazine was produced from the premises of the Establishment club. In 1963, Cook married Wendy Snowden; the couple had two daughters, Lucy and Daisy, but the marriage ended in 1970.
Cook expanded television comedy with Eleanor Bron, John Bird and John Fortune. His first regular television spot was on Granada Television's Braden Beat with Bernard Braden, where he featured his most enduring character: the static, dour and monotonal E.L. Wisty, whom Cook had conceived for Radley College's Marionette Society.
Cook's comedy partnership with Dudley Moore led to Not Only... But Also. This was intended by the BBC for Moore's music, but Moore invited Cook to write sketches and appear with him. Using few props, they created dry and absurd television which lasted for three series between 1965 and 1970. Cook played characters such as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling and the two men created their Pete and Dud alter egos. Other sketches included "Superthunderstingcar", a parody of the Gerry Anderson marionette TV shows, and Cook's pastiche of 1960s trendy arts documentaries – satirised in a parodic TV segment on Greta Garbo.
When Cook learned a few years later that the videotapes of the series were to be wiped, a common practice at the time, he offered to buy the recordings from the BBC but was refused because of copyright issues. He suggested he could purchase new tapes so that the BBC would have no need to erase the originals, but this was also turned down. Of the original programmes, only eight of the twenty-two episodes still survive complete. A compilation of six half-hour programmes, The Best of What's Left of Not Only...But Also was shown on television and has been released on both VHS and DVD.
With The Wrong Box (1966) and Bedazzled (1967) Cook and Moore began to act in films together. Directed by Stanley Donen, the underlying story of Bedazzled is credited to Cook and Moore and its screenplay to Cook. A comic parody of Faust, it stars Cook as George Spigott (The Devil) who tempts Stanley Moon (Moore), a frustrated, short-order chef, with the promise of gaining his heart's desire – the unattainable beauty and waitress at his cafe, Margaret Spencer (Eleanor Bron) – in exchange for his soul, but repeatedly tricks him. The film features cameo appearances by Barry Humphries as Envy and Raquel Welch as Lust. Moore composed the soundtrack music and co-wrote (with Cook) the songs performed in the film. His jazz trio backed Cook on the theme, a parodic anti-love song, which Cook delivered in a monotonous deadpan voice and included his familiar put-down, "You fill me with inertia."
In 1968, Cook and Moore briefly switched to ATV for four one-hour programmes entitled Goodbye Again, based on the Pete and Dud characters. They ignored suggestions from the director and cast. Sketches were drawn out to fill the running time. With no interest in the show, Cook's increasing alcoholism led him to become reliant on cue cards and he ended up garbling the script, forcing Moore to ad-lib. The show was not a popular success, owing in part to the publication of the ITV listings magazine, TV Times, being suspended because of a strike. John Cleese was a cast member.
1970s[link]
In 1970, Cook took over a project initiated by David Frost for a satirical film about an opinion pollster who rises to become President of Great Britain. Under Cook's guidance, the character became modelled on Frost. The film, The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, was not a success, although the cast contained notable names.
Cook became a favourite of the chat show circuit but his own effort at hosting one for the BBC in 1971, Where Do I Sit?, was said by the critics to have been a disappointment. He was replaced after only two episodes by Michael Parkinson, the start of Parkinson's career as a chat show host. Parkinson later asked Cook what his ambitions were. Cook replied "[...] in fact, my ambition is to shut you up altogether."
He and Moore fashioned sketches from Not Only....But Also and Goodbye Again with new material into the stage revue called Behind the Fridge. This show toured Australia in 1972 before transferring to New York in 1973, re-titled as Good Evening. Cook frequently appeared on and off stage the worse for drink. Nonetheless, the show proved very popular and it won Tony and Grammy Awards. When it finished, Moore stayed in the U.S. to pursue his film acting ambitions in Hollywood. Cook returned to Britain and in 1973 he married the actress and model Judy Huxtable.
Later, the more risqué humour of Pete and Dud went farther on long-playing records as "Derek and Clive". The first recording was initiated by Cook to alleviate boredom during the Broadway run of Good Evening, and it used material conceived years before for the two characters but considered too outrageous. One of these audio recordings was also filmed, and tensions between the duo are seen to rise. Chris Blackwell circulated bootleg copies to friends in the music business. The popularity of the recording convinced Cook to release it commercially, although Moore was initially reluctant, fearing that his rising fame as a Hollywood star would be undermined. Two further Derek and Clive albums were released, the last accompanied by a film.
In 1978 Cook appeared on British music series Revolver as the manager of a ballroom where emerging punk and new wave acts played. For some groups, these were their first appearances on television. Cook's acerbic commentary was an aspect of the programme.
In 1979 Cook recorded comedy-segments as B-sides to the Sparks 12-inch singles "Number One In Heaven" and "Tryouts For The Human Race". The main songwriter Ron Mael often started off a banal situation in his lyrics, and then went at surreal tangents in the style of Cook and S.J. Perelman.
[edit] Consequences album
Cook played multiple roles on the 1977 concept album Consequences, written and produced by former 10cc members Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. A mixture of spoken comedy and progressive rock with an environmental subtext, Consequences started as a single that Godley and Creme planned to make to demonstrate their invention, an electric guitar effect called the Gizmo, which they developed in 10cc. The project grew into a triple LP boxed set. The comedy sections were originally intended to be performed by a cast including Spike Milligan and Peter Ustinov, but Godley and Creme eventually settled on Cook once they realised he could perform most parts himself.
The storyline centres on the impending divorce of ineffectual Englishman Walter Stapleton (Cook) and his French wife Lulu (Judy Huxtable). While meeting their lawyers – the bibulous Mr Haig and overbearing Mr Pepperman (both played by Cook) – the encroaching global catastrophe interrupts proceedings with bizarre and mysterious happenings, which seem to centre on Mr Blint (Cook), a musician and composer living in the flat below Haig's office, to which it is connected by a large hole in the floor.
Although it has since developed a cult following due to Cook's presence, Consequences was released as punk was sweeping the UK and proved a resounding commercial failure, savaged by critics who found the music self-indulgent. The script and story have evident connections to Cook's own life – his then wife Judy Huxtable, plays Walter's wife. Cook's struggles with alcohol are mirrored in Haig's drinking, and there is a parallel between the fictional divorce of Walter and Lulu and Cook's own divorce from his first wife. The voice and accent Cook used for the character of Stapleton are similar to Cook's Beyond the Fringe colleague, Alan Bennett, and a book on Cook's comedy, How Very Interesting, speculates that the characters Cook plays in Consequences are caricatures of the four Beyond The Fringe cast members – the alcoholic Haig represents Cook, the tremulous Stapleton is Bennett, the parodically Jewish Pepperman is Miller, and the pianist Blint represents Moore.[6]
Amnesty International performances[link]
Cook appeared at the first three fund-raising galas staged by humourists John Cleese and Martin Lewis on behalf of Amnesty International. The benefits were dubbed The Secret Policeman's Balls though it wasn't until the third show in 1979 that the title was used. He performed on all three nights of the first show in April 1976, A Poke in the Eye (with a Sharp Stick), as an individual performer and as a member of the cast of Beyond The Fringe, which reunited for the first time since the 1960s. He also appeared in a Monty Python sketch, taking the place of Eric Idle. Cook was on the cast album of the show and in the film, Pleasure At Her Majesty's. He was in the second Amnesty gala in May 1977, An Evening Without Sir Bernard Miles. It was retitled The Mermaid Frolics for the cast album and TV special. Cook performed monologues and skits with Terry Jones.
In June 1979, Cook performed all four nights of The Secret Policeman's Ball – teaming with John Cleese. Cook performed a couple of solo pieces and a sketch with Eleanor Bron. He also led the ensemble in the finale – the "End Of The World" sketch from Beyond The Fringe.
In response to a barb in The Daily Telegraph that the show was recycled material, Cook wrote a satire of the summing-up by Mr Justice Cantley in the trial of former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe, a summary thought by some to show bias in favour of Thorpe. Cook performed it that same night (Friday 29 June – the third of the four nights) and the following night. The nine-minute opus, "Entirely a Matter for You," is considered by many fans and critics to be one of the finest works of Cook's career. Cook and show producer Martin Lewis brought out an album on Virgin Records entitled Here Comes the Judge: Live of the live performance together with three studio tracks that further lampooned the Thorpe trial.[7][8]
Although unable to take part in the 1981 gala, Cook supplied the narration over the animated opening title sequence of the 1982 film of the show. With Lewis, he wrote and voiced radio commercials to advertise the film in the UK. He also hosted a spoof film awards ceremony that was part of the world première of the film in London in March 1982.
Following Cook's 1987 stage reunion with Moore for the annual U.S. benefit for the homeless, Comic Relief (not related to the UK Comic Relief benefits), Cook repeated the reunion for a British audience by performing with Moore at the 1989 Amnesty benefit The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball.
1980s[link]
In 1980, partly spurred by Moore's growing film star status, Cook moved to Hollywood and appeared as an uptight English butler to a wealthy American woman in a short-lived U.S. television sitcom The Two of Us, also making cameo appearances in a couple of undistinguished films. In 1980, Cook starred in the LWT special Peter Cook & Co. The show included comedy sketches, including a Tales of the Unexpected parody "Tales Of The Much As We Expected". This involved Cook as Roald Dahl, explaining his name had been Ronald before he dropped the "n". The cast included John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Beryl Reid, Paula Wilcox and Terry Jones.
In 1983 Cook played the role of Richard III in the first episode of Blackadder, "The Foretelling", which parodies Laurence Olivier's portrayal. He narrated the short film "Diplomatix" by Norwegian comedy trio Kirkvaag, Lystad and Mjøen, which won the "Special Prize of the City of Montreux" at the Montreux Comedy Festival in 1985.[9] In 1986 he partnered Joan Rivers on her UK talk show. He appeared as Mr Jolly in 1987 in The Comic Strip Presents' Mr Jolly Lives Next Door, playing an assassin who covers the sound of his murders by playing Tom Jones records. Cook appeared in The Princess Bride that year as the "Impressive Clergyman". Also that year he spent time working with Martin Lewis on a political satire about the 1988 U.S. presidential elections for HBO, but the script went unproduced. Lewis suggested Cook team with Moore for the U.S. Comic Relief telethon for the homeless. The duo reunited and performed their "One Leg Too Few" sketch.
In 1988, Cook appeared as a contestant on the improvisation comedy show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? Cook was declared the winner, his prize being to read the credits in the style of a New York cab driver – a character he'd portrayed in Peter Cook & Co.
Cook occasionally called in to Clive Bull's night-time phone-in radio show on LBC in London. Using the name "Sven from Swiss Cottage", he mused on love, loneliness and herrings in a mock Norwegian accent. Jokes included Sven's attempts to find his estranged wife, in which he often claimed to be telephoning the show from all over the world, and his hatred of the Norwegian obsession with fish. While Bull was clearly aware that Sven was fictional he did not learn Sven's real identity until later.
Revival[link]
In late 1989 Cook married for the third time, to Malaysian-born property developer Chiew Lin Chong in Torbay, Devon. She provided him with some stability in his personal life and he reduced his drinking, to the extent that for a time he was teetotal. He lived alone in a small 18th century house in Perrins Lane, Hampstead, once owned by H.G. Wells, while his wife kept her own property only 100 yards away.
Cook returned to the BBC as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling for an appearance with Ludovic Kennedy in A Life in Pieces. The 12 interviews saw Sir Arthur recount his life based on the Twelve Days of Christmas. Unscripted interviews with Cook as Streeb-Greebling and satirist Chris Morris were recorded in late 1993 and broadcast as Why Bother? on BBC Radio 3. Morris described them:
| “ | It was a very different style of improvisation from what I'd been used to, working with people like Steve Coogan, Doon Mackichan and Rebecca Front, because those On the Hour and The Day Today things were about trying to establish a character within a situation, and Peter Cook was really doing 'knight's move' and 'double knight's move' thinking to construct jokes or ridiculous scenes flipping back on themselves, and it was amazing. I mean, I held out no great hopes that he wouldn't be a boozy old sack of lard with his hair falling out and scarcely able to get a sentence out, because he hadn't given much evidence that that wouldn't be the case. But, in fact, he stumbled in with a Safeways bag full of Kestrel lager and loads of fags and then proceeded to skip about mentally with the agility of a grasshopper. Really quite extraordinary.[10] | ” |
On 17 December 1993, Cook appeared on Clive Anderson Talks Back as four characters – biscuit tester and alien abductee Norman House, football manager and motivational speaker Alan Latchley, judge Sir James Beauchamp and rock legend Eric Daley. The following day he appeared on BBC2 performing links for Arena's "Radio Night". He also appeared, on 26 December, in the 1993 Christmas special of One Foot in the Grave ("One Foot in the Algarve"), playing a muckraking tabloid journalist. Before the end of the next year his mother died, and Cook returned to heavy drinking.
Death[link]
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Cook died on 9 January 1995, aged 57, having suffered a gastrointestinal haemorrhage (a direct result of severe liver damage) in the intensive-care unit of the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, North London. Days earlier he had been taken in and announced, "I feel a bit poorly". Dudley Moore attended Cook's memorial service in London in May 1995 and he and Martin Lewis presented a two-night memorial for Cook in Los Angeles the following November, to mark what would have been Cook's 58th birthday.
Legacy[link]
Cook is universally acknowledged as the main influence on British comedians who followed him from amateur dramatic clubs of British universities to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and then to the radio and television. On his death some critics choose to see Cook's life as tragic, in so far as the brilliance of his youth had not been sustained in his later years. However, Cook himself always maintained that he had no ambitions at all for sustained success. He assessed happiness by his friendships and his enjoyment of life. Eric Idle and Stephen Fry[11] said Cook had not wasted his talent but rather that the newspapers had tried to waste him.
Several friends honoured him with a dedication in the closing credits of Fierce Creatures (1997), a comedy film written by John Cleese about a zoo in peril of being closed. It starred Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin. The dedication displays photos and the lifespan dates of Peter Cook and of British naturalist/humorist Gerald Durrell.[12]
In 1999 the minor planet 20468 Petercook, in the main asteroid belt, was named after him.[13]
Ten years after his death, Cook was ranked at number one in the Comedians' Comedian, a poll of 300 comics, comedy writers, producers and directors throughout the English-speaking world.[14] Channel 4 broadcast Not Only But Always, a television film dramatising the relationship between Cook and Moore, with Rhys Ifans portraying Cook. At the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe a play, written by Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde, examined the relationship from Moore's view, Pete and Dud: Come Again. Tom Goodman-Hill played Cook.
At the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Goodbye – the (after)life of Cook & Moore by Jonathan Hansler and Clive Greenwood was presented at the Gilded Balloon. The play imagined the newly dead Moore meeting Cook in Limbo, also inhabited by other comic actors with whom they had worked, including Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Frankie Howerd and Kenneth Williams. In May 2009 the play was seen again in London's West End at the Leicester Square Theatre (formerly "The Venue" and home to Pete and Dud: Come Again) with Jonathan Hansler as Cook, Adam Bampton Smith as Moore and Clive Greenwood as everyone else.
A green plaque was unveiled by Westminster City Council and the Heritage Foundation at the site of the Establishment club on 15 February 2009.[15]
Filmography[link]
- The Wrong Box (1966): Morris Finsbury
- Alice in Wonderland (1966): Mad Hatter
- Bedazzled (1967): George Spiggott/The Devil
- A Dandy in Aspic (1968): Prentiss
- Monte Carlo or Bust (released in the US as Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies) (1969): Maj. Digby Dawlish
- The Bed-Sitting Room (1969): Inspector
- The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970): Michael Rimmer
- The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972): Dominic
- Find the Lady (1976): Lewenhak
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978): Sherlock Holmes
- Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979): Clive
- Yellowbeard (1983): Lord Percy Lambourn
- Supergirl (1984): Nigel
- Whoops Apocalypse (1986): Sir Mortimer Chris
- The Princess Bride (1987): The Impressive Clergyman
- Without A Clue (1988): Norman Greenhough
- Getting It Right (1989): Mr. Adrian
- Great Balls of Fire! (1989): First English Reporter
- Black Beauty (1994): Lord Wexmire
Amnesty
- Pleasure at Her Majesty's (1976)
- The Mermaid Frolics (1977)
- The Secret Policeman's Ball
- The Secret Policeman's Private Parts (1981)
- The Best of Amnesty: Featuring the Stars of Monty Python (1999)
UK chart singles:-
- "The Ballad of Spotty Muldoon" (1965)
- "Goodbye-ee" (1965) with Dudley Moore
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| Preceded by Adrian Slade |
Footlights President 1958–1960 |
Succeeded by Peter Bellwood |
Further reading[link]
- Harry Thompson (1998). Biography of Peter Cook. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-64969-0.
- Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (2003). Dud and Pete: The Dagenham Dialogues. Methuen. ISBN 978-0-413-77347-0.
- Robert Hewison (1983). Footlights!: A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy. Methuen London Ltd. ISBN 0-413-51150-2.
- Roger Wilmut (1980). From Fringe to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980. Eyre Methuen Ltd. ISBN 0-413-46950-6.
- Peter Cook Appreciation Society (2006). How Very Interesting!: Peter Cook's Universe And All That Surrounds It. Snowbooks. ISBN 1-905005-23-7.
- Alexander Games (1999). Pete & Dud: An Illustrated Biography. Andre Deutsch. ISBN 0-233-99642-7.
- Wendy Cook (2006). So Farewell Then: The Biography of Peter Cook. HarperCollins Entertainment. ISBN 0-00-722893-7.
- Lin Cook (2003). Something Like Fire: Peter Cook Remembered. Arrow Books. ISBN 0-09-946035-1.
- Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde (2006). Pete and Dud: Come Again. Methuen Drama. ISBN 0-413-77602-6.
- William Cook (2003). Tragically I was an only twin: the complete Peter Cook. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-31891-X ISBN 0-09-944325-2.
- Judy Cook with Angela Levin (2008). Loving Peter: My Life with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Piatkus. ISBN 978-0-7499-0966-6.
References[link]
- ^ Tragically I Was an Only Twin – The Complete Peter Cook – Front Cover
- ^ "About us « Keynes Society". Keynessociety.wordpress.com. http://keynessociety.wordpress.com/about-the-keynes-society/. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
- ^ I Didn't Get Where I am Today by David Nobbs 9780099421641
- ^ Cook as Macmillan: "...there's nothing I like better than to wander over to a theatre and sit there listening to a group of sappy, urgent, vibrant young satirists with a stupid great grin spread all over my silly face" – Tragically I Was an Only Twin p. 51
- ^ Tom Lehrer interview
- ^ Peter Gordon, Dan Kieran Paul Hamilton (eds) – How Very Interesting: Peter Cook's Universe And All That Surrounds It (Matrix Media Services, 2006)
- ^ "Peter Cook". Phespirit.info. http://www.phespirit.info/pictures/heroes/p008_info.htm. Retrieved 25 July 2009.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083043/quotes
- ^ "Diplomatix at IMDB". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185282/. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
- ^ "The Establishment – The Spiggott – Chris Morris Interview". Stabbers.truth.posiweb.net. http://stabbers.truth.posiweb.net/stabbers/html/spiggott/morris.htm. Retrieved 25 July 2009.
- ^ "Stephen Fry attacks media coverage of Peter Cook's death". YouTube. 23 August 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQrTnhkQo5k&feature=related. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
- ^ 'Fierce Creatures' (1997).
- ^ Alan Chamberlin. "Minor planet "20468 Petercook" at NASA website". Ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=20468. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
- ^ a poll "Peter Cook the funniest". The Age (Australia). 3 January 2005. http://www.theage.com.au/news/People/Peter-Cook-the-funniest/2005/01/03/1104601276619.html a poll.
- ^ "Peter Cook Blue Plaque Unveiling". The Heritage Foundation. http://www.theheritagefoundation.info/petercook.html. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
External links[link]
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- Peter Cook at the Internet Movie Database
- The Establishment
- Mr Blint's Attic
- Tribute to Peter Cook, with texts and commentary
- Good Evening, a Peter Cook Fansite incl. Gallery
- The BBC Guide to Comedy: Not Only...But Also
- Missing-Episodes.com
- One Leg Too Few, script for one of Cook and Moore's most famous and oft-performed sketches.
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| Name | Cook, Peter |
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| Date of birth | 17 November 1937 |
| Place of birth | Torquay, Devon, England |
| Date of death | 9 January 1995 |
| Place of death | Hampstead, London, England |
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