Peter Ustinov

Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov was born on 16 April 1921 at 45 Belsize Park, London.{{Cite ODNB|id=93510|title=Ustinov, Sir Peter Alexander (1921–2004)}} His father, Jona Freiherr von Ustinov, was of Russian, German, Polish, Ethiopian, and Jewish descent. Ustinov's paternal grandfather was Baron Plato von Ustinov, a Russian noble, and his grandmother was Magdalena Hall, of mixed German-Ethiopian-Jewish origin.{{Cite book|title=BBC pronouncing dictionary of British names|last=Miller|first=Gertrude M.|date=1971|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=British Broadcasting Corporation|isbn=978-0-19-431125-0|location=London|oclc=154639|type= The pronunciations were accepted by Sir Peter himself}} Ustinov's great-grandfather Moritz Hall, a Jewish refugee from Kraków and later a Christian convert and colleague of Swiss and German missionaries in Ethiopia, married into a German-Ethiopian family.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. Also, a family photo shows Ustinov's grandmother with her husband and their children, including Ustinov's father Jona.

Ustinov's paternal great-great-grandparents (through Magdalena's mother) were the German painter Eduard Zander and the Ethiopian aristocrat Court-Lady Isette-Werq of Gondar.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ltudAgAAQBAJ|title=The Story of Däräsge Maryam|last1=McEwan|first1=Dorothea|date=2013|publisher=LIT Verlag|isbn=978-3-643-90408-9|location=Münster|page=45|access-date=2 June 2014}}

Ustinov's mother, Nadezhda Leontievna Benois, known as Nadia, was a painter and ballet designer of French, German, Italian, and Russian descent.{{cite web|url=http://www.visitmaria.ru/en/2011/vy-sokij-gost-v-prihode-poseshheniya-pre/|title=Distinguished Guest in the Visitation Parish|last=Strutynski|first=Stanislaw|website=visitmaria.ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215012718/http://www.visitmaria.ru/en/2011/vy-sokij-gost-v-prihode-poseshheniya-pre/|archive-date=15 February 2017|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.seplis.com/person/peter-ustinov/4309297/|title=Peter Ustinov|website=SEPLIS Beta|via=Wayback Machine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924100437/http://www.seplis.com/person/peter-ustinov/4309297/|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}} Her father, Leon Benois, was an Imperial Russian architect and owner of Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Benois Madonna. Leon's 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 Saint Petersburg during the French Revolution and became a chef to Emperor Paul I of Russia.

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, Jona von Ustinov began working for the British intelligence service MI5 and became a British subject, thus avoiding internment during the war. Ustinov claimed that the statutory notice of his application for citizenship was published in a Welsh newspaper so as not to alert the Germans;According to Ustinov in his biography Dear Me notice of "Iona von Ustinow"'s intention to apply for naturalisation was published in a London newspaper in July 1935{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001745/19350726/006/0006 |access-date=19 May 2025 |work=Kensington News and West London Times |date=26 July 1935 |page=6 |title=Legal Notices}} and his naturalisation gazetted in December.{{London Gazette

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}} He was the controller of Wolfgang Gans zu Putlitz, an MI5 spy in the German embassy in London, who furnished information on Hitler's intentions before the Second World War.{{Cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/05/politicians-soviet-agents-mi5-book|title=MI5 monitored union and CND leaders with ministers' backing, book reveals|last=Norton-Taylor|first=Richard|date=5 October 2009|work=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622134149/http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/05/politicians-soviet-agents-mi5-book|archive-date=22 June 2012|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}} (Peter Wright mentions in his book Spycatcher that Jona 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 was educated at Westminster School and had a difficult childhood because of his parents' constant fighting. 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{{'"}}. In his late teens he trained as an actor at the London Theatre Studio.Ian Herbert, Christine Baxter, Robert E. Finley, Who's Who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage, Volume 16 (Pitman, 1977), p. 1202 While there, on 18 July 1938 he made his first appearance on the stage at the Barn Theatre, Shere, playing Waffles in Chekhov's The Wood Demon, and his London stage début later that year 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".{{cite book|last=Ustinov|first=Peter|title=Dear Me|url=https://archive.org/details/dearme00usti|url-access=registration|edition=1st|year=1977|publisher=Little, Brown|location=Boston|isbn=978-0-316-89051-9|oclc=3071948|page=[https://archive.org/details/dearme00usti/page/95 95]}}

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Ustinov appeared in White Cargo at the Aylesbury Rep in 1939, where he performed in a different accent every night.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eYOPQgAACAAJ|title=Exit through the fireplace: the great days of the rep|last=Dunn|first=Kate|date=1998|publisher=J. Murray|isbn=978-0-7195-5475-9|location=London|oclc=50667637}} He served as a private in the British Army during the Second World War, including time spent as batman to David Niven while writing the Niven film The Way Ahead. The difference in their ranks{{mdashb}}Niven was a lieutenant-colonel and Ustinov a private{{mdashb}}made their regular association militarily impossible; to solve the problem, Ustinov was appointed as Niven's batman.{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1260975.stm|title=Obituary: Sir Peter Ustinov|date=29 March 2004|work=BBC News|access-date=13 November 2018|language=en-GB}} 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. In 1944, under the auspices of ENSA -->, he presented and performed the role of Sir Anthony Absolute, in Sheridan's The Rivals, with Dame Edith Evans, at the theatre in Larkhill Camp, Wiltshire, England.

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{{clarify|presumably, this means something like "most widely performed" or "most commercially successful"|date=April 2018}} play being Romanoff and Juliet (1956). His film roles include Roman emperor Nero in Quo Vadis (1951), Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus (1960), Captain Blackbeard in the Disney film Blackbeard's Ghost (1968), and an old man surviving a totalitarian future in Logan's Run (1976). Ustinov voiced the anthropomorphic lions Prince John and King Richard in 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).

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In half a dozen films, he played Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot, first in Death on the Nile (1978) and then in 1982's Evil Under the Sun, 1985's Thirteen at Dinner (TV movie), 1986's Dead Man's Folly (TV movie), 1986's Murder in Three Acts (TV movie), and 1988's Appointment with Death.

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File:Peter Ustinov black & white Allan Warren.jpgUstinov won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in Spartacus (1960) and Topkapi (1964). He also won a 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 a love of his life, as was ocean yachting). Ustinov was also the winner of three Emmys and one Grammy and was nominated for two Tony Awards.

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 undertook set and costume design for Don Giovanni. In 1962 he adapted Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman's critically successful Broadway play Billy Budd into a film; penning the screenplay, producing, directing, and starring as Captain Vere.{{cite news|title=The Screen: 'Billy Budd':Ustinov Produces and Directs Adaptation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/10/31/archives/the-screen-billy-buddustinov-produces-and-directs-adaptation.html|author=Bosley Crowther|newspaper=The New York Times|date=31 October 1962}} In 1968, he was elected the first rector of the University of Dundee and served two consecutive three-year terms.

His autobiography, Dear Me (1977), was well received and had him describe his life (ostensibly his childhood) while being interrogated by his own ego, with forays into philosophy, theatre, fame, and self-realisation. From 1969 until his death, his acting and writing 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 people 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.{{cite news|title=UNICEF mourns death of Goodwill Ambassador Sir Peter Ustinov|url=https://www.unicef.org/media/media_20193.html|publisher=UNICEF|date=28 November 2017}} On 31 October 1984, Ustinov was due to interview Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi for Irish television. She was assassinated on her way to the meeting.{{Cite book|title=Terror in the mind of God: the global rise of religious violence|last=Juergensmeyer|first=Mark|date=2003|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-93061-2|edition=3rd|location=Berkeley|oclc=779141234}}

Ustinov served as president of the World Federalist Movement (WFM) 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".{{cite web|url=http://www.wfm.org/site/index.php/pages/673|title=President|website=World Federalist Movement|via=Wayback Machine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029022410/http://www.wfm.org/site/index.php/pages/673|archive-date=29 October 2008|url-status=dead}}

He was the subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions, in November 1977 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at Pinewood Studios on the set of Death on the Nile. He was surprised again in December 1994, when Michael Aspel approached him at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva. 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 preselector gearbox Delage, and a special-bodied Jowett Jupiter. He made records like Phoney Folklore that 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.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

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. Ustinov provided his own German and French dubbing for some of his roles, both of them for Lorenzo's Oil. As Hercule Poirot, he provided his own voice for the French versions of Thirteen at Dinner, Dead Man's Folly, Murder in Three Acts, Appointment with Death, and Evil under the Sun, but unlike Jane Birkin, who had dubbed herself in French for this film and Death on the Nile, Ustinov did not provide his voice for the latter (his French voice being provided by Roger Carel, who had already dubbed him in Spartacus and other films). He dubbed himself in German as Poirot only in Evil under the Sun (his other Poirot roles being undertaken by three actors). However, he provided only his English and German voices for Disney's Robin Hood and NBC's Alice in Wonderland.{{cite web|url=https://www.synchronkartei.de/darsteller/441|title=Deutsche Synchronkartei – Darsteller – Sir Peter Ustinov|website=www.synchronkartei.de}}

In the 1960s, he became a Swiss resident. He was knighted in 1990 and was appointed chancellor of Durham University in 1992, having previously been elected as the first rector of the University of Dundee in 1968 (a role in which he moved from being merely a figurehead to taking on a political role, negotiating with student protesters).{{cite book|title=University Education in Dundee 1881–1981 A Pictorial History|last=Shafe|first=Michael|publisher=University of Dundee|year=1982|location=Dundee|page=205|asin=B00178Z2BG|display-authors=etal}} Ustinov was re-elected to the post for a second three-year term in 1971, narrowly beating Michael Parkinson after a disputed recount.{{cite web|title=Rectorial Elections|url=http://www.archives-records-artefacts.blogspot.com/2010/02/rectorial-elections.html|work=Archives, Records and Artefacts at the University of Dundee|publisher=University of Dundee|access-date=20 August 2016|date=15 February 2010}}{{cite book|last=Baxter|first=Kenneth|title=A Dundee Celebration|year=2007|publisher=University of Dundee|location=Dundee|page=32|display-authors=etal}} He received an honorary doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

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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."{{cite web|url=https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0001811/quotes|title=Peter Ustinov: Quotes|website=IMDb|language=en|access-date=13 November 2018}} {{unreliable source?|date=April 2020}} In 2003, Durham's postgraduate college (previously known as the Graduate Society) was renamed Ustinov College. Ustinov went 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. Ustinov also presented and narrated the official video review of the 1987 Formula One season and narrated the documentary series Wings of the Red Star. In 1988, he hosted a live television broadcast entitled The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper. Ustinov gave his name to the Foundation of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for their Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award, given annually to a young television screenwriter.

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Ustinov was married three times—first to Isolde Denham (1920–1987), 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, who appeared with Ustinov in Death on the Nile.

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. Both Pavla and Andrea are actresses; Pavla appeared with her father in the 1978 fantasy movie, The Thief of Baghdad.

His third marriage was to Helene du Lau d'Allemans, which lasted from 1972 to his death in 2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.leninimports.com/peter_ustinov.html|title=Peter Ustinov: Biography|website=leninimports.com|via=Wayback Machine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031120047/http://www.leninimports.com/peter_ustinov.html|archive-date=31 October 2016|url-status=live|access-date=13 November 2018}}File:Peter Ustinov with family 1950s.jpg and daughter in the 1950s]]

Ustinov was a secular humanist. He was listed as a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association, and had once served on its advisory council.{{cite web|url=https://humanism.org.uk/about/our-people/recent-humanist-obituaries/peter-ustinov/|title=Our people – Sir Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) |publisher=British Humanist Association|access-date=16 November 2015|date=29 January 2014 }}{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A43jAAAAMAAJ|title=Humanist|journal=The Humanist: A Rational Approach to the Modern World|publisher=Rationalist Press Association Limited|year=1963|location=London|issn=0018-7380}}

Ustinov suffered from diabetes and a weakened heart in his last years.{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2004/03/30/peter-ustinov-82/|title=Peter Ustinov, 82|date=30 March 2004|work=Chicago Tribune|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215071620/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-03-30/news/0403300193_1_peter-ustinov-romanoff-and-juliet-play-award|archive-date=15 February 2017|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}}

In 1999, Sir Peter and his son Igor Ustinov founded the Sir Peter Ustinov Stiftung (Sir Peter Ustinov Foundation) in the city of Munich in Germany. The foundation is now based in Frankfurt am Main.{{Cite web |date=2023-06-27 |title=Wer wir sind - Ustinov Stiftung |url=https://www.ustinov.org/en/who-we-are/,%20https://www.ustinov.org/en/who-we-are/ |access-date=2024-05-21 |website=www.ustinov.org |language=en-GB}}

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Ustinov died on 28 March 2004 of heart failure in a clinic in Genolier, near his home in Bursins, Switzerland, aged 82. He had suffered from diabetes and heart disease.[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-03-30-0403300193-story.html Obituary], chicagotribune.com. Accessed 30 March 2022.{{cite web|url=http://wfm.org/IN_HOUSE/sirpeter.html|title=Sir Peter Ustinov, President of the World Federalist Movement from 1991–2004, Dies at Age 82|date=29 March 2004|website=wfm.org|publisher=World Federalist Movement – Institute for Global Policy|via=Wayback Machine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051215200529/http://www.wfm.org/IN_HOUSE/sirpeter.html|archive-date=15 December 2005|url-status=dead|access-date=16 April 2017}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/business/sir-peter-ustinov-82-witty-entertainer-who-was-a-world-unto-himself-is-dead.html|title=Sir Peter Ustinov, 82, Witty Entertainer Who Was a World Unto Himself, Is Dead |date=30 March 2004|work=The New York Times |access-date=November 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151102012929/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/movies/30USTI.html |archive-date=November 2, 2015 |url-status=live|language=en}}

Ustinov found his final resting place at the cemetery. His ledger stone bears a cross, despite his self-description as a secular humanist, and the inscription:

SIR PETER USTINOV

1921-2004

Writer-Actor-Humanist

Musicien-Membre de l'Institut

Ustinov was the president of the World Federalist Movement (WFM) from 1991 to 2004, the time of his death.{{cite web|url=http://www.federalists.eu/uef/news/peter-ustinov-a-friend-of-global-federalism-has-died/|title=Peter Ustinov, a friend of global federalism has died|date=3 March 2004|work=Union of European Federalists|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218231742/http://www.federalists.eu/uef/news/peter-ustinov-a-friend-of-global-federalism-has-died/|archive-date=18 February 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=29 October 2015}}

Until his death, Ustinov was a member of English PEN, part of the PEN International network that campaigns for freedom of expression.

• What's My Line? (1957—1966) – gameshow, 9 episodes
• I've Got a Secret (1960) – gameshow, 1 episode
• Barefoot in Athens (1966) – TV film, as Socrates
• Klapzubova jedenáctka (1968) – TV serial, episode 12: "Muži z Ria", as television commentator{{cite web |title=Klapzubova jedenáctka (TV seriál) |url=https://www.csfd.cz/film/128535-klapzubova-jedenactka/prehled/ |website=ČSFD.cz |access-date=21 January 2021}}
• Parkinson (1971—1972) – talk show, 3 episodes{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4851516/reference|title="Parkinson" Episode #1.4 (TV Episode 1971)|access-date=4 September 2020|website=IMDb}}
• Clochemerle (1972) – 9 episodes, as narrator{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196239/|title=Clochemerle|access-date=7 January 2024|website=IMDb}}
• The Muppet Show (1976) – 1 episode, as himself
• {{ill|Kein Abend wie jeder andere|de}} (1976) – TV film, as owner of Billy's artstore
• Jesus of Nazareth (1977) – miniseries, as Herod the Great
• Doctor Snuggles (1979) – 13 episodes, as Doctor Snuggles
• Einstein's Universe (1979) – documentary film, as himself
• Nuclear Nightmares (1979) – documentary film, as himself
• Omni: The New Frontier (1981){{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/content/omni-new-frontier|title=Omni: The New Frontier|website=Emmys.com|access-date=4 September 2020}}
• Overheard (1984) – TV film, as Comrade Kuruk
• Thirteen at Dinner (1985) – TV film, as Hercule Poirot
• Dead Man's Folly (1986) – TV film, as Hercule Poirot
• Murder in Three Acts (1986) – TV film, as Hercule Poirot
• Peter Ustinov's Russia (1986) – documentary miniseries, as himself
• The World Challenge / Le défi mondial (1986){{cite web|url=http://www.vialemonde.com/eVia/index.html|title=Le Défi Mondial|website=Via le Monde|language=fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429100515/http://www.vialemonde.com/eVia/index.html|archive-date=29 April 2009|url-status=dead|access-date=13 November 2018}}
• An Audience with Peter Ustinov (1988){{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481474/reference|title=An Audience with Peter Ustinov (1988) – IMDb|access-date=4 September 2020|website=IMDb.com}}
• The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper (1988) – documentary
• Around the World in 80 Days (1989) – miniseries, as Detective Wilbur Fix
• Peter Ustinov on the Orient Express (1991)
• Wings of the Red Star (1993) – documentary series, 13 episodes, as narrator
• Celebrating Haydn with Peter Ustinov (1994) – documentary
• The Old Curiosity Shop (1995) – TV film, as Grandfather
• Paths of the Gods (1995) – documentary series, 8 episodes, as himself
• Sir Peter Ustinov's Mendelssohn (1997) – documentary
• Alice in Wonderland (1999) – TV film, as Walrus
• Animal Farm (1999) – TV film, as Old Major (voice)
• Victoria & Albert (2001) – TV serial, as King William IV{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262995/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4)|title=Victoria&Albert|website=IMDb|date=26 May 2001}}
• Winter Solsticehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354213/?ref_=tt_ch {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}} – Hughie McLellan

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• Apropos: portrait painting {{oclc|502028565}}
• Dear Me
• Generation at Jeopardy: Children in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

::(introduction by Peter Ustinov) (UNICEF) {{oclc|1124421105}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AD4YIuYY46kC|title=Generation in Jeopardy: Children in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union|date=4 September 1999|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-0-7656-0290-9|access-date=4 September 2020|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XkqTAAAAIAAJ|title=Generation in Jeopardy: Children in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union|date=4 September 1999|publisher=M. E. Sharpe|isbn=978-0-7656-0121-6|access-date=4 September 2020|via=Google Books}}

• Klop and the Ustinov Family (with Nadia Benois Ustinov) 1973 {{oclc|835951}}
• My Russia

• Niven's Hollywood (introduction by Peter Ustinov){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/23/books/fancy-feet-and-famous-faces.html|title=Fancy Feet and Famous Faces|first=Ethan|last=Mordden|date=23 December 1984|access-date=4 September 2020|website=The New York Times}}

• Quotable Ustinov
• Still at Large
• Ustinov at Eighty
• Ustinov at Large
• Ustinov in Russia
• Ustinov Still at Large
• Ustinov's diplomats {{oclc|690371045}}
• We Were Only Human. {{oclc|320395513}}

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• Abelard and Heloise
• Add a Dash of Pity and Other Short Stories
• Beethoven's Tenth
• Blow Your Own Trumpet (1943 play)
• Brewer's Theatre (with Isaacs, et al.)
• The Comedy Collection
• Disinformer: Two Novellas
• Frontiers of the Sea (reprinted as Life is an Operetta and Other Short Stories)
• God and the State Railways
• A Grand Knight Out{{Cite web |url=https://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/about/history/ |title=History — Theatre Royal, Bath |access-date=25 December 2023 |website=Theatre Royal}}
• Halfway Up the Tree
• The Indifferent Shepherd
• James Thurber (with James Thurber)
• Krumnagel (novel)
• The Laughter Omnibus
• The Loser (novel)
• The Love of Four Colonels
• The Methuen Book of Theatre Verse (with Jonathan and Moira Field)
• Monsieur Rene
• The Moment of Truth
• No Sign of the Dove (play c. 1952)
• The Old Man and Mr. Smith: A Fable{{Cite book|title=The Old Man and Mr. Smith: a fable|last=Ustinov|first=Peter|date=May 1991|publisher=Arcade Publishing|isbn=978-1-55970-134-1|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=22984638|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oldmanmrsmith00usti}}
• Photo Finish
• Romanoff and Juliet
• The 13 Clocks with James Thurber
• The Unicorn in the Garden and Other Fables for Our Time
• The Unknown Soldier and His Wife

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• Peter and the Wolf (Sergei Prokofiev), narration - Philharmonia Orchestra - Herbert von Karajan, conductor - EMI Classics (12/1956 & 04/1957)
• Grand Prix of Gibraltar (1960) (spoken word comedy)
• The Creatures of Prometheus (Ludwig van Beethoven), a musical narration – RCA Red Seal 74321 82163 2 (2001)
• Der Burger als Edelmann (After Moliere, adapted by Ustinov, incidental music by Richard Strauss), Koch Classics 3-6578-2 (1998)

• 1992: Britannia Award
• 1993: London Film Critics' Circle Award
• 1994: Bambi
• 1997: German Video Prize of the DIVA Award
• 1998: Bavarian Television Award
• 2001: Golden Camera (Goldene Kamera, Berlin)
• 2002: Planetary Consciousness Award of the Club of Budapest
• 2004: Bavarian Film Award (Bayerischer Filmpreis)
• 2004: Rose d'Or Charity Award with UNICEF (posthumously)

• 1974: Golden Camera Award for Best Actor for the Exchange of Notes
• 1978: Prix de la Butte for Oh my goodness! Messy memoirs
• 1981: Karl Valentin Order (Munich)
• 1987: Golden Rascal (Goldenes Schlitzohr)

• 1957: Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts (London)
• 1961: Honorary key to the city of Washington DC (USA)
• 1974: Order of the Smile (Poland)
• 1975: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) (United Kingdom)
• 1978: UNICEF International Prize for outstanding services
• 1985: Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
• 1986: Istiqlal Order (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan)
• 1987: Order of the Yugoslav Flag
• 1987: Elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts
• 1990: Gold Medal of the City of Athens
• 1990: Medal of the Hellenic Red Cross
• 1990: Knight Bachelor (United Kingdom)
• 1991: Medal of Charles University in Prague
• 1994: Knight of the National Order of the Southern Cross (Brazil)
• 1994: German Culture Prize (Deutscher Kulturpreis)
• 1995: International UNICEF Prize for Outstanding Services
• 1998: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz)
• 2001: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class{{cite web|url=http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf|title=Reply to a parliamentary question|date=23 April 2012|location=Vienna|page=1444|language=de|access-date=12 December 2012}}
• 2002: Siemens Life Award (Austria)
• 2004: Hanseatic Bremen Prize for International Understanding (Bremer Hansepreis für Völkerverständigung)

Ustinov received many honorary degrees for his work.

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• List of British actors
• List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Great Britain
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• [http://www.unicef.org/media/media_20193.html Obituary (UNICEF)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115223820/https://www.unicef.org/media/media_20193.html |date=15 November 2019 }}
• [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1260975.stm Obituary (BBC)]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070301081807/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/i/inalldirections_1299001635.shtml "In All Directions"]
• [http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/ustinov_peter.html Peter Ustinov] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615050203/http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/ustinov_peter.html |date=15 June 2011 }} interviewed by Mike Wallace on The Mike Wallace Interview (29 March 1958)
• [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/96182c7f#p009mszq Appearance on Desert Island Discs 19 November 1977]
• [http://www.bruceduffie.com/ustinov.html Interview with Sir Peter Ustinov] by Bruce Duffie, 22 May 1992 (Operatic directing and classical music)
• [http://www.synchronkartei.de/index.php5?action=show&type=talker&id=1017 Peter Ustinov] at the German Dubbing Card Index
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjNpb_ZW3RQ Video by the University of Dundee about Ustinov's time as its Rector]

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