Profile
Peter Ustinov
Academy Award-winning British-born Actor + Writer + Dramatist and Raconteur
Male
Born
Apr 16, 1921
Hometown
London, England
Died
Mar 28, 2004
Death Place
Genolier
Nationality
British
Alma Mater
Westminster School
Other Names
Ustinov, Sir Pete...
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE 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… Read More
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Helene UstinovMarried 1972 - 2004
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CHILDHOOD
1921
Birth
Born on April 16, 1921.
TEENAGE
1935
14 Years Old
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.
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1938
17 Years Old
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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.
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1939
18 Years Old
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.
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1940
19 Years Old
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.
THIRTIES
1952
31 Years Old
Between 1952 and 1955, he starred with Peter Jones in the BBC radio comedy In All Directions.
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1954
33 Years Old
His second marriage was to Suzanne Cloutier, which lasted from 1954 to their divorce in 1971.
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FIFTIES
1971
50 Years Old
Ustinov was re-elected to the post for a second term three year term in 1971 narrowly beating Michael Parkinson after a disputed recount.
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1972
51 Years Old
His third and final marriage was to Helene du Lau d' Allemans, which lasted from 1972 to his death.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1984
63 Years Old
On 31 October 1984, Ustinov was to meet with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
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1990
69 Years Old
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However, 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 militant students).
Ustinov also served as President of the World Federalist Movement from 1991 until his death.
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2000
79 Years Old
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.
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2002
81 Years Old
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.
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2003
82 Years Old
In 2003, he sponsored and opened the second exhibition of the United Buddy Bears in Berlin.
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2004
83 Years Old
He died on 28 March 2004 of heart failure in a clinic in Genolier, near his home in Bursins, Vaud, Switzerland.
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