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He was â€â€? as he noted proudly in his autobiography "Dear Me" â€â€? conceived in St He was a human being Oscar Winner Sir Peter Ustinov Dies at 82 Mar 29, 6:48 AM EST Sir Peter Ustinov, a brilliant wit and mimic who won two Oscars for an acting career that ranged from the evil Nero in "Quo Vadis" to the quirky Agatha Christie detective Hercule Poirot, has died His first attempts at acting were in the disguise of a pig in a dramatized nursery rhyme, as Friar Tuck of Robin Hood fame and as one of three nymphs tempting Ulysses from an Aegean beach Ustinov's long service as a United Nations goodwill ambassador led U He later set up a foundation dedicated to understanding between people across the globe and between generations "Ulysses wisely passed us by," he recalled Ustinov delighted in national differences and frequently referred to them in his works and public appearances When he was knighted by the Queen of England in 1990, his main worry was how to reply to the invitation from Buckingham Palace " It was an attitude that stayed with him as he turned 80 He died of heart failure late Sunday night in a Genolier clinic near his home at Bursins in Swiss vineyards overlooking Lake Geneva, close friend Leon Davico, a former UNICEF spokesman, told The Associated Press They had two daughters and a son â€â€? noted sculptor Igor Ustinov His narration of Tchaikovsky's "Peter and the Wolf" won him a Grammy He had one daughter with his first wife, Isolde Denham, from whom he was divorced in 1950 after a decade-long marriage He married Suzanne Cloutier in 1954 More recently he was the voice of Babar the Elephant, played the role of a doctor in the film Lorenzo's Oil, and in 1999 appeared as the Walrus to Pete Postlethwaite's Carpenter in a multimillion-dollar TV movie version of Alice in Wonderland Born in London on April 16, 1921, the only son of a Russian artist mother and a journalist father, Ustinov claimed also to have Swiss, Ethiopian, Italian and French blood â€â€? everything except English Ustinov left Westminster at 16 His imposing figure, variously described as resembling a teddy bear, a giant panda or a Georgian frontage, began 12 pounds at birth and stayed with him throughout his career " He also won three television Emmys, portraying the English lexicographer Samuel Johnson in "Dr Secretary-General Kofi Annan to joke that Ustinov was the man to take over from him But he remained active until close to his death, playing himself in the 2003 TV movie "Winter Solstice Davico said Ustinov recently attended a UNICEF event despite needing a wheelchair â€â€? sciatica gave him trouble walking, and diabetes left him with 30 percent vision and foot problems He was performing by age 3, mimicking politicians of the day when his parents invited Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie for dinner He was educated at the prestigious Westminster School, but hated it He was a unique person, someone you could really count on," said Davico He directed films, plays and operas " Ustinov was married three times, and is survived by his four children and his third wife "The invitation said, 'Delete whichever is inapplicable: I can kneel â€â€? I cannot kneel One of his most successful was "The Love of Four Colonels" which ran for two years in London's West End Petersburg, Russia, baptized in a village near Stuttgart, Germany, and reared under a succession of Cameroonian, Irish and German nurses Michael Winner, who directed Ustinov as Hercule Poirot in the 1988 movie "Appointment With Death," described the actor as a "marvelous man, a great wit, a great raconteur, a man of the world When I was young, I was brought up in an atmosphere which was just loaded with prejudices," he said in 2001 N Ustinov made some 90 movies and also written books and plays Davico, who was starting his career with UNICEF, asked Ustinov to join the U When he turned 60 in 1981, Ustinov was asked if he was tempted to take things a little easier If his plays had a continuing theme, it was a celebration of the little man bucking the system Ustinov married his third wife, Helene du Lau d'Allemans, in 1972 "But what really surprises me," he added, "is that I don't say many different things now than I did when I was 20 "Why should one slow down? I don't quite understand it," he said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2001 Among his film roles were a nomad in the outback who befriends a family in "The Sundowners," a one-eyed slave in "The Egyptian," Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in "Death on the Nile," and Abdi Aga, an illiterate tyrant with pretensions of learning in "Memed My Hawk Ustinov treated getting older the way he treated everything else in his life â€â€? as another experience to be added to his repertoire of anecdotes, quips and material for books The only difference is that having white hair means that people tend to listen now while they never did before " In "A Storm in Summer," his Emmy came for playing an aged Jewish delicatessen owner in Long Island at grips with racial prejudice in the shape of a proud black youth "He was a great man The couple divorced in 1971, the year they moved to Switzerland Ustinov turned producer at 21 when he presented "Squaring the Circle" shortly before he entered the British army in 1942 Ustinov, a renaissance man whose talents included writing plays, movies and novels as well as directing operas, also devoted himself to the world's children for more 30 years as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF N â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? Associated Press reporters Ben Dobbin and Naomi Koppel contributed to this report Ustinov later became a staunch advocate for UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization "I only feel 59," he said " Ustinov won best supporting actor Oscars for the role of Batiatus, owner of the gladiator school in "Spartacus" (1960), and as Arthur Simpson, an English small-time black marketeer in Turkey who gets caught up in a jewel heist in "Topkapi" (1965) Johnson" and as Socrates in "Barefoot in Athens "He never said no to anything UNICEF or the rest of United Nations asked him to do," said Davico "I think knowing people is the best way of getting rid of prejudices children's agency as a goodwill ambassador after seeing the play He was 82 ' But there was nothing for those who can kneel but not get up," Ustinov recalled No immediate details funeral arrangements were available He appeared in his first revue and had his first stage play presented in London in 1940, when he was 19 His Nero â€â€? the Roman emperor who presided over the throwing of Christians to the lions â€â€? won him a Golden Globe for best supporting actor in the 1951 movie "Quo Vadis " "He was a very good actor but he wasn't used as an actor as much as he should have been because he became famous as Peter Ustinov," Winner told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Overnight ratings measure the 55 largest TV markets in the United States, covering nearly 70 percent of the country 1 overnight rating Saturday, topping the 14 The rating is the percentage of all homes with TVs, whether or not they are in use The night game in which Atlanta beat Green Bay 27-7 Saturday drew an 18 9 rating and a 37 share NFL Wild-Card Playoff Ratings Inch Up Jan 6, 7:12 AM EST The NFL wild-card playoff games on ABC drew the network's highest ratings for that round in four years The late afternoon game between Indianapolis and the New York Jets had a 15 Both of Saturday's games were 24-0 at halftime New York's 41-0 victory, which had a 29 share, was the highest-rated early game on ABC since 1999 when Buffalo played Miami Each overnight rating point represents about 735,000 TV homes 4 rating and a 29 share, 18 percent higher than last year's Jets-Oakland game That game had a 17 The Falcons' win was the highest-rated late game since Arizona and Dallas played in 1999 9 of a year ago for the Tampa Bay-Philadelphia game |
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