In the novel, the mistress is important mainly in the man’s own mind. She represents his last chance at love, and it’s pretty clear she’s not going to make it much of a chance. She’s married to the ...

Oscar-winning actor Sir Peter Ustinov has died aged 82. BBC News Online looks back at his career. Despite a successful career as journalist, actor, playwright and author, Sir Peter Ustinov was at his ...

The first of Peter Ustinov’s takes on Christie’s mustachioed sleuth, Hercule Poirot, was Death On The Nile, which I revisited when the Kenneth Branagh version came out — it turns out Branagh hasn’t ...

Ustinov described how he was “tremendously devoted” to Guinness, who died four years prior to him, both as a person and an actor. While Ustinov established himself as a versatile supporting actor and ...

Russian poet Aleksander Pushkin and playwright Peter Shaffer, as well as the hit movie “Amadeus,” have perpetuated well into the 20th century the myth of Antonio Salieriʼs vindictive murder plot ...

First played by Charles Laughton on the West End stage in 1928, the character has been embodied by José Ferrer, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Tony Randall and even Hugh Laurie for a throwaway gag ...

Peter Gonzales Falcon, a La Pryor native who worked with Federico Fellini, Peter Ustinov, Burt Reynolds and Jennifer Lopez, passed away on August 22 at the age of 74.

He was 75. Gonzales Falcon got his start with a bit part in Viva Max (1969), a satirical film about a modern-day Mexican general (Peter Ustinov) who retakes the Alamo.

“Which proves,” Peter told me, “that the story of Walt being cryonically frozen is an urban myth.” As I said, Peter’s Billy Budd is a forgotten film. As is our Grendel Grendel Grendel.

It was acquired by Ustinov in the 1960s from a gallery in Lausanne, run by the artist’s grandson, and now comes to the block from Ustinov’s collection, consigned to Sotheby’s by his children.