1976: PETER USTINOV on Horses, Orchestras and the USA | Classic Interviews | BBC Archive

[@brocktoon8]

I could listen to this man forever . . .

[@w1o2l3f4i5e]

Ustinov was such a great story teller. It is something that I find missing in today’s chat shows.

[@M_Bamboozled]

Clever guy. Every story was like a well written comedy sketch, plus voices, accents, sound effects and languages. Amazing.

[@jcb74]

Now there's my ideal dinner guest! I could listen to him tell stories so animatedly for hours

[@david-pb4bi]

Very much doubt if people have dinner guests anymore, what with the mobile phones etc.

[@alidabaxter5849]

I absolutely adore Peter Ustinov, incredibly talented, multilingual, just the most heavenly guest on any chat show. I can't understand why Derek Nimmo isn't reacting normally to this wonderful man.

[@SpaceCattttt]

The greatest storyteller there ever was.

[@secretagentbloke]

He was one of the greatest gifts to a chat show host. A superlative story teller.

[@jan-olofharnvall8760]

Do we have any such a brilliant storyteller to day.

[@maxkazzora4234]

The late great Peter Ustinov. Amazing actor. 👏👏👏RIP and his films live on.

[@swanvictor887]

two amazing talents, characters so rare these days: intelligent, witty, urbane, interesting. Both men much missed...well, by those of us old enough to remember their talent and intellect.

[@edgabel6814]

One of the best storytellers ever.

[@viramati5831]

The greatest raconteur of all time I met him a few times as a child as my father knew him and his stories were fascinating

[@llanelli311]

Truly glorious man.

[@alycegt]

He was absolutely wonderful and brilliant 🎉

[@brakecompo2005]

Absolutely brilliant - thanks for posting. Ustinov deserves still to be alive and to rule the World than some old men who want to rule it today. A memento of a truly great human being.

[@hilaryepstein6013]

Wonderful raconteur and a true Renaissance Man. Also I don't know if it's just me but as he was talking Stephen Fry came into my mind.

[@MarcoSpeaksNadsat]

Bit disrespectful to Ustinov, who was a master in numerous fields, a diplomat, a polyglot (spoke 6 languages fluently) and 2 time Oscar winner. Fry on the other hand is good at convincing people he is cleverer than them.

[@kicsiszol]

what a woderfull story teller! must have been a great man.

[@user-th1zp6ju5e]

Ustinov - just plain brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT!

[@Jamie_E_Pritchard]

Such a spellbinding story teller. You just get absolutely transfixed.

[@adamhughes4442]

This man is addictive!!!

[@BelovedDavid]

We miss him. We need more people like Sir Peter. The world would be a better one.

[@ctid107]

Saw his one man show, genius. Of course then, unlike now, interviews could be just for entertainment rather than to plug a new book or film.

[@mfranssens]

I saw him at the Palace theatre Manchester. I'm quite proud of myself being so young yet interested enough to book tickets. I convinced my then girlfriend to come with me and we both loved it.

[@charlesa.robinson7722]

Who doesn't love Peter. His suit is right up my alley. I remember he found out he has some African genes.

[@76ToneCrome]

I particularly like his prince John in the Disney animated version of Robin Hood: "mummy." Terry Thomas as Hiss the snake as well.

[@robinvanags912]

....and this interview was the year after both these gentlemen starred in my personal favourite from Disney: 'One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing'.

[@anthonylilly6862]

Brilliant human

[@BeesWaxMinder]

Audience in the 70s: "CAN society get any worse?" Internet: "Hold my pint…"

[@cellospot]

Oh how interesting! I just finished watching a movie with some friends that had him in it, when he was younger. He played a fantastically sniveling kind of character. How funny that he should come up in my KZbin.

[@pressureworks]

Derek Nimmo was a regular and brilliant panelist on Just A Minute.

[@juliegale3863]

He was so brilliant, I miss him.

[@benfisher1376]

This is around the time that Ustinov and Nimmo made One of our Dinosaurs is Missing.

[@colintwyning9614]

Absolute Magic

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

11:53 He sums up my point of view, and he was there fifty years before me.

[@Yankee7000]

People like him. Definitely not made anymore…

[@tomfelis4295]

Peter Ustinov wa one of five Hollywood Stars who lived an died on lake Geneva in Switzerland.

[@MrTommyBoy75]

Peter Ustinov and Derek Nimmo? One of our Dinosaurs is Missing!

[@peterharvey1762]

Looks like he has only just finished Logan’s run promos as the old man

[@civlyzed]

I was wondering the same. I think I'll watch it tonight, as I haven't seen it in a couple years. Cheers!

[@faustoferrari4303]

It was the same year, so you may well be right.

[@brianquigley1940]

👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

[@RolandoRatas]

The horse just misheard his name as Peter Ucomeoff.

[@mfranssens]

A great storyteller. Much missed

[@guzy1971]

The 70’s elegance was pretty weird 😊 but funny.

[@jaycee330]

Isn't that lovely that Peter thought Americans were nice. We don't get called that often (usually that's reserved for Canada).

[@11Kralle]

He knew enough Germans and Austrians to justify that assessment.

[@keef78]

Noel Gallagher interviewing Peter ustinov, well I never!

[@johnp515]

Considering that Derek Nimmo had a part in The Beatles first film I wouldn’t be surprised if Noel slavishly copied him.

[@onepartyroule]

Is the guy on the right Noel Gallagher’s dad?

[@perrynnlynch1883]

Lol 😆. Respectfully of course.

[@faustoferrari4303]

Several comments noting that similarity. I can't see it at all, but maybe because I grew up with Derek Nimmo and there couldn't be someone more different in background and public image from the Gallagher brothers. can you imagine them guesting on All Gas and Gaters??

[@Diamondmine212]

Definitely no. A well known comic actor of his day, went on to have his own theatre group which travelled around the world putting on comic and frantic plays , lovely man.

[@brianquigley1940]

"The Americans are just so nice." .... sigh...

[@fraserhardmetal7143]

He spent a large part of his life as a car... you can't make it up.

[@TankUni]

He's been gone twenty years now, but I have to wonder what he'd make of the world today and the incoming US administration.

[@user-ve3gh5xg9q]

Sa🎄nta Claus is real😊

[@basicconcepts1d]

Santa Claus has committed suicide. The Reason?. Lack of letters asking for Dreams.

[@billybollockhead5628]

Oasis have let themselves go havent they?

[@renzo6490]

Who chose that TIE?

[@mfranssens]

I'm guessing him or his wife, Peter didn't have an image maker or stylist. I like iut, but agree with the jacket they clash a touch

[@ForGoodnessSake3G]

Noel Gallagher has certainly cultivated himself.

[@DieFlabbergast]

Who is Noel Gallagher?

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@DieFlabbergast Lol... Really??!!

[@lonewolfvule4682]

That was my first reaction, is this their father,uncle?

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@lonewolfvule4682 Derek Nimmo is not related to Noel or his brother Liam Gallagher. Derek Nimmo is an actor of both stage and (tv) screen. The Gallagher brothers are (argumentative) musicians (from Manchester) who were in the band Oasis.

[@kathleengray6639]

What a flat emcee!

[@MrDavey2010]

Nimmo seems unamused because the spotlight isn’t on him! Outshone by Ustinov. Nimmo wasn’t a nice man apparently.

[@peterjones6507]

What Ustinov says about suppressing our instincts is more relevant today than at the time. It seems to be the aim of the left, and perhaps it always has been. Enforced Ideology and pie-in-the-sky social theorising is their game.

[@hiimnewhere]

lmao you cant even watch a random video about peter ustinov without clutching your pearls about leftists 😭 what a sad way to live

[@peterjones6507]

@@hiimnewhere Well, I found it fascinating that Ustinov was so perceptive, and also able to speak openly about the issue. He wouldn't be able to mention it today,. But perhaps you're right. Not everyone is so worried about these issues.

[@basicconcepts1d]

It's not the left who are responsible for the problems we are facing. History will teach you that the rich determine what is good for the Poor. Until we understand this. The poor are going nowhere. God bless Scotland.

[@karlkarlos3545]

Lol, in what world do you live? Wherever you look, it is the Right that's trying to suppress any notion of sexuality and enforce their backward ideology, especially the religious Right.

[@austenj4539]

What a bore. I can't believe that he turned out to be such.

[@LordViaagra59]

One of the great story tellers of all time 😂😂