Peter Ustinov: What Happened to The World's Greatest OPTIMIST?

[@pinkroses8714]

I just watch Evil Under the Sun with my grandkids - 13 and 16 and ...... they loved it ! Christie Never gets Old !!! lol

[@gracehowell.]

I re-watched it again recently, too, only a few days before Maggie Smith died. I think I prefer 'Death on the Nile', but that's partly because the music is superior, imo.

[@pinkroses8714]

@@gracehowell. Death on the Nile is Next!!! Its my favourite with Betty Davies ..... that cast was fabulous!!!

[@marina_via]

can't agree more!

[@jeffreyriley8742]

That's one of my favorite movies since I was a kid.

[@marinakaye8284]

Hi! Marina. When I heard Ustinov was doing his one man show in Adelaide, 2001, think it was, I must have been first to buy tickets. Was front row, center, loved every minute. A night I'll never forget. Xx

[@marina_via]

Oh, thank you for sharing this memory of yours, dear @marinakaye8284 !

[@glendam1148]

“Laughter is the most civilized music in the world.” That’s only one of the many wise sayings of this brilliant. He’s the age of my parents, but I always had a huge crush on him. He’s a fascinating and extremely multi-talented person. I haven’t seen his whole body of work but I do have about 10 DVDs of his major roles, and, of course, his biography “Dear Me.” Thank you for this presentation of such a special human being.

[@marina_via]

Thank you so much for tuning in!

[@gracehowell.]

He clearly had a great time on 'The Muppet Show' when he appeared on it. I loved the sketch he did with Fozzie Bear, teaching 'economic theory'.

[@jeffreyriley8742]

I love David Suchet and I'm fine with him being the quintessential Poirot but I grew up in the 80s (both watching the films and reading Agatha's books) and Ustinov is my Poirot. I still love watching his Poirot films and TV movies immensely.

[@elisa8044]

Greatly apreciated:THANKS a LOT!!!! (I'm from Brazil)👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@trudigoodman4825]

This was wonderful. Thank You! I loved him in We're No Angels and Sparticus.

[@marina_via]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@76ToneCrome]

I'm pleased you covered his hilarious turn as Prince John in Disney's Robbin Hood. He was also Blake Edward's first choice to play Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films.

[@marina_via]

Exactly! Quite a curious reason he had to withdraw his candidature

[@magnacz]

What was the reason ?

[@sheibanineda2488]

Because you are much younger than I am if I may say so.Anyhow, I enjoy your uploads very much 🎉

[@andreiromanu516]

❤

[@briseyk1]

Logan's Run was a great later film

[@sheibanineda2488]

Thanks Marina. Frankly I have never been able to distinguish the actor from the man, no matter how cultivated and polished he was. I think he had made cynicism his métier and was almost sure that people were not well read enough to understand half of what he was talking about and this with a certain contempt; but at the same time he was always advocating the illiterate members of society; too cosmopolitan for his own good.😂

[@marina_via]

oh, I strangely didn't get that impression, really

[@paulklee5790]

@@marina_viaWe that guy is talking rubbish …

[@pamelacorbett8774]

Can’t agree at all. I think Ustinov was universally admired as a cultured and compassionate man.

[@veritas6335]

Annoying narration.