"Maybe Christmas", he thought, "doesn't come from a store." "Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!"

Writer, director and actor                          

Selected Works:

Novels and plays:

Add a Dash of Pity and Other Short Stories
Brewer's Theatre with Isaacs et al.
The Comedy Collection
Dear Me - 1977
Disinformer: Two Novellas
Frontiers of the Sea
Generation at Jeopardy: Children in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union with United Nations Children's Fund
God and the State Railways
Half Way Up a Tree
The Indifferent Shepherd
James Thurber with Thurber
Klop and the Ustinov Family with Nadia B. Ustinov
Krumnagel
The Laughter Omnibus
Life is an Operetta: And Other Short Stories
Loser
The Love of Four Colonels
The Methuen Book of Theatre Verse with Jonathan and Moira Field
Monsieur Rene
My Russia
Niven's Hollywood with Tom Hutchinson
Old Man & Mr.Smith
Photo Finish
Quotable Ustinov
Romanoff and Juliet
Still at Large
The 13 Clocks with James Thurber
The Unicorn in the Garden and Other Fables for Our Time with James Thurber
The Unknown Soldier and His Wife
Ustinov at Eighty
Ustinov at Large
Ustinov in Russia
Ustinov Still at Large
Beethoven's Tenth.

Film:

Hullo Fame - 1940 - documentary
Mein Kampf - My Crimes - 1940 - documentary
One of Our Aircraft is Missing - 1942
Let the People Sing - 1942
The Goose Steps Out - 1942
The New Lot - 1943
The Way Ahead - 1944
The True Glory - 1945 - documentary
School for Secrets - 1946 - director and writer
Vice Versa - screenwriter, director, and producer
Private Angelo - 1949
Odette - 1950
Hotel Sahara - 1951
The Magic Box - 1951
Quo Vadis - 1951
The King and the Mockingbird - 1952 - voice
Pleasure - 1952 - narrator of English version
The Egyptian - 1954
Beau Brummell - 1954
We're No Angels - 1955
Lola Montès - 1955
The Wanderers - 1956
The Spies - 1957
An Angel Passed Over Brooklyn - 1957
Spartacus - 1960
The Sundowners - 1960
Romanoff and Juliet - 1961
Billy Budd - 1962
Alleman - 1963 - documentary - narrator
Women of the World - 1963 - documentary - narrator
Topkapi - 1964
The Peaches - 1964 - narrator
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home - 1965
Lady L - 1965
The Comedians - 1967
The Comedians in Africa - 1967
Blackbeard's Ghost - 1968
Hot Millions - 1968
Viva Max! - 1969
The Festival Game - 1970 - documentary
Hammersmith Is Out - 1972
Robin Hood - 1973 - voice
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing - 1975
Logan's Run - 1976
Treasure of Matecumbe - 1976
The Muppet Show - 1976
The Purple Taxi - 1977
The Last Remake of Beau Geste - 1977
The Mouse and His Child - 1977
Double Murder - 1977
Winds of Change - 1978 - narrator
Death on the Nile - 1978
Tarka the Otter - 1979 - narrator
Morte no Tejo - 1979 - documentary
My Friend as the Alien - 1999 - voice
Ashanti - 1979
We'll Grow Thin Together - 1979
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen - 1981
The Great Muppet Caper - 1981 - cameo
Grendel Grendel Grendel - 1981 - voice
Evil Under the Sun - 1982
Memed, My Hawk - 1984
Thirteen at Dinner - 1985
Dead Man's Folly - 1986
Russia - 1986
Murder in Three Acts - 1986
Appointment with Death - 1988
Peep and the Big Wide World - 1988 - narrator
La Révolution française - 1989
Granpa - pencil animation - 1989 - voice talent
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs - 1990
Lorenzo's Oil - 1992
The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet - 1995
Stiff Upper Lips - 1998
The Bachelor - 1999
Alice in Wonderland - 1999 film
My Khmer Heart - 2000 - documentary
Majestät brauchen Sonne - 2000 - documentary
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures - 2001 - documentary
The Will to Resist - 2002
Luther - 2003
Winter Solstice- 2003
Siberia: Railroad Through the Wilderness - 2004 - narrator.                          

Mother - Nadia - Nadezhda, Leontievna Benois 
Father - Iona - Jona, Baron von Ustinov.
First wife, Isolde Denham,1940-1950, one daughter, Tamara.
Second wife, Suzanne Cloutier, 1954-1971, three children, Pavla, Andrea and Igor.
Third wife, Helene du Lau d Allemans, 1971 until Peter’s death in 2004.
                          

Awarded the CBE - Commander of the Order of the British Empire, in 1975, and was knighted in 1990. He was also the Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF from 1968 until his death, and Chancellor of the University of Durham from 1992 until his death. He was a Humanist Laureate, an esteemed member of the International Academy of Humanism.