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NAME: OBIT USTI2 290304Nxxx TAPE: EF04/0355 IN_TIME: 10:30:49:16 DURATION: 00:03:08:12 SOURCES: Various DATELINE: Various - see script RESTRICTIONS: See Script SHOTLIST: MANDATORY CREDIT - Must Credit Universal Pictures 1 Film clip from Lorenzo''s Oil with Ustinov and Susan Sarandon MANDATORY CREDIT - Must Credit 20th Century Fox 2 Cutaway cameraman 3 Peter Ustinov on the set of the film The Old Curiosity Shop APTN Berlin, 16 April 1996 4 Peter Ustinov walks towards seats 5 Photographer 6 Ustinov alongside with actor Roger Moore 7 Presser APTN Berlin, 16 April 1996 8 SOUNDBITE: (English), Peter Ustinov, actor and UNICEF Goodwill ambassador: What I have gained is a far greater comprehension of the difficulties in this world and also a far greater sense of humanity which has helped me immensely in my work So I am very grateful to UNICEF 9 Ustinov being presented with cuddly hippopotamus on his 75th birthday, the same day Unicef celebrated its 50th anniversary 10 Photographers 11 Ustinov standing at presser holding hippopotamus SKY - No Access UK/CNNi/Internet 12 SOUNDBITE: (English) Roger Moore, actor: Well he''s an actor who is quite extraordinary That wonderful performance in Nero (in the 1951 movie) ''Quo Vadis'' That great face I mean, there are some very funny stories about ''Quo Vadis,'' but I always think of Peter, wonderful wonderful man AP STILLS - No Access Canada/Internet 13 STILL of Peter Ustinov with actress Shirley Jones at the Academy awards ceremony in 17 April 1961 Ustinov won the Best Supporting Actor oscar for his role in Spartacus 14 STILL of Ustinov with actress Eva Marie Saint at the same ceremony UNICEF China, Date Unknown 15 Ustinov in a commercial for UNICEF 16 Ustinov with Chinese child in one of his UNICEF missions SKY - No Access UK/CNNi/Internet Paris, 29 March 2004 17 SOUNDBITE: (English) Boutros Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary General: We discovered that artists who have a name and who have a figure can be better ambassadors for the United Nation''s system And Ustinov was among the first ambassador who played a very important role in supporting one of the different agencies of the United Nations: UNICEF UNICEF 18 Ustinov with Chinese children in one of his UNICEF missions SKY - No Access UK/CNNi/Internet Date and location unknown 19 Peter Ustinov''s daughters and granddaughter 20 Family photo, zoom into Ustinov UNTV New York - 24 October 2004 21 UN peace messengers, Ustinov at centre beside UN secretary-general Kofi Annan 22 Zoom in in Hannan, Ustinov and Mohammad Ali (on the left) 23 Pan of photo-op STORYLINE: Sir Peter Ustinov - a brilliant wit, mimic and two-time Oscar winner - has died of heart failure aged 82 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 He died on Sunday night in Genolier clinic near his home at Bursins in Swiss vineyards overlooking Lake Geneva, said Leon Davico, a former UNICEF spokesman and friend 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 - everything except English Ustinov delighted in national differences and frequently referred to them in his works and public appearances He was - as he noted proudly in his autobiography Dear Me - conceived in St Petersburg, Russia, baptised in a village near Stuttgart, Germany, and reared under a succession of Cameroonian, Irish and German nurses His imposing figure, variously described as resembling a teddy bear, a giant panda or a Georgian frontage, stayed with him throughout his career Ustinov made some 90 movies and also wrote or directed plays and operas His narration of Tchaikovsky''s Peter and the Wolf won him a Grammy 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 won the first of his best supporting actor Oscars for the role of Batiatus, owner of the gladiator school in Spartacus (1960) He won another for playing Arthur Simpson, an English small-time black marketeer in Turkey who gets caught up in a jewel heist in Topkapi (1965) His Nero - the Roman emperor who presided over the throwing of Christians to the lions - won him a Golden Globe for best supporting actor in the 1951 movie Quo Vadis 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 He was performing by age three, mimicking politicians of the day when his parents invited Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie for dinner His first attempts at acting were in the disguise of a pig in a dramatised nursery rhyme, as Friar Tuck of Robin Hood fame and as one of three nymphs tempting Ulysses from an Aegean beach Ulysses wisely passed us by, he recalled He was educated at the prestigious Westminster School, but hated it Ustinov learned to survive his school years by emphasising the clumsy and over-proportioned aspects of his character He made a good soccer goaltender, he said, but never got to grips with cricket, a deeply important pastime in Britain''s private schools Ustinov turned producer at 21 when he presented Squaring the Circle shortly before he entered the British army in 1942 Ustinov later became a staunch advocate for UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Ustinov recently attended a UNICEF event despite being confined to a wheelchair - sciatica gave him trouble walking, and diabetes left him with 30 percent vision and foot problems Ustinov''s long service as a United Nations goodwill ambassador led UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to joke that Ustinov was the man to take over from him