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What about-(AGATHA CHRISTIE'S SPARKLING CYANIDE, 1983.)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.159.83.36 ( talk) 18:50, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Oops, I somehow overlooked it in Filmography with its alternate title. So now I wish to know how to add both the American title, The Man who Wagged his Tail" and to create those titles as links to the synopsis I provided from the Fandango.com site (if I'm allowed to use that text). Thanks. Oneworld or none ( talk) 20:22, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
I am totally new to this and don't know how to proceed. I want to add a film to the filmography which links to some information I gleaned from a website but don't know how to do the addition as a link. I also don't know if this website text violates the GFDL (whatever that is). I would like to participate with my ideas and knowledge but don't have time to learn a mountain of skills.
Here is the info from the Fandango.com website:
Full Synopsis Cast & Crew Related Movies Peter Ustinov stars as a nasty, grasping Brooklyn slum lord who earns the hatred of everyone. An old lady, cast out on the street by Ustinov, places a curse on his head. The result: Ustinov turns into a dog! Forced to witness the world from a mutt's eye view, the surly landlord truly understands for the first time what it means to be on the outside looking in. He also experience two new sensations: Love and devotion. Ustinov is snapped out of his spell (standing naked in a garbage can!) and vows to change his ways. Despite its overall New York ambience, The Man Who Wagged His Tail is a European production, filmed for the most part in Spain. Its original title was Un angel paso por Brooklyn. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
The entry in the Filmography section would be: either the Spanish-language original title (english translation) is "An Angel Passes over Brooklyn" OR the American-release title "The Man who Wagged His Tail." Oneworld or none ( talk) 18:59, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Who is this 'Klop' that appears in line 5 of childhood and early life? Fairlightseven
"Klop" was the nickname of Ustinov's father, Iona (Jona) Baron von Ustinov. In particular Ustinov's mother, Nadia Benois, called her husband this. According to Ustinov's autobiography *Dear Me*, his mother wrote a memoir, *Klop*, about her husband, which seems to have done justice to his originality of character, but which was also quite frank about his deficiencies.
By the way, it's possible to take issue with the article which describes Ustinov's mother and father as "fighting all the time." According to *Dear Me*, the father was indeed an arrogant, philandering, emotionally abusive jerk whomn his son seems to have despised. However, Peter Ustinov wrote in the kindest and most loving terms about his mother. He described her as patiently putting up with her obnoxious husband and finding peace and satisfaction in her painting. He also specifically said that "her behavior was always perfect," whereas the father was a selfish boor. Younggoldchip ( talk) 19:16, 11 January 2009 (UTC) 09/10/08 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.22.103.70 ( talk) 18:07, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Could someone tidy up his marriage dates on the main page? They don't make sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.28.154.126 ( talk) 14:05, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
I'm a great Ustinov fan but never knew about the Swiss citizenship thing. Did he retain dual British citizenship? If he lost it, did he ever regain it?
Knighted foreigners are not given the 'accolade', the right to call themselves 'Sir' or 'Dame'. That is reserved for British citizens only. Cheers JackofOz 02:33, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
knighthoods, citizens of Commonwealth countries are regarded as British. It is possible for Canadians, Australians, West Indians etc to recieve knighthoods, but it is not possible for a US, German, French etc citizen to do so (other than an honorary one - eg Bob Geldof (Irish Citizen)). The point about passports is a piece of anti-European polemic and not germane to the issue. Exile 14:37, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
I have to disagree with you there, Exile. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa etc is entitled to a damehood because she is a citizen of a country that acknowledges the Queen as monarch. The monarch is the "fount of honour" in relation to honours. In some cases (eg. the Royal Victorian Order) she awards them in her personal capacity, without reference to any other authority. In most cases, however, she awards them only on the advice of the relevant government. In the case of Dame Kiri, for example, the Queen awarded the DBE on the advice of the New Zealand government, not the British government. This is because the Queen is Queen of New Zealand. Dame Kiri is not somehow British for the purposes of honours, she is entirely a New Zealander. Same for any other non-British Commonwealth citizens. JackofOz 20:21, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
I somehow managed to totally miss the above debate until now. Yes, I was wrong. It is not just "British citizens" who get to be Sir or Dame, it is indeed citizens of all countries that are members of the Commonwealth. Sorry if I was a little non-specific there.
However, this whole debate was tangential to my original question, which so far remains unanswered. When Peter Ustinov acquired Swiss citizenship, did he renounce his British citizenship or did he have dual citizenship? This is very germane to whether or not he may be referred to as "Sir Peter Ustinov" or simply "Mr Peter Ustinov". Does anybody know the answer?? JackofOz 01:46, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. Very enlightening. Cheers JackofOz 22:23, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Sigh. What's happened to peoples' understanding of their own damn political systems? Listen: The Crown can knight any of its *subjects*. The Crown has no citizens. It has *subjects*. Citizens are members of a *nation*. The nation is not the same thing as the monarch.
Kiwis and Ozzies and Canucks (like me) and a great many others are *subjects* of the Crown, currently personified in Elizabeth II. Nobody gives a damn if they're "British citizens". (We aren't. Period.) The Queen knights us because we are her subjects, equal to the English, Scottish, and Welsh, but not citizens, in any sense, of the UK. Is that so entirely hard to grok?
The OP's very coherent question was, could Peter Ustinov, if he had become a Swiss citizen, and was therefore no longer a subject of the Crown, have enjoyed the honours reserved to knighted *subjects* of the Queen?
While I'm aware that people frequently say "British subject" when they mean citizen, that expression is really an abbreviation for "British [citizen who is also a] subject [of the Crown]." Everybody on the page now? Laodah 16:40, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
I'm taking that one out since its not at all NPOV. If it goes back in, it should be referenced in the article and commented, with a reference to the author of the article. It makes no sense to put references to polemic attacks into an encyclopedia "as is". -- Paniq 16:21, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
As I recall, the Russian composer for whom Ustinov was marked down was Rimsky-Korsakov and not Shostakovich. (It's funnier that way, too, dont you think?) I just (re)listened to him telling the anecdote in his "Ein Abend mit Peter Ustinov" to be sure. I googled and couldn't find any reference to his telling it with Shostakovich, but I found several obituaries in which the Rimsky-Korsakov version was mentioned. Accordingly, I made the change.
"Sadly no recordings survive" probably refers to the television special of 1966, to which the article is then linked, rather than the original radio series. I think the 'spiv' characters referred to turned up in the brace of repeats on Radio 4 in 1985. As it stands this passage is unclear in meaning. This problem also exists in the Peter Jones article. Philip Cross 15:03, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
"...Ustinov never publicly acknowledged his African ancestry..." - except I seem to recall reading about his Ethiopian ancestry in " Dear Me". I think he was quite proud of being so extensively out-bred. Putting something in your autobiography qualifies as publically acknowledging it, does it not?(SpikeMolec, but not signed at the time, for some reason)
Ustinov was clearly as proud of his Ethiopian ancestors as he was of all the others. In his autobiography "Dear Me", published in 1977, he refers to it repeatedly. In discussing his far-ranging ancestry, he explicitly mentions five of his sixteen great-great-grandfathers, one of whom "survived the endless struggle for power in Addis Ababa." He mentions his grandmother's younger sister, a lady-in-waiting at the court of Haile Selassie. He describes a dinner given for Haile Selassie at his parents' home in London, and a later meeting with Selassie and his grandson, Alexander Desta. He also makes it clear that others knew of his mixed race background, commenting wryly about someone trying to spare him mention of the touch of the tarbrush. It is simply false to say that Ustinov never acknowledged his African ancestry.
IMDB has him at 5'11 1/2" not 5'9" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.111.96.223 ( talk) 20:05, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
I vividly recall an interview with Ustinov on TV some years ago when he talked about his father (so I remember, but it must be his maternal grandfather Benois) who was a general-major (one star) architect. Ustinov mentioned that his grandmother was therefore entitled to be addressed as "your little excellency". The Czar was so pleased with one of Benois' designs that he was promoted to general-lieutenant but then had to not only reaffirm his allegiance to the Czar but also swear allegiance to the Russian Orthodox Church. The problem was that Benois was a Protestant and he refused. He was therefore exiled (I recall that exile was a commutation of a severe sentence but am now unsure). None of this is in this article. I can't have dreamed it. Was Ustinov making it up? Gwgoldb ( talk) 03:36, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Oy, please, can we replace the picture for the God's sake? That's a hell of a gunt he's got going there, front and center. Women and children may be watching, for the love of Bakula, to say nothing of how unflattering the picture is in general. Maybe a shot with a little less of a fupa, brahs?
unreal... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ace Rutherfords ( talk • contribs) 18:57, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
Peter was also awarded the Order of the Smile 216.27.141.84 ( talk) 13:28, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Is there vehement opposition to mentioning Peter's appearance in the aforementioned song, in this article? Vranak ( talk) 19:52, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
Honorifics, such as "Sir", "President", "Pope", "Doctor", "Lord", "King" are only included in article titles if that is the name by which the person is known. See wp:honorifics. Repeated insertion of the "Sir" is disruptive. Stop. Shajure ( talk) 15:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Sir Peter Ustinov Allan Warren.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on April 16, 2012. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2012-04-16. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! — howcheng { chat} 16:38, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
We currently state: In the late 1960s, he became a Swiss citizen to avoid the British tax system of the time, which heavily taxed the earnings of the wealthy. However, he was knighted in 1990, ....
Getting a non-honorary knighthood means he must have retained his UK citizenship, and was a dual citizen of the UK and Switzerland. How did continuing to be a UK citizen protect him from the UK tax system? -- Jack of Oz [Talk] 07:55, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
This could apply to other articles. I think when a person dies they lose whatever knighthood/peership etc they have. That being the case should his name in the first part of the article be written as Sir Peter Ustinov, CBE? -- 86.146.113.245 ( talk) 17:09, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
The person keeps the knighthood wether they died or not. It can not renounced. Bob3458 ( talk) 15:44, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
Honorifics, such as "Sir", "President", "Pope", "Doctor", "Lord", "King" are only included in article titles if that is the name by which the person is known. See
wp:honorifics. Repeated insertion of the "Sir" is disruptive. Stop.
Shajure (
talk) 15:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Just to be sure, I verified we do have a redirect from Sir Peter Ustinov, in case anyone searches for him that way. If you feel strongly that this is how he is known, proposing the article be moved to the "Sir..." name would be a good idea. However... he wasn't, isn't, and it won't fly (my opinion). Shajure ( talk) 00:43, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
"University of Toronto Honorary Degree Recipients 1850 - 2016 Sorted Alphabetically by Name of Recipient" I suspect is replaced each year... not sure it matters much. Shajure ( talk) 04:07, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
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The discography currently has 1 disc, when [1], for example, mentions 46 - some of these are only tangentially related, but his recordings are easily in the double digits. There's citations elsewhere in wikipedia: George Martin recorded one of his early works - Mock Mozart with Antony Hopkins playing harpsichord. NB not Anthony Hopkins, as cited on Discogs; the spelling on the record label itself is 'th' but it's the wrong guy. Hopkins-the-composer later composed the music on Ustinov's Billy Budd (film); they're pictured working together here [2] (again, Getty mislabel Hopkins as the actor!). His Peter and the Wolf (1956) is the one I knew as a child. Anyway just spotting some easy additions.
In the University of Dundee Rector succession box I have changed Sir Clement Freud to simply Clement Freud. Freud succeeded Ustinov in 1974 and served until 1980. According to his article he was not knighted until 1987. This means that at no point when Freud was Rector of the University of Dundee would he have been entitled to be addressed as "Sir". Dunarc ( talk) 23:45, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
I see that the antics of his presumptive heirs is being added to his article. The squabble, and/or the individuals involved if adequately notable, can have their own articles. I don't see how this adds to the knowledge about Mr. Ustinov. I will remove it, probably tomorrow, unless there is support to add it. Shajure ( talk) 07:46, 16 December 2020 (UTC) Not seeing anything further, I am removing it. Shajure ( talk) 04:57, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
There appears to be a 2003 TV movie of the same name.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354213/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
This seems to have caused a bit of confusion. Shajure ( talk) 02:17, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
He didn't write anything with Thurber. Perhaps he did a reading of Thurber. Should this be in spoken word? Cloudjpk ( talk) 14:05, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Shajure undid revisions and suggested that “militant” = “violent”. These words are not synonyms. History and lexical bundling of “militant” when added to the one being negotiated with necessarily biases the article in favour of the negotiator. Further, the editor suggested that “heavily taxed the wealthy” was hard to disprove. However, “heavily” and “wealthy” are such subjective and highly modal attributions that there is no way to prove either way. 5.151.174.80 ( talk) 13:46, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
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What about-(AGATHA CHRISTIE'S SPARKLING CYANIDE, 1983.)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.159.83.36 ( talk) 18:50, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Oops, I somehow overlooked it in Filmography with its alternate title. So now I wish to know how to add both the American title, The Man who Wagged his Tail" and to create those titles as links to the synopsis I provided from the Fandango.com site (if I'm allowed to use that text). Thanks. Oneworld or none ( talk) 20:22, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
I am totally new to this and don't know how to proceed. I want to add a film to the filmography which links to some information I gleaned from a website but don't know how to do the addition as a link. I also don't know if this website text violates the GFDL (whatever that is). I would like to participate with my ideas and knowledge but don't have time to learn a mountain of skills.
Here is the info from the Fandango.com website:
Full Synopsis Cast & Crew Related Movies Peter Ustinov stars as a nasty, grasping Brooklyn slum lord who earns the hatred of everyone. An old lady, cast out on the street by Ustinov, places a curse on his head. The result: Ustinov turns into a dog! Forced to witness the world from a mutt's eye view, the surly landlord truly understands for the first time what it means to be on the outside looking in. He also experience two new sensations: Love and devotion. Ustinov is snapped out of his spell (standing naked in a garbage can!) and vows to change his ways. Despite its overall New York ambience, The Man Who Wagged His Tail is a European production, filmed for the most part in Spain. Its original title was Un angel paso por Brooklyn. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
The entry in the Filmography section would be: either the Spanish-language original title (english translation) is "An Angel Passes over Brooklyn" OR the American-release title "The Man who Wagged His Tail." Oneworld or none ( talk) 18:59, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Who is this 'Klop' that appears in line 5 of childhood and early life? Fairlightseven
"Klop" was the nickname of Ustinov's father, Iona (Jona) Baron von Ustinov. In particular Ustinov's mother, Nadia Benois, called her husband this. According to Ustinov's autobiography *Dear Me*, his mother wrote a memoir, *Klop*, about her husband, which seems to have done justice to his originality of character, but which was also quite frank about his deficiencies.
By the way, it's possible to take issue with the article which describes Ustinov's mother and father as "fighting all the time." According to *Dear Me*, the father was indeed an arrogant, philandering, emotionally abusive jerk whomn his son seems to have despised. However, Peter Ustinov wrote in the kindest and most loving terms about his mother. He described her as patiently putting up with her obnoxious husband and finding peace and satisfaction in her painting. He also specifically said that "her behavior was always perfect," whereas the father was a selfish boor. Younggoldchip ( talk) 19:16, 11 January 2009 (UTC) 09/10/08 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.22.103.70 ( talk) 18:07, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Could someone tidy up his marriage dates on the main page? They don't make sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.28.154.126 ( talk) 14:05, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
I'm a great Ustinov fan but never knew about the Swiss citizenship thing. Did he retain dual British citizenship? If he lost it, did he ever regain it?
Knighted foreigners are not given the 'accolade', the right to call themselves 'Sir' or 'Dame'. That is reserved for British citizens only. Cheers JackofOz 02:33, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
knighthoods, citizens of Commonwealth countries are regarded as British. It is possible for Canadians, Australians, West Indians etc to recieve knighthoods, but it is not possible for a US, German, French etc citizen to do so (other than an honorary one - eg Bob Geldof (Irish Citizen)). The point about passports is a piece of anti-European polemic and not germane to the issue. Exile 14:37, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
I have to disagree with you there, Exile. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa etc is entitled to a damehood because she is a citizen of a country that acknowledges the Queen as monarch. The monarch is the "fount of honour" in relation to honours. In some cases (eg. the Royal Victorian Order) she awards them in her personal capacity, without reference to any other authority. In most cases, however, she awards them only on the advice of the relevant government. In the case of Dame Kiri, for example, the Queen awarded the DBE on the advice of the New Zealand government, not the British government. This is because the Queen is Queen of New Zealand. Dame Kiri is not somehow British for the purposes of honours, she is entirely a New Zealander. Same for any other non-British Commonwealth citizens. JackofOz 20:21, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
I somehow managed to totally miss the above debate until now. Yes, I was wrong. It is not just "British citizens" who get to be Sir or Dame, it is indeed citizens of all countries that are members of the Commonwealth. Sorry if I was a little non-specific there.
However, this whole debate was tangential to my original question, which so far remains unanswered. When Peter Ustinov acquired Swiss citizenship, did he renounce his British citizenship or did he have dual citizenship? This is very germane to whether or not he may be referred to as "Sir Peter Ustinov" or simply "Mr Peter Ustinov". Does anybody know the answer?? JackofOz 01:46, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. Very enlightening. Cheers JackofOz 22:23, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Sigh. What's happened to peoples' understanding of their own damn political systems? Listen: The Crown can knight any of its *subjects*. The Crown has no citizens. It has *subjects*. Citizens are members of a *nation*. The nation is not the same thing as the monarch.
Kiwis and Ozzies and Canucks (like me) and a great many others are *subjects* of the Crown, currently personified in Elizabeth II. Nobody gives a damn if they're "British citizens". (We aren't. Period.) The Queen knights us because we are her subjects, equal to the English, Scottish, and Welsh, but not citizens, in any sense, of the UK. Is that so entirely hard to grok?
The OP's very coherent question was, could Peter Ustinov, if he had become a Swiss citizen, and was therefore no longer a subject of the Crown, have enjoyed the honours reserved to knighted *subjects* of the Queen?
While I'm aware that people frequently say "British subject" when they mean citizen, that expression is really an abbreviation for "British [citizen who is also a] subject [of the Crown]." Everybody on the page now? Laodah 16:40, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
I'm taking that one out since its not at all NPOV. If it goes back in, it should be referenced in the article and commented, with a reference to the author of the article. It makes no sense to put references to polemic attacks into an encyclopedia "as is". -- Paniq 16:21, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
As I recall, the Russian composer for whom Ustinov was marked down was Rimsky-Korsakov and not Shostakovich. (It's funnier that way, too, dont you think?) I just (re)listened to him telling the anecdote in his "Ein Abend mit Peter Ustinov" to be sure. I googled and couldn't find any reference to his telling it with Shostakovich, but I found several obituaries in which the Rimsky-Korsakov version was mentioned. Accordingly, I made the change.
"Sadly no recordings survive" probably refers to the television special of 1966, to which the article is then linked, rather than the original radio series. I think the 'spiv' characters referred to turned up in the brace of repeats on Radio 4 in 1985. As it stands this passage is unclear in meaning. This problem also exists in the Peter Jones article. Philip Cross 15:03, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
"...Ustinov never publicly acknowledged his African ancestry..." - except I seem to recall reading about his Ethiopian ancestry in " Dear Me". I think he was quite proud of being so extensively out-bred. Putting something in your autobiography qualifies as publically acknowledging it, does it not?(SpikeMolec, but not signed at the time, for some reason)
Ustinov was clearly as proud of his Ethiopian ancestors as he was of all the others. In his autobiography "Dear Me", published in 1977, he refers to it repeatedly. In discussing his far-ranging ancestry, he explicitly mentions five of his sixteen great-great-grandfathers, one of whom "survived the endless struggle for power in Addis Ababa." He mentions his grandmother's younger sister, a lady-in-waiting at the court of Haile Selassie. He describes a dinner given for Haile Selassie at his parents' home in London, and a later meeting with Selassie and his grandson, Alexander Desta. He also makes it clear that others knew of his mixed race background, commenting wryly about someone trying to spare him mention of the touch of the tarbrush. It is simply false to say that Ustinov never acknowledged his African ancestry.
IMDB has him at 5'11 1/2" not 5'9" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.111.96.223 ( talk) 20:05, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
I vividly recall an interview with Ustinov on TV some years ago when he talked about his father (so I remember, but it must be his maternal grandfather Benois) who was a general-major (one star) architect. Ustinov mentioned that his grandmother was therefore entitled to be addressed as "your little excellency". The Czar was so pleased with one of Benois' designs that he was promoted to general-lieutenant but then had to not only reaffirm his allegiance to the Czar but also swear allegiance to the Russian Orthodox Church. The problem was that Benois was a Protestant and he refused. He was therefore exiled (I recall that exile was a commutation of a severe sentence but am now unsure). None of this is in this article. I can't have dreamed it. Was Ustinov making it up? Gwgoldb ( talk) 03:36, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Oy, please, can we replace the picture for the God's sake? That's a hell of a gunt he's got going there, front and center. Women and children may be watching, for the love of Bakula, to say nothing of how unflattering the picture is in general. Maybe a shot with a little less of a fupa, brahs?
unreal... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ace Rutherfords ( talk • contribs) 18:57, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
Peter was also awarded the Order of the Smile 216.27.141.84 ( talk) 13:28, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Is there vehement opposition to mentioning Peter's appearance in the aforementioned song, in this article? Vranak ( talk) 19:52, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
Honorifics, such as "Sir", "President", "Pope", "Doctor", "Lord", "King" are only included in article titles if that is the name by which the person is known. See wp:honorifics. Repeated insertion of the "Sir" is disruptive. Stop. Shajure ( talk) 15:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Sir Peter Ustinov Allan Warren.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on April 16, 2012. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2012-04-16. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! — howcheng { chat} 16:38, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
We currently state: In the late 1960s, he became a Swiss citizen to avoid the British tax system of the time, which heavily taxed the earnings of the wealthy. However, he was knighted in 1990, ....
Getting a non-honorary knighthood means he must have retained his UK citizenship, and was a dual citizen of the UK and Switzerland. How did continuing to be a UK citizen protect him from the UK tax system? -- Jack of Oz [Talk] 07:55, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
This could apply to other articles. I think when a person dies they lose whatever knighthood/peership etc they have. That being the case should his name in the first part of the article be written as Sir Peter Ustinov, CBE? -- 86.146.113.245 ( talk) 17:09, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
The person keeps the knighthood wether they died or not. It can not renounced. Bob3458 ( talk) 15:44, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
Honorifics, such as "Sir", "President", "Pope", "Doctor", "Lord", "King" are only included in article titles if that is the name by which the person is known. See
wp:honorifics. Repeated insertion of the "Sir" is disruptive. Stop.
Shajure (
talk) 15:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Just to be sure, I verified we do have a redirect from Sir Peter Ustinov, in case anyone searches for him that way. If you feel strongly that this is how he is known, proposing the article be moved to the "Sir..." name would be a good idea. However... he wasn't, isn't, and it won't fly (my opinion). Shajure ( talk) 00:43, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
"University of Toronto Honorary Degree Recipients 1850 - 2016 Sorted Alphabetically by Name of Recipient" I suspect is replaced each year... not sure it matters much. Shajure ( talk) 04:07, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
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The discography currently has 1 disc, when [1], for example, mentions 46 - some of these are only tangentially related, but his recordings are easily in the double digits. There's citations elsewhere in wikipedia: George Martin recorded one of his early works - Mock Mozart with Antony Hopkins playing harpsichord. NB not Anthony Hopkins, as cited on Discogs; the spelling on the record label itself is 'th' but it's the wrong guy. Hopkins-the-composer later composed the music on Ustinov's Billy Budd (film); they're pictured working together here [2] (again, Getty mislabel Hopkins as the actor!). His Peter and the Wolf (1956) is the one I knew as a child. Anyway just spotting some easy additions.
In the University of Dundee Rector succession box I have changed Sir Clement Freud to simply Clement Freud. Freud succeeded Ustinov in 1974 and served until 1980. According to his article he was not knighted until 1987. This means that at no point when Freud was Rector of the University of Dundee would he have been entitled to be addressed as "Sir". Dunarc ( talk) 23:45, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
I see that the antics of his presumptive heirs is being added to his article. The squabble, and/or the individuals involved if adequately notable, can have their own articles. I don't see how this adds to the knowledge about Mr. Ustinov. I will remove it, probably tomorrow, unless there is support to add it. Shajure ( talk) 07:46, 16 December 2020 (UTC) Not seeing anything further, I am removing it. Shajure ( talk) 04:57, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
There appears to be a 2003 TV movie of the same name.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354213/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
This seems to have caused a bit of confusion. Shajure ( talk) 02:17, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
He didn't write anything with Thurber. Perhaps he did a reading of Thurber. Should this be in spoken word? Cloudjpk ( talk) 14:05, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Shajure undid revisions and suggested that “militant” = “violent”. These words are not synonyms. History and lexical bundling of “militant” when added to the one being negotiated with necessarily biases the article in favour of the negotiator. Further, the editor suggested that “heavily taxed the wealthy” was hard to disprove. However, “heavily” and “wealthy” are such subjective and highly modal attributions that there is no way to prove either way. 5.151.174.80 ( talk) 13:46, 19 July 2022 (UTC)