Actor, writer, director Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinow landed his first major screen role in The Goose Steps Out (1942). Ustinov was involved in more than 80 films in Rome, London, and Hollywood during his career of nearly 60 years. Peter Ustinov played Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot in 1978’s Death on the Nile, a role he went on to reprise six more times
