Can you name this knighted British artist?

Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov (1921-2004) was an Academy and Emmy Award-winning actor, director, playwright, columnist, novelist, raconteur and humanitarian. The child of a journalist and a ballerina/artist, Ustinov was born in London but often referred to himself as an "international citizen". And with good reason: both of his parents were half Russian and one eighth German, with significant ancestry from Poland and Ethiopia (father) and Italian and French (mother). Members of the Ustinov family tree had connections to czarist nobility as well as Ethiopian royalty. Not surprisingly, Ustinov was multilingual—he was fluent in English, Russian, German, Italian, and French and had some command of several others. Ustinov was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1975 and was knighted in 1990.

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