Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

Peter Ustinov played Poirot a total of six times, starting with Death on the Nile ( 1978 ).

* 1921 – Peter Ustinov, English actor ( d. 2004 )

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

His novella Billy Budd, Sailor, unpublished until 33 years after the author's death, was later turned into a play, an opera by Benjamin Britten and a film by Peter Ustinov.

An extreme version of this trend can be seen in the Disney cartoon version, for example, which depicts John, voiced by Peter Ustinov, as a " cowardly, thumbsucking lion ".

" Lasker was inspired by a television special presented by Peter Ustinov on several geniuses including Stephen Hawking.

* April 16 – Peter Ustinov, English actor and director ( died 2004 )

* March 29 – Peter Ustinov, English actor and director ( b. 1921 )

" Peter Ustinov described her during a student demonstration at the University of Dundee in 1968, " As we arrived in a solemn procession the students pelted us with toilet rolls.

During his work with the Film Unit, Peter Ustinov, though one of the script-writers, had to pose as Niven's batman.

* Montez was portrayed by Martine Carol in the film Lola Montès ( 1955 ), based on the novel La Vie Extraordinaire de Lola Montès by Cecil Saint-Laurent, directed by Max Ophüls and co-starring Peter Ustinov and Oskar Werner.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

When Miss Piggy threw a truck driver ( played by Peter Ustinov ) into a pile of boxes and a pile of trash cans, Oscar emerged from his trash can and demanded " Hey, what's all the racket?

The movie stars Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov, with a supporting cast including Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Michael Anderson, Jr., and Chips Rafferty.

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* Peter Ustinov as Rupert Venneker

Back in France he directed and collaborated on the adaptation of Schnitzler's La Ronde ( 1950 ), which won the 1951 BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Lola Montès ( 1955 ) starring Martine Carol and Peter Ustinov, as well as Le Plaisir and The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953 ), the latter with Danielle Darrieux and Charles Boyer, which capped his career.

* 1989: Peter Ustinov

One famous example of officer and batman during the Second World War was British actor David Niven and fellow actor Peter Ustinov.

* Blow Your Own Trumpet, a comedy by Peter Ustinov, ( directed ), Playhouse Theatre August 1943

Suchet appeared as Inspector Japp in the 1985 film adaptation of Lord Edgware Dies, screen-name Thirteen at Dinner, with Peter Ustinov portraying Poirot.

Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Whimsey ( the respective creations of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers ) have retained Holmes' egotism but not his zest for life and eccentric habits.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

Before Suchet took on the role of Poirot, he had previously played Japp himself in the 1985 film Thirteen at Dinner, where Peter Ustinov played Poirot.

David Dickinson, John Prescott, Robin Cook, Gandalf, David Cameron, Magneto and Ian McKellen, Professor Robert Winston, Dr Rowan Williams, David Blunkett, Tom Paulin, Saddam Hussein, Peter Mandelson, Graham Norton, Martin Jarvis, Trevor McDonald ( on radio ), Bob Geldof, Ken Livingstone, Brian Blessed, Luciano Pavarotti, Monty Don, Richard Briers, Patrick Stewart, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Toby Ziegler, Donald Rumsfeld, Adam Hart-Davis, Hannibal Lecter ( on radio ), Lord Voldemort ( on radio ), Hercule Poirot, Second Doctor & Patrick Troughton, Bernard Matthews, Rocky Balboa, Al Gore, George Lamb

A 1986 adaptation of Dead Man's Folly starred Jean Stapleton as Ariadne Oliver, opposite Peter Ustinov as Poirot.

After a leading role in Peter Greenaway's cult success Drowning by Numbers ( 1988 ), her first major role in front of a mass audience was as Joanna Farley in a 1989 television episode of Poirot, the Agatha Christie based detective series.

Evil Under the Sun was the second film to be made with Peter Ustinov as Poirot after his debut in the part in the 1978 film Death on the Nile.

The solution involves the wisdom of Sherlock Holmes, the methods of Hercule Poirot, and the style of Lord Peter Wimsey.

Ned begins to see himself first as Hercule Poirot, but then as Lord Peter Wimsey, with Verity as his Harriet Vane.

First adapted to film with Peter Ustinov and Jean Stapleton starring as Poirot and Oliver in a 1986 adaptation set in the present-day.

In the second part of the novel, Poirot is persuaded to investigate the case by Peter Lord, who is in love with Elinor and wants her to be acquitted at all costs.

Poirot ends the novel by rebuking Peter Lord for his clumsy efforts to implicate the hypothetical killer outside the window.

Peter Lord says that he has been recommended to consult Poirot by Dr. John Stillingfleet on the basis of Poirot ’ s brilliant performance in the case related in the short story, The Dream, which had been printed two years earlier in issue 566 of The Strand ( magazine ) and later printed in book form in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding in 1960 in the UK and in The Regatta Mystery in the US in 1939.

It was later adapted into the third of six films to star Peter Ustinov as Poirot and released in 1988.

Nietzsche cites his affinities to Epicurus in a number of his works, including The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, and his private letters to Peter Gast.

On these grounds Peter complains that, when he was setting out for the Gentiles to convert them from their worship of many gods upon earth, the Evil Power had sent Simon before him to make them believe that there were many gods in heaven.

Raimi occasionally appears on-screen in his own movies, usually in similar fashion to the cameos made by his idol Alfred Hitchcock: A silhouette behind a projection screen ( Spider-Man, in the wrestling scene ), a passer-by with some kind of physical interaction with the film's protagonist ( Spider-Man 2, as the student whose bookbag hits Peter Parker in the back of the head ), a hitchhiking fisherman accompanied by Robert Tapert in The Evil Dead.

In addition to being a parody of James Bond and clearly being heavily influenced by Peter Sellers, Austin Powers represents an archetype of 1960s Swinging London, with his constant advocacy for free love — defending this attitude in an argument with Doctor Evil by arguing that they were rebelling against authority figures like Doctor Evil and the movement would have used less drugs if they had been aware of the long-term consequences — his use of obscure impressions and his clothing style ( including crushed velvet suits and Beatle boots ).

( 1966 ), in which he played a Norman Bates-like character reminiscent of Psycho ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ), in which he played Acres, a dining room attendant ; The Legend of Hell House ( 1973 ), in which he played a physical medium assigned to a team attempting to crack the secret of the Belasco House ; Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry ( 1974 ); Evil Under the Sun ( 1982 ); Class of 1984 ( 1982 ); Fright Night ( 1985 ), in which he played Peter Vincent, a television host and moderator of telecast horror films ; and Overboard ( 1987 ) in which he played a kind-hearted butler.

The story of the murder was adapted into the 1971 French film Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal ( Don't Deliver Us From Evil ) and into Peter Jackson's film Heavenly Creatures ( 1994 ).

* Giant of the Evil Island ( 1965 ) a. k. a. Mystery of the Cursed Island, Peter Lupus

* Giant of the Evil Island ( 1965 ) a. k. a. Mystery of the Cursed Island, Peter Lupus

A few years prior to his death, Peter Falk had expressed interest in returning to the role, announcing in 2007 that he had chosen a script for one last Columbo episode, Columbo: Hear No Evil.

* 2002 – 03 Peter van Inwagen The Problem of Evil, ISBN 978-0-19-954397-7

* In a mission of the Evil campaign in The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring, a real-time strategy game based on the book instead of the Peter Jackson films, Saruman merges barrow-wights with Orcs to create the Uruk-hai

The later-produced and more famous version of the list was compiled in 1994 by Peter Anspach ( hence it is occasionally titled " Peter's Evil Overlord List ") based on informal discussions at conventions and on online bulletin boards in the early 1990s, and has subsequently become one of the best-known parodies of bad SF / F writing, frequently referenced online.

* Peter Anspach's Version Of The Evil Overlord List, at eviloverlord. com ( Created subsequent to the original list.

* Venger, Force of Evil ( voiced by Peter Cullen ): The main antagonist and the Dungeon Master's son ( as revealed in the episode " The Dragon's Graveyard " and again in the lost episode " Requiem "), as well as Karena's brother (" Citadel of Shadow "), Venger is an evil wizard of great power who seeks to use the children's magical weapons to bolster his power.

# " Karn Evil 9 " ( Live version ) – 5: 05 ( Keith Emerson / Greg Lake / Peter Sinfield )

Evil then visits Peter and tries to attack him, only to be warded off when injured by a crucifix.

Peter, frightened from having dealt with Evil, initially refuses, but then reluctantly resumes his " Vampire Killer " role as Charley approaches his neighbor's house.

Peter flees to Charley's house, finding that Mrs. Brewster is at work, and is attacked by Evil Ed, who takes a wolf form.

Peter apparently kills Evil after staking him through the heart.

He is also known for the cult favourite Beyond Good & Evil and for the video game adaptation of Peter Jackson's King Kong.

The season 3 premiere episode of The Cleveland Show also parodies " Best Cry Ever ", when Cleveland breaks down after his old friend Peter confesses that he still cares for him ; this gets the attention of Cleveland's friends and the Evil Monkey.

He edited This is Orson Welles ( 1992 ) by Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, a collection of interviews and other materials relating to Welles, and was consultant on the re-editing of Welles's Touch of Evil released in 1998, based on a lengthy memo written by Welles to Universal Pictures in the 1950s.