Many fans of Agatha Christie's mystery novels also share an affinity for the movie adaptations of her books, especially those featuring the famously observant detective Hercule Poirot. Several famed ...

Peter Ustinov, the two-time Academy Award-winning British character actor whose film roles ranged from Emperor Nero to Agatha Christie’s Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot, has died. He was 82.

The 1982 adaptation based on Agatha Christie's novels will be airing on Christmas Day on BBC Two and the popular film has ...

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 ...

There’s no shortage of brilliant detectives in novels, film and television, but one of the greatest — or at least the one with the fanciest facial hair — is Hercule Poirot. The Belgian investigator, ...

Hercule Poirot has been depicted onscreen a number of times, including by David Suchet and Kenneth Branagh (ITV/Paramount Pictures/20th Century Studios) Hercule Poirot is one of the most iconic ...

GENEVA - Sir Peter Ustinov, a wit and mimic who won two Oscars for an acting career that ranged from the evil emperor Nero in "Quo Vadis" to the quirky Agatha Christie detective Hercule Poirot, has ...

GENEVA (AP) — Peter Ustinov, the renowned actor whose 60-year career included Oscar-winning roles in "Spartacus" and "Topkapi," has died. He was 82. Ustinov, who later became a U.N. goodwill ...

About 20 minutes into ”Agatha Christie`s `Murder in Three Acts,”` it becomes quite clear that Peter Ustinov has worn out his welcome, not to mention his ”little gray cells,” as the bow-tied busybody, ...

In a way, old school murder mysteries play out like interactive movies. The first act establishes a ghastly and seemingly unsolvable murder. The audience is then invited to take note of the myriad ...

Peter Ustinov, the renowned actor whose 60-year career included Oscar-winning roles in "Spartacus" and "Topkapi," has died. He was 82. Ustinov, who later became a U.N. goodwill ambassador, died of ...

LONDON — Peter Ustinov, whose film career began in London in the 1940s and netted two Oscars in the ’60s, died Sunday of heart failure near Lake Geneva, Switzerland. He was 82. A brilliant wit and ...