Peter Bull
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Lieutenant-Commander Peter Cecil Bull, DSC (21 March 1912 in London - 20 May 1984) was a British character actor. He was the son of Hammersmith MP Sir William Bull, Bt.. In the 1970's he ran a small shop just of Notting Hill Gate, selling zodiac related items.
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[edit] Early life
He was educated at Winchester College. His first professional stage appearance was in If I Were You at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1933.
[edit] Film appearances
His performance as the Russian Ambassador, Alexi de Sadesky, in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963) is among the best-known of his several dozen film and TV appearances. Other films include As You Like It (1936), Oliver Twist (1948), Scrooge (1951, in which he both narrated and played a small on-screen role), The African Queen (1951), The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960), Tom Jones (1963), The Intelligence Men (1965) and Doctor Dolittle (1967).
[edit] Other works
He is probably best remembered for his standard work on the subject of teddy bears with the title Bear With Me.
