Peter Bull

Peter Cecil Bull, DSC (21 March 1912 – 20 May 1984) was a British character actor.

Biography

He was the fourth and youngest son of Hammersmith MP Sir William James Bull, 1st Bt..

Bull was educated at Winchester College. His first professional stage appearance was in If I Were You at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1933.

Bull's performance as the Soviet Ambassador, Alexi de Sadesky, in Dr. Strangelove (1964) is among the best-known of his several dozen film and TV appearances. He both narrated and had a small on-screen role in Scrooge (1951), and portrayed the German ship's captain in The African Queen (1951).

Bull was also the first actor to portray Pozzo in the English language version of Beckett's 'Waiting For Godot' when it opened on 3 August 1955.

In the 1970s he ran a small shop just off Notting Hill Gate, selling zodiac-related items.^{[citation needed]}

Bull wrote a work on the subject of teddy bears, Bear With Me. He also wrote a non-fiction work about his experiences during World War II as commander of a Tank Landing Craft (LCT), To Sea in a Sieve. During his service, he achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Commander and was awarded the DSC.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

• As You Like It (1936)
• Sabotage (1936) (uncredited)
• Non-Stop New York (1937)
• Marie Antoinette (1938) (uncredited)
• Dead Man's Shoes (1939)
• Contraband (1940)
• They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
• Oliver Twist (1948)
• Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
• Woman Hater (1948)
• I'll Get You for This (1951)
• The Smart Aleck (1951)
• The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) (uncredited)
• The African Queen (1951)
• Salute the Toff (1952)
• The Captain's Paradise (1953)
• Beau Brummell (1954)
• Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
• The Green Man (1956)
• tom thumb (1958)
• The Scapegoat (1959)
• The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
• The Rebel (1961)
• Goodbye Again (1961)
• The Girl on the Boat (1961)
• Tom Jones (1963)
• The Old Dark House (1963)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• The Intelligence Men (1965)
• You Must Be Joking! (1965)
• Licensed to Kill (1965)
• Doctor Dolittle (1967)
• Lock Up Your Daughters (1969)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
• Joseph Andrews (1977)
• The Tempest (1979)
• Yellowbeard (1983)

External links

• Peter Bull at the Internet Movie Database
• IBDB entry
• Peter Bull at Find-A-Grave