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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 1970s he ran a small shop just off Notting Hill Gate, selling zodiac-related items.
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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.
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 Green Man (1956), The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960), Tom Jones (1963), The Intelligence Men (1965) and Doctor Dolittle (1967).
Other works
He is probably best remembered for his standard work on the subject of teddy bears with the title Bear With Me. He also wrote a non-fiction work about his experiences during WWII as commander of a Tank Landing Craft (LCT) , To Sea in a Sieve.
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