The Bedbug (56 page)

Peter Ustinov as a child.

On the brink of triumph: Peter Ustinov at his Chelsea home with Nadia and Klop on 1 January 1953, the year he won an Oscar nomination for
Quo Vadis
and the Critics’ Award for the Best Foreign Play for the New York production of
The Love of Four Colonels
.

Klop (left) with younger brother Peter and mother Magdalena.

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