Peter Bull

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Peter Bull as the Russian Ambassador in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1963)
Peter Bull as the Russian Ambassador in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1963)

Peter Bull (21 March 1912 - 20 May 1984) was a British character actor. He was the son of Hammersmith MP Sir William Bull.

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 Oliver Twist (1948), Scrooge (1951), The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960), Tom Jones (1963) and Doctor Dolittle (1967).