Peter Sellers

Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Peter Sellers does various English accents

Peter Sellers - fart-gag outtakes (bloopers) - HQ

Sophia Loren & Peter Sellers - Goodness Gracious me

The Party - 1968 - Peter Sellers - trailer

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Blackpool
Blackpool () is a seaside town and unitary authority in Lancashire, England. Situated along the coast of the Irish Sea, it has a population of 142,900, making it the third-largest settlement in North West England behind Manchester and Liverpool. It lies 40 miles (64 km) north-west of the city of Manchester, and less than north of Liverpool City centre. Blackpool is the fourth most densely populated local authority district of England & Wales outside Greater London.
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Clarence House
Clarence House is a royal home in London, situated on The Mall, in the City of Westminster. It is attached to St. James's Palace and shares the palace's garden. For nearly 50 years, from 1953 to 2002, it was home to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, but is now the official residence of The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, and the Princes William and Harry. It is open to visitors for approximately two months each summer.
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Dorchester Hotel
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Gestapo
The Gestapo (; abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, Secret State Police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning in April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police (Chef der Deutschen Polizei). From September 1939 forward it was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) ("Reich Main Security Office") and was considered a sister organization of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) ("Security Service") and also a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) ("security police").
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Ilfracombe
Ilfracombe () is a seaside resort and civil parish on the North Devon coast, England with a small harbour, surrounded by cliffs.
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Southsea
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform. Throughout these changes, Yorkshire has continued to be recognised as a geographical territory and cultural region. The name is familiar and well understood across the United Kingdom and is in common use in the media and the military, and also features in the titles of current areas of civil administration, such as Yorkshire and the Humber and West Yorkshire.
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A. E. Matthews
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Al Pacino
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Albert Finney
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Alberto Sordi
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Alec Guinness
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Andrew Timothy
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Angela Morley
Angela Morley (born Wally Stott, 10 March 1924 – 14 January 2009) was an English composer and conductor.
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Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Newley
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Anthony Quinn
:For other people named Anthony Quinn see Anthony Quinn (disambiguation)
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Badfinger
Badfinger was a rock band formed in Swansea, Wales in the early 1960s who became one of the earliest representatives of the post-'60s power pop genre. During the early 1970s the band was at times tagged as the heir apparent to The Beatles, partly because of their close working relationship with them and partly because of their similar sound. The band had four consecutive worldwide hit songs and contributed "Without You," a No. 1 Billboard hit for Harry Nilsson which was covered by hundreds of artists. Badfinger's two principally-known singers and songwriters, Pete Ham and Tom Evans, committed suicide in 1975 and 1983, respectively.
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Bernard Miles
Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles, CBE (27 September 1907–14 June 1991) was an English character actor, writer and director. He opened the Mermaid Theatre in London in 1959, the first new theatre opened in the City of London since the 17th century.
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Bette Davis
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Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (22 June 190627 March 2002) was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people who have won three Academy Awards for producing, directing and writing the same film (The Apartment).
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Bing Crosby
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Blake Edwards
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Britt Ekland
Britt-Marie Ekland (born 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress long resident in the United Kingdom. She is best known for her roles as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun, and in the British cult horror film The Wicker Man, as well as her marriage to actor Peter Sellers, and her high-profile social life.
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Bryan Forbes
Bryan Forbes, CBE (born John Theobald Clark on 22 July 1926 in Stratford, West Ham, historically in Essex, and now part of Greater London) is an English film director, actor and writer.
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Campbell Scott
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Chaim Topol
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Charlotte Mitchell
Charlotte Mitchell (born 23 July 1926 in Ipswich, Suffolk) is an English actress and poet most famous for her role in The Adventures Of Black Beauty in the early 1970s. She was once (allegedly) the girlfriend of Peter Sellers, hence her occasional appearances on The Goon Show in the 1950s. Charlotte Mitchell was married to actor Philip Guard [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0345303/] and is the mother of 3 children, actors Christopher Guard [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0345295/] and Dominic Guard [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0345297/] and animator and novelist Candy Guard [http://www.davidhigham.co.uk/html/Clients/Guard] [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1192261/]. Charlotte lives in West London and continues to be active as a poet [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-Case-Poems-My-Pocket/dp/0285630601].
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Clint Eastwood
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Daniel Mendoza
Daniel Mendoza (5 July 1764 - 3 September 1836) (often known as Dan Mendoza) was an English prizefighter, who was boxing champion of England 1792-95.
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Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse).
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David Frost
Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE (born 7 April 1939) is a British journalist, comedian, writer and media personality, best known as a pioneer of political satire on television and for his serious interviews with various political figures, the most notable being Richard Nixon. Since 2006, he has hosted the weekly programme Frost Over the World on Al Jazeera English. He was portrayed by actor Michael Sheen opposite Frank Langella's Richard Nixon in the 2006 Peter Morgan stage play Frost/Nixon, and in Ron Howard's subsequent 2008 film adaptation.
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David Lodge (actor)
David William Frederick Lodge (19 August 1921 in Rochester, Kent - 18 October 2003) was a British character actor.
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Dean Martin
Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare" and posthumous smash "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?". Nicknamed the "King of Cool", he was one of the members of the "Rat Pack" and a major star in four areas of show business: concert stage/night clubs, recordings, motion pictures, and television.
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Denis Norden
Denis Mostyn Norden CBE (born 6 February 1922) is a former English comedy writer and television presenter. After an early career working in cinemas, he began scriptwriting during World War II. From 1948 to 1959, he co-wrote the successful BBC Radio comedy programme Take It From Here with Frank Muir. Muir and Norden remained associated for more than 50 years: after they stopped collaborating on scripts, they appeared regularly together on radio panel programmes My Word! and My Music.
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Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (commonly known as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 black comedy film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, and Tracy Reed. Loosely based on Peter George's Cold War thriller novel Red Alert, a.k.a. Two Hours to Doom, Dr. Strangelove satirized the nuclear scare.
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Dudley Moore
Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.
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Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the Queen consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. She was the last Queen consort of Ireland and Empress consort of India.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is the reigning queen and head of state of 16 independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. In addition, as Head of the Commonwealth, she is the figurehead of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations and, as the British monarch, she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
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Eric Sykes
Eric Sykes, CBE (born 4 May 1923) is an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career has spanned more than 50 years. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in British radio and TV comedy in the latter 20th century and he frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus and Johnny Speight. Sykes first came to prominence through his many radio credits as a writer and actor in the 1950s, most notably through his work on The Goon Show. He became a TV star in his own right in the early 1960s when he co-starred with Hattie Jacques in several popular BBC comedy television series. A trademark of Sykes's work is the idea of taking a single comic idea to its extremes, as epitomised by what is probably his best remembered work, the famous slapstick film "The Plank".
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Frank Muir
Frank Herbert Muir (5 February 1920 - 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote BBC radio's Take It From Here for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes My Word! and My Music for another 35. Muir became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment at the BBC in the 1960s, and was then London Weekend Television's founding Head of Entertainment. His many writing credits include editorship of The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose.
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Frank Sinatra
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François Périer
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Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist.
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George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his bravura stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and an early flamboyant film performance as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. He has also widely been known for his rather gravelly voice.
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George Formby, Jr.
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George Harrison
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George Martin
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Glenn Miller
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing December 15, 1944) was an American jazz musician (trombone), arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big bands". Miller's signature recordings include In the Mood, American Patrol, Chattanooga Choo Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug and Pennsylvania 6-5000. While traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. His body has never been found.
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Graham Stark
Graham Stark (born 20 January 1922) is an English comedian, actor, writer and director.
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Hal Ashby
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Harry Secombe
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Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor.
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Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He has received a Tony Award and two Academy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is known to many for roles such as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and as Magneto in the X-Men films.
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Irene Handl
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Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
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Jack Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director and producer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters.
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Jack Train
Jack Train (28 November 1902 – 16 December 1966) was a British radio and film actor popular during the Second World War.
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James Mason
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Jamie Foxx
Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and singer. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy. He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing two albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, and Intuition.
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Jason Robards
Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor on stage and in film and television and a winner of the Tony Award (theatre), two Academy Awards (film) and the Emmy Award (television). He was also a United States Navy combat veteran of World War II.
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Jerzy Kosinski
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Jesse Eisenberg
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Jo Van Fleet
Jo Van Fleet (December 30, 1914 – June 10, 1996) was an American theatre and film actress.
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Joan Collins
Joan Henrietta Collins, OBE (born 23 May 1933) is an English actress, author, and columnist. Flamboyant in her personal life, she is best known in the United States for the role of the equally flamboyant Alexis Colby in the long running television series Dynasty, as well as being a favorite of Star Trek fans for her appearance as Edith Keeler in the Star Trek episode The City on the Edge of Forever.
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John Snagge
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John Travolta
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Jon Voight
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an American film and television actor. He came to prominence at the end of the 1960s, with a performance as a would-be gigolo in 1969's Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination. Throughout the following decades, Voight built his reputation with an array of challenging roles, appearing in such landmark films as Deliverance (1972), and Coming Home (1978), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor. Voight's portrayal of sportscaster/journalist Howard Cosell, in the 2001 biopic Ali, earned critical raves and his fourth Oscar nomination. He starred in the seventh season of 24 as the villain Jonas Hodges.
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Kenneth Connor
Kenneth Connor, MBE (6 June 1918 – 28 November 1993) was an English comedy stage, radio, film and TV actor, best known for the Carry On films.
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Kenneth Horne
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Kenneth Mars
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Kenneth More
Kenneth Gilbert More CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman.
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Kenneth Tynan
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer.
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Larry Stephens
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Laurence Olivier
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Lee Marvin
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Leslie Bricusse
Leslie Bricusse (29 January 1931) is a British lyricist and composer.
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Lonnie Donegan
Lonnie Donegan MBE (29 April 1931 – 3 November 2002) was a skiffle musician, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name. He is known as the "King of Skiffle" and is often cited as a large influence on the generation of British musicians who became famous in the 1960s. The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums states Donegan was "Britain's most successful and influential recording artist before The Beatles. He chalked up 24 successive Top 30 hits, and was the first UK male to score two U.S. Top 10s".
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Lynne Frederick
Lynne Maria Frederick (25 July 1954 – 27 April 1994) was an English actress.
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Marlon Brando
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Maurice Woodruff
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Max Geldray
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Michael Bentine
Michael Bentine CBE (26 January 1922 – 26 November 1996 ) was a comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons.
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Michael Douglas
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Michael Parkinson
Sir Michael Parkinson, CBE (born 28 March 1935) is an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He presented his interview programme, Parkinson, from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007.
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Michael Redgrave
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Miranda Quarry
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Morgan Freeman
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Nicolas Cage
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Norman Granz
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Orson Welles
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Oswald Morris
Oswald Norman Morris OBE, DFC,
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Paul McCartney
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Paul Newman
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Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008), better known as Paul Scofield, was an English actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, a reprise of the role he played in the stage version at the West End and on Broadway for which he received a Tony Award.
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Peter O'Toole
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Peter Sellars
Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art as Moral Action.
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Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers, OBE (born Richard Henry Sellers, 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980), was a British comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr. Strangelove, as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, as Clare Quilty in the original 1962 screen version of Lolita, and as the man-child, Chance the gardener, in his penultimate film, Being There.
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Piers Haggard
Piers Inigo Haggard (born March 18, 1939 in London, England, UK) is a British film and television director, although he has worked mostly in the latter medium. He is the great grandnephew of H. Rider Haggard, the son of the actor Stephen Haggard and father of the actress Daisy Haggard.
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Queen Victoria
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Ray Ellington
Ray Ellington (17 March 1916 – 28 February 1985) was a popular English singer, drummer and bandleader. He is best known for his appearances on The Goon Show from 1951 to 1960. The Ray Ellington Quartet had a regular musical segment on the show, and Ellington also had a small speaking role in many episodes, often as a parodic African, Native American or Arab chieftain (but also often, with no attempt to change his normal accent, as a female secretary or a Scotsman).
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Ray Milland
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Ray Walston
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Raúl Juliá
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Rex Harrison
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Richard Basehart
John Richard Basehart (August 31, 1914 – September 17, 1984) was an American actor. He starred in the 1960s television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson.
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Richard Harris
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Richard Schickel
Richard Warren Schickel (born February 10, 1933, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. He is a film critic for Time magazine, having also written for Life magazine and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
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This article is about the British actor. For the American director, see Peter Sellars.

Peter Sellers
Publicity photo of Sellers, about 1975
Born	Richard Henry Sellers (1925-09-08)8 September 1925 Southsea, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Died	24 July 1980(1980-07-24) (aged 54) London, England, United Kingdom
Cause of death	Heart Attack
Nationality	British^[1]
Occupation	Actor, comedian
Years active	1948–1980
Spouse	Anne Hayes (m. 1951–1961; divorced) Britt Ekland (m. 1964–1968; divorced) Miranda Quarry (m. 1970–1974; divorced) Lynne Frederick (m. 1977–1980; his death)
Children	Michael (deceased), Sarah, Victoria

Richard Henry Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980), known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor. Perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, he is also notable for playing three different characters in Dr. Strangelove, as Clare Quilty in Lolita, and as the TV-addicted man-child Chance the gardener in his penultimate film, Being There. Actress Bette Davis once remarked of him, "He isn't an actor—he's a chameleon."^[2]

Sellers rose to fame on the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. His ability to speak in different accents (e.g., French, Indian, Italian, American, German, as well as British regional accents), along with his talent to portray a range of characters to comic effect, contributed to his success as a radio personality and screen actor and earned him national and international nominations and awards. Many of his characters became ingrained in public perception of his work. Sellers' private life was characterised by turmoil and crises, and included emotional problems and substance abuse. Sellers was married four times, and had three children from the first two marriages.

Early life [link]

Peter Sellers' birthplace on the corner of Castle Road and Southsea Terrace, in Southsea; the blue plaques read "Peter Sellers, Actor and Comedian was born here"

Sellers was born in Southsea, Portsmouth, to a family of entertainers. Although he was christened Richard Henry, his parents always called him Peter, after his elder stillborn brother,^[3] and, according to Bryan Forbes, "was, during his formative years, totally smothered in maternal affection".

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He attended the North London Roman Catholic school St. Aloysius College. His father, Yorkshire-born Bill Sellers, was Protestant, and his mother, Agnes Doreen 'Peg' (née Marks) was Jewish, the daughter of Solomon Marks and his wife, Welcome Mendoza. Agnes was a first cousin, three times removed, of boxer Daniel Mendoza (1764–1836), not, as is commonly believed, his great-granddaughter.^[4] As an adult, notes film critic Alexander Walker, Mendoza was the relative Sellers "most revered," and he usually kept an engraving of him hanging in his office. At one time he planned on having Mendoza's image for his production company's logo.

According to Sellers' biographer Roger Lewis, Sellers was intrigued by Catholicism, but soon after entering Catholic school, he "discovered he was a Jew—he was someone on the outside of the mysteries of faith." Sellers says that teachers referred to him as "The Jew", which led to his subsequent sensitivity to anti-semitic innuendos. He was a top student at the school, and recalls that the teacher once scolded the other boys for not studying: "The Jewish boy knows his catechism better than the rest of you!"^[3]^:203

Later in his life, Sellers is quoted as saying "My father was solid Church of England but my mother was Jewish, Portuguese Jewish, and Jews take the faith of their mother."^[5] Film critic Kenneth Tynan noted after his interview with Sellers that one of the main "motive forces" for his ambition as an actor was "his hatred of anti-semitism." Tynan explained:

In scholars, lawyers, doctors and vaudeville comedians, Jewishness is tolerated. In legitimate actors, much less often. . . . Hence [Peter Seller's refusal] to be content with the secure reputation of a great mimic and his determination to go down in history as something more—a great actor, perhaps, or a great director.^[6]^:10-13

Sellers was of the opinion that "becoming part of some large group never does any good. Maybe that's my problem with religion," he said during an interview. He explained:

"I wasn't baptised. I wasn't Bar Mitzvahed. I suppose my basic religion is doing unto others as they would do unto me. But I find it all very difficult. I am more inclined to believe in the Old Testament than in the New . . . .^[7]

Radio days [link]

Sellers began to develop a "gift for improvising dialogue," writes Walker, while he was still in Catholic school. His closest friend during those years was Bryan Connon, and they were both equally enjoyed listening to early radio shows. Connon recalls their time spent after school:

As we walked home together from school, Peter got endless pleasure imitating the people in "Monday Night at Eight." He had a gift for improvising dialogue. Sketches, too. I'd be the "straight man," the "feed," and all the way up Archway Road I'd cue Peter and he'd do all the radio personalities and chuck in a few voices of his own invention as well. In hindsight, "The Goon Show" was a logical development of that sidewalk "show."^[6]^:30

Early stage experience [link]

Accompanying his family on the variety show circuit,^[3] Sellers learned stagecraft, which proved valuable later. He performed at age five at the burlesque Windmill Theatre in the drama Splash Me!, which featured his mother.^[8] However, he grew up with conflicting influences from his parents and developed ambivalent feelings about show business. His father lacked confidence in Peter's abilities to ever become much in the entertainment field, even suggesting that his son's talents were only enough to become a road sweeper, while Sellers' mother encouraged him continually.^[3]^:18

Sellers got his first job at a theatre in Ilfracombe, when he was 15, starting as a janitor. He was steadily promoted, becoming a box office clerk, usher, assistant stage manager, and lighting operator. He was also offered some small acting parts.^[3] Working backstage gave him a chance to see serious actors at work, such as Paul Scofield. He also became close friends with Derek Altman, and together they launched Sellers' first stage act under the name "Altman and Sellers," where they played ukuleles, sang, and told jokes. They also both enjoyed reading detective stories by Dashiell Hammett, and were inspired to start their own detective agency. "Their enterprise ended abruptly when a potential client ripped Sellers' fake moustache off."^[3]

At his regular job backstage at the theatre, Sellers began practising on a set of drums that belonged to the band "Joe Daniels and His Hot Shots." Joe Daniels began noticing his efforts and gave him some practical instructions. Sellers' biographer Ed Sikov writes that "drumming suited him. Banging in time Pete could envelop himself in a world of near-total abstraction, all in the context of a great deal of noise."^[3]^:20

World War II period [link]

As war broke out in Europe, Sellers continued to develop his drumming skills, which strongly impressed even his father and landed Sellers his first drumming job with a band in Blackpool.^[3]^:22

He later enlisted, and during World War II Sellers was an airman in the Royal Air Force, rising to corporal, though he had been restricted to ground staff because of poor eyesight. His tour included India and Burma, although the duration of his stay in Asia is unknown and its length may have been exaggerated by Sellers himself.^[3]

He also served in Germany and France after the war.^[3] As a distraction from the life of a non-commissioned officer, Sellers joined the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), which his father had earlier also signed up with, allowing him to hone his drumming and comedy. By the end of the war in 1945, more than four out of every five British entertainers had worked for ENSA, whose focus was on boosting morale of soldiers and factory workers.^[3]

During those years, Sellers and his soldier friend David Lodge, who later became a leading British actor, entertained the troops in Gang Shows, with Sellers on the drums. Lodge describes Sellers' role in those shows:

Peter on the drums was one of the best performers ever. "Drumming Man" was how he was billed. He closed the show. To see him do his jazz numbers was a show in itself, throwing up the sticks, catching them. Nothing could have followed him! ^[6]^:49

Lodge notes that there were elements of anti-Semitism expressed by some of the show's members, although not aimed at Sellers, but at others in the group:

What I remember about Peter was the way he stood up for the little Jewish bloke on the receiving end of it. Another time he actually broke a chair up, very deliberately, piece by piece, to work out his aggression.^[6]^:49

He occasionally impersonated his superiors,^[3] and his portrayal of RAF officer Lionel Mandrake in the film Dr. Strangelove may have been modelled on them. He bluffed his way into the Officers' Mess using mimicry and the occasional false mustache. Walker explains that because many of the military camps during this period were disorganized, with various uniforms kept backstage, Sellers found it overly tempting, and "borrowed these shamelessly," adds Walker, "seduced by the enormity of the impersonation and indifferent to the consequences of being caught literally 'in the act.'" On one occasion, he found a uniform of a flight lieutenant, and ten minutes later, wearing the uniform, "sauntered into the officers' mess for a gin and tonic."^[6]^:50

Lodge clearly remembers the first time he witnessed Sellers impersonating an officer, after he pulled a squadron leader's uniform out of the props. The band's trumpeter first tried to stop him: "Don't be a bloody idiot, Peter. You'll get five years in the clink if you're cropped." It did no good, according to Lodge:

On went a false mustache. He parted his hair down the center, dusted it with talc around the temples, smoothed the medal ribbbons he'd awarded himself for campaigns he'd never been in—which was another five years, maybe—and clapped his cap on at the rakish angle which was how that sort of rank was expected to wear it. Then he went downstairs, me following, white with apprehension. I noticed his walk had even gotten years older, and carried an authority I never imagined Peter could muster. He threw open the door of the men's bunkhouse and waited a second before he entered—even then he had a great sense of timing. . . . Then he walked down the center, eyeing them with quiet pride. . . . imitating impeccably the tones of a man unused to having his authority questioned.^[6]^:51

According to Lodge, Sellers' attitude during that pretended inspection of the men, "was like royalty meeting loyal workers on the factory floor." As Sellers left the barrack, having asked for and hearing their numerous complaints, he said to the men, "Well, carry on chaps. You're not forgotten, I assure you." These kinds of impersonations became frequent, with Walker saying they were "like watching Dr. Jekyll's involuntary transformation into Mr. Hyde."^[6]^:51-52

Early career [link]

The Goon Show [link]

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After his discharge and return to England in 1948, Sellers supported himself with stand-up routines in variety theatres whose impresarios needed to legitimise their business.^[3] Sellers telephoned BBC radio producer Roy Speer, pretending to be Kenneth Horne, star of the radio show Much Binding in the Marsh, to get Speer to speak to him. Speer reportedly called Sellers a "cheeky young sod" for this.^[9]

As a result, Sellers was given an audition, which led to his work on Ray's a Laugh with comedian Ted Ray. His principal radio work was on The Goon Show with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and (originally) Michael Bentine. Sellers followed this with television work.

Records [link]

In the late 1950s, Sellers released two comedy records produced by George Martin: The Best of Sellers and Songs for Swinging Sellers. The Best of Sellers album cover (first released in 10" format in 1958 and his debut LP) pictured him polishing a Rolls-Royce motor car. The most popular tracks on this album were "Balham, Gateway to the South" (a parody travelogue) and "Suddenly It's Folksong" where a group of people end up smashing up a pub after a row over someone playing a bum note. The Songs for Swinging Sellers album, released in 1959, whose title parodied Frank Sinatra's album Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, contained material written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and featured Sellers performing "Puttin on the Style" (a parody of the skiffle movement's performer Lonnie Donegan). Sellers also appeared with guest Irene Handl on the track "Shadows on the Grass" where he played the part of a Frenchman befriending a lady in the park. Musical direction was by Ron Goodwin.

In 1963, Sellers worked with Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse and Joan Collins to produce the LP Fool Britannia. This comprised a series of sketches satirising the British political scandal, the Profumo Affair, in which the Minister for War was revealed to have lied about his relationship with a prostitute who was also involved with a Russian diplomat. The album was controversial, in part perhaps because of material involving the royal family, and would-be buyers in the United Kingdom found it especially hard to obtain.

A 1965 hit was a spoof spoken version of the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night", in the style of Laurence Olivier. This followed up various pieces of Olivier-style speech in the Goons.

In 1979 he released a new gatefold album entitled Sellers' Market (the cover shows him standing next to traders reading the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal whereas Sellers is reading the Finchley Press) which included comic singing and a feature called the "All England George Formby Finals" where he parodies the late George Formby and his ukulele-playing. Also featured was the Complete Guide to Accents of the British Isles. The album was not as popular as his first two in 1958 and 1959 although it is still sought after by collectors.^[10] All of his albums exploited Sellers's ability to use his flexible voice to comedic effect.

Acting technique and preparation [link]

In an October 1962 interview for Playboy, Sellers described how he prepared for acting roles once he agreed to play the part:

“

Well, having got to the stage where one sees a final script and has discussed the part with all concerned, I start with the voice. I find out how the character sounds. It's through the way he speaks that I find out the rest about him. I suppose that approach comes from having worked in radio for so long. After the voice comes the looks of the man. I do a lot of drawings of the character I play. Then I get together with the makeup man and we sort of transfer my drawings onto my face. An involved process. After that I establish how the character walks. Very important, the walk. And then, suddenly, something strange happens. The person takes over. The man you play begins to exist. I sink myself completely into every character I play, because he has begun to live in me. I suddenly seem to know what sort of life that man has had and how he would react to a given situation.^[7]

”

Film career [link]

In The World of Henry Orient (1964)

Sellers' film success arrived with British comedies, including The Ladykillers, I'm All Right Jack and The Mouse That Roared. In his early film roles, he continued to exploit his ability to do accents and different voices, often in character parts and occasionally playing several distinct roles in a single film. In his second movie, he played two parts; in his third, six (see chart below).

In The Smallest Show on Earth, the 32-year-old actor played a doddering, drunken elderly projectionist twice his actual age. In The Mouse That Roared, set in a small European country, he played three major and distinct roles, the elderly queen, the ambitious Prime Minister, and the innocent and clumsy farm boy selected to lead an invasion of the United States. In the United States he received considerable publicity for playing three parts, a stunt he would do again in Dr. Strangelove.

He began receiving international attention for his portrayal of an Indian doctor in The Millionairess with Sophia Loren. The film inspired the George Martin-produced novelty hit single Goodness Gracious Me and its follow-up Bangers and Mash, both featuring Sellers and Loren.

[edit] Lolita

In 1962, Stanley Kubrick asked Sellers to play the role of Clare Quilty in Lolita opposite James Mason and Shelley Winters. Kubrick had seen Sellers in his earlier films and was intrigued by his range, also demonstrated during The Goon Show period when Sellers had done impressions of famous people, such as Winston Churchill, the Queen, and Lew Grade.

According to Walker, working on Lolita was "the first time he tasted what it was like to work creatively during shooting, not just in the preproduction run-up." However, Sellers felt the part of a flamboyant American television playwright was beyond his ability, mainly because Quilty was, in Sellers' words, "a fantastic nightmare, part homosexual, part drug addict, part sadist...". He became nervous about taking on the role, and many people came up to him and told him they felt the role believable.^[11] Kubrick eventually succeeded in persuading Sellers to play the part, however. Kubrick had American jazz producer Norman Granz record Sellers' portions of the script for Sellers to listen to, so he could study the voice and develop confidence.^[12]

Unlike most of his earlier well-rehearsed movie roles, Sellers was encouraged by Kubrick to improvise throughout the filming in order to exhaust all the possibilities of his character. Moreover, in order to capture Sellers at his most creative heights, Kubrick often used as many as three cameras. The experience also lifted Sellers' spirit as an actor. Kubrick describes this change:

When Peter was called to the set he would usually arrive walking very slowly and staring morosely. . . . As work progressed, he would begin to respond to something or other in the scene, his mood would visibly brighten and we would begin to have fun. Improvisational ideas began to click and the rehearsal started to feel good. On many of these occasions, I think, Peter reached what can only be described as a state of comic ecstasy.^[6]^:135

Kubrick gave him free "license" to break the rules, notes Walker:

He indulged in his liking for setting himself problems, encouraged by Kubrick to explore the outer limits of the comédie noire—and sometimes, he felt, go over them—in a way that appealed to the macabre imagination of himself and his director.^[6]^:136

The movie's cinematographer, Oswald Morris, further commented that, "the most interesting scenes were the ones with Peter Sellers, which were total improvisations."^[12] Because of this experience, Sellers later claimed that his relationship with Kubrick became one of the most rewarding of his career.^[12]

[edit] Dr. Strangelove

Group Captain Mandrake

President Merkin Muffley

Dr. Strangelove

In Kubrick's next film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb he asked Sellers to be in the leading role. Sellers played three extremely different characters: U.S. President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove, a heavily German-accented nuclear scientist, and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake of the RAF. Sellers was initially hesitant about taking on the task, but Kubrick convinced him that there was no better actor that could play these parts.^[12]

Muffley and Dr. Strangelove appeared in the same room throughout the film, with the help of doubles mostly seen from the rear. Sellers was originally also cast to play a fourth role as bomber pilot Major T. J. "King" Kong, but from the beginning Sellers was reluctant. He felt his workload was too heavy and he worried he would not properly portray the character's Texas accent. Kubrick pleaded with him and asked screenwriter Terry Southern (who had been raised in Texas) to record a tape with Kong's lines spoken in the correct accent. Using Southern's tape, Sellers managed to get the accent right, and started shooting the scenes in the airplane. But then Sellers sprained an ankle and could not work in the cramped cockpit set.^[13]^[14]^[15] This forced Kubrick to recast the part with Slim Pickens. For his performance in all three roles, Sellers was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Kubrick again gave Sellers a free rein to improvise throughout the filming. Sellers once said, "If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am."^[16]

[edit] The Pink Panther

In October 1962, Sellers' father died suddenly while undergoing surgery in London, at the age of 62. The event became life-changing for Sellers, remembering his own history of heart trouble; soon after the death he decided to move from England to "get away from it all." He put his large home in Hampstead up for sale, and grasped at the first international film offer he received that would take him out of England. His first offer came from director Blake Edwards, to star in The Pink Panther (1963).

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Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther

Fortunately for Sellers, Edwards was an experienced director of comedies who would allow him to develop his own character's personality. Edwards' decision to hire Sellers was because his previous star for the part, Peter Ustinov, suddenly backed out. He recalls that because of Ustinov leaving the film, he was "desperately unhappy and ready to kill, but as fate would have it, I got Mr. Sellers instead of Mr. Ustinov—thank God!" ^[6]^:145

Sellers was cast as the bumbling Chief Inspector Clouseau in the film, which gave him a worldwide audience. Although the character of Inspector Clouseau was in the script, Sellers had to create his personality, notes Walker. While flying to Rome, he used the time alone to devise the character. Sellers would create his own unique accent and add his own costume and makeup ideas for the part, including a mustache and trench coat. Sellers described the character's personality he would portray:

I'll play Clouseau with great dignity, because he thinks of himself as one of the world's best detectives. Even when he comes a cropper, he must pick himself up with that notion intact. The original script makes him out to be a complete idiot. I think a forgivable vanity would humanize him and make him kind of touching. It's as if filmgoers are kept one fall ahead of him.^[6]^:147

The film was the first time Sellers played a "slapstick" comedy role, and was followed by the sequel the following year, A Shot in the Dark (1964), in which he featured even more prominently. He returned to the character for three more sequels from 1975 to 1978. The Trail of the Pink Panther, containing unused footage of Sellers, was released in 1982, after his death. His widow, Lynne Frederick, successfully sued the film's producers for unauthorised use. Sellers had prepared to star as Chief Inspector Clouseau in another Pink Panther film; he died before the start of this project, Romance of the Pink Panther.

[edit] Being There

In 1979, Sellers played the role of Chance, a simple-minded gardener addicted to watching TV, in the black comedy Being There, considered by some critics to be the "crowning triumph of Peter Sellers's remarkable career,"^[17] as well as a great achievement for novelist Jerzy Kosinski. During a BBC interview in 1971, Sellers said that more than anything else, he wanted to play the role of Chance.^[17]

Kosinski, the book's author, felt that the novel was never meant to be made into a film, but Sellers succeeded in changing his mind, and Kosinski allowed Sellers and director Hal Ashby to make the film, provided he could write the script.^[17] According to film critic Danny Smith, Sellers was "naturally intrigued with the idea of Chance, a character who reflected whatever was beamed at him".^[18]

Sellers's performance was praised by some critics as achieving "the pinpoint-sharp exactitude of nothingness. It is a performance of extraordinary dexterity",^[3]^:361 and "...[making] the film's fantastic premise credible".^[19]

Sellers's experience of working on the film was both humbling and powerful for him.^[18] During the filming, in order not to break his character, he refused most interview requests, and even kept his distance from other actors. He tried to remain in character even after he returned home.^[18] Sellers considered Chance's walking and voice the character's most important attributes, and in preparing for the role, Sellers worked alone with a tape recorder, or with his wife, and then with Ashby, to perfect the clear enunciation and flat delivery needed to reveal "the childlike mind behind the words."^[18]

Critic Frank Rich noted the acting skill required for this sort of role, with a "schismatic personality that Peter had to convey with strenuous vocal and gestural technique. . . . A lesser actor would have made the character's mental dysfunction flamboyant and drastic. . . . [His] intelligence was always deeper, his onscreen confidence greater, his technique much more finely honed."^[19]

Co-star Shirley MacLaine found Sellers "a dream" to work with, while the story's author and screenwriter Jerzy Kosinski claimed that "nobody thought Chance was even a character, yet Peter knew that man."^[6]^:237 Being There earned Sellers his best reviews since the 1960s, a second Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe award. A few months after the film was released, Time magazine wrote a cover-story article about Sellers, entitled, "Who is This Man?" The cover showed many of the characters Sellers had portrayed, including Chance, Quilty, Strangelove, Clouseau, and the Grand Duchess Glorianna XII. Sellers was pleased by the article, written by critic Richard Schickel, and wrote an appreciative letter to the magazine's editor.^[3]^:373

Final projects [link]

Sellers' last movie was The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, a comedic reimagining of the classic series of adventure novels by Sax Rohmer. In this new version, Sellers played both "Fu Manchu" and his arch nemesis, police inspector Nayland Smith. Production of the film ran into problems from the start, with Sellers' poor health and mental instability causing long delays and bickering between star and director Piers Haggard. With roughly 60% of the movie shot, Sellers had Haggard sacked and took over direction himself. Haggard later complained that the reshoots Sellers ordered added nothing to the production, and had resulted in the film being incoherent and unfocused. The movie contains references to Sellers' serious heart troubles, including scenes where Fu revives his ancient body with large electric shocks.^[20]

Sellers died shortly before Fu Manchu was released, with his very last performance being that of conman "Monty Casino" in a series of adverts for Barclays Bank. In 1982, Sellers returned to the big screen as Inspector Clouseau in Trail of the Pink Panther, which was composed entirely of deleted scenes from his past three Panther movies, in particular The Pink Panther Strikes Again, with a new story written around them. David Niven also reprised his role of Sir Charles Lytton in this movie. Along with what many, notably his widow Lynne Frederick, saw as exploitation of Sellers, the manner in which Niven's cameo was handled has earned the movie a lasting unsavoury reputation.^{[citation needed]} Edwards continued the series with a further instalment called the Curse of the Pink Panther, which was shot back-to-back with the framing footage for Trail, but Sellers was wholly absent from this film.

After The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, Sellers was scheduled to appear in another Clouseau comedy, The Romance Of The Pink Panther. Its script, written by Peter Moloney and Sellers himself, had Clouseau falling for a brilliant female criminal known as 'The Frog' and aiding her in her heists with the aim to reform her character.^{[citation needed]} Blake Edwards did not participate in the planning of this new Clouseau instalment, as the working relationship between him and Sellers had broken down during the filming of Revenge Of The Pink Panther. The final draft of the script, including a humorous cover letter signed by "Pete Shakespeare", was delivered to United Artists' office less than six hours before Sellers died.^{[citation needed]} Sellers' death ended the project, along with two other planned movies for which Sellers had signed contracts in 1980. The two films—Unfaithfully Yours and Lovesick—were rewritten as vehicles for Dudley Moore; both performed poorly at the box office upon release.^{[citation needed]} Trade papers such as Variety carried an elaborately curlicued advert for the former movie, with Sellers at the top of the cast list, in early June 1980.^{[citation needed]}

Other roles [link]

Director Billy Wilder hired Sellers to co-star with Dean Martin for the ribald 1964 comedy Kiss Me, Stupid, but six weeks into filming, Sellers suffered a heart attack. Wilder replaced him with Ray Walston.

Sellers was a versatile actor, switching from broad comedy, as in The Party, in which he portrayed a bumbling Indian actor Hrundi Bakshi, to more intense performances as in Lolita.

Sellers appeared in an episode of the American television series It Takes a Thief in 1969. By the early 1970s he faced a downturn, however, and was dubbed "box office poison".^[21] Sellers never won an Oscar but won the BAFTA for I'm All Right Jack.

Sellers appeared on The Muppet Show television series in 1977. He chose not to appear as himself, instead appearing in a variety of costumes and accents. When Kermit the Frog told Sellers he could relax and be "himself," Sellers (while wearing a Viking helmet, a girdle and one boxing glove, claiming to have attempted to dress as Queen Victoria), replied, "There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed."^[22]

Personal life [link]

Sellers was reticent about discussing his private life. He was invited to appear on Michael Parkinson's eponymous chat show in 1974, but agreed under the condition that he could appear in character. Sellers appeared dressed as a member of the Gestapo, impersonating the Kenneth Mars character in The Producers. After a few lines in keeping with his assumed character, he stepped out of the role and settled down for what is considered one of Parkinson's most memorable interviews.^[23]

Marriages [link]

Sellers and Britt Ekland 1964

Sellers was married four times and fathered three children:

Anne Hayes (née Howe,^[24] 1951–1961). They had a son, Michael, and a daughter, Sarah.
Swedish actress Britt Ekland (1964–1968). They had a daughter, Victoria Sellers. The couple appeared in three films together: Carol For Another Christmas (1964), After the Fox (1966), and The Bobo (1967).
Australian model Miranda Quarry (1970–1974; now the Countess of Stockton).
English actress Lynne Frederick (1977–1980), who was briefly married to Sir David Frost shortly after Sellers' death.

Spike Milligan wrote Sellers' multiple marriages into his scripts, referring in one 1972 radio show to "The Peter Sellers Discarded Wives Memorial". At the time, Sellers was married to Quarry.

Depression, substance abuse, and health problems [link]

It has been suggested that Sellers suffered depression spurred by deep-seated anxieties of artistic and personal failure^[25] and exacerbated by substance abuse.^[26] It is believed that his drug use, especially amyl nitrites, contributed to heart attacks in 1964 (see below).^[27] Sellers' difficulties in his career and life prompted him to seek periodic consultations with astrologer Maurice Woodruff, who seemed to have held considerable sway over his later career.^[3]

Relationships [link]

Other celebrities [link]

Sellers had casual friendships with two of The Beatles, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.^[3] Harrison told occasional Sellers stories in interviews, and Starr appeared with him in the anarchic movie The Magic Christian, which was based on Terry Southern's novel and whose theme song was Badfinger's "Come and Get It", written by Paul McCartney. Starr's two-week hiatus from the Beatles during the White Album recordings was spent aboard Sellers's yacht, where he wrote "Octopus's Garden". Starr also gave Sellers a rough mix of songs from the Beatles White Album; the tape was auctioned and bootlegged after his death. Sellers recorded a cover version of "A Hard Day's Night", in the style of Laurence Olivier's interpretation of Richard III, as well as various versions of "She Loves You", including as Dr. Strangelove, a cockney, and an Irish dentist.

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Sellers was the first male to appear on the cover of Playboy magazine.^[28]

Sellers's friends included actor and director Roman Polanski, who shared his passion for fast cars. Sellers had a close relationship with Sophia Loren, but accounts differ on whether or not their relationship was consummated.^[29] Sellers was the first man on the cover of Playboy—he appeared on the April 1964 cover with Karen Lynn.^[28]

Sellers was a Freemason and belonged to Chelsea Lodge No 3098, a lodge whose membership consists of celebrities and performers, through which means he socialised with a number of other actors and comedians.^[30]

Royal Family [link]

In her autobiography True Britt, Britt Ekland described Sellers' close relationship with the British Royal Family. "I was completely unaware of his (Sellers) connection with the British monarchy. One afternoon before we married he had disappeared saying that he had to do something 'important'. I was to learn he had spent the afternoon having tea with the Queen Mother at Clarence House."^[31] He was a close friend of Princess Margaret,^[32] who appears in one of his home movies.

Obsession with automobiles [link]

Sellers had a lifelong obsession with cars, briefly parodied in a fleeting cameo in the short film Simon Simon, directed by friend Graham Stark. His love of cars was also referenced in The Goon Show episode "The Space Age," where Harry Secombe introduces Sellers by saying, "Good heavens, it's Peter Sellers, who has just broken his own record of keeping a car for more than a month." In "The Last Goon Show of All", announcer Andrew Timothy cued him with "Mr. Sellers will now sell a gross of his cars and take up a dramatic voice."

Personal conflicts [link]

Sellers' personality was described by others as difficult and demanding and he often clashed with fellow actors and directors. He had a strained relationship with friend and director Blake Edwards, with whom he worked on the Pink Panther series and The Party. The two sometimes stopped speaking to each other during filming.^[3]

His work with Orson Welles on Casino Royale deteriorated as Sellers became jealous of Welles's casual relationship with Princess Margaret. The relationship between the two actors created problems during filming, as Sellers refused to share the set with Welles, who himself was no stranger to strident behaviour.

Sellers could be cruel and disrespectful, as demonstrated by his treatment of actress Jo Van Fleet on the set of I Love You, Alice B. Toklas. On one occasion, Van Fleet had declined an invitation to his house, soon followed by a misunderstanding between the two actors during filming. This prompted Sellers to launch a tirade against Van Fleet in front of actors and crew.^[3]

Sellers' difficulties to maintain civil and peaceful relationships also extended into his private life. He assaulted his then wife, Britt Ekland,^[3] prompted by jealousy. Sellers sometimes blamed himself for his failed marriages. In a 1974 Parkinson interview, he admitted that "I'm not easy to live with".

Heart condition and death [link]

In the spring of 1964, at age 38, Sellers suffered a series of heart attacks (13 in a few days) while working on the set of Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid, and he was replaced by Ray Walston. Although Sellers survived, his heart was permanently damaged. Sellers chose to consult with psychic healers rather than seek conventional Western medical treatment, and his heart condition continued to deteriorate over the next 16 years. In late 1977, he suffered a second major heart attack, resulting in his being fitted with a pacemaker to regulate his heartbeat.^[33] Once again, Sellers refused to slow down, nor did he follow doctors' orders and consider open heart surgery, which could well have extended his life by several years.^[3]

A reunion dinner was scheduled in London with his Goon Show partners, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe, for 25 July 1980. But around noon on 22 July, Sellers collapsed from a massive heart attack in his Dorchester Hotel room and fell into a coma. He died in a London hospital just after midnight on 24 July 1980, aged 54. He was survived by his fourth wife, Lynne Frederick, and his three children. At the time of his death, he was scheduled to undergo heart surgery in Los Angeles on 30 July 1980.^[3]

Although Sellers was reportedly in the process of excluding Frederick from his will a week before he died, she inherited almost his entire estate worth an estimated £4.5 million while his children received £800 each.^[3] When Frederick died in 1994 (aged 39), her mother Iris inherited everything, including all of the income and royalties from Sellers' work. When Iris dies the whole estate will go to Cassie, the daughter Lynne had with her third husband, Barry Unger. Sellers' only son, Michael, died of a heart attack at 52 during surgery on 24 July 2006 (26 years to the day after his father's death).^[34] Michael was survived by his second wife, Alison, whom he married in 1986, and their two children.

In his will, Sellers requested that the Glenn Miller song "In the Mood" be played at his funeral. The request is considered his last touch of humour, as he hated the piece.^[35] His body was cremated and he was interred at Golders Green Crematorium in London. After her death in 1994, the ashes of his former widow Frederick were co-interred with his.^[36]

Legacy and influence [link]

The stage play, "Being Sellers," premiered in Australia in 1998, three years after release of the biography by Roger Lewis, "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers." The play premiered in New York in December 2010. In 2004, the book was turned into an HBO film, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, starring Geoffrey Rush.^[37]

The film Trail of the Pink Panther, made by Blake Edwards using unused footage of Sellers from The Pink Panther Strikes Again, is dedicated to Sellers's memory. The title reads "To Peter ... The one and only Inspector Clouseau."

In a 2005 poll to find "The Comedian's Comedian", Sellers was voted 14 in the list of the top 20 greatest comedians by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.^[38] British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen frequently referred to Peter Sellers "as the most seminal force in shaping his early ideas on comedy". Cohen was considered for the role of the biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (the role went to Australian actor Geoffrey Rush).^[39]

Filmography [link]

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1950	The Black Rose	Alfonso Bedoya	Voice (uncredited)
1951	Penny Points to Paradise	The Major / Arnold Fringe
1951	Let's Go Crazy	Groucho / Giuseppe / Cedric / Izzy / Gozzunk / Crystal Jollibottom
1952	Down Among the Z Men	Major Bloodnok
1953	Our Girl Friday	Parrot	Voice (uncredited)
1954	Orders are Orders	Private Griffin
1955	John and Julie	Police Constable Diamond
1955	The Ladykillers	Mr. Robinson
1956	The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn	Narrator / Supt. Quilt / Asst. Commissioner Sir Jervis Fruit / Henry Crun
1956	The Man Who Never Was	Winston Churchill	Voice only
1957	Insomnia Is Good for You	Hector Dimwiddle	Short film
	The Smallest Show on Earth	Leslie Quill
	The Naked Truth	Sonny McGregor
1958	Up the Creek	CPO Doherty
1958	tom thumb	Antony
1959	Carlton-Browne of the F.O.	Prime Minister Amphibulos
	The Mouse That Roared	Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe	Three roles
	I'm All Right Jack	Fred Kite	BAFTA Award for Best British Actor
	The Battle of the Sexes	Mr. Martin
1960	The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film	Photographer	Also writer/producer/director San Francisco International Film Festival Award for Best Fiction Short Nominated: Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
	Never Let Go	Lionel Meadows
	The Millionairess	Dr. Ahmed el Kabir
	Two-Way Stretch	Dodger Lane
1961	Mr. Topaze	Auguste Topaze	Also director
1962	Only Two Can Play	John Lewis	Nominated: BAFTA Award for Best British Actor
	Waltz of the Toreadors	General Leo Fitzjohn	San Sebastián International Film Festival Award for Best Actor
	The Road to Hong Kong	Indian Neurologist	Uncredited
	Lolita	Clare Quilty	Nominated: Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
	Trial and Error	Wilfred Morgenhall
1963	The Wrong Arm of the Law	Pearly Gates
	Heavens Above!	The Reverend John Smallwood
	The Pink Panther	Inspector Jacques Clouseau	Nominated: BAFTA Award for Best British Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1964	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	Group Captain Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove	Three roles Nominated: Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best British Actor
	The World of Henry Orient	Henry Orient
	A Shot in the Dark	Inspector Jacques Clouseau	Sequel to the Pink Panther
1965	Birds, Bees and Storks	Narrator	Voice
1965	What's New Pussycat	Doctor Fritz Fassbender
1966	The Wrong Box	Doctor Pratt
1966	After the Fox	Aldo Vanucci
1967	Casino Royale	Evelyn Tremble	Also writer (uncredited)
	Woman Times Seven	Jean
	The Bobo	Juan Bautista
1968	The Party	Hrundi V. Bakshi
1968	I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!	Harold
1969	The Magic Christian	Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE	Also Writer
1970	A Day at the Beach	Salesman
	Hoffman	Benjamin Hoffman
	Simon, Simon	Man with two cars
	There's a Girl in My Soup	Robert Danvers
1972	Where Does It Hurt?	Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel
1972	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	The March Hare
1973	Ghost in the Noonday Sun	Dick Scratcher
	The Blockhouse	Rouquet
	The Optimists	Sam
1974	Soft Beds, Hard Battles	Général Latour / Major Robinson / Herr Schroeder / Adolf Hitler / The President / Prince Kyoto	Played six roles
1974	The Great McGonagall	Queen Victoria
1975	The Return of the Pink Panther	Inspector Jacques Clouseau	Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor Nominated: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1976	Murder by Death	Sidney Wang
1976	The Pink Panther Strikes Again	Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau	Nominated: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1978	The Muppet Show	Various characters, including Inspector Clouseau, a gypsy, Queen Victoria, a masseur, a preacher	Episode 43
	Kingdom of Gifts	Larcenous Mayor	Voice only
	Revenge of the Pink Panther	Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau	Fifth film by Sellers in the Pink Panther series
1979	The Prisoner of Zenda	Rudolf IV / Rudolf V / Syd Frewin	Played three roles
1979	Being There	Chance	Fotogramas de Plata for Best Foreign Performance Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy London Film Critics Circle Special Award National Board of Review Award for Best Actor Nominated: Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best British Actor
1980	The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu	Dennis Nayland Smith / Dr. Fu 'Fred' Manchu	Last film; played two roles. Also director (uncredited)
1982	Trail of the Pink Panther	Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau	Footage of Sellers used

Box-office ranking [link]

1959 – 6th most popular British star in Britain^[40]
1960 – 2nd most popular star in Britain^[41]
1961 – 6th most popular star in Britain^[42]
1962 – 3rd most popular star in Britain^[43]

Comedy singles [link]

Sellers released several comedy singles, many of them produced by George Martin and released on the Parlophone record label. These include the following hits:

"Any Old Iron" (1957) UK # 17
"Goodness Gracious Me" (1960) with Sophia Loren UK # 4
"Bangers and Mash" (1961), a follow-up also featuring Sophia Loren UK # 22
"A Hard Day's Night" (1965) UK # 14. This consisted of him speaking the lyrics using the stereotypical voice of an actor playing Shakespeare's Richard III. He also performed the song in costume on television. The recording was re-issued in 1993 and reached Number 52 in the UK Singles Chart.

He covered several other of The Beatles hits, including "Help!" and "She Loves You". Sellers also recorded a parody version of "Unchained Melody", which long went unreleased.

When asked in 1960 what he thought the music business would be like in ten years' time, Sellers retorted:

“

Ten years older!

”

NME, November 1960.^[44]

Albums [link]

Sellers made several albums, mostly of comedy pieces using his talent for voices.

Discography:

The Best of Sellers (1959) UK # 3
Songs For Swinging Sellers (1959) UK # 3
Peter & Sophia (1960) UK # 5 with Sophia Loren
Fool Britannia (1963) UK # 10 with Anthony Newley and Joan Collins.
How To Win An Election (1964) UK # 20 with Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan (Note: unlike The Last Goon Show Of All this release was not credited to The Goons.)
He's Innocent of Watergate (1974) with Spike Milligan
Sellers Market (1979) his final album

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v t e BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (1952–1959)

Ralph Richardson British & Marlon Brando Foreign (1952) John Gielgud British & Marlon Brando Foreign (1953) Kenneth More British & Marlon Brando Foreign (1954) Laurence Olivier British & Ernest Borgnine Foreign (1955) Peter Finch British & François Périer Foreign (1956) Alec Guinness British & Henry Fonda Foreign (1957) Trevor Howard British & Sidney Poitier Foreign (1958) Peter Sellers British & Jack Lemmon Foreign (1959)

Complete list (1952–1959) (1960–1979) (1980–1999) (2000–2019)

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (1961–1980)

Glenn Ford (1961) Marcello Mastroianni (1962) Alberto Sordi (1963) Rex Harrison (1964) Lee Marvin (1965) Alan Arkin (1966) Richard Harris (1967) Ron Moody (1968) Peter O'Toole (1969) Albert Finney (1970) Topol (1971) Jack Lemmon (1972) George Segal (1973) Art Carney (1974) Walter Matthau (1975) Kris Kristofferson (1976) Richard Dreyfuss (1977) Warren Beatty (1978) Peter Sellers (1979) Ray Sharkey (1980)

Complete list (1950–1960) (1961–1980) (1981–2000) (2001–2020)

v t e National Board of Review Award for Best Actor

Ray Milland (1945) Laurence Olivier (1946) Michael Redgrave (1947) Walter Huston (1948) Ralph Richardson (1949)

Alec Guinness (1950) Richard Basehart (1951) Ralph Richardson (1952) James Mason (1953) Bing Crosby (1954) Ernest Borgnine (1955) Yul Brynner (1956) Alec Guinness (1957) Spencer Tracy (1958) Victor Sjöström (1959)

Robert Mitchum (1960) Albert Finney (1961) Jason Robards (1962) Rex Harrison (1963) Anthony Quinn (1964) Lee Marvin (1965) Paul Scofield (1966) Peter Finch (1967) Cliff Robertson (1968) Peter O'Toole (1969)

George C. Scott (1970) Gene Hackman (1971) Peter O'Toole (1972) Al Pacino / Robert Ryan (1973) Gene Hackman (1974) Jack Nicholson (1975) David Carradine (1976) John Travolta (1977) Jon Voight / Laurence Olivier (1978) Peter Sellers (1979)

Robert De Niro (1980) Peter Fonda (1981) Ben Kingsley (1982) Tom Conti (1983) Victor Banerjee (1984) William Hurt / Raúl Juliá (1985) Paul Newman (1986) Michael Douglas (1987) Gene Hackman (1988) Morgan Freeman (1989)

Robert De Niro / Robin Williams (1990) Warren Beatty (1991) Jack Lemmon (1992) Anthony Hopkins (1993) Tom Hanks (1994) Nicolas Cage (1995) Tom Cruise (1996) Jack Nicholson (1997) Ian McKellen (1998) Russell Crowe (1999)

Javier Bardem (2000) Billy Bob Thornton (2001) Campbell Scott (2002) Sean Penn (2003) Jamie Foxx (2004) Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005) Forest Whitaker (2006) George Clooney (2007) Clint Eastwood (2008) George Clooney / Morgan Freeman (2009)

Jesse Eisenberg (2010) George Clooney (2011)

v t e The Goons

Spike Milligan · Harry Secombe · Peter Sellers · Michael Bentine Ray Ellington · Max Geldray · Wally Stott · Wallace Greenslade · Valentine Dyall · George Chisholm · Charlotte Mitchell · Jack Train · Kenneth Connor · Dick Emery · A. E. Matthews · Dennis Main Wilson · Larry Stephens · Eric Sykes · Andrew Timothy · John Snagge · Graham Stark · Dennis Price · Bernard Miles

Radio and TV series	The Goon Show · The Telegoons

Films	Let's Go Crazy · Penny Points to Paradise · Down Among the Z Men · The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn · The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

Characters	Major Bloodnok · Bluebottle · Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister · Eccles · Hercules Grytpype-Thynne · Count Jim Moriarty · Neddie Seagoon

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The Pink Panther

Films

Peter Sellers	The Pink Panther (1963) A Shot in the Dark (1964) The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

Alan Arkin	Inspector Clouseau (1968)

Roger Moore (cameo)	Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)

Roberto Benigni as Clouseau's son	Son of the Pink Panther (1993)

Steve Martin	The Pink Panther (2006) The Pink Panther 2 (2009) The Pink Panther 3 (2012)

Animated shorts

The original Pink Panther shorts (1964–1980)
Driving Mr. Pink (1995)

Animated
TV shows

The Pink Panther Show (1969–1980)
Pink Panther and Sons (1984–1985)
The Pink Panther (1993–1995)
Pink Panther and Pals (2010)

Animated
TV specials

A Pink Christmas (1978)
Olym-Pinks (1980)
Pink at First Sight (1981)

Characters

Music

Other

Romance of the Pink Panther

Authority control: PND: 119336197 | LCCN: n50006864 | VIAF: 49387018 | WorldCat

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Name	Sellers, Peter
Alternative names	Sellers, Richard Henry
Short description	British comedian & actor
Date of birth	8 September 1925
Place of birth	Southsea, Hampshire, England
Date of death	24 July 1980
Place of death	London, England

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