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Peter Sellers was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence with his performances on the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. Sellers was featured on a number of hit comic songs and became internationally acclaimed for his film roles, most notably as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series.
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entertainment · English actor and comedian (1925–1980) · television actor · film actor · actor · comedian · banjoist · film director · screenwriter · singer · director · musician · also Peter Sellers, Richard Henry Sellers, Peter Richard Henry Sellers, Richard Henry Seller, Sellers
Born 8 September 1925 · Died 24 July 1980 · Q177984
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I set out to play Clouseau with great dignity because I feel that he thinks he is probably one of the greatest detectives in the world. The original script makes him out to be a complete idiot. I thought a forgivable vanity would humanise him and make him kind of touching.
“I set out to play Clouseau with great dignity because I feel that he thinks he is probably one of the greatest detectives in the world. The original script makes him out to be a complete idiot. I thought a forgivable vanity would humanise him and make him kind of touching.”
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“s Go Crazy, the earliest film to showcase Sellers”
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Published video “So Little Time”.
Published video “Any Old Iron”.
Published video “I'm So Ashamed”.
Published video “We Need The Money”.
Published video “Bangers And Mash”.
Published video “The Trumpet Volunteer”.
Published video “Goodness Gracious Me”.
Published video “All The Things You Are”.
Published video “Balham, Gateway To The South”.
The Guardian: The enduring brilliance of Peter Sellers: ‘There’s never been a better comic actor’
Pounds), while his children received £800 each (£3,000 in 2025)
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Pounds) for five weeks' work on location in Rome and Cortina
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Yahoo: Peter Sellers, Stanley Kubrick and the battle to stop Dr Strangelove from bombing
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Variety: ‘The Ghost of Peter Sellers’: Film Review
The New York Times: ‘The Ghost of Peter Sellers’ Review: Inside a Cursed Comedy
The Guardian: Britt Ekland on Peter Sellers: ‘He was a very tormented soul’
The Forward: The 37 unknown roles of Peter Sellers
bleedingcool: Peter Sellers Is Inspector Clouseau with New Infinite Statue Collectible
The Guardian: Going, going, Goon: letters by Sellers and Milligan turn air blue
TheWrap: ‘The Ghost of Peter Sellers’ Film Review: A Troubled, Barely-Seen Comedy and Its Erratic Star
The Guardian: Tantrums and tears: how Peter Sellers turned a pirate film into a shipwreck
IndieWire: Peter Sellers’ ‘Lost’ 1961 Directorial Debut ‘Mr. Topaze’ Was Restored From His Original Prints
IndieWire: Watch: Lost Peter Sellers Short Films to be Exhibited at Festival in 2014
Released album “Fool Britannia”.
The book was turned into an HBO film with the same title, starring Geoffrey Rush
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Released album “Greatest Comedy Cuts”.
Robin Williams told Michael Parkinson that Sellers was an important influence, especially his multi-character roles in Dr
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Released album “Legends of the 20th Century: Peer Sellers”.
Three years after the release of the biography by Roger Lewis, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
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Released ep “A Hard Day's Night”.
Released album “A Celebration of Sellers”.
Released album “The Bill Armstrong Collection: Comedy Classics One”.
Released album “The Peter Sellers Collection”.
Released album “The Songs of Sellers”.
Edwards released Trail of the Pink Panther, which was composed entirely of deleted scenes from his past three Panther films
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Died 1980-07-24.
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“If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.”
Won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his role in Being There, having previously been nominated three times in the same category
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“There used to be a me behind the mask, but I had it surgically removed.”
“People will swim through shit if you put a few bob in it.”
“To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.”
“If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.”
“I'm a classic example of all humorists — only funny when I'm working.”
Released album “Sellers Market”.
Sellers starred opposite Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas and Jack Warden in the satirical film Being There as Chance, a simple-minded, secluded live-in gardener addicted to watching TV who is regarded as a sage by the r
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Sellers starred alongside Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries and Elke Sommer in Richard Quine's The Prisoner of Zenda
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A guest appearance that earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Variety or Music, he chose not to appear as himself, instead appearing as a variety of chara
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Sellers and Edwards followed it with The Pink Panther Strikes Again
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Withdrew the day before, explaining to Parkinson that "I just can't walk on as myself"
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Sellers portrayed a "sexually voracious" Queen Victoria in Joseph McGrath's comedic biographical film of the Scottish poet William McGonagall, The Great McGonagall, starring opposite Milligan and Julia Foster
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Sellers again claimed to have communicated with the long-dead music hall comic Dan Leno, who advised him to return to the role of Clouseau
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Appeared in a Benson & Hedges cinema commercial; in 1975, he appeared in a series of advertisements for Trans World Airlines, in which he played several eccentric characters, including Thrifty McTravel, Jeremy "Piggy"
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Sellers had said that more than anything else, he wanted to play the role and successfully persuaded the author of the book, Jerzy Kosiński, to allow him and director Hal Ashby to make the film, provided Kosiński could w
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As an ageing businessman who seduces Sinéad Cusack in Hoffman, Sellers starred in Roy Boulting's There's a Girl in My Soup opposite Goldie Hawn
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Sellers starred opposite Ringo Starr in the Joseph McGrath-directed film The Magic Christian
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Released album “How to Win an Election (Or Not Lose by Much)”.
Stanley Kubrick cast Sellers to appear in Dr
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Sellers starred as gang leader "Pearly Gates" in Cliff Owen's The Wrong Arm of the Law, followed by his portrayal of a vicar in Heavens Above
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Sellers played a retired British army general in John Guillermin's Waltz of the Toreadors, based on the play of the same name
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Released album “Bridge on the River Wye”.
Sellers made his directorial debut with Mr
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Released album “Peter and Sophia”.
Released album “Songs for Swingin’ Sellers”.
Sellers released his second album, Songs for Swingin' Sellers, which—like his first record—reached number three in the UK Albums Chart
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Called The Best of Sellers: a collection of comic songs and sketches, among them Balham - Gateway to the South, where Sellers plays a variety of comic characters
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Released album “The Best of Sellers”.
Sellers starred with David Tomlinson, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Lodge, and Lionel Jeffries as a chief petty officer in Val Guest's Up the Creek
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Sellers portrayed a television star with a talent for disguises in Mario Zampi's offbeat black comedy The Naked Truth, opposite Terry-Thomas, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, and Dennis Price
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Film producer Michael Relph, impressed with Sellers's portrayal of an elderly character in Idiot Weekly, cast the 32-year-old actor as a 68-year-old projectionist in Basil Dearden's The Smallest Show on Earth, supporting
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Sellers was cast opposite Sid James, Tony Hancock, Raymond Huntley, Donald Pleasence, and Eric Sykes in the British Lion Film Corporation comedy production, Orders Are Orders
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The Goons made their feature film debut in Penny Points to Paradise
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Sellers, along with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Michael Bentine, began starring in the successful radio series The Goon Show, which ended in 1960
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When he dubbed the voice of Alfonso Bedoya in The Black Rose
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Sellers started to date Anne Howe, an Australian actress who lived in London
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Sellers made his final show with ENSA, starring in the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk at the Théâtre Marigny in Paris
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The family moved to the north Devon town of Ilfracombe, where Sellers's maternal uncle managed the Victoria Palace Theatre; Sellers got his first job at the theatre, aged fifteen, starting as a caretaker
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The Sellers family moved to North London and settled in Muswell Hill
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Born 1925-09-08.
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Haunted him and guided his career and life decisions
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