Peter Sellers
Birthday: 1925-09-08
Place of Birth: Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK
Biography: Richard Henry Sellers, CBE (September 8, 1925 – July 24, 1980), known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, for playing three different characters in Dr. Strangelove, as Clare Quilty in Lolita, and as the man-child and TV-addicted Chance the gardener in his penultimate film, Being There. Leading actress Bette Davis once remarked of him, "He isn't an actor—he's a chameleon." Sellers rose to fame on the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. His ability to speak in different accents (e.g., French, Indian, 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 characterized 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. An enigmatic figure, he often claimed to have no identity outside the roles that he played, but he left his own portrait since, "he obsessively filmed his homes, his family, people he knew, anything that took his fancy right to the end of his life—intimate film that remained undiscovered until long after his death in 1980." The director Peter Hall has said: "Peter had the ability to identify completely with another person, and think his way physically, mentally and emotionally into their skin. Where does that come from? I have no idea. Is it a curse? Often. I think it's not enough though in this business to have talent. You have to have talent to handle the talent. And that I think Peter did not have."
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room f...
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The Pink Panther
The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Ins...
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A Shot in the Dark
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a strai...
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Lolita
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
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El Rey en Londres
The film shows as a documentary the trip to London of Palito Ortega and Graciela Borges...
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. F...
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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing ...
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Being There
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old ...
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The Millionairess
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She...
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What's New Pussycat?
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love see...
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The Music of Lennon & McCartney
A 1965 British television special honouring the songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCa...
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The Party
Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an u...
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The Ladykillers
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow...
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Murder by Death
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a b...
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believ...
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The Magic Christian
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out...
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The Road to Hong Kong
When Chester accidentally memorises and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new...
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The Return of the Pink Panther
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catc...
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The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn
Supposedly filmed in 'Schizophrenoscope', it concerns Inspector Quilt of Scotland Yard's attempts to...
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Casino Royale
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thin...
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental ins...
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Hoffman
A businessman blackmails his young secretary into spending a weekend with him....
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The Mouse That Roared
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare...
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Trail of the Pink Panther
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspecto...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One da...
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I'm All Right Jack
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at...
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lew...
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The Smallest Show on Earth
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegra...
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Penny Points to Paradise
When Harry and Spike visit Bristol to spend the winnings from Harry's latest Pools win, the boys are...
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The Dock Brief
After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defendi...
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. ...
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Never Let Go
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods...
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There's a Girl in My Soup
TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying ...
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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
Harold Fine is a self-described square - a 35-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who's not looking forward ...
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The Wrong Arm of the Law
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a ne...
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Waltz of the Toreadors
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and s...
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The Battle of the Sexes
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their exp...
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Woman Times Seven
Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetw...
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Soft Beds, Hard Battles
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts,...
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The Wrong Box
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be ma...
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Two-Way Stretch
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a dar...
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture....
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The Naked Truth
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the per...
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Muppet Treasures
Fozzie and Kermit have come across a priceless collection of great moments in the career of the Mupp...
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Mr. Topaze
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fa...
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After the Fox
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold....
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Muppet Video: Rowlf's Rhapsodies with the Muppets
Rowlf's Rhapsodies with the Muppets was released by Playhouse Video in 1985, as part of a series of ...
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The World of Henry Orient
A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric...
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The Blockhouse
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are...
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Let's Go Crazy
Let's Go Crazy is a 1951 comedy film marking an early appearance of Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers...
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Only Two Can Play
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights o...
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Tom Thumb
A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him....
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Where Does It Hurt?
In this classic hospital farce, Peter Sellers plays Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel, a greedy, crooked hospi...
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The Great McGonagall
In this high-camp farce, Goons legend Spike Milligan stars as William Topaz McGonagall, an unemploye...
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Carol for Another Christmas
Wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist Daniel Grudge, long embittered by the loss of his son ...
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Down Among the Z Men
The Goon Show hits the big screen. Professor Pure Heart absent-mindedly loses the top secret formul...
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Orders Are Orders
An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a l...
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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes ...
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Kingdom Of Gifts
The story revolves around the theme of giving and the joy of sharing wealth. The plot unfolds as the...
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Julie: My Favourite Things
A Julie Andrews special with The Muppets and Peter Sellers....
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A Day at the Beach
Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was su...
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The Big Screen
Two of Britain's leading film directors - John Schlesinger and Gerald Thomas - share the anxiety, ho...
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The Bobo
Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally...
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Sellers' Best
One of the all-time greatest comedians, Peter Sellers’ mimicry, timing, instinct and ability to deci...
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The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although...
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Up the Creek
Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkel...
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The Optimists of Nine Elms
A retired entertainer makes his living as a street musician on the streets of London. Two young chil...
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John and Julie
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth....
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The Peter Sellers Story
Told in his own words, and including many well-known personalities from Stanley Kubrick, Sophia Lore...
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Peter Sellers: Genius at Work
An intimate portrait of the comic genius and one of Britain's greatest comic actors, with rare home ...
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Our Girl Friday
Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are ...
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Heavens Above!
A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, whe...
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Simon Simon
A comedy short with very little speaking. Graham Stark and John Junkin have a new elevated platform ...
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, ...
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Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town
An evening at Wilton's Music-Hall, Grace's Alley, Wellclose Square, London, 1860 starring Peter Sel...
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The Man Who Never Was
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the ...
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Eric Sykes: One of the Great Troupers
With film clips and photos, Eric Sykes gives a tongue-in-cheek account of his follies and fortunes a...
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Dearth of a Salesman
Comedy short starring Peter Sellers. Previously thought lost, but discovered in a skip outside Park ...
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The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'
Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961)....
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The Paranormal Peter Sellers
This documentary revealed Peter Sellers obsession with the occult. Sellers was a highly superstitiou...
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Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace
A very personal portrait of the truly unique comedy genius of Spike Milligan, as told in his own wor...
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One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously
Marty Feldman, for many years a successful comedy writer before turning to performing, explores humo...
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Birds, Bees and Storks
A naïve father makes an embarrassing attempt to explain the facts of life to his son, but he becomes...
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A Salute to Sir Lew Grade
An All-Star salute to Sir Lew Grade, featuring Julie Andrews, Tom Jones, and the last public perform...
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The Very Best of Peter Sellers
A definitive collection of his very best work: The Very Best of Peter Sellers....
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Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
Banned by the BBC in 1971, director Tony Palmer's profile of the late Peter Sellers was, in the word...
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The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
This is a "Fly on the Wall" look at The Beatles' recording sessions from productive days at Apple St...
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The Ghost of Peter Sellers
A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers...
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Spike
Spike personally tells the story of his life from India, World War II to The Goons and his Q series...
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Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Documentary about actor Peter Sellers and one of his most memorable film roles....
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Mickey's 50
"Mickey's 50" is a 90-minute special that aired on The Wonderful World of Disney on November 19, 197...
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The Black Rose
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With h...
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Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
The comedy pioneer behind the Goon Show, Dr Strangelove and the Pink Panther series is explored in d...
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The Peter Sellers Story - As He Filmed It
Through voiceovers from Peter Sellers and colleagues, collaborators and wives, this revealing film, ...
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A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen"
Peter Sellers makes funny voice narration over the Chaplin film A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)....
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The Super Secret Service
Burlesque comedy dealing with "MI-15", the Super Secret Service, on the trail of a mysterious foreig...
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Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
Rich with archival gems and Liza Minnelli’s own point of view, Bruce David Klein's luminous document...
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Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
Peter Medak's films toy with notions of cosplay, masquerade, gamesmanship, and how power and permiss...
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With Love, Sophia
Sophia puts the spotlight on her life with music. At her Rome villa, Peter Sellers is WWII Axis offi...
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Black Baby
A black baby attempts to escape a labyrinth whilst being pursued by a gaggle of giant humanoids...
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John Candy: I Like Me
Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-be...
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