Peter Sellers (1925-80) won his first break by ringing a BBC producer and impersonating two stars. He came to fame with the Goons but, wanting more money, repeatedly threatened to walk out. After bewitching Kubrick in Dr Strangelove, for which he won an Oscar nomination, he continued to play multiple parts in many of his films.
He will always be remembered with affection for his unforgettable roles in comedy classics The Party (1968) and The Pink Panther series of movies, without which no Christmas TV schedule would be complete.
In surreal movie The Magic Christian a homeless man (Ringo Starr) is adopted by the world’s richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). When they set...
After the success of the Pink Panther films, Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers reunited for The Party, an enjoyable piece of froth that saw Sellers adopt...
A Shot in the Dark was the second outing for bumbling French detective Inspecteur Clouseau (released just four months after The Pink Panther) and sees Peter...
Hilarious crime comedy The Wrong Arm of the Law stars Peter Sellers as the boss of a gang of inept crooks in London’s West End, who...
In this seven-episode comedy/drama, Shirley MacLaine – backed up by an impressive array of supporting actors – plays a bevy of sixties-style feminine types. The seven...
John Warren, Len Heath and Alan Hackney came up with an inspired screenplay for Two Way Stretch which cast Peter Sellers as Dodger Lane, a criminal...
Having gently attacked institutions as diverse as the Army ( Private’s Progress ), the Foreign Office ( Carlton-Browne of the FO ) and the legal profession...
Soon after poking fun at trade unions in I’m Alright Jack, the Boulting brothers turned their satirical eye on an even more controversial subject in Heavens...
William Rose’s Academy Award-nominated screenplay cast Alec Guinness as Professor Marcus, the rather sinister ‘musician’ who takes lodgings with elderly widow Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson). In...
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Original Spin: Beginning with 1963’s The Pink Panther, Peter Sellers played quintessentially klutzy French inspector Jacques Clouseau in a series of six Pink Panther pix. Although...
Born in 1909 the son of a wealthy wool merchant James Mason had a privileged English upbringing, being educated at Marlborough and Cambridge. After a disastrous...
Hollywood has had a longtime fixation with depicting the life and times of geniuses in film. And often, these characters aren’t as we’d expect groundbreakers and...
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII was a slice of period drama that aired on BBC Two in 1970 and starred Keith Michell, Annette Crosbie, Dorothy...