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Peter Sellers CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show.
IMDb profile of Peter Sellers, the legendary comedian who starred in The Pink Panther, Dr. Strangelove, and Lolita. Learn about his life, career, achievements, and challenges.
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- September 8, 1925
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- July 24, 1980
Sep 7, 2021 · Learn how the comedic actor died of a heart attack in 1980, shortly after receiving an Oscar nomination for "Being There". Discover his personal struggles, his estranged wife, and his legacy.
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Apr 23, 2024 · Peter Sellers (born September 8, 1925, Southsea, England—died July 24, 1980, London) was a versatile English comic actor whose astonishing range of characters earned him international stardom at a time when rigid typecasting was usual.
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Peter Sellers is dead at 54, a victim of the heart disease that first struck him in 1964 and continued to haunt him during his most productive years as an international star. His death in London at 6:28 p.m. Chicago time Wednesday came after a massive heart attack. At his bedside were his fourth wife, Lynne Frederick; his second wife, Britt Ekland,...
Mr. Sellers was in London to work on the screenplay of \\"Romance of the Pink Panther,\\" which was to have been his sixth film in the role of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, his most famous comic creation. He was still basking in the acclaim for his starring role in last year's \\"Being There,\\" which won him an Academy Award nomination.
His best-known roles in more ambitious films were as in \\"I'm All Right, Jack\\" (1959), \\"Lolita\\" (1962), \\"Waltz of the Toreadors\\" (1964), \\"Dr. Strangelove\\" (1964), \\"The Party\\" (1968) and \\"Being There.\\"
I remember him talking about the inspirations for some of his famous roles at a press conference at the Hawaiian premiere of \\"Revenge of the Pink Panther.\\" Inspector Clouseau's famous accent, he recalled, wasn't there in the original \\"Pink Panther,\\" but came later: \\"I developed it in 'A Shot in the Dark' [1964]. It came from this brilliant con...
\\"The right hand was not originally supposed to be a Nazi hand,\\" he said. \\"Then Stanley Kubrick put the black glove on my hand and suddenly we got this inspiration that Strangelove was schizo, split right down the middle, his left half American, his right half Nazi. If you know what to look for when you see the movie, you could see some of the ac...
Peter Sellers was born Sept. 8, 1925, in Southsea, England, the son of British vaudeville performers, and was literally raised in the wings. He appeared with his parents as a child, won a talent contest at 13, joined the Royal Air Force at 17 and worked as an entertainer. In the 1950s he became famous as the star of England's radio \\"Goon Show,\\" m...
He moved into British film comedies and was a star by the late 1950s. Mr. Sellers often described himself as a \\"hopeless romantic\\" who was constantly falling in love. He married for the first time in 1951, to Australian actress Anne Howe, and they had two children, Michael and Sarah Jane. But in 1960 that marriage broke up as Mr. Sellers fell in ...
In 1964, shortly after the triumphs as Inspector Clouseau, he married Swedish actress Britt Ekland after an 11-day courtship. Shortly afterward, he suffered his first major heart attack. His marriage to Ekland lasted until 1969 and produced his daughter, Victoria. In 1970, Mr. Sellers married Miranda Quarry, daughter of a British lord. They were di...
Mr. Sellers gave evidence of that during the 1978 \\"Pink Panther\\" press conference. A reporter asked if he would mind answering a personal question.
Roger Ebert pays tribute to the late comedian Peter Sellers, who passed away in 1980 after a heart attack. He recounts some of Sellers' famous roles, his personal life and his legacy in film comedy.
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Explore the career of Peter Sellers, one of the most accomplished comic actors of the late 20th century, who starred in classics like "The Pink Panther", "Dr. Strangelove" and "Being There". See his filmography, ratings, photos and trivia on Rotten Tomatoes.
Learn about the life and career of Peter Sellers, a British comedian and actor known for his roles in The Pink Panther, Dr. Strangelove, and Being There. Find out his accents, marriages, awards, and archive footage on TMDB.
