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  1. 3 days ago · 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. Sellers featured on a number of hit comic songs, and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among them Chief ...

  2. Apr 23, 2024 · July 24, 1980, London (aged 54) 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. Sellers was a descendant of legendary Portuguese-Jewish prizefighter Daniel ...

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  3. May 1, 2024 · Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American stage director. He is best known for staging plays and operas for numerous international theatres in settings far different than those suggested by the text. Sellars attended Harvard University, where he began developing his innovative style of directing.

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  4. Apr 14, 2024 · Peter Sellers was a legendary English actor and comedian who gained international fame for his astonishing range of characters. Born on September 8, 1925, in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth, Sellers had a well-off acting family background. His parents, William "Bill" Sellers and Agnes Doreen "Peg" (née Marks), worked in…

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  6. May 4, 2024 · James Earl Jones (Lieutenant Lothar Zogg) John Atashian/Getty & Columbia Pictures. One of the greatest voice actors and performers in Hollywood history, James Earl Jones made his cinematic debut ...

  7. Apr 27, 2024 · Having started on radio, Sellers was a genius at voices and accents, and he soon became a master of physical mannerisms, too. Yet, in Being There , he displays a talent for quite the opposite. His character rarely changes facial expression (except to mimic what he sees on television), let alone displaying any external mannerisms.

  8. Apr 14, 2024 · Two-Way Stretch. 1960 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 Stars. Peter Sellers stars in this comedic caper as criminal mastermind Dodger Lane, who, while serving the last couple weeks of a prison sentence, hatches a plan for the perfect robbery with his two cellmates. With the help of a bogus clergyman named Soapy Stevens, the trio plan to skip out prison ...

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