Peter sellers biography movie

At his best, Peter Sellers was one of the funniest dock ever to appear onscreen, creating such much-loved characters as The Pink Panther’s Inspector Clouseau and The Party’s Hrundi V Bakshi.  In other films his talents enabled him to play multiple characters, such as Dr Strangelove’s President Muffley, Lionel Mandrake and the title character. He was to have played Major Kong in that film as well, but couldn’t find the character. Even more elusive for Sellers was the character of Peter Sellers han själv , a difficulty that extends to the makers of this biopic. 

For despite a brilliant performance by Geoffrey Rush in the title role, the filmmakers seem more avsikt on bringing attention to themselves rather than throw any light on their subject. Indicative of this is the gimmick of having Rush, as Sellers, portray the multiple characters of Seller’s parents and directors. Though each give their individual perspective of the man, their summat

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The Unknown Peter Sellers

A fairly good run through Peter Sellers career

This Peter Sellers documentary is one that never delves too deeply into what made him who he is and it is very light on material relating to his private life. I don't know too much about that but have always been aware he wasn't the easiest character in real life. I reckon this documentary would have benefited from featuring at least a little on this to put everything into more context. What it is really about is his work, from stage to radio, onto TV then movies and latterly to adverts. His career covered so much ground that gaps have to be left but it did seem quite poor that nothing whatsoever was mentioned about his performance in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962), a role where he was especially fantastic. Also, it would have been at least interesting to have highlighted some of the later movies that the documentary suggested were bad and which he only did for the money - a documentary,

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Peter Sellers

English actor and comedian (1925–1980)

This article is about the English actor. For the New Zealand sports broadcaster, see Peter Sellers (broadcaster). For the American director, see Peter Sellars.

Peter Sellers CBE
Sellers in 1973
Born	(1925-09-08)8 September 1925 Southsea, Portsmouth, England
Died	24 July 1980(1980-07-24) (aged 54) London, England
Occupations
Years active	1925–1980
Works	Full list
Spouses	Anne Howe ​ ​ (m. 1951; div. 1963)​ Britt Ekland ​ ​ (m. 1964; div. 1968)​ Miranda Quarry ​ ​ (m. 1970; div. 1974)​
Children	3, including Michael and Victoria

Peter Sellers (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