Peter Sellers
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1925-09-08
- Décès:
- 1980-07-24
- Lieu de naissance:
- Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK
Biographie
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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Filmographie
John Candy: I Like Me
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
Peter Sellers: Genius at Work
The Beatles - Get Back
Directed By Blake Edwards
Kubrick par Kubrick
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace
The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'
Hitler: The Comedy Years
The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Parkinson
The Peter Sellers Story - As He Filmed It
The Paranormal Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers, l'inconnu
Spike
The Peter Sellers Story
Les Archives de la Hammer
Funny Business
Sellers' Best
The Very Best of Peter Sellers
Muppet Video: Rowlf's Rhapsodies with the Muppets
Muppet Treasures
Koyaanisqatsi
À la recherche de la Panthère rose
Eric Sykes: One of the Great Troupers
Le complot diabolique du docteur Fu Manchu
Bienvenue, Mister Chance
The Prisoner of Zenda
Mickey's 50
Rire et sourire : Le Splendid
La Malédiction de la Panthère rose
Kingdom Of Gifts
To See Such Fun
Quand la Panthère rose s'emmêle
Le Muppet Show
Un cadavre au dessert
Le Retour de la Panthère rose
Julie: My Favourite Things
A Salute to Sir Lew Grade
The Great McGonagall
Flip Wilson... Of Course
En voiture, Simone
Les optimistes
The Big Screen
The Blockhouse
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Alice au pays des merveilles
Sykes
Where Does It Hurt?
The Last Goon Show of All
Film '72
V.I.P. Schaukel
Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town
Il y a une fille dans ma soupe
Hoffman
Simon Simon
Un jour sur la plage
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
The Magic Christian
One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously
This Is Tom Jones
Le Baiser papillon
La Party
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Opération Vol
With Love, Sophia
Sept fois femme
One Pair of Eyes
Casino Royale
The Bobo
Alice in Wonderland
El Rey en Londres
ABC Stage 67
Le renard s'évade à trois heures
Un mort en pleine forme
Birds, Bees and Storks
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
The Dean Martin Show
Quoi de neuf, Pussycat ?
Carol for Another Christmas
I Say I Say I Say
Quand l'inspecteur s'emmêle
Deux copines, un séducteur
Docteur Folamour
La Panthère rose
The Telegoons
Heavens Above!
Jules de Londres
Le Défenseur ingénu
Lolita
Les Femmes du général
Astronautes malgré eux
On n'y joue qu'à deux
The Mike Douglas Show
Tempo
Mr. Topaze
Le paradis des monte-en-l'air
Les Dessous de la millionnaire
Quand gronde la colère
La guerre des sexes
Le Courir Sauter & permanent Photo de film
Après moi le déluge
La Souris qui rugissait
Whicker's World
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Les Aventures de Tom Pouce
Up the Creek
Insomnia is Good for You
The Naked Truth
Sous le plus petit chapiteau du monde
Yes, It's The Cathode-Ray Tube Show!
Theatre Night
Dearth of a Salesman
Son of Fred
A Show Called Fred
L'Homme qui n'a jamais existé
The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d
The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn
Tueurs de dames
John and Julie
Orders Are Orders
And So To Bentley
Our Girl Friday
Plus fort que le Diable
The Super Secret Service
Down Among the Z Men
Let's Go Crazy
Penny Points to Paradise
Ça, c'est du cinéma
A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen"
La Rose noire
Hybrid Creatures
Talking Comedy