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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.
Peter Sellers. Actor: Being There. Often credited as the greatest comedian of all time, Peter Sellers was born Richard Henry Sellers to a well-off acting family in 1925 in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth.
Sep 4, 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.
Feb 10, 2003 · Peter Sellers would be a showbiz cliché, if he weren’t really a prototype. In his first years of prominence, as a multi-voiced star of Spike Milligan’s “The Goon Show” on BBC radio in the 50s, he...
Master impressionist Peter Sellers was born Richard Henry Sellers on September 8, 1925 in Southsea, Hampshire, England. His parents, Agnes (Peg) and Bill Sellers, called him Peter in memory of his stillborn older brother.
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 ...
May 11, 2020 · PETER SELLERS died 40 years ago, aged only 54, yet his reputation endures in a way many of his peers’ have not. It is hard to think of any British comic actor—indeed, any Western...
Sep 8, 2015 · Peter Sellers: 10 essential films. Ninety-one years after he was born, we remember the great comic genius of Peter Sellers and 10 of his finest films. 8 September 2015. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Dec 14, 2012 · 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.
Sep 7, 2021 · Known for his comedic work in such films as "The Pink Panther" (1963) and "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), actor Peter Sellers struggled in his life off-screen. He wrestled for years with health problems, and it was issues with his heart that contributed to his untimely death in 1980 (via The New York Times ).
