Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers

  • Born: 1925-9-8
  • Birthplace: Hampshire, UK
  • Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
  • Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: U.K
  • Representative Works: What's New, Pussycat, Dr. Strange-love, Being There
  • Peter Sellers, born in Hampshire, England in 1925, is a comedian. The main works are "What's New, Pussycat" and " Dr. Strange-love ".

    Performing Experience

    Peter Sellers was born in 1925 into a wealthy performing family in England. Both his parents worked in the theater run by his grandmother. His brother died during childbirth, and as the only child in the family, he was doted by his family.
    After joining the army, he participated in World War II and met Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Michael Bentine as future work partners. After the war, he went to London, where he dubbed and became famous in the radio drama "The Fool's Show" (1951-1961). His film debut was in "in Penny Points to Paradise" in 1951, followed by "Down Among the Z Men" in 1952 and "The Sister Killer" in 1955. He was performing these exaggerations almost throughout the 1950sIt was not until he played a labor leader in "I'm All Right Back" (1959) that he took his acting career to a new level and started his own magnificent performance in the 1960s. In 1962, he played two roles in Stanley Kubrick 's " Lolita ", playing the playboy Clare Quilty and Dr. Zempf. In 1964, in " Dr. Strange-love " , also directed by Kubrick , he took on the performance of the three protagonists alone and was nominated for the first Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role . But starting with his failed performance in Woody Allen 's screenwriting debut " What's New, Pussycat " (1965), he starred in the Pink Naughty Panther series in the 70s purely for economic reasons . In 1972, he read Jerzy Kosinski's novel "Being There" and determined to put it on the screen, which was " Being There " seven years later . Peter Sellers won an Oscar nomination for this film. , This film is a well-known political satire comedy in the late 1970s, and it is also his last posthumous work-in 1980, Peter Sellers passed away in the second year after the film was completed. And the film " The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu " that he directed and starred in was proved to be another failed film.
    Extended Reading
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    The Ladykillers quotes

    • [driving past the police station, they see their case of money sitting in the doorway]

      Harry: I don't believe it. I don't *believe* it!

      Louis: Shut up.

      One-Round: It's just... sitting there... look, couldn't we...?

      Professor Marcus: No one, I hope, is going to suggest that we steal it.

    • [Professor Marcus enters the phone booth right as the phone rings. On the other end, Claude is in another phone booth outside the train station, watching Mrs. Wilberforce collect their trunk]

      Professor Marcus: Now, Major, before we start, let's press button A, shall we?... That's better... Major. Ma - Major! I want you to keep calm, speak quietly, and concentrate. Have you got that? Splendid. Mrs. W. should be coming into view just about...

      [hums]

      Professor Marcus: ... now... Now she's driving away.

      [She does, but comes back]

      Professor Marcus: . Major, Major, Major

      [throws phone book]

      Professor Marcus: RELAX! Calm down!

      Claude: Back to the station! She's come back to the station!

      Louis: [entering phone booth] What's wrong? Major!

      Professor Marcus: Louis! Louis!

      Louis: Major, tell me what's happening! Major!

      Professor Marcus: Louis! Louis, will you mind your own business, please!

      Harry: [Harry enters the phone booth too, and One-Round tries to squeeze in with them] Louis! Give us a listen, Louis! Come on, let me hear, will you? I want to hear!

      Harry: [to One-Round] Get out! Louis, I want to hear what he says!

      Louis: [to One-Round] You get out! Major, tell me what's happening!

      Louisa Wilberforce: [coming out of the train station with her umbrella] I'm always leaving it.

      Louis: [hearing Professor Marcus laughing] What's she doing?

      One-Round: What's going on here?

      Professor Marcus: It's all right, it's just that she went back to get her umbrella!