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Director Stephen Hopkins ultimately distanced himself from Lewis's book, and said he was inspired by Sellers's 16mm home movies, which were featured in a 1995 BBC Arena documentary, "The Peter Sellers Story", directed by Peter Lydon.
Jan 1, 1994 · 285 reviews. February 22, 2023. A Herculean-undertaking for Lewis, presenting one of the twentieth century's greatest comic minds as an intensely broken and cruel man. The reader is left little room to make up their own mind about Sellers, but Lewis' wealth of research is hard to argue with.
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Nov 15, 2008 · Like many a funnyman before him, Peter Sellers was not an especially happy bunny once the cameras stopped rolling, and his troubled psyche is richly explored in this inventive 2004 biopic...
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Sep 24, 2004 · The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers (2004) Reviewed by Nev Pierce. Updated 29 September 2004. Contains strong language and drug use. Peter Sellers receives a fittingly amusing and hollow...
"This film is based on 800 pages of unintelligible rubbish” Michael Sellers told The Times, in reference to the 1994 biography by Roger Lewis. “This guy did not understand my father and his comedy. He said it was insanity but he clearly didn't understand the humour of the Goons”
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers: Directed by Stephen Hopkins. With Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, John Lithgow. The feature adaptation of Roger Lewis' book about the actor best remembered as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies.
Oct 1, 2004 · Who was the real Peter Sellers? Which of the million faces he wore on screen was his own? Through his rapid rise to fame, through his four marriages and several affairs, through his...
