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Aug 31, 2022 · Sadly Sellers passed away in 1980 after years of battling with his health, but what caused his death and how can it be prevented?
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Sep 7, 2021 · Married four times, Sellers was actually estranged from Lynne Frederick when he died. It was later discovered that he was trying to change his will on the day he had his heart attack, according to a BBC report.
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May 6, 2020 · Film star Peter Sellers never liked being alone, so it is “heartbreaking” he was on his own when he died, his secretary says ahead of the 40th anniversary of his death.
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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. At his bedside were his fourth wife, Lynne Frederick; his second wife, Britt Ekland,...
Mr. Sellers was in London to work on the screenplay of \"Romance of the Pink Panther,\" which was to have been his sixth film in the role of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, his most famous comic creation. He was still basking in the acclaim for his starring role in last year's \"Being There,\" which won him an Academy Award nomination.
His best-known roles in more ambitious films were as in \"I'm All Right, Jack\" (1959), \"Lolita\" (1962), \"Waltz of the Toreadors\" (1964), \"Dr. Strangelove\" (1964), \"The Party\" (1968) and \"Being There.\"
I remember him talking about the inspirations for some of his famous roles at a press conference at the Hawaiian premiere of \"Revenge of the Pink Panther.\" Inspector Clouseau's famous accent, he recalled, wasn't there in the original \"Pink Panther,\" but came later: \"I developed it in 'A Shot in the Dark' [1964]. It came from this brilliant con...
\"The right hand was not originally supposed to be a Nazi hand,\" he said. \"Then Stanley Kubrick put the black glove on my hand and suddenly we got this inspiration that Strangelove was schizo, split right down the middle, his left half American, his right half Nazi. If you know what to look for when you see the movie, you could see some of the ac...
Peter Sellers was born Sept. 8, 1925, in Southsea, England, the son of British vaudeville performers, and was literally raised in the wings. He appeared with his parents as a child, won a talent contest at 13, joined the Royal Air Force at 17 and worked as an entertainer. In the 1950s he became famous as the star of England's radio \"Goon Show,\" m...
He moved into British film comedies and was a star by the late 1950s. Mr. Sellers often described himself as a \"hopeless romantic\" who was constantly falling in love. He married for the first time in 1951, to Australian actress Anne Howe, and they had two children, Michael and Sarah Jane. But in 1960 that marriage broke up as Mr. Sellers fell in ...
In 1964, shortly after the triumphs as Inspector Clouseau, he married Swedish actress Britt Ekland after an 11-day courtship. Shortly afterward, he suffered his first major heart attack. His marriage to Ekland lasted until 1969 and produced his daughter, Victoria. In 1970, Mr. Sellers married Miranda Quarry, daughter of a British lord. They were di...
Mr. Sellers gave evidence of that during the 1978 \"Pink Panther\" press conference. A reporter asked if he would mind answering a personal question.
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.
Jul 24, 1980 · Peter Sellers, the comedian whose zany film roles ranged from a duchess to a wild nuclear expert, died early this morning in Middlesex Hospital in London, a day after he was striken with a...
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Dec 3, 2004 · The Life & Death of Peter Sellers. It takes brio, bordering on gall, to tackle a biopic of the nasty, brilliant, hollow man Peter Sellers — a fellow who repeatedly denied his existence.
