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Peter Sellers

January 2024

  • black and white film still of man sitting on the floor next to a wheelchair wearing a suit and sunglasses with a gun in the air

    Dr Strangelove at 60: is this still the greatest big-screen satire?

    Stanley Kubrick’s sharp and persuasive comedy about nuclear war remains a hilarious act of provocation

September 2022

  • Comedian and actor Tony Hancock.

    BBC to broadcast long-lost episode of Hancock’s Half Hour

    The radio show, which has not been repeated since first airing in 1955, will be played on Radio 4 on 18 October

June 2022

  • Sue Lyon in Lolita

    Lolita at 60: Stanley Kubrick’s daring drama is a deft tightrope act

    The first, and greatest, adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s troubling 1955 novel still possesses a strange and unnerving power

October 2020

  • Superbly constructed ... The Ladykillers.

    The Ladykillers review – a comic crime caper that still kills

  • Herbert Lom and the on-set medical team

    On the set of classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers - in pictures

May 2020

  • Britt Ekland … ‘If you want publicity, you’ve got to do something to deserve publicity.’

    Britt Ekland: 'I was put through emotional and psychological warfare'

  • BRITT EKLAND with husband Peter Sellers in 1965

    Britt Ekland on Peter Sellers: ‘He was a very tormented soul’

April 2020

  • Terence Frisby in 1998: an obsession with matters of the heart, and with sex, ran through all his writing.

    Terence Frisby obituary

    Playwright whose comedy There’s a Girl in My Soup broke West End records and became a film starring Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn

May 2019

  • His finest hour … Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove.

    Dr Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb review – still a blast

    Age has not withered the queasy nightmare of Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear holocaust satire, starring Peter Sellers at the peak of his powers

April 2019

  • Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan in a 1972 Goon Show reunion.

    Going, going, Goon: letters by Sellers and Milligan turn air blue

    Previously unseen correspondence between the two comedians and musician Alan Clare is to be sold at auction

September 2018

  • Thames TV Archive<br>Editorial Use Only / No Merchandising Mandatory Credit: Photo by FremantleMedia Ltd/REX/Shutterstock (825926th) 'Looks Familiar' - Denis Norden Thames TV Archive

    Denis Norden: the king of the blooper who always delivered

  • Liz Fraser as Cynthia Kite and Ian Carmichael in I’m All Right Jack, 1959.

    Liz Fraser obituary

August 2018

  • Peter Medak, centre, directs Peter Sellers, left, and Spike Milligan in the unreleased Ghost in the Noonday Sun in 1973 on location in Cyprus.

    Tantrums and tears: how Peter Sellers turned a pirate film into a shipwreck

    The 1973 movie Ghost in the Noonday Sun, with Spike Milligan, never reached the big screen. Now its director, Peter Medak, reveals why

October 2017

  • Harry Secombe from the Goon Show.

    A brush with greatness
    The afternoon I spent with the Goons' inimitable Harry Secombe

    It’s 1995, Peter Sellers is dead, Michael Bentine is dying, Spike Milligan says no but one Goon steps into the breach, recalls Roy Bainton

September 2017

  • Queen and king of the screen … Judi Dench as Victoria and Jim Caviezel as Jesus.

    Shortcuts
    From Queen Victoria to Jesus Christ: the figures who most fascinate filmmakers

    Thanks to Judi Dench, Victoria now reigns supreme as the most popular character ever in British films. But who are the pretenders to her throne?

June 2017

  • Cars Comp Paul Newman and Doc Hudson from Cars 3

    Film blog
    From Bruce Lee to Paul Walker: how Hollywood pulled off its biggest resurrection acts

    Paul Newman is only the latest star to return to the big screen after death. From Philip Seymour Hoffman to Peter Sellers, here are some of the most celebrated performances from beyond the grave

July 2016

  • Dr Strangelove

    Dr Strangelove: Peter Sellers in Stanley Kubrick's anti-war masterpiece – video

    A clip from Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 cold war satire Dr Strangelove, featuring Peter Sellers as mild-mannered US president, Merkin Muffley, and the creepy ex-Nazi scientist, Strangelove

24 May 2016

  • Burt Kwouk in Return of the Pink Panther in 1975

    Burt Kwouk obituary

    Actor best known for his roles in the Pink Panther films and the BBC’s Last of the Summer Wine
  • Burt Kwouk at home with nunchucks, 1978

    Burt Kwouk, Cato in the Pink Panther films – a life in pictures

    Burt Kwouk, who has died aged 85, was best known for his role as the drop-kicking butler from the Pink Panther but also had stints on Last of the Summer Wine, Tenko and The Harry Hill Show. We take a look back at his long and varied film and TV career
  • Burt Kwouk and Peter Sellers in 1975’s The Return of the Pink Panther.

    Burt Kwouk, Cato from Pink Panther, dies age 85

    British-born actor who grew up in China starred in three James Bond movies and Last of the Summer Wine as well as his celebrated role alongside Peter Sellers
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