9/27/2023 0 Comments Peter sellers being thereThe year 1964 represented a peak in his career with four films in release, all of them well-received by critics and the public alike: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) in which he played three roles which showed off his comic talent in play-acting in three different accents British, American, and German. In 1962, Sellers was cast in the role of Clare Quilty in the Stanley Kubrick version of the film Lolita (1962) in which his performance as a mentally unbalanced TV writer with multiple personalities landed him another part in Kubrick's Dr. The film's success led to starring vehicles into the 1960s that showed off his extreme comic ability to its fullest. These small but showy roles continued throughout the 1950s, but he got his first big break playing the dogmatic union man, Fred Kite, in I'm All Right Jack (1959). Then, all of a sudden, he burst into prominence as the voices of numerous favorites on the BBC radio program "The Goon Show" (1951-1960), and then making his debut in films in Penny Points to Paradise (1951) and Down Among the Z Men (1952), before making it big as one of the criminals in The Ladykillers (1955). After the war, he set up a review in London, which was a combination of music (he played the drums) and impressions. After the war he met Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, who would become his future workmates. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force and served during World War II. His parents' first child had died at birth, so Sellers was spoiled during his early years. His father was Protestant and his mother was Jewish (of both Ashkenazi and Sephardi background). His parents worked in an acting company run by his grandmother. He was the son of Agnes Doreen "Peg" (Marks) and William "Bill" Sellers. 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.
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