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Peter Sellers

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Sellers in Cinema:
The Fun-Filled Fifties

A selection of photos from some of his best-known
(and some not-so-well known) screen performances.

"Down Among the Z Men" (1952)

Peter portrays military windbag Major Bloodnok -
his popular Goon Show radio character -
in "Down Among the Z Men" featuring
fellow Goons Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan.

"The Ladykillers" (1955)

Peter Sellers is featured in this darkly funny
Ealing Studios comedy as Harry,
the young thug and thief whose
gang finds their plans for their
next heist being unwittingly sabotaged
by a sweet little old lady.

How to hide the loot from Professor Marcus' (Alec Guinness)
landlady? Note Herbert Lom, future foil of Sellers'
"Clouseau" in the "Pink Panther" films,
to Peter's left!

"I'm All Right, Jack" (1959)

Peter Sellers won a British Academy Award
for his portrayal of self-important shop steward Fred Kite
in this satire on unions and working relations
in England.

Kite breaking the ice with personnel manager Major Hitchcock,
played by the inimitable Terry-Thomas.

Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) defies both union and employer
at a television debate, much to the chagrin of Mr. Kite.

"The Mouse That Roared" (1959)

Portrait of Peter as Tully Bascombe - just one
of three roles he played in the playful
satire on war and bombs,
"The Mouse That Roared".

Tully, the forest ranger of the tiny European duchy of
Grand Fenwick, is sent to invade the United States with
his enforcements. The plan? To lose the war and receive
relief from the wealthiest nation in the world!

Tully finds himself beguiled in spite of himself...
and seasick as well, which doesn't fit in well
with the plans of Helen Kokintz (Jean Seberg),
an American girl looking to get a dangerous bomb
back from Tully's custody.

"Never Let Go" (1959)

Peter showed off his remarkable range in this heavy crime drama,
but a "tough and ruthless" Peter Sellers as the vicious leader
of a gang of car thieves failed to win the imaginations
of the audience...and his tendency to stay in character after
the cameras stopped rolling caused his family much anguish.

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SELLERS IN CINEMA - THE FUN-FILLED FIFTIES
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SELLERS IN CINEMA - THE SWINGING SIXTIES, PT. 3
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