By the middle of the decade, some of the 1950s generation of American comedians, such as Jerry Lewis, went into decline, while Peter Sellers found success with international audiences in his first American film The Pink Panther.

Many British actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery, Vivien Leigh, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and Kate Winslet.

* Peter Sellers ( 54 ) in The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu ( 1980 )

Peter Sellers was also a popular and influential improviser who would often improvise the dialogue in his work.

The novel was made into a 1979 movie directed by Hal Ashby, starring Peter Sellers, who was nominated for an Academy Award for the role and Melvyn Douglas, who won the award for Best Supporting Actor.

I'm All Right Jack featured Peter Sellers and as a result, boosted his film career, winning him a BAFTA Best Actor Award.

Peter Sellers told him this was the inspiration for the prosthetic arm routine in Dr Strangelove.

He co-founded The Goon Show radio show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, but appeared in only the first 38 shows on the BBC Light Programme from 1951 to 1953.

He worked as a scriptwriter for Peter Sellers and then on 39 episodes of his own radio show Round the Bend in 30 Minutes, which has also been wiped from the BBC archive.

* 1925 – Peter Sellers, English actor ( d. 1980 )

While he was with the Central Pool of Artists ( a group he described as composed " of bomb-happy squaddies ") he began to write parodies of their mainstream plays, that displayed many of the key elements of what would later become The Goon Show ( originally called Crazy People ) with Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine.

After a delayed start, Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine joined forces in a relatively radical comedy project, The Goon Show.

The Goon Show was recorded before a studio audience, and during the audience warm-up session, Milligan would play the trumpet, while Peter Sellers played on the orchestra's drums.

The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d ( 1956 ) starring Peter Sellers was the first attempt to translate Goons humour to TV ; it was followed by A Show Called Fred and Son of Fred, both made during 1956 and directed by Richard Lester, who went on to work with The Beatles.

He was portrayed by Edward Tudor-Pole in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers ( 2004 ).

* Let's Go Crazy ( 1951 ), played Eccles and a Waiter in this short, which also featured Peter Sellers and Wallas Eaton

* The Great McGonagall ( 1974 ), untalented Scottish poet ( based on William Topaz McGonagall ) angles to become laureate, with Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria.

Fiona Fullerton played Alice, Michael Crawford played the White Rabbit, Peter Sellers played the March Hare, and Dudley Moore played the Dormouse.

In 1969, a plaque to Leigh was placed in the Actors Church, St Paul's, Covent Garden ; in 1985, a portrait of her was included in a series of postage stamps, along with Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, Peter Sellers and David Niven to commemorate " British Film Year ".

A character called McGoonagall frequently appears in The Goon Show, alternately played by Milligan and Peter Sellers.

* Peter Sellers

* September 8 – Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor ( The Pink Panther ) ( d. 1980 )

He used his writing skills to begin producing and directing, with some of his most well-known films including Experiment in Terror, The Great Race, and the hugely successful Pink Panther film series with the British comedian Peter Sellers.

His most dynamic and successful collaboration was with Peter Sellers in six of the movies in the Pink Panther series.

Edwards is best known for directing most of the comedy film series The Pink Panther, and all of the entries starring Peter Sellers as the inept Inspector Clouseau.

Nothing more was needed to ensure the rapid spread of the new association and Peter the hermit of Morone lived to see himself " Superior-General " to thirty-six monasteries and more than six hundred monks.

Meijer escaped and lived in Paraguay for years, until he was discovered by Peter R. de Vries and imprisoned there.

The Wimseys honeymoon at Talboys, a house in east Hertfordshire near where Harriet had lived as a child, that Peter has bought for her as a wedding present.

This was Peter Jones, a dramatist ; they lived together for several years, until 1999.

" The Dude was also partly based on a friend of the Coen brothers, Peter Exline ( now a member of the faculty at USC's School of Cinematic Arts ), a Vietnam War veteran who reportedly lived in a dump of an apartment and was proud of a little rug that " tied the room together.

Saint Veronica was mentioned in the reported visions of Jesus by Sister Marie of St Peter, a Carmelite nun who lived in Tours, France, and started the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus.

The legend of Peter is still talked about, especially in the town where he lived most of his life, former Oranienbaum, later Lomonosov, situated on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, 40 km west of St. Petersburg.

The presence of the Apostle Peter in this area, where he is supposed to have lived, appears to be confirmed in an epigraph in the Catacombs of Saint Sebastian that reads Domus Petri ().

An epigram by Pope Damasus I ( 366 – 384 ) in honor of Peter and Paul reads: " You that are looking for the names of Peter and Paul, you must know that the saints have lived here.

The Red House in Aldeburgh, where Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears lived and worked together from 1957 until Britten ’ s death in 1976, is now the home of the Britten-Pears Foundation, established to promote their musical legacy.

Berthold's apartment at Tristanstraße in Berlin, where his brother Claus also lived for some time, was a meeting place for the July 20 conspirators, including their cousin Peter Yorck von Wartenburg.

Peter and Paul had “ lived, taught, suffered, and are buried ”;

* Sir Peter Pears, singer lived in Offord Road.

Among those who can lay claim to fame, and who have either been born or lived in Beckenham or have had some important contribution to make to the town, there are show business people such as Bob Monkhouse ( 1928 – 2003 ); Julie Andrews ( 1935-); David Bowie ( 1947-), who lived at 42 Southend Road, Beckenham from 1969 – 1973 ; Peter Frampton ( 1950-); Wende Snijders ( 1978-), the Dutch singer ; and the actors Maurice Denham ( 1909 – 2002 ), and Simon Ward ( 1941 – 2012 ).

* JM Barrie ( 1860 – 1937 ), playwright and novelist, lived in Guilford Street and Grenville Street when he first moved to London ; it's where the Darling family in Peter Pan live.

Among people associated with Deptford are Christopher Marlowe, who was murdered at Deptford Strand ; diarist John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ) who lived at Sayes Court, and had Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) as a guest for about three months in 1698 ; and Sir Francis Drake who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind in Deptford Docks.

Peter Sellers lived as a boy in a cottage in Muswell Hill Road, where his mother had moved in order to send him to the Catholic St Aloysius boys ' school in Hornsey Lane.

They lived in a house at 1812 St. Peter Street in New Orleans, which was mainly populated by Italians, Arabs, Jews and African Americans.

That area became so named because Peter N. Reddick lived there near the old county seat of Jacksonboro.

* Frances Ford Seymour ( 1908 – 1950 ), wife of actor Henry Fonda and mother of actress Jane Fonda and actor Peter Fonda ; lived in Fairhaven for several years with family members and attended Fairhaven High School

Capelle aan den IJssel's most famous resident is former Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who has lived there since 1999.

Comic actor John Cleese has lived in Berkhamsted, Other notable Berkhamsted residents include actor Adrian Scarborough and sports commentator Peter Drury.

Other influential people who have lived in Hartsdale include the artist / sculptor Malvina Hoffman, American businessman Vernon Jordan, National Urban League president John Edward Jacob, pro-wrestler " Classy " Freddie Blassie, actor Peter Riegert, singer / musician / composer Billy Vera, novelist and educator Michael Rubin, Mad magazine artist Jack Davis, and Nobel laureate Louis J. Ignarro.