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.

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.

There, he played Peter Sellers ' Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son who is assigned to save the Princess of Lugash.

Stanley Kubrick cast Pickens after Peter Sellers, who played three other roles in the film, sprained his ankle and was unable to perform in the role due to having to work in the cramped cockpit set.

His third film of that year was the Boulting brothers ' Rotten to the Core starring Anton Rogers ( who replaced Peter Sellers ) with Sykes.

These included a remake of the 1960s episode Sykes and a Stranger, which had originally featured Leo McKern but the new version saw Peter Sellers taking the role of a childhood sweetheart of Hattie's who arrives on the Sykes's doorstep claiming Hattie as his fiancé.

In fact, the impact of the glass industry was so significant that the city's name actually comes from Jeannette E. Hartupee McKee, the wife of H. Sellers McKee, a local industrialist who cofounded the Chambers and McKee Glass Works and was a member of the elite South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club of Johnstown Flood fame.

Other actors and actresses who featured on the show included Peter Sellers, Fred Yule, Patricia Hayes, Kenneth Connor, Pat Coombs and Graham Stark ; Sellers ' earliest appearances predated The Goon Show by a couple of years.

Ashby was in London, England meeting with Peter Sellers about doing Being There when he received a phone call from Jones who told him that Columbia was fed up with the time it was taking for the film to be assembled.

Chance ( Peter Sellers ) is a middle-aged man who lives in the townhouse of an old, wealthy man in Washington D. C.

A variety show he produced caught the eye of Peter Sellers, who enlisted Lester's help in translating The Goon Show to television as The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d.

To that end aspiring traders in glass were apprenticed to a master who was a member of the Glass Sellers Company.

The late Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was very fond of repeating the Peter Sellers ' line " In India we don't < u > think </ u > who we are, we < u > know </ u > who we are!

Ekland became famous overnight as a result of her 1964 whirlwind romance and marriage to English actor and comedian, Peter Sellers, who proposed after seeing her photograph in the paper and then meeting in London.

Ekland was stepmother to Sellers ' children Sarah and Michael ( who died of a heart attack at about the same age as his father ).

Over the next 16 years, Ashby directed several acclaimed and popular films, including the off-beat romance Harold and Maude and the social satire Being There with Peter Sellers, resuscitating the career of a brilliant actor who many felt had lapsed into self-parody.

In the 1959 LP Songs for Swinging Sellers, Peter Sellers included a character " Twit Conway ", who was a rock singer.

Sellers loved the script, however, and it was he who asked Vittorio De Sica to direct.

Yo Murphy returned to the Claymores with four touchdown catches ( and an 89-yard kickoff return for a touchdown ) but the leading wide receiver was Donald Sellers, who totalled 931 receiving yards for seven touchdowns.

In late 1952, possibly exacerbated by suppressed tensions between the Goons ' stars, Milligan apparently became irrationally convinced that he had to kill Sellers, but when he attempted to gain entry to Sellers's neighbouring flat, armed with a potato knife, he accidentally walked straight through the plate-glass front door.

15-minute adaptations of the original scripts by Maurice Wiltshire were used instead, with Milligan, Sellers and Secombe reuniting to provide the voices ; according to a contemporary press report, they received the highest fees the BBC had ever paid for 15-minute shows.

In addition to being a parody of James Bond and clearly being heavily influenced by Peter Sellers, Austin Powers represents an archetype of 1960s Swinging London, with his constant advocacy for free love — defending this attitude in an argument with Doctor Evil by arguing that they were rebelling against authority figures like Doctor Evil and the movement would have used less drugs if they had been aware of the long-term consequences — his use of obscure impressions and his clothing style ( including crushed velvet suits and Beatle boots ).

Loren has also recorded well over two dozen songs throughout her career, including a best-selling album of comedic songs with Peter Sellers ; reportedly, she had to fend off his romantic advances.

The 1968 film does appear to have had an impact on the Clouseau character when Sellers returned to the role in 1975's The Return of the Pink Panther, particularly in the character's mode of dress.

Minnelli also had relationships with Desi Arnaz, Jr. ( the son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz ), Peter Sellers, and Martin Scorsese.

Sellers was familiar with the film because, according to Brooks, Sellers had accepted the role of Bloom and then was never heard from again.

Early in September 1948, Mar brought Professor Ovid R. Sellers, the new Director of ASOR, some additional scroll fragments that he had acquired.

In July 2000, the " Children's Best Sellers " was created after the Harry Potter series had stayed in the top spots on the fiction list for an extended period of time.

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.

Hall and Flakus later recruited Jim Sellers on bass and Chris Vrenna ( Nine Inch Nails ) on drums, as Hall had met Vrenna when playing in Die Warzau.

By 1838, the Spen Valley, centred around Cleckheaton had at least 11 card clothing factories and by 1893 it was generally accepted as the card cloth capital of the world, though by 2008 only two manufacturers of metallic and flexible card clothing remained in England, Garnett Wire Ltd dating back to 1851 and Joseph Sellers & Son Ltd established in 1840.

The sketch, which had originally been broadcast in 1948 as part of a comedy series called The Third Division and which featured actor Robert Beatty, was later famously performed by Peter Sellers on his 1959 LP – The Best of Sellers.

Fleiss and reality TV personality Victoria Sellers ( a friend of Fleiss since their teens, although their relationship had hit the rocks during the period Sellers was interviewed for Broomfield's documentary ) hosted and produced an instructional DVD titled Sex Tips with Heidi Fleiss and Victoria Sellers in 2001.

Together they had a daughter Aubrie Lee Sellers, born 1991, before divorcing in 1996.

Producer Walter Mirisch knew that Sellers and Edwards were considered liabilities ; in his autobiography, Mirisch wrote, " Blake had achieved a reputation as a very expensive director, particularly after The Great Race.

" Sellers had played another Indian man in his hit film The Millionairess, and a similar klutz as Inspector Clouseau.

In the mid 1960s he dated British actress Janette Scott, between her marriages to songwriter Jackie Rae and singer Mel Tormé ; in the early 1970s he was engaged to American actress Diahann Carroll ; between 1972 and 1977 he had a relationship with British socialite Caroline Cushing ; and in 1981 he married Lynne Frederick, widow of Peter Sellers, but they divorced the following year.

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The role was originated by, and is most closely associated with, Peter Sellers.

That film also marked the return of Sellers to the role after a gap of ten years, which may have contributed to some confusion between the character and the diamond.

* A 7090 / 1401 installation is featured in the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, with the 1403 printer playing a pivotal role in the plot ( it is the hiding place for a transistor radio ; which, when found and turned on by one of the three characters played by Peter Sellers in the film, reveals that the nuclear attack ordered by the deranged Air Force base commander is phony, and must be stopped at all costs ).

Guillermin hired him again for his next film that year, Never Let Go, with Peter Sellers in the main role.

Their original role as part of an army officer's uniform lent the trench coat a businesslike respectability, whilst fictional heroes as diverse as the Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Captain Jack Harkness, Captain Mal Reynolds, Castiel, Columbo, Dick Tracy, Mike Hammer, the Crow, the Phantom, Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine from Casablanca, and Peter Sellers ' Inspector Clouseau kept the coat in the public eye.

Unknown Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi ( Sellers ) has a small role in which he sounds a bugle to start the attack.

Ekland's looks and accent were wrong for the role, but to keep Sellers happy De Sica acquiesced.

In 2004, Watson received a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Peter Sellers's first wife, Anne Howe, in the HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.

Lloyd appeared in A Hard Day's Night and Help !, two films starring the Beatles, and also had a brief role in The Magic Christian, which starred Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr.

Sellers, who had never been comfortable in the role of Kong, was able to extricate himself from the part after allegedly fracturing his ankle, forcing Kubrick to re-cast.

The Magic Christian was one of Peter Sellers ' favourite books — his gift of a copy to Stanley Kubrick led to Southern being hired for Dr Strangelove – and a film version of the book had long been a project for the actor, who intended to play the lead role of Guy Grand.

He took the role because he was a fan of Swank, and Hopkins ' film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers ( 2004 ), and he preferred the thriller aspect of the Reaping script above the horror aspect.

Stanley Kubrick attempted to cast Blocker in his film Dr. Strangelove, after Peter Sellers elected not to add the role of Major T. J. " King " Kong to his multiple other roles, but according to the film's co-writer, Terry Southern, Blocker's agent rejected the script.

* Video clips from Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ) in black comedy role as General Jack D. Ripper with co-star Peter Sellers

* 2003 – The role of Frank Sellers in 2003's indie feature Shtickmen.

Peter Sellers ( 1962 ) and Frank Langella ( 1997 ) played the role in two subsequent movies.

In the episode " The Macreekie Rising of ' 74 ", Peter Sellers had to fill-in for the role in Milligan's absence.

Her last role came in the 1979 film The Prisoner of Zenda, in which she worked with her first husband Peter Sellers.