词条 | Sellers, Peter |
释义 | Sellers, Peter British actor original name Richard Henry Sellers born September 8, 1925, Southsea, Eng. died July 24, 1980, London ![]() Sellers was a descendant of legendary Portuguese-Jewish prizefighter Daniel Mendoza (Mendoza, Daniel) and the son of British vaudeville performers. After winning a talent contest, he planned to become a professional drummer, and as such he was hired to perform in Ralph Reader's “gang shows”—concert units that toured British army bases during World War II. He developed his mimicry skills while serving in the Royal Air Force and ultimately abandoned the drums in favour of comedy, performing celebrity impressions during a six-week run at London's Windmill Theatre. In 1951 he teamed with Spike Milligan (Milligan, Spike) and Harry Secombe to create The Goon Show, a radio comedy sketch series. Emerging as the star of the series with his repertoire of eccentric characters, Sellers also dominated the Goons' film projects, including the short subject Let's Go Crazy (1951) and the feature-length Down Among the Z Men (1952). ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1979 he delivered what many consider his finest performance, as the simpleminded gardener Chance in Being There. This Oscar-nominated triumph was followed by one of his worst films, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980). Suffering a series of heart attacks, he died at age 54; his final “performance” in Trail of the Pink Panther (released posthumously in 1982) was a hodgepodge of outtakes from earlier films. Additional Reading Alexander Walker, Peter Sellers: The Authorized Biography (1981, reissued 1990); Roger Lewis, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (1994, reissued 1997). |
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