Peter Sellers - biography

“I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.”

“I’ve a feeling that the film character enters my body as if I were a medium.  I get so damned deep into it.  I become another living person.”

“If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do.  I do not know who or what I am.”

“To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.”

“I’m a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I’m working.”

“I was dead.  I had eight heart attacks.  After six, they didn’t think I could take any modre.  Nobody ever had.  When I thought I was just falling asleep, I was really dying.  If that’s dying, I’ll never fear it again.”

“Women are more difficult to handle than men.  It’s their minds.”

“Conversation like television set on honeymoon...  unnecessary.”

“Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.”

“I don’t know who Peter Sellers is - except he’s the one who gets paid.”

“There is no me.  I do not exist.  There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.”

Peter Sellers has appeared in the following films:
The Black Rose (1950)
Let’s Go Crazy (1951)
Penny Points to Paradise (1951)
Down Among the Z Men (1952)
Our Girl Friday (1953)
Orders Are Orders (1954)
John and Julie (1955)
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn (1956)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Insomnia Is Good for You (1957)
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
The Naked Truth (1957)
Up the Creek (1958)
Tom Thumb (1958)
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
I’m All Right Jack (1959)
The Battle of the Sexes (1959)
The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film (1960)
Never Let Go (1960)
The Millionairess (1960)
Two Way Stretch (1960)
Mr. Topaze (1961)
Only Two Can Play (1962)
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
Lolita (1962)
The Dock Brief (1962)
The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
Heavens Above! (1963)
The Pink Panther (1963)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Birds, Bees and Storks (1965)
What’s New, Pussycat? (1965)
The Wrong Box (1966)
Caccia alla volpe (1966)
Casino Royale (1967)
Woman Times Seven (1967)
The Bobo (1967)
The Party (1968)
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
The Magic Christian (1969)
A Day at the Beach (1970)
Hoffman (1970)
Simon Simon (1970)
There’s a Girl in My Soup (1970)
Where Does It Hurt? (1972)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973)
The Blockhouse (1973)
The Optimists (1973)
Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974)
The Great McGonagall (1974)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Murder by Death (1976)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Kingdom of Gifts (1978)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
Being There (1979)
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)


Peter Sellers directed the following films:
The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film (1960)
Mr. Topaze (1961)
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)


Peter Sellers contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Let’s Go Crazy (1951)
The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn (1956)
The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film (1960)
Casino Royale (1967)
The Magic Christian (1969)