THE GOONS
Peter Sellers
 
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Richard Henry "Peter" Sellers was born on 8 September 1925 in Hampshire. Both his parents and eight uncles were all in show business. After the war he got a job as a comedian at the Windmill theatre and then in the BBC doing many different voices in radio plays. At the Windmill Theatre, he met Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine who, together with Spike Milligan, created the Goon Show for BBC radio.

Peter Sellers went on to have an illustrious career in movies, being rated as among the top 100 movie actors of all time.

Peter Sellers died of a heart attack in July 1980.
 
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Movies Starring Peter Sellers

  • Penny Points to Paradise (1951)
  • Let's Go Crazy (1951)
  • Down among the Z Men (1952) (released on video as The Goons Movie)
  • The Goon Show Movie (1953)
  • Orders are Orders (1954)
  • The Ladykillers (1955)
  • John and Julie (1955)
  • The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn (1955)
  • The Man who Never Was (1956) (voice only of Winston Churchill)
  • The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
  • The Naked Truth (1957)
  • Insomnia Is Good for You (1957)
  • Up the Creek (1958)
  • tom thumb (1958)
  • The Running, Jumping & Standing Still Film (1958) (actor, writer, editor, director & producer)
  • The Mouse that Roared (1959)
  • I'm Alright Jack (1959)
  • Carlton Brown of the F.O. (1959)
  • The Battle of the Sexes (1959)
  • Two Way Stretch (1960)
  • The Millionairess (1960)
  • Never Let Go (1960)
  • Mr Topaz (1961) (actor & director)
  • The Wrong Arm of the Law (1962)
  • Lolita (1962)
  • The Dock Brief (1962)
  • Only Two Can Play (1962)
  • The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
  • Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
  • Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
  • Heavens Above! (1963)
  • The Pink Panther (1963)
  • The World of Harry Orient (1964)
  • A Shot in the Dark (1964)
  • What's New, Pussycat? (1965)
  • The Wrong Box (1966)
  • Caccia alla Volpe (After the Fox) (1966)
  • Woman Times Seven (1967)
  • The Bobo (1967)
  • Casino Royale (1967)
  • The Party (1968)
  • I Love You Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
  • The Magic Christian (1969) (actor & writer)
  • There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
  • Hoffman (1970)
  • A Day at the Beach (1970)
  • Where Does It Hurt (1972)
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
  • Undercover Hero (1973)
  • The Optimists (1973)
  • Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973)
  • The Blockhouse (1973)
  • The Return of the Pink Panther (1974)
  • The Great McGonagall (1974)
  • The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1975)
  • Murder by Death (1976)
  • Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
  • Being There (1979)
  • The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
  • The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu (1980)
  • Trial of the Pink Panther (1982)

    

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