The life and death of Peter Sellers
Lewis, Roger, 1960-2025
Book
Recognised as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of fifty-five films - from Dr. Strangelove, to Being There and the Pink Panther hits. But shadowing his phenomenal career was a history of increasingly bizarre behaviour involving psychotic violence, compulsive promiscuity, drug abuse and humiliating self-destructive obsessions with people including Princess Margaret, Sophia Loren, Liza Minnelli and each of his four wives (Ann Hayes, Britt Ekland, Miranda Quarry and Lynne Frederick). He alternately showered his wives and children with gifts and then threatened to kill them. Sellers' fluidity as an actor made for a terrifying madness that grew like a slow metastasizing cancer throughout his adult life.
Main title:
The life and death of Peter Sellers / by Roger Lewis.
Author:
Lewis, Roger, 1960-, author
Edition:
New edition.
Imprint:
London : riverrun, 2025.
Collation:
xxxviii, 965 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: London: Century, 1994.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781529446753 (hbk)
Dewey class:
791.43028092B SEL791.43791.43028791.43028 SEL
Language:
English
BRN:
4022186