The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Author Roger Lewis Published by riverrun ISBN 9781529446753 EAN 9781529446753 Bic Code DNBF Cover Hardback

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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.