My mum worked with Peter in 1946 in Entertainments Unit, Combined Ops in London. She said he was an absolute hoot! He perfected his posh officer drawl on her, by ringing her phone and impersonating some visiting bigwig (in which there were many just after the war). He had done his homework and knew of a high ranking visitor, so would simply 'be him' over the phone. My mum knew it was Peter being daft, they were both corporals btw! But he was SO GOOD that you had to be careful in case it WAS the real person, which it sometimes was! The office clubbed together to buy him a little brown spaniel for his 21st as he loved dogs. Mum and he both gone now and the world is a worse place for it!

@kelvinlewis4065

3 жыл бұрын

lovely story

@RSST662

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for typing about my family in a positive way . I appreciate it .

@absoluttchamp

3 жыл бұрын

I think Peter Sellers is your dad...

@butterflymoon6368

3 жыл бұрын

He was a prick. Great that he was funny but let's not pretend he was a good man.

@simonpenum

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome story! Thanks!!

*Peter Sellers one liner - **_Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy._*

@34hedgehog

4 жыл бұрын

No, sorry, that's Spike Milligan.

@mofa9745

4 жыл бұрын

@GrrMeister that's great - I've never heard that before.

@LASTDAYSWATCHMAN777

4 жыл бұрын

@@34hedgehog Definately Milligan.

@pod9538

4 жыл бұрын

@Horatio Moonraker sometimes I wish I was that witty. Well all the time.

@BigMamaDaveX

4 жыл бұрын

@Horatio Moonraker 😎 Mine will say, "A lifetime surrounded by idiots; at long last among colleagues." 😂😹

What a well spoken and eloquent man. Just one of those people you could listen to for hours

@wakeupuk3860

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, we no longer have people like him to talk about films, one: such intellect, film knowledge and eloquence no longer exists in this country and two: all our films are either kiddies comic heroes or just crap.

@johnmc3862

Жыл бұрын

@@wakeupuk3860lol.

Dr. Strangelove never gets old.

@christopherheinig5590

2 жыл бұрын

Great film ! Unfortunately it couldn't be made because it's "politically incorrect" by today's standards making it all the more "relevant".

It's pretty clear that Sellers had all sorts of psychological, emotional, relational, and mental problems. However, like the family who brought their uncle to the doctor complaining that the uncle thought he was a chicken. "You want me to cure him?" "No!" said the family, "We need the eggs!"

@jcee6886

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@robertjsmith

4 жыл бұрын

LMFAO binks

@garyha2650

4 жыл бұрын

When the time comes we will have you know that toxoplasma is not just a protozoa crowd of visitors, not just a team with a goal of munching on your brain matter and looking out at the view from inside your head, we are genius

@marccas10

3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic eggs at that.

@erepsekahs

3 жыл бұрын

So did they all The goon show, which had all of them in it , Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and (the least talented) Michael Bentine ran for years in my, (first), childhood. They wer truly alla bit crazy....funnt but genuinely crazy...it was not an act.

There is a narrow margin where insanity and genius merge. The great man walked that line. In good company !. RIP Peter.

@vantheman12welshman66

4 жыл бұрын

bill beare well said

@margreedholm2580

4 жыл бұрын

bill beare he was NOT nice...and the nasty way he treated his child!!!!

@DeirdreMcNamara

2 жыл бұрын

Naff off with your "narrow margins." We're at least twenty years ahead of the rest that's why no one has a clue whereof we speak. I was a four year old reading at High School, perhaps even college level, so when the teacher left the class she asked me to read a story to the six year olds.. Couldn't discuss Shaw and Wilde and Collodi with them...so no friends.Unpaid remedial teacher age of 12, etc., etc., but no shared interests. So much attention to slower children with special needs, and that IS APPROPRIATE, but the genius child needs special, discrete support, not this "genius is close to madness UTTER B.S." I have the privilege of knowing so many great people, now deceased, who made it on their own merits and they are the sanest, kindest people I know. Peter was exploited - asked to play four characters but paid for one - seriously! Van Gogh exploited! Etc., ad nauseum.

@dixonpinfold2582

9 ай бұрын

​@@DeirdreMcNamara "The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.” - Max Beerbohm I think this is germane to the genius-madness connection imagined by so many. I on the contrary see madness as allied to stupidity, while a strong mind is the best defence against it.

@cactaceous

8 ай бұрын

I agree. Most people that truly change the course of a particular discipline walk the tight rope between genius and madness.

I went to see Spike Milligan’s one man show in London many years ago and Peter Sellers was in the audience. Spike invited Peter up on stage for the second half which was hilarious and completely ad-libbed.

@et4751

4 жыл бұрын

.. "the well known typing error" & inspector cluso (sp?) must have been cathartic for the audience. I imagine not a lot of PC filtering. Lucky you.

@vincentconti3633

4 жыл бұрын

Get out!

Peter Sellers was mad in a a way that made every character he inhabited unforgettable. I can't think of an actor today with the monumental natural talent Seller possessed.

@paulmoriarty7164

5 жыл бұрын

Ruadh MacBradaigh Don’t forget Johnathan Winters

@subdude1234

3 жыл бұрын

Robin Williams.

Slim Pickens in Dr Strangelove turned out to be a great piece of casting. I especially enjoy him reading out the contents of the survival pack. "...chewing gum, one issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings -- shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff...." His dead pan drawl just made it all the more surreal and funny!

@MrDaiseymay

4 жыл бұрын

AGREED, AND HIS PHYSICAL APPEARANCE ADDED TO THE DICHCOTOMY, ---THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGICAL MILITARY PROWESS, AND THE GROSSLY UNFIT MAN AT THE CONTROLS.

@JohnSmith-kz8yo

4 жыл бұрын

@Joseph Lomeo yup..JFK had just been assassinated when the change was made..

@juliane3683

4 жыл бұрын

... ‘ promotions and personal citations fur evra last one of you, regardless of ur race, colour or creed....’

@mikecannady9064

3 жыл бұрын

Sellers was self aware enough to know that character didn’t live inside him. The movie is unimaginable without Pickens in that role.

@davisworth5114

Жыл бұрын

Actually Pickens says "Dallas" and as JFK was killed before the film was released, they overdubbed "Vegas".

The first and second time I saw Dr Strangelove I didn't recognize Sellers as the US president. I have also come to appreciate his performance a Lt Mandrake because it ISN'T played for laughs. It is almost a straight dramatic performance. That is the genius of that film. All of the dramatic moments are true and accurate. The details of the inside of the B-52, the actions of the crew and other military men. All would have worked in a more serious film. The subject and tone of that movie really captures the cold war feeling. It is a great film.

@tomcrosby6332

2 жыл бұрын

I heard the actors in the B-52 were not told it was a comedy. The book wasn't a comedy.

Peter Sellers in the movie "The Party" is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. My father had a story about Peter Sellers. We moved from the USA to London around 1974. My father was not used to driving on the left in a huge city. He almost hit a pedestrian who happened to be Peter Sellers and he gave my father a wry smile and tapped on the front of the car as if to say, we don't kill pedestrians in London.

@sophialewis5474

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant. Oh the hilarity of the party. Birdie num num

@tarakb7606

4 жыл бұрын

The Party was crude, racist crap.

@tarakb7606

4 жыл бұрын

@@sophialewis5474 Nothing hilarious about the Party. Is was offensive, racist crap.

@stevecox7075

4 жыл бұрын

Tarak B : Get off your high horse, Mary.

@larryeisenberg1895

4 жыл бұрын

@@tarakb7606 is this coming from someone who also thinks Don Rickles was racist crap, even though, FOR THE TIMES, it was hilariously funny comedy - before the day when folks could sue because someone "hurt their feelings".....?

Peter Sellers sounds like he could be a nightmare but I think he is the funniest man who ever lived. Absolutely love him

@Peorhum

5 жыл бұрын

Actually as funny as Sellers was, Spike Milligan was funnier.

@fennelleastman8816

4 жыл бұрын

I have to say i didn't like The Goons or for that matter Peter Sellers--their humour hasn't aged well unlike Python or Peter Cook and Dudley Moore whose humour is still hilarious i think.

@MrDaiseymay

4 жыл бұрын

NO IT ISN'T.

@izzycoco3931

4 жыл бұрын

Knew someone who knew him and yes he was crazy .

@izzycoco3931

4 жыл бұрын

Spike was crazy yes but in a nice way.

Peter Sellars was one of a kind. Arguably the best comedian of all times. His roles in Dr. Strangelove is so incredible. I seen him interviewed a couple times, and he could just invent a character instantly. The video mentions that Peter didn’t want to play the role that finally Sims Pinkins did, which I have to think was very smart - which shows that Peter had an intuitive sense of what the character required. And Slim Pinkins, of course was terrific.

It is continually impressed on me that the British and Irish of that generation spoke so much more beautifully.

@moncorp1

5 жыл бұрын

Manners, diction, comportment are disappearing the world over because we're being overrun with human rats.

@peg202xo7

5 жыл бұрын

@@moncorp1 People are getting lazy. The internet is not helping.

@coolmacatrain9434

4 жыл бұрын

British and Irish _intellectuals_ still speak like this. Nothing has changed in that respect; however, the ordinary kid in the street has been sandblasted by Rap, The Kardashians, reality TV, and Americas got talent to the point where they are barely able to enunciate their own name without interjecting a curse word.

@984francis

4 жыл бұрын

@TSD TSD grow up.

@rachelmayes7905

4 жыл бұрын

My father took me for elocution lessons, unfortunately I was bullied at school, and even today people look at me as if I’m something that I’m not. These days I can never understand what they say anymore.

A guy like Peter Sellers only comes along once in a century.

@thehomefront1905

Жыл бұрын

Yes he was a very horrible human being, no one liked him on set, he cheated on his wife's, beat his children and refused to pay for the schooling, a very sexual deviant who would manipulate young woman, a greedy man about money, someone who looked down on others, a guy who often refused to work with actors he didn't like, yes this type of person doesn't come around very often, good riddance

Peter Sellers has been described in a nutshell by Alexander Walker. Mad as a hatter (often in his own world) but a truly gifted film comedian.

Alexander Walker was himself a writer and film critic of immense talent and reputation, he talks informatively about Kubrick because he wrote a book about him , but more importantly Walker was one of the few film critics Kubrick would let near him or talk to, they had a good mutually respectful relationship. I miss Alexander Walker's film reviews, he wrote for The Evening Standard for more than 40 years, he always seemed to hit the nail on the head in his reviews.

@andrewganley9016

5 жыл бұрын

Back in the day when real journalists worked on newspapers

@dalebaker9109

5 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest movie critics ever. Who died far far too young. And Peter sellers, was a genius. No doubt about that. He went too young too.

@PeterSellers22

2 жыл бұрын

He absolutely adored Captain Corelli's Mandolin

@HandleGF

2 жыл бұрын

Walker was from the Orange hole that is Portadown (Michael Collins' description) though you wouldn't guess from that accent.

@StillAliveAndKicking_

Жыл бұрын

@@HandleGFAnd educated in a state school. I struggled to place his aristocratic accent, very public school, with traces of Scots or American. Who would have thought it.

Peter really shone in "Being There" as Chauncey Gardiner

@stevecox7075

4 жыл бұрын

Hugh Bryant-Parsons : He shone, too.

@rickobrien1583

4 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite movies... "That's right Ben" LOL OMG so funny.

@BigMamaDaveX

4 жыл бұрын

@@rickobrien1583👍 His best work. Hands down.

@vincentconti3633

4 жыл бұрын

@@BigMamaDaveX the best!

@vincentconti3633

4 жыл бұрын

@@rickobrien1583 in the spring the trees will bloom

Dr Strangelove - one of the greatest movies ever made.

@hollyhopalong7405

4 жыл бұрын

If I had to pick only one... yup, this is it!

@margaretwiles7590

4 жыл бұрын

Er

You really have no idea how dynamic he was until you hear The Goon Show series.

So sad that Peter Sellers passed away so soon, we miss him.

Peter Sellers kept me in stitches with the Pink Panther series, I even laughed at the Trailers!!!

The fact that Sellers didn't win an Oscar for Dr. Stranglove is a crime...

@vincentconti3633

4 жыл бұрын

Or being there!

@jdm1066

4 жыл бұрын

NO....it's three crimes!

I loved his performance. And I learned from him, in worst time in your life, try not to take it to seriously, so you survive better, and you don’t take any emotional scars or not too deep scars

Slim Pickens was perfect for the part.

@michaeljudge5027

5 жыл бұрын

TheMeWatch Yes indeed. Sellers not doing the part was the best thing that happened to the movie...Pickens is amazing.

@michaeljudge5027

5 жыл бұрын

TheMeWatch PS: Pickens was an amazing guy-rodeo clown, stunt man...and his death scene in “Pat Garret and Billy the Kid” is one for the ages.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

5 жыл бұрын

He wasn’t told it was a comedy.

@cowboybob7093

5 жыл бұрын

@@michaeljudge5027 Finally, someone else who recognizes that scene. When I say "the greatest music video ever" the reaction I usually get is something along the lines of "that's not a music video." Look people, it's not _Panama._ The Sistine Chapel isn't a Campbell's soup can, but they're both paintings.

@bonanzatime

5 жыл бұрын

TheMeWatch Yep. I can't imagine anybody else doing that part.

Wonderful interview ! Mr Walker comes across as extremely intelligent, perceptive & insightful ! Thank you so very much for uploading for us to enjoy !

All geniuses have a dark and sad part of the character, Peter Sellers is no exception, to make people laugh you have to understand sadness and depression. Spike Milligan is the same a manic depressive due to his war experience and the madness of war, that’s why his humour is so surreal and conceptual and funny, the same sadness was in the life of another great comic Tony Hancock, he could make you cry with laughter and in his own room he would cry with despaire. Most comics who are at the top of there game walk that line

@peterturley1331

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, and sadly, very true.

As Peter Sellers said to Kermit the frog when he was a guest on the Muppets. " There is no me in here I had him surgically removed."

But that was a priceless Steinway...."Not any more". The greatest scene when interrogating the staff in Pink Panther( always forget which one !?) Cheers.

@cha5

4 жыл бұрын

Glenn Powell The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

@glennpowell3444

4 жыл бұрын

@@cha5 Thank you. Superb scene.Cheers!

@fubarsnafu4994

4 жыл бұрын

Telephone technician - still classic. But my all time favorite role was Dr.Strangelove. All rolls.

@chrisneedham5803

4 жыл бұрын

"Does your dog bite"? "No" He gets bitten "you said it didn't bite" "it's not my dog"

@glennpowell3444

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisneedham5803 The list of one liners and Pink Panther is endless. So silly yet so clever. Brilliant. I have actually revisited some you tube videos of clips following seeing this video.Timeless and never a swear word used.Cheers!

The part in Dr Strangelove where Sellers was doing his thing in front of all the other actors was hilarious. You can see some of the actors in the background breaking up. Great stuff!

@StillAliveAndKicking_

Жыл бұрын

Yes the Russian chap is struggling to hold it together.

There is no genius without madness.

@BigMamaDaveX

4 жыл бұрын

I think that was a Nietzsche reference, something about "genius and madness lay closr together"...😎

@boink800

4 жыл бұрын

@@BigMamaDaveX It's a quote by Seneca

@boink800

4 жыл бұрын

@Helmholtz And yet, many claim Sellers was a genius. You try doing three roles in a Kuberick film.

@onepalproductions

4 жыл бұрын

@Helmholtz Confetti is illegal in most places "these days", you're going to need a new simile.

@Ryan599187

4 жыл бұрын

Helmholtz no he was definitely a genius. Do you think every other world famous comic who revered him or Stanley Kubrick and other great directors were wrong about him?

If only all actors were as mad as Peter Sellers!

@harveywallbanger2899

5 жыл бұрын

Demonic for sure

@millardwashington6216

4 жыл бұрын

Frowning Angel they, are they are just not as talented .

The Party. The Mouse that Roared. Dr. Strangelove. A Shot in the Dark. The Prisoner of Zenda and oh my oh my....those amazing Pink Panthers. Thank you Peter Sellers

@ArsPraestigium

4 жыл бұрын

Sophia Lewis Sellers’ favorite personal film was _Being There._ It’s my favorite Sellers role, too.

@vincentconti3633

4 жыл бұрын

Being There?

@vincentconti3633

4 жыл бұрын

@@ArsPraestigium oh yes.

@ArsPraestigium

4 жыл бұрын

Vincent Conti It was his last film.

Peter was a genius , and so was Stanley:Both of them were geniuses , Peter had genius in acting and Stan's genius was in Directing (and if I may) in Poetry and philosophy... Maybe they couldn't understand each other...Peter was in love with acting...and what a brilliant actor he was...Stan wanted him more?! that was a mistake,because that "Mad Man" was a brilliant actor and no more....God Bless Both of Them.

Interesting. Shame you didn't turn the music off while he was speaking.

Some very astute observations by Alexander Walker, about one of the most talented actors that this country has ever had. The word “celebrity” meant something in those days. Today... every foul mouthed, thick as two short planks, “Reality TV Star” (😂) gets given that label for the mercifully brief period that the gormless public soak up their every banal, attention seeking utterance. But the standout performances of truly gifted screen actors stand the test of time, and Peter Sellers is undoubtedly one whose talent will continue to be celebrated for many years to come.

@christopherheinig5590

2 жыл бұрын

So true

Peter Sellers was a genius

@MiguelBaptista1981

8 жыл бұрын

all Virgos are..... how old are you, 5 ? Even so, please, educate yourself.

@MiguelBaptista1981

8 жыл бұрын

l o l .

@MiguelBaptista1981

8 жыл бұрын

TIMOTHY FLOYD WOW what a GENIUS reply. You are clearly a Virgo. We are all left dumb in the intellectual debris.

@beetleything1864

6 жыл бұрын

A mad genuis 😀

@clairebuchanan2796

5 жыл бұрын

Sellers was an absolute genius - sadly there is no one else like him today

I heard a funny story. They went to pick up Slim Pickens at the airport, and when he spoke, they reacted with, "That's PERFECT! That's just the accent we want." And he said, "WHAT accent?" They didn't realize that was just how he talked. I also loved Picken in "1941", when he's confronted by Toshiro Mifune & Christopher Lee, both of whose performances were accompanied with English subtitles.

@stanleyandus

Жыл бұрын

😄

The twisted reality created by Peter Sellers was so much more inviting and comfortable than our mundane world that when the Pink Panther theme rolled I was transported. His self assured moronity was the god dammed funniest thing I've ever seen. He was capable of saying simple things and transforming life itself. Do you have a room? When he tried to cross the moat and scale the draw bridge I nearly passed out or died laughing, no one could have ever achieved that level of overall laughing madness.

@DeirdreMcNamara

2 жыл бұрын

"...a rheum...?"

@dixonpinfold2582

9 ай бұрын

To me his asking Chief Insp. Dreyfus for a loan of money moments after the latter angrily suspended him without pay was unbeatably funny.

@dungteller367

9 ай бұрын

@@dixonpinfold2582 Every incident was an opportunity for humor!

I don't doubt at all that PS was somewhat .... 'on the edge' but nothing should detract from the fact that few comedians from any era have provided the public with such laughter.

Peter Sellers was totally unique, a one off

i couldn't imagine anyone other than Slim playing that role!

@feraudyh

8 жыл бұрын

+1954telecaster Agree 100%

@russg1801

7 жыл бұрын

No, now that it's been done no one could dare imitate it.

A true acting genius!

The great Alexander Walker. Brilliant and sadly missed.

@alanoneill3065

7 жыл бұрын

such pomposity... waiting to be ridiculed...if only there was someone able to do that...hmm

@JudgeJulieLit

5 жыл бұрын

@@alanoneill3065 Yes ... your comment's. Able or willing.

@thomasdonau8

4 жыл бұрын

Alexander Walker was kind enough to type and hand sign a letter in response to one I had sent him about the film Barry Lyndon. So I think him a kind man, and a thoughtful one. Not pompous at all.

@7554EdwardG

4 жыл бұрын

@@alanoneill3065 How is he pompous?

@HandleGF

2 жыл бұрын

@@alanoneill3065 You can take a critic from Portadown but never Portydaun from the critic. :-)

Alexander Walker was a great film journalist. Could summate, inform and entertain. Lesson to all would-be's....

I remember in "Lolita" one of the scenes in which Sellers, as Quilty, meets James Mason playing Humbert and you could see Mason trying not to crack up although he was supposed to play Quilty's nemesis. I wondered how many times they had to shoot that scene to the point that Mason could even control his laughter to that point.

I loved the Pink Panther movies! But Peter Sellers in Being There... is my ultimate favorite! Chauncey Gardener! Shirley MacLaine was amazing in that movie too!

Robin Williams said in an interview that he admired Peter and thought he was a comedic genius, he was right.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

5 жыл бұрын

RIP yet another late comedic genius ...

So very revealing an interview. Mr. Walker's insightful comments make this invaluable and, to be fair, should be addressed preferably to casting aspersion Mr. Sellers' personal issues. Thank you stanley+us!

Hi all, I am aware of the sound issues on this video, but this is a home-made, quick mix. We are working on the new release of the series and we will definitely focus on the sound quality - by hiring a professional sound editor, dont' worry ;). Follow us on FB, Twitter or Instagram for more info.

@Chief2Moon

4 жыл бұрын

stanleyandus Don't worry, we're lucky to see it as it is.

I think mad is the wrong word for Mr Sellers. Sensitive, vulnerable, quirky but not mad.

Of The Goons. Sellers was indeed mad; so was Milligan. But then there was Harry Secombe, an equal wit to the two, but I thought was quite normal after working (filming) hours. who else feels the same?

@gamos6698

4 жыл бұрын

Ever watched Highway?

@MrDaiseymay

4 жыл бұрын

HARRY WAS THE NORMAL ONE. HE READ OUT SPIKES SCRIPTS, AND WAS SWEPT ALONG WITH THE OTHER TWOS INTERPRETATION OF THEIR NUTTY CHARACTERS. HARRY WAS THE 'HEROIC' NEDDY SEAGOON, OF WHICH, THE ''STORYLINE'' ? WAS WRITTEN.

its a fine line between genius and madness

Peter Sellers, wish I would of known him, so hilarious, troubled, but what a gift to an audience.

This guy’s diction is to die for.

@itabrennan7420

Жыл бұрын

It sounds Anglo-Irish to me.

How good was Slim Pickens !!! Superb. His voice had a characteristic twang....great cast. great director and one of the greatest films ever made...an Anglo-American epic if ever there was one. Les Griffiths

Peter Sellers was hilarious in the Pink Panther movies. No one can take his place in those movies. Not Steve Martin or that French actor. They were just not funny.

@suzukispider

4 жыл бұрын

steve martin was TRYING to be funny. peter sellers IS funny.

@josephwood499

4 жыл бұрын

My mom told me that she went to the movies with my dad and watched Pink Panther and laughed so hard and for so long that she couldn't stop and because of that she started feeling bad and eventually entered the hospital as she had contractions that ended up with me coming to this world a few weeks before time.

@suzukispider

4 жыл бұрын

@@josephwood499 so inspector clouseau almost killed you, then.

@josephwood499

4 жыл бұрын

@@suzukispider You are so right!😂

@charbax

3 жыл бұрын

I am so happy Steve Martin continues the Peter Sellers style, and even obviously he does his own, and their writers, etc, it's just great they're making modern versions of the Pink Panther, with the Smart Car and all, and it's a huge success in India. Suggesting that new people must not give hommage to genius like Peter Sellers is just plain dumb. The more homage they make for him the better.

Mr Walker grew up in Portadown, Northern Ireland - a mere eight miles from my own hometown.

Peter Sellers had a lot in common with Robin Williams in this regard as described in this interview.

most brilliant people are mad.

@sclogse1

8 жыл бұрын

I've got one of them coming over tomorrow. For a favor from me. I guarantee, afterwards...he'll make me feel like he did me a favor.

@degsbabe

8 жыл бұрын

Or at the very least ' at a slight angle to the universe '.

@ruhminahakhtaran5661

7 жыл бұрын

That's so True!

@sclogse1

7 жыл бұрын

The big fat bio on Peter is an incredible read. Forget the skinny ones...

@starquant

7 жыл бұрын

Bullshit.. people who are without boundaries and are self absorbed use that old chestnut as a convenient excuse for their deplorable behaviour and hope to fuck that half-witted people believe it.

The whole commentary was full of praise for Peter Sellers. So the initial phrase "Peter Sellers was mad" was meant to imply that Peter was a genius.

Favorite Sellars scene. Does your dog bite. I thought you said your dog does not bite. Zat is not my dog!

Sellers roles in Lolita are landmarks in comedic acting and truly 'make' that film

His best film, by far, is "The Party"

@lauradavidson6818

4 жыл бұрын

Birdy num-nums. Classic 😃

@NoosaHeads

3 жыл бұрын

I loved that film too. Especially how it started off so slowly, then built up to utter hilarious, madcap chaos.

Pity Stanley Kubrick wasn't filming this interview..he might of got the bloody focus on Alexander Walker sharp!

“Peter Sellers was not a genius.......he was a freak.” Spike Milligan.

I miss Alexander. He was great

It's a low down dirty shame that Inspector Clouseau and Deputy Barney Fife never appeared in a film or at least a tv sketch.

They also say Bing Crosby was a monster to his family. And, if that is true, what a coincidence that his Christmas song " White Christmas" is the best selling Christmas song of all time....well, anyhow. RIP both Peter AND Bing!!

Watch the parkinson interview(s) with Peter Sellers. He's a brilliant story teller. I'd listen to him reminisce all day long

Don’t forget Blake Edwards. He and Peter worked wonderfully together as well: the _Pink Panther_ series, obviously (at least the first two), but also _The Party_ is a classic, much of which was improvised.

thanks for uploading this

Safe travels Peter. Thanks for many hours of laughter. Whatever pain it was that drove you I hope is now long gone.

He should’ve played it.its would’ve been the best movie role ever. He’d probably been nominated for an award.

I’ve noticed whenever Sellers was interviewed and was asked a question that called for a straight answer, to say something matter of fact about himself, he was almost mute - to the point where it was uncomfortable. And when he did give an answer, he was completely colorless, drained of all personality. I don’t know what was wrong, but I truly felt bad for the guy. The world’s acclaim means little when you have to go home and live with yourself, and you find that unbearable. Just ask Marilyn Monroe.

@ingvarhallstrom2306

Жыл бұрын

He said so about himself, that he was empty as a human being. There simply wasn't anything "there" , that's why he could engulf himself completely in those roles. There are other actors talking about their personal emptiness, their lack of private character. People like Alec Guinness and Jim Carrey.

Kubrick found his muse in sellers they both shared a brilliance in there fields and generally misunderstood by the public as misfits

Someone mentioned Sellers had a dark side. According to his children he was a sadistic monster. I think that goes a bit beyond "dark".

@MrDaiseymay

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I read his sons book, which was serialised in a National newspaper. Having been a great admirer of Seller's, even before the Goons radio series. I was deeply disappointed in his MANY serious character flaws. Among which where his terrible selfish mistreatment of his family, and many wives. Unforgiveable.

@TomUlcak

4 жыл бұрын

proof? link?

@TomUlcak

4 жыл бұрын

proof? link?

@waterhead1029

4 жыл бұрын

Inge Fossen Good point. He never pretended to be a choir boy. Plus, those tell all books have to be spicy or they won’t sell, and are generally filled with horseshit. Anyone that would air their dirty family laundry in public has no credibility to begin with.

@mightymartianca

4 жыл бұрын

@@waterhead1029 There are no lack of accounts of his bizarre, selfish and outright hostile behavior. Blake Edwards, who worked with him more than any other director, thought him crazy bastard, but in exchange for Sellers loonie behavior he got some amazing comedic performances.

Peter Sellers was simply the best there was...he remains my most loved comedian. RIP Peter, oh how hilarious Heaven must now be.

respect for upload!

I remember Spike Milligan saying of Peter that he was not a genius, he was a freak. I've never known _exactly_ what Spike meant in saying that, but I get the feeling that Spike meant it as an endearment.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

5 жыл бұрын

One time on _The Goon Show_ , Sellers was sick. They had to bring in *two* other people to do the voices for all his parts. One other time, Milligan was sick. So Sellers did all his voices as well as his own regular ones ... and nobody noticed.

My Dad worked on Dr Strangelove, and has often mentioned the fact the Peter Sellers faked his broken ankle, but this is the first time I've heard it confirmed independently.

@stanleyandus

5 жыл бұрын

Hi David, what did your father do on Dr Strangelove?

@DavidBeaumont

5 жыл бұрын

Assistant camera operator I think at the time. I have some great black & white photos of him on set in the war-room scenes (with Stanley & George C. Scott with his face covered in "custard pie"). Of course the whole "food fight" sequence never really made it into the final cut (apparently test audiences didn't go for it).

@stanleyandus

5 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBeaumont The story I know is that Kubrick decided to cut that part because of Kennedy's assassination.

@stanleyandus

5 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBeaumont I can't find Beaumont anywhere, maybe he's uncredited?

@johnnhoj6749

4 жыл бұрын

@@stanleyandus Credits were far shorter in those days, often little more than the head of each department. Usually in the camera department it would just be the Director of Photography and the Camera Operator who were credited. That only changed in the mid-1970s around the time of the first Star Wars.

Great Project! Continue like that. All this testimony are precious.

"All those cornfields and ballet in the evening..."

Just got here ! You have a new sub from Quebec ! Thank you !

Thanks for this. Great insight on the Sellers/Kubrick relationship.

i look forward to every video, keep more coming!

I remember hearing a commentary about Peter Sellers on a Muppet Show DVD regarding the episode he stared in. There was a part of the show where the actors are allowed to be more like themselves, usually when they're talking with Kermit the Frog. Sellers asked Jim Henson that he couldn't just be "himself" in a sketch and so he asked to play Queen Victoria instead in the scene, which was hilarious because they had him wearing a huge shirt, beard, and Viking helmet doing Queen Victoria but he forgot what she looked like.

It's interesting to consider Sellers staring in Eyes Wide Shut in light of film analyst Rob Ager's convincing argument that, at least sometime during the films development, Kubrick contemplated making it a comedy.

George C Scott was also great and immortal in Dr. Strangelove.

"I am professor Gigadois, Mediaval Castle Authority, Marseille" About to be savaged by that shaggy terrier dog. Brings a smile to my face, every time.

spike milligan was also mad and suffered from depression. the price of genius.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

5 жыл бұрын

Spike was bipolar, Peter was insecure. Spike also had a bomb go off a little too close to him during the war. Harry Secombe was the only “normal” one of the three Goons. Spike told the story of how he met Harry during the war: Harry’s group were firing a Howitzer a little too close to the edge of a cliff, and the recoil pushed it over, crashing down to where Spike’s group were bivouacked, missing his tent by (metaphorical) inches. Cue the rotund private being sent down to retrieve said weapon. “Anybody seen a gun?” “What colour was it?”

@edwardmather4422

5 жыл бұрын

Lawrence D’Oliveiro read that in spike Milligan’s memoirs, what it doesn’t mention in any of them is spike had a mental break and went to kill sellers with a kitchen knife at one point

@Peorhum

5 жыл бұрын

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Suffering from depression and being insecure is what makes a comedian, a comedian. The need to feel good by making others happy. Nothing sadder then the tears of a clown, when no one is around.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

5 жыл бұрын

@@Peorhum That’s a generalization. Comedians (and other artistic types) come in many different varieties of personality. Yes, there is a higher-than-average incidence of what we might call “mental illness” among creatives. But they’re not all the same.

@Peorhum

5 жыл бұрын

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 But it is a generalization, that is generally true.

And now I am imagining Eyes Wide Shut with Peter Sellers instead of Tiny Tom Cruise and it is hilarious!

i love this guy talks...

Sellers was a genius but the divide between that and madness is thin. His private life showed the dark side. He was cruel in the truest sense of the word. His son has disassociated himself completely.

@cybernautadventurer

7 жыл бұрын

genius and madness are 2 completely independent attributes. A person may have one or the other, both or neither.

@nelson2F

6 жыл бұрын

yup.

This would have been fine without the background music.

Peter Sellers is the best ever.

George Harrison said that right at the end after or during 'Being There' , Sellers was starting to recognise his 'self' through the foggy delusion of his Chameleon persona.RIP Peter, whoever you were.

@kleepklopp5084

5 жыл бұрын

"Spent so much tiime being others, that he never knew how to be Peter Sellers"

They say a genius has a method to their madness. Peter had this all right.

I'm still upset about Peter Seller's dying such an untimely death. My friends and I were always excited about the arrival of a new panther movie. Being There was a surprise but it was still classic Seller's.

@kleepklopp5084

5 жыл бұрын

Yes the script had Inspector Closeau stealing the pink panther for himself with a female accomplice from memory. Unfortunately Blake Edwards decided to make those two posthumous panther films using out takes of Peter

Kubrick got the best out of George C Scott, brilliant performance

@dalebaker9109

5 жыл бұрын

He most certainly did.

@emansnas

4 жыл бұрын

Scott accepted a risk... just let it all out and went with it. Additional brilliance for that.

@jamesalexander5623

4 жыл бұрын

@@emansnas Actually I've read that Scott wanted to have the General be more conventional, straight laced, So Kubrick would do a few takes and then ask Scott to do one really over the top take for all his scenes ..... And those are the ones he used in the Film! .... Scott later admitted Kubrick was right!

@emansnas

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesalexander5623 Yes, seems I remember reading something to that effect also. Hard to know with certainty in an industry rampant with rumor/innuendo. Frankly, given Scott's rather high intellect it's a bit hard to believe he wouldn't understand the nature of the film. But even if true, and Kubrick was certainly not above deception, it would not appear to invalidate my statement. It did seem that in every scene Scott was in he appeared to be enjoying himself immensely. Still have a visual from one of the 'War Room' scene re that 'I've been a bad school boy' look on Scott's face after taking that call from his squeeze (Tracy Reed I believe). Priceless. Well, too many priceless scenes to list. If one reads about Scott's life it's clear where the depth of character comes from. He had the chops to play about anything... well, anything he believed in and wanted to do. One of my favorite films of his, for particular reasons, is 'The Last Run', not well known and generally panned by critics. Scott does an exemplary job with the mindset of his character. He also demonstrates impeccable realism credibility (shall we say unusual for Hollywood) in some of the action scenes (specifically a gun fight following a road crash. Man knew how to think about things). But to the general point, Kubrick was ever so good at getting the best out of things, actors included.