Peter Seller's earliest roles
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 2:33 pm
Peter Sellers first became a star in the UK with the hugely popular radio show The Goons with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and it the early yrs Michael Bentine. it was mostly written by Spike, who was clearly influenced by The Marx Brothers, but he in turn was with the show a big influence on Monty Python. most of the shows had Harry as the idiot hero with Peter and Spike playing an assortment of different characters with Sellers in particulary showing his great talent as a mimic and Impressionist.
The four Goons did a movie Down Among The Z Men. it wasn't very good and its sad that a decent movie of them working together was never made. they were so popular that in the 70s after Sellers became a major movie star they reunited for a one off show. in the 70s to one of their songs Ying Tong Ying Tong was reissued and became a big hit record in the UK. Peter as we all know became a major film star. Spike went onto be described as the biggest influence on British post war comedy and Harry learned to sing and became a great all round entertainer, playing Mr. Bumble in the film Oliver.
Peters earliest films include The Lady Killers with Alec Guiness, The
Miiloniaress with Sophia Loren, The Smallest Show On Earth where he plays an elderly projectionist working in a broken down cinema and The Battle Of The Sexes where he trys comically to murder his lady boss.
The film however, that made Sellers a major British star was I'm All Right Jack as union shop steward Fred Kite
he then did two splendid comedies with Bernard Cribbons and Lionel Jeffries. they were Two Way Stretch, a film about 3 prisoners who escape, do a robbery and break back into jail again and The Wrong Arm Of The Law. my own favourite Sellers film is Only Two can Play where he plays an ambitious married Welsh librarian with itchie feet as regards a rich powerful woman he comes into contact with
The four Goons did a movie Down Among The Z Men. it wasn't very good and its sad that a decent movie of them working together was never made. they were so popular that in the 70s after Sellers became a major movie star they reunited for a one off show. in the 70s to one of their songs Ying Tong Ying Tong was reissued and became a big hit record in the UK. Peter as we all know became a major film star. Spike went onto be described as the biggest influence on British post war comedy and Harry learned to sing and became a great all round entertainer, playing Mr. Bumble in the film Oliver.
Peters earliest films include The Lady Killers with Alec Guiness, The
Miiloniaress with Sophia Loren, The Smallest Show On Earth where he plays an elderly projectionist working in a broken down cinema and The Battle Of The Sexes where he trys comically to murder his lady boss.
The film however, that made Sellers a major British star was I'm All Right Jack as union shop steward Fred Kite
he then did two splendid comedies with Bernard Cribbons and Lionel Jeffries. they were Two Way Stretch, a film about 3 prisoners who escape, do a robbery and break back into jail again and The Wrong Arm Of The Law. my own favourite Sellers film is Only Two can Play where he plays an ambitious married Welsh librarian with itchie feet as regards a rich powerful woman he comes into contact with