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The life and death of Peter Sellers / by Roger Lewis.

By: Publication details: London : Century, 1994.Description: xxx, 817 pp., [24]pp. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780712638012 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 920 20
Contents:
The man who never was -- Radio days -- Hope and glory -- His marvellous years -- The afterlife of Peter Sellers -- Epilogue: Who's the man? -- Appendix: A day at the beach.
Summary: This is the fully candid and definitive book about the extraordinarily talented, but volatile, Peter Sellers. Sellers has long been acknowledged as one of the screen's greatest comic actors and one of the world's best publicised stars. Roger Lewis shows how Sellers succeeded, and why it was at such terrible cost to himself and to those whom he professed to love. [...] Peter Sellers was an enigma - especially to himself. He repeatedly redesigned his voice and appearance to fit the characters he portrayed with an exactitude that was definitely eerie. This fluidity made for madness. Roger Lewis looks for the truth about the man and the performer, see what secrets emerge from his films, and examines the extent of Sellers's insanity and its effect on his work.
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Includes bibliographic notes and index.

The man who never was -- Radio days -- Hope and glory -- His marvellous years -- The afterlife of Peter Sellers -- Epilogue: Who's the man? -- Appendix: A day at the beach.

This is the fully candid and definitive book about the extraordinarily talented, but volatile, Peter Sellers. Sellers has long been acknowledged as one of the screen's greatest comic actors and one of the world's best publicised stars. Roger Lewis shows how Sellers succeeded, and why it was at such terrible cost to himself and to those whom he professed to love.
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Peter Sellers was an enigma - especially to himself. He repeatedly redesigned his voice and appearance to fit the characters he portrayed with an exactitude that was definitely eerie. This fluidity made for madness. Roger Lewis looks for the truth about the man and the performer, see what secrets emerge from his films, and examines the extent of Sellers's insanity and its effect on his work.

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