While talking to Yahoo Movies while promoting his Oscar-touted drama Foxcatcher, there was one actor in particular that Steve Carell named as an inspiration: Peter Sellers. “His influence rubbed off ...
The new documentary “The Ghost of Peter Sellers,” now available on demand, is about a troubled comedian and how one film never saw the light of day. It’s also director Peter Medak’s exploration of a ...
Peter Sellers would have turned 100 this year, and for many, he remains one of the most unforgettable comic actors of the 20th century. Born Richard Henry Sellers on September 8, 1925, he first won ...
This week, Steve Coogan will emulate his hero Peter Sellers in the new West End adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s celebrated Cold War farce Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ...
In the early 1970s, George became good friends with the guys in Monty Python. Years later, Eric Idle told George that EMI had dropped out of producing Monty Python’s film, Life of Brian, because they ...
'The Ghost of Peter Sellers,' a documentary directed by Peter Medak, focuses on his unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun,' starring Peter Sellers and filmed in 1973. By Todd McCarthy The ...
It's close but no cigar for "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers," an adventurously conceived biopic of the late comic actor that, in the end, just doesn't convince. Geoffrey Rush gives it the old ...
Comic chameleon Peter Sellers was the biggest movie star of his time. To the world, he was the bumbling Inspector Clouseau of the “Pink Panther” films and such offshoots as the Woody Allen-scripted ...
A hot new director. One of the most successful movie stars in film history. A comic re-teaming for the ages. They all came together in 1973 for the film, Ghost in The Noonday Sun. What could possibly ...
Director Peter Medak's wistful recollection of the ill-fated "Ghost of the Noonday Sun" production allows him to finish the story on his own terms. Most stories of tortured film productions turn on ...
George Harrison was close with comedian Peter Sellers. The Pink Panther actor convinced the former Beatle to enter the film business. Sellers even received the honor of appearing on the inside sleeve ...
The French term “poète maudit” means “cursed poet.” There’s a movie equivalent, “film maudit.” It includes movies like Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind,” which didn’t get finished (the list ...