Oliver Reed

His death came while he was in the middle of filming Gladiator, and his remaining scenes were produced using electronically-simulated images. Many of Sellers' comedy records were produced by George Martin. Julian's, Malta reportedly after drinking three bottles of rum and after beating five sailors at arm wrestling. In some of above titles, Sellers appears only by his voice. He died suddenly of a heart attack in St. Lewis' biography was adapted for the HBO movie, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), with Geoffrey Rush in the title role. Reed was often irritated that his appearances on TV chat shows concentrated on his drinking feats, rather than his latest film. Roger Lewis wrote about the "madness" and bizarre behavior of Sellers in his biography, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Applause Books, 1997).

He claimed of the story that he drank 106 pints of beer on a 2-day binge before marrying Josephine; "The event that was reported actually took place during an arm-wrestling competition in Guernsey about 15 years ago, it was highly exaggerated." Despite occassional reports in publications such as the Sydney Morning Herald, Reed never played for the Sunday rugby team the Entertainers. In his will he had explicitly requested that Glenn Miller's song "In The Mood" be played for his funeral; it is considered his last touch of humour, since he deeply hated that tune. Reed's drinking bouts fitted in with the "social" attitude of many rugby teams in the sixties and seventies, and there are numerous anecdotes such as Reed and 36 friends drinking, in an evening, 60 gallons of beer, 32 bottles of Scotch, 17 bottles of gin, four crates of wine and one bottle of Babycham. His premature death was perhaps hastened by his belief in so called "quack medicine", including psychic surgery. He was famous for his heavy drinking, and was once forced to leave the set of a television discussion programme after arriving drunk and attempting to kiss feminist writer Kate Millett. Sellers died of a heart attack on July 24, 1980, in London, England and was cremated. He began his career playing romantic leads, but gradually acquired a tougher image. Another interesting trait of his character was his love for cars; he was believed to have owned and sold a few tens of different cars by the late sixties.

His last wife was Josephine Burge, whom he married in 1985. His wife at the time of his death was Lynne Frederick, who later married Sir David Frost. He then married Jackie Daryl in 1969, but they divorced in 1970, after having a daughter, Sarah. Sellers was married four times, his second marriage was to the Swedish actress Britt Ekland. In 1959 he wed Kate Burn, they had one son, Mark, before their divorce in 1969. He was nominated twice for an Academy Award, but was unsuccessful on both occasions although he won a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for I'm Alright Jack. Reed married three times. He appeared with many stars, among them Shirley MacLaine, Sophia Loren, Maggie Smith, Goldie Hawn, Shelley Winters, Elke Sommer, Claudine Longet, and even Ringo Starr (The Beatles' drummer).

A major international star in the late 1960s and 1970s, Reed's career declined in the 1980s. Other directors Sellers worked under include Roman Polanski, Paul Mazursky, and Billy Wilder. His films include Women In Love, The Assassination Bureau, The Devils, I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname, Oliver!, Tommy, The Three Musketeers, Zero Population Growth, Castaway, and Gladiator. Commonly considered a master actor, sometimes described as an "obsessive perfectionist", Sellers found in Blake Edwards a devoted director who could delicately underline and follow his comic rhythms; Edwards defined Sellers as a "mercurial clown" who could turn comedy into drama, and vice-versa, in an instant. He was born in Wimbledon, England. A late masterpiece for Sellers was the film Being There. Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938-May 2, 1999) was a British actor known for his macho image on and off screen. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, easily varying from brilliant themes as in The Party, to more intense performances as in Lolita (from Vladimir Nabokov's notorious masterpiece).

Strangelove, and an officer of the RAF (the first two appearing in the same room throughout the film) in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. He played many other more challenging parts, notably the triple role consisting of the president of the United States, Dr. The movie The Trail of the Pink Panther was released posthumously in 1982, containing previously unused footage of Sellers. Sellers' first film successes were in 1959 in the British Ealing comedies, such as The Ladykillers, I'm All Right Jack and The Mouse That Roared; however, he is most famous for his role as the bungling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies, which gave him a worldwide audience.

Success came as one of the goons on the radio programme The Goon Show with fellow comedians Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine and was followed by early television work. He phoned up a television producer pretending to be Kenneth Horne, who was currently in the show Much Binding in the Marsh, in order to get them on the phone. His success was quite slow in coming. Strangelove.

This helped Sellers in his later film Dr. During his leisure periods, he did impersonations of his superior officers, which could have gotten him a court-martial. During World War II, Sellers was an officer in the Royal Air Force. He is known to have performed at the Windmill Theatre.

Trail of the Pink Panther - posthumously (1982). The Great Pram Race (1980). Fu Manchu (1980). The Fiendish Plot of Dr.

Hoffman (1970). The Magic Christian (1970). Toklas (1968). I Love You, Alice B.

Carol For Another Christmas (1964). A Shot in the Dark (1964, sequel to The Pink Panther). The World of Henry Orient (1964). Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964 - first Oscar nomination).

Dr. The Pink Panther (1964). Light of Day (1963). Heavens Above! (1963).

The Road to Hong Kong (1962). Only Two Can Play (1962). Topaze aka I Like Money (1961). Mr.