Robert Reed

Like many gay actors of his generation, Reed never publicly revealed his homosexuality during his lifetime and was reportedly very conflicted about being gay. Many of Sellers' comedy records were produced by George Martin. However, he was also HIV-positive which, according to his death certificate, was a contributing factor to Reed's death. In some of above titles, Sellers appears only by his voice. Reed died from cancer in Pasadena, California at the age of only 59. Lewis' biography was adapted for the HBO movie, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), with Geoffrey Rush in the title role. He was happy when the show ended, but he did return for the Brady Bunch Variety Hour and the two made-for-TV movies that reunited the Brady cast. 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 wanted out of the show but was under contract. 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. After winning the role of Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch, he became unhappy with his part. His premature death was perhaps hastened by his belief in so called "quack medicine", including psychic surgery. Born in Highland Park, Illinois, Reed studied Shakespeare and was not a comic actor. Sellers died of a heart attack on July 24, 1980, in London, England and was cremated. Robert Reed (October 19, 1932 - May 12, 1992) was an American actor. 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 wife at the time of his death was Lynne Frederick, who later married Sir David Frost. Sellers was married four times, his second marriage was to the Swedish actress Britt Ekland. 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. 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).

Other directors Sellers worked under include Roman Polanski, Paul Mazursky, and Billy Wilder. 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. A late masterpiece for Sellers was the film Being There. 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.