Steve Reeves

The last two decades of his life were spent in Valley Center (Escondido), California. Many of Sellers' comedy records were produced by George Martin. Later in his life, Reeves promoted drug-free bodybuilding and bred horses. In some of above titles, Sellers appears only by his voice. In that year he appeared as himself in the made-for-television A&E Biography: Arnold Schwarzenegger - Flex Appeal. Lewis' biography was adapted for the HBO movie, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), with Geoffrey Rush in the title role. His last on-screen appearance was in 2000. 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 went on to appear, starting in the 1950s, in a string of Samson and Hercules-type (also known as sword and sandal) movies. 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. Reeves first film was the 1949 Kimbar of the Jungle, made for television. His premature death was perhaps hastened by his belief in so called "quack medicine", including psychic surgery. De Mille, who considered him for the part of Samson. Sellers died of a heart attack on July 24, 1980, in London, England and was cremated. After WWII military service, Reeves came to the attention film director Cecil B. 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.

Survivors from the Muscle Beach era recall how crowds used to follow Reeves when he walked along the beach, and how people who knew nothing about him would simply stop and stare, awestruck.. His wife at the time of his death was Lynne Frederick, who later married Sir David Frost. He was handsome, personable, and had a magnificent physique. Sellers was married four times, his second marriage was to the Swedish actress Britt Ekland. Reeves was the right man in the right place at the right time. 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. No champion was known to the general public--that is, until Steve Reeves came along. 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).

However, bodybuilding still remained an obscure sport. 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. By [the 1940s] the distinction between lifting weights purely for strength and training with weights to shape and proportion the body had been clearly made. A late masterpiece for Sellers was the film Being There. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Encylopedia of Modern Bodybuilding states:. 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).

By his own account, his best cold (unpumped) measurements at the peak of his bodybuilding activity were:. Strangelove, and an officer of the RAF (the first two appearing in the same room throughout the film) in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. His competitive bodybuilding period was brief, but he won the following events:. He played many other more challenging parts, notably the triple role consisting of the president of the United States, Dr. Born in Glasgow, Montana, Reeves became interested in bodybuilding as a teenager, long before the rise in general interest in the activity. The movie The Trail of the Pink Panther was released posthumously in 1982, containing previously unused footage of Sellers. Reeves) (January 21, 1926 - May 5, 2000), was a bodybuilder, actor, and author. 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.

Steve Reeves (Stephen L. 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. Calves: 18 1/4". 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. Thighs: 26". His success was quite slow in coming. Biceps: 18 1/4". Strangelove.

Waist: 29". This helped Sellers in his later film Dr. Chest: 52". During his leisure periods, he did impersonations of his superior officers, which could have gotten him a court-martial. Neck: 18 1/2". During World War II, Sellers was an officer in the Royal Air Force. Weight: 216. He is known to have performed at the Windmill Theatre.

1947 - Mr. Trail of the Pink Panther - posthumously (1982). Pacific Coast. The Great Pram Race (1980). 1946 - Mr. 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.