Peter Sellers Net Worth

Peter Sellers's Quotes

• If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
• There used to be a me behind the mask, but I had it surgically removed.
• To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.
• I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
• Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.

Interesting Facts about Peter Sellers

1. Father, with actress Britt Ekland, of actress Victoria Sellers.
2. Ranked #84 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
3. Born at 6:00am-BST
4. Interred at Golders Green Crematorium, London, England, UK.
5. Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Michael Bentine and Harry Secombe performed on BBC Radio as "The Goon Show" from 1951 to 1960 (and a last reunion special in 1972). This show was enormously influential on much subsequent British comedy, from Monty Python's Flying Circus to Mr Bean.
6. Claimed to have had a near-death experience during a heart attack in 1964, in which he saw Heaven and he met an angel who told him that it was not his time to die yet.
7. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1966 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama.
8. First actor to be nominated for a single Academy award (best actor) for a film in which he potrayed three different characters in the same film: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
9. Sellers was the first male to appear on the cover of Playboy Magazine, in April 1964.
10. Father, with Anne Howe, of Michael Sellers and Sarah Sellers.
11. His third wife, Miranda Quarry, is now "The Countess of Stockton."
12. Turned down the role of George Webber in Blake Edwards' 10 (1979) (George Segal was cast instead but eventually replaced by Dudley Moore). Sellers made a cameo appearance but it wound up being cut out.
13. His "Goon Show" records, and other comedy recordings from the 1950s and early 1960s, were produced by George Martin, before he worked with The Beatles.
14. He was voted the 41st Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine.
15. Died at 12:26am - BST after being in a coma for more than 30 hours after suffering a massive heart attack.
16. Mel Brooks considered him for - and he expressed interest in - the role of "Leo Bloom" in The Producers (1967), but nothing ever came of it, and the role eventually went to Gene Wilder. However, Sellers was instrumental in the success of the film. After its release, he happened, almost by accident, to see a private screening of it and was so impressed that the next day he took out two full-page newspaper ads at his own expense proclaiming that it was one of the greatest comedies he had ever seen. This exposure helped promote the film at a critical time when it appeared that it was destined to sink without a trace.
17. Is portrayed by Geoffrey Rush in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004).
18. At the time of his death, he was due to undergo an angiography in preparation for potential heart surgery in Los Angeles on July 30.
19. One afternoon the doorbell rang in Sellers' London flat. As he was busy in his study, his wife Anne went to the door, where she was handed a telegram. The message: "Bring me a cup of coffee. Peter".
20. Late one night, following a disappointing day wrestling with a troublesome scene in one of the Pink Panther films, director Blake Edwards was roused by a call from Sellers. "I just talked to God!" he exclaimed, "and he told me how to do it!" The next day Edwards humored Sellers - and the result was an unmitigated disaster. "Peter," Edwards suggested, "next time you talk to God, tell him to stay out of show business!".