Best Sellers or Peter Sellers and Dr. Strangelove
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- Featurette about the life and career of British comedian actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980).
Taken from the "Dr. Strangelove" DVD.
Get it on Blu-ray: amzn.com/B001DJLCPE
Copyright Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, 2004.
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Oscar snub was a great injustice to this great actor.
Hollyweird Commies didn’t obviously like him
Oscar who?
I always adored Mr. Sellers. This man deserved an Oscar. Him not ever winning one is just one of the reasons why I don't pay attention to the Oscars.
Theres not a great talent like Sellers today ,
The Best Picture winner of 1964, director George Cukor's "My Fair Lady".
Being cast for 3 roles in a Kubrick movie is a far better award imo
@@AmicaCream It was 4 roles he sprained his ankle and Slim Pickens was called in to play the pilot.
That alone shows that that oscar business is crap.
There's a moment in Dr. Strangelove where Sellers as Mandrake is listening to Sterling Hayden as Gen. Ripper explain communism and fluoridation how he does not avoid women but he does deny them his essence - Mandrake, absolutely aware that Ripper is completely out of his mind gives a quiet but terrified chuckle of agreement, "Yes, Jack - yes." Just brilliant.
To this day, Dr. Strangelove is one of my favorite movies ever.
William Dwyer It was years ahead of it's time. Great from start to finish
"A feller could have a purrdy good time in Vagas with all that stuff"
I totally agree. A similarly-themed movie was released around the same time, called 'Failsafe', starring Henry Fonda. It made the same points, but was a serious drama. Of course, any point or message you want to convey is always better conveyed through humour.
One thing not mentioned is that Stanley knew how to wind Peter up. In between all the takes in the war-room Stanley would be laughing hysterically which was the impetus for Peter to take it further and further. Two geniuses working together to create a masterpiece.
Being There is one of the great performances in film history!
I remember the summer of 1980 when I learned of his passing. Having seen his performance in "Being There" just a few months prior, I was deeply saddened.
He deserves an award above an Oscar..
Kubrick was a amazing Director too.
Loved watching him.. his characterizations were perfect. I never tire of watching him in "The Party" and "I'm alright, Jack" - I would have loved to have seen him and Robin Williams make a movie together. RIP to them both
Strangelove ages so wonderfully. I believe that Group Captain Mandrake is my favorite performance in that picture. How he steadfastly attempts to right the ship after it's clear that General Ripper has gone off the deep end.
Mandrake is possibly based on NORAD deputy commander Air Marshal Roy Slemon, who's cool head prevented a retaliation against the USSR in the Moon Incident 1960. The early warning radars mistook the rising moon as an incoming missile strike.
@@marks_sparks1 Source? It feels like you just made that up. “Possibly” based on?
Holed up one summer night in 1985 at my college fraternity, a handful of rowdy guys with a lot of beer and subs stumbled onto the movie BEING THERE. You could have heard a pin drop. We talked about it on the job that summer for some time. It was something special and we knew it. Basketball Jones still makes me smile.
Absolute Genius of Comedy. RIP, Peter Sellers.
Dr. Strange Sellers The best he ever did. Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the war room.
@ Ghost... to this day one of my all time favorite lines of any movie
*Underestimating Slim Pickens' contribution as 'Major Kong' is a mistake...he was flawless!*
*Sellers was brilliant, but so was Pickens...his scene of 'riding down with 'The Big One' is so iconic it's been used hundreds of
times as the 'Ultimate expression of complete denial of the reality of madness'*
( *You've really 'defined a role' when people remember your dialog of reciting the contents of a 'Survival Pack' and then saying
"Shoot! A feller could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all this!"* )
*Pickens as 'Hollis Wood' in "1941" was equally brilliant in both acting and delivery of dialog*
Gerry Nightingale Slim Pickens was perfect as Major Kong.........so was George C Scott as the General Turgison . I love this film.......a perfect film for the times
My Air Force family's Favorite movie in the 1960's.
My Father was on a party line from Vandenberg Air Base Missle Squadron
with President Kennedy during the Cuban Missle crisis. Many of the characthers
imitated in Dr. Stranglove we're WWII Army Air Corps veterans (Curtis LeMay)
in Command with Kennedy in the War Room.
More than one recomended taking out the USSR nuclear silos in a premptive strike.
Kennedy made his famous statement about not bombing humanity back to the stone age.
Chief Inspector Clouseau was The funniest role sellers ever played
Was absolutely hilarious
Men like him in the Acting field ,are wonderful yet heart breaking. As a human being I wonder about these actors and sadness ..
Oh thank you forever Peter Sellers.
I saw him in one of his last interviews when he said he would be happy with Being There as his best movie ever.
Shirley's replication of the involuntary arm salute and chuckle is priceless.
If I recall correctly, Peter Sellers' doctor wanted to perform heart surgery and had him scheduled, but Peter wanted to put it off for a month, and that's when he died, two weeks after his surgeon had wanted to operate on him. Such a tragic loss not only for his family and friends, but for so many of us who felt that the world was such a better place for his performances. So subtle and whacky at the same time, I feel that nobody can match him for that quality alone. God bless those who bring us laughter.
One-of-a-Kind Brilliance and Made it Look Effortless. "The Party" is One of My Favorite Peter Sellers Movies from the 1960s.
One of my all time favorite actors. Simply brilliant.
he was simply incomparable.
Being There is my favorite. Such a shame the world Lost him so early.
No actor invested as much into his roles as Sellers. He was truly one of the greatest, if not the greatest actor, I have ever seen. That seen as Mandrake early in the film is simply brilliant. Great presentation, thank you.
He was also to play the role that "Slim Pickens" played, but he sprained his ankle....
Superb Actor... Brilliant Comedian. God bless Peter Sellers.
I love all his movies brilliant acter i dont think there will be anothe Peter Sellers all his movies were wonderful its sad that most people of today dont know him as a great acter that he was
Sellers in Strangelove almost mimics the insanity of human nature with atomically charged comedy.
THERE IS ONLY ONE PETER SELLERS ....WHOEVER HE IS ......
What a FABULOUS interview. This biographical piece was among the finest I've ever seen, anywhere, anytime. On "Strangelove," my favorite Sellers' role was as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (although I loved his bespectacled Nazi). I think the greatest single line of the entire movie came when he said (on the Japanese): "Strange thing is, they make such bloody good CAMERAS..." It was delivered with such restraint, that it took my breath away. Brilliant.
Yes. There were SO MANY good lines in that movie!
His unforgetable characters , all of them, liveth for evermore.
Les Griffiths
Amazing Groucho impression too !!
I noticed that, too. A show of respect and admiration? Or maybe just the director's idea? I'd like to go with the former.
He was unquestionably the greatest comic genius of all-time.
Birdie Num Num....The party I never tire of this character....who comes close in 2020 to Peter Sellers..????....Zippppp...
It's appropriate to see that he is remembered for his talents. He definitely was unique and his performances are still so very appreciated by audiences today.
As a baby-boomer I feel very fortunate to have lived through the 60s, 70s and 80s when music and motion pictures produced arguably the finest artistic expression. And, no, I don't think that civilization is cyclical. Timing is everything. So, thank you God.
There is only one Peter Sellers. Nobody else comes close.
Best quote ever about David Frost, "He rose without trace".
I still say *”Being There”* is his best film.
Close second to Dr. Strangelove
Unbelievable talent. 'Murder by Death' is one of my favs too just for the cast alone.
Comment like fortune cookie on death row....unnecessary.
Wonderful. I enjoyed that. Thank you You Tube.
Keep in mind that Dr. Strangelove was barely 90 minutes long - an hour and a half with absolutely no low points! Yeah, Sellers could have played Kong competently, but Pickins didn't have to act the part - it was made for him - Kubrick just hadn't known it.
Slim Pickens stole the movie.
@@fredloeper8579 Sterling Hayden should've got a supporting actor nomination for Strangelove.
Hell, the whole cast should've been nominated. The film was robbed at the Oscars.
Peter’s Sellars performance on Dr. Strangelove is absolutely brilliant. I don’t think any other actor or combination of actors could have done these roles to the level that Peter Sellars achieved.
It is by far my favourite- which one needs to add his other movies were beyond approach. Truly, one of the greatest comedians ever.
Nicely done. Thanks.
Sellers will always be remembered by true fans who appreciate his genius, to be CLOUSEAU, the 3 charcters in Strangelove & the main role in "Being There" ("chancy gardener">?) is incomparable! the 1980s was a terrible decade for many reasons, his loss is one of them!
Anyone with any degree of a sense of humor would be driven to laughter by his work...Astonishing, he was...and will never be forgotten. He inspired those who followed his career...including John Lennon. In the culture of the English language...he will never be forgotten...
One of my favorite movies. I have it recorded from Dish.
My hero he was a comedy genius .
Maybe a long time before we see another actor as great as he was.
Yes Dimitri
Terrible he didn't win an academy award for the most brilliant performance ever on a movie screen. Sad he didn't win for one for his favorite movie roles, Being There, right before he died!
P.S. was the funniest bod in my youth. It was a sad day for me when he died...
Being there was Seller's favourite role. Never rated it much myself, I preferred Dr.Strangelove and Pink Panther, the man was brilliant.
Got to see being there again this man was unique!
FredLoper my feelings exactly. He was overlooked in the Lady killers which was only a small part but wonderfully characterised. He had the misfortune to be playing opposite Alec Guinness at the peak of his film career and wonderfully comically sinister
Nice tribute
Peter , Este Numero Uno!!!🤓
We were & still are Big Fans of Peter Sellers, since before Pink Panther, and even more so since then. He passed away 7/1980 from a 2nd Heart attack - but his Work will Live Forever! On that note - our opinion is that Dr. Strangelove is - OMG....3 rolls All extremely different! Peter should have WON Multiple Academy Awards in his career!
THANK GOODNESS, slim was so damn great at that role! PERFECTION
Amazing
No way , in 1964 they were sqeaky clean times, they dare not give an Oscar to a weird comic movie,. .. Peter Sellers is to good for an Oscar anyway..his uniqueness is here forever in his films,for us to admire and laugh,,
Loved him as the cad in “The World of Henry Orient.”
Dr. Strangelove, the Greatest Movie ever made. (I was born in 1956 smack dab in the middle of the Cold War)
Oh the humanity!
Mandrake is my favorite.
Strangelove best ...yes ...President role, amazing 👏
“There are other geniuses but only one Peter Sellers ...”. So true. Rip PS!
I have been a fan of Sellers from his early days, ( Ladykillers, ) to Being There. Although his multiple roles in Strangelove were brilliant, my pick was Chauncey Gardener. The sustained and controlled performance by Sellers was magnificent. A child- like innocence others took to be insightful intelligence. My favorite line is when he is taken up in an elevator, and he remarks to the attendant, " This is a very small room. " The attendant laughs at what he thinks is a witticism but is really Chauncey's truthful observation. Sublime!
He was the best at being here!
Genius...
Crazy how he basically became Kubrick for the role of the president, then became WeeGee for Strangelove. And how he learned how to do this as a kid growing up in theater. I wonder who he was mimicking in Lolita as Clare Quilty, but regardless, that is his absolute best performance. Strangelove was a better film, but Quilty is his best role. Actually my first real exposure to Sellers (other than watching parts of pink panther as a kid) was late at night, after a night of partying, we were flipping through channels, and Lolita was on, the scene with Sellers as Quilty talking to James Mason on the hotel porch, which was completely improvised, and insane. We couldn't figure out how this was even possible for a black and white movie to have this craziness in it, really modern craziness. Then we were even more shocked by the sex scene.
Merkin Muffley was such a great character.
Peter Sellers was Brilliant in every Role he played......Inspector clouseau is classic 🤣🎥
Peter Sellers was a "chameleon." Stanley Kubrick knew that. Sellers was also carry-over from the days of slap-stick. Blake Edwards knew that too. The world needs Peter Sellers now -- more than ever.
At least two great Englishmen, not unrelated , died in 1980. Two geniuses
Peters Sellers was HYSTETICAL. Had to have been a genius with all the eccentricities that come with it.
Great review. The only thing is I’m glad Slim Pickins got the Major Kong role.
Two quick comments. First.... Slim Pickens. If there is a finer stage name, I am not aware of it. Secondly, Sellers was also brilliant in a smaller less known movie called, I'm All Right Jack. If you have not seen it, you've missed some incredible subtle comedy by Sellers.
Yes, I beieve "I'm All Right, Jack," is a great movie.
Another good actor's name: Faye Dunaway...You know? fading away...
@@moonlightmelodrama True, but that is her real name. Not chosen for stage.
Slim Pickens stole the show.
I believe Slim Pickens brother, also an actor, went by the name "Easy Pickens".
Dr. Strangelove is like no other movie ever made. Peter sellers is like no other actor.
Peter stood out among these incredible actors n that alone speaks for itself 🤓
Unparalleled
Being There
🎁🎭🎁
For Sellers & Kubrick, their movie.
He will be missed.
When quite younger, I took a girlfriend to see the first Pink Panther movie. I laughed out at some of the scenes, which my date thought uncool, I didn’t care then and don’t care now. Mr Sellers was brilliant and funny. His loss, was our loss!
He was so brilliant in taking on the different roles. (And I think he made the right decision about not playing the bomber captain). Believe it or not, but I did not notice him in the role of the President until about my 3rd viewing ...🙂
God knows how the guy on the left kept a straight face during the Demitri phone call! Now THAT is acting!
Its funny how everyone acknowledges hia comic genius and rarely mention his personal drama.
Everyone has drama. Not everyone has talent.
"On a cutting edge radio show.............................."
But why does the narrator NOT mention its _name_ ?
The 'GOON Show' - the inspiration for ALL Anarchic Humour in the UK thereafter.
That's what Stanley said about him the second take he was brilliant
It's absolute total BS that he didn't win an Oscar for Strangelove... Instead, the 1964 Oscars awarded My Fair Lady for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, of which all three of those categories Dr. Strangelove had been nominated. Yes, you read that right... My Fair Lady, a film nobody today even knows. Total BS.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37th_Academy_Awards
Strangelove was way too hip for 1964. My Fair Lady they could understand.
Decent point. I'll bet most most of the judges were born around the turn of the century. They probably couldn't much relate to Strangelove.
Mr. Clem Strangelove was too far ahead of its time to win.
Hollywood had a history of not giving the major awards to comedic performances.
But pretend you’re mentally disabled and you’re a shoe-in.
*”Being there”* is the film that was truly robbed of the best picture Oscar...
How many enemies, I feel sorry for Peter. He is
genius.
He apparently wasn’t very nice to his women. But his talent is unquestionable.
He was a wonderful artist. I didnt know he had two strokes... So sad
It's best to be unique rather than genius.... for everyone is a genius somehow in their own mind.
Fun fact: only an on-set accident prevented Sellers from ALSO playing Major Kong! Kubrick called in Slim Pickin's, a journeyman supporting actor in westerns, and the rest is history.
Russ G Without the accident, Sellers wouldn't have been in the wheelchair or had the leg braces. His character wouldn't have been nearly as compelling. and we wouldn't have had the pleasure of hearing Slim Pickens Saying," I'm gonna get those doors open if it hair lips everybody up on bear creek". I've often wonder'd about that Line. It shows up again in "Full Metal Jacket. The Drill Instructor Screams at a recruit who can't get over an obstacle. " I will motivate you, Private Pyle if I have to short dick every cannibal in the Congo".
Sellers was originally supposed to do five roles in Dr Strangelove until it got too complicated.
Actually, he was supposed to do all the roles except for General Turgidson's girlfriend and the part played by James Earl Jones who was brought in by Kubrick because Sellers couldn't Master Ebonics.
Slim Pickens was more than “a journeyman character actor.”
@@johntechwriter I was watching Slim Pickens in old Western movies long before Dr Strangelove.
RIP
Special
Stop tickling that statue, Bluebottle!
Shot in the dark his funniest movie.