Peter Sellers — Actor (24)
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The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
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Cliff Owen actor: Peter Sellers / Lionel Jeffries …
other title: Il braccio sbagliato della legge / Lovens korte arm …
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
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Richard Quine actor: Peter Sellers / Stuart Wilson …
other title: Il prigioniero di Zenda / Fangen på Zenda …
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.
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Muppet Treasures (1985)
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Peter Harris / Philip Casson actor: Frank Oz / Jim Henson …
other title: Momentos memorables de Los Teleñecos
Fozzie and Kermit have come across a priceless collection of great moments in the career of the Muppets. This collection features many Muppet TV segments, including episodes of "Pigs in Space," and "Veterinarian's Hospital."
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The Millionairess (1960)
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Anthony Asquith actor: Sophia Loren / Peter Sellers …
other title: La miliardaria / Die Millionärin …
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
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The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
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Basil Dearden actor: Virginia McKenna / Bill Travers …
other title: Die kleinste Schau der Welt / Sous le plus petit chapiteau du monde
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.
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Only Two Can Play (1962)
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Sidney Gilliat actor: Peter Sellers / Mai Zetterling …
other title: Sesso, peccato e castità / Lieben kann man nur zu zweit …
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
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The Great McGonagall (1975)
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Joseph McGrath actor: Spike Milligan / Peter Sellers …
other title: El gran McGonagall / O Grande McGonagall
William Topaz McGonagall, an unemployed Scottish weaver and aspiring poet laureate, falls in love with Queen Victoria and thereafter devotes his banal poetry to her. Though McGonagall's solicitations are rejected by the Queen, it doesn't stop the turgid prose, and pathos, from overflowing as McGonagall hilariously attempts to become the greatest poet in the land.
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The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn (1956)
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Joseph Sterling actor: Peter Sellers / Spike Milligan …
other title: The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn
Supposedly filmed in 'Schizophrenoscope', it concerns Inspector Quilt of Scotland Yard's attempts to retrieve a 'Mukkinese Battlehorn' stolen from a London museum. Along the way he meets characters not dissimilar to Eccles, Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister from The Goon Show. This attempt to adapt Goon humour to the big screen was written by Harry Booth, Jon Penington and regular Goon show co-writer Larry Stephens. It was then heavily rewritten on the filmset by Sellers and Milligan.
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Mr. Topaze (1961)
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Peter Sellers actor: Peter Sellers / Nadia Gray …
other title: A Solidão da Riqueza / Todos somos sinvergüenzas …
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac, a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy, a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
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Down Among the Z Men (1952)
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Maclean Rogers actor: Peter Sellers / Spike Milligan …
other title: Barriere zwischen Z-Männern
The Goon Show hits the big screen. Professor Pure Heart absent-mindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones' Grocery Shop. "Bats of the Yard", as Harry calls himself, finds it and attempts to return it to the Professor.
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I'm All Right Jack (1959)
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John Boulting actor: Peter Sellers / Ian Carmichael …
other title: Nudi alla meta / Som brødre vi dele …
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.