Peter Sellers

Made films the shows talk about.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (10 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Mike Myers: 1 line

  1. career (career) · them, directly: Peter Sellers ⇒ Mike Myers (the host's read). Myers' hero is Sellers, who also vanished into characters.
    “his big hero is Peter Sellers, who was the exact same way.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:13:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (19) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Mike Myers → Peter Sellers. Myers' hero is Sellers, who also vanished into characters.
    “his big hero is Peter Sellers, who was the exact same way.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:13:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (5)

  1. people (comedy handed to the actors): Peter Sellers → Dr. Strangelove. Kubrick by his own admission let Peter Sellers figure out the comedy.
    “I will let Peter Sellers figure this part of the movie out.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:38:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (repeat actors): Peter Sellers → Timothy Carey. They are the two actors Kubrick gave leads to more than once.
    “Peter Sellers and Timothy Carey.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:37:41 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. people (collaborator): Peter Sellers → Stanley Kubrick. Sellers is called a Kubrick collaborator and tied to Being There.
    “Sellers, of course, has a tremendous Kuber connection.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:37:20 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. people (Kubrick collaborator): Peter Sellers → The Party. Number five at the box office was The Party, starring Kubrick collaborator Peter Sellers.
    “Starring a Kubrick collaborator.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:22:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Adolphe Menjou → Peter Sellers. Menjou looks like a serious Peter Sellers, or how Sellers tries to make himself look.
    “He looks like what how Peter Sellers tries to make himself look.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:05:30 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (underplaying comparison): Peter Sellers → Robert De Niro. Speaker pairs Mandrake with De Niro's underplayed Jackie Brown as deceptively difficult acting.
    “to actively play someone who's got so little going on is so deceptively difficult because you watch something like this, like Mandrake”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:13:19 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (precedent for multiple roles): Peter Sellers → The Mouse That Roared. Sellers had already played multiple parts in The Mouse That Roared.
    “Okay, yes, sellers had done the mouse that roared, and, um, you know, that's he's playing multiple parts.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:19:14 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (how Southern was brought in): Terry Southern → Peter Sellers. Sellers had given Kubrick a copy of The Magic Christian, which is how Terry Southern got involved.
    “Sellers is the one who gets Southern involved because Sellers had given Kubrick a copy of the Magic Christian, Harry Southern.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:52:59 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (unnerving presence): Peter Sellers → Get Back. Sellers in the Get Back footage is as unnerving as when he shows up in Lolita.
    “that sequence of get back is so... as unnerving as anytime he shows up in Lolita”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:54:30 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Peter Sellers: Sellers was meant to play a fourth part, Major Kong. A sprained ankle is the official story, but speakers say he just did not want to do the Texan voice, so Slim Pickens took it.
    “And the thing where he sprains his ankle and he can't do Kong, everyone seems to think that that's basically, that's kind of just an excuse.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Peter Sellers: Sellers received a best actor nomination for what are effectively three supporting roles; the speakers think it may be the only such nomination.
    “It is such a unique nomination to be like, this guy is the lead of the film because he plays 3 supporting characters in an ensemble.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:53:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Peter Sellers: Sellers refused to appear as himself on The Muppet Show: there was no neutral Sellers, only characters.
    “And he's like, the only thing I won't do is appear as myself.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:55:45 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Peter Sellers: The opening Quilty scene as maybe the closest Sellers ever came to playing himself.
    “I do feel like, is this the closest he's ever come to playing quote unquote himself in a movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:56:13 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)