Movies with Peter Sellers
Movies found: 17, viewing from 1 to 17
The Ladykillers (1955)
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Alec Guinness, Frankie Howerd, Danny Green, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Philip Stainton
Directors: Alexander Mackendrick
Country: UK
Year: 1955
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A gang planning a 'job' find themselves living with a little old lady, who thinks they are musicians. When the gang set out to kill Mrs Wilberforce, they run into one problem after another, and they get what they deserve.
The Pink Panther (1963)
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Family
Starring: Brenda De Banzie, John Le Mesurier, Robert Wagner, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Michael Trubshawe, Claudia Cardinale
Directors: Blake Edwards
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1963
The trademark of The Phantom, a reknowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for Switzerland, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...
Casino Royale (1967)
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Starring: Ursula Andress, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Peter Sellers, Deborah Kerr, William Holden, Kurt Kasznar, David Niven
Directors: Ken Hughes, Val Guest
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1967
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
After the death of M, Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH and Le Chiffre, Bond thinks up the ultimate plan. That every agent will be named James Bond. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle, especially when the ultimate villain turns out to be Bonds nephew, Jimmy Bond.
A Shot in the Dark
Genres: Comedy, Family, Mystery
Starring: Burt Kwouk, Elke Sommer, Peter Sellers, Tracy Reed, Martin Benson, Herbert Lom, George Sanders
Directors: Blake Edwards
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1964
Inspector Clouseau is called to a country house where a murder was committed and finds that every clue points to the beautiful maid, Maria. As the bodies accumulate, each set of clues always points to Maria, and Cluseau continues to release her and escort her around town. The famous scene in this film is the murder in the Nudist Camp which causes the Inspector and Maria to attempt an escape through Paris without clothes.
Soft Beds, Hard Battles aka Undercovers Hero
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Thorley Walters, Lila Kedrova, Vernon Dobtcheff, Peter Sellers, Timothy West, Jenny Hanley, Béatrice Romand
Directors: Roy Boulting
Country: UK
Year: 1974
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style. As British Major Robinson he is hidden in Madame Grenier's Parisian brothel, right under the nose of the Nazi clients, such as Gestapo agent Herr Schroeder (again him). As Général Latour he leads the French resistance, which includes the brothel madam -made a colonel in charge of her sexy 'troops'- and a priest, and is joined by young US diplomat Alan Cassidy. As Japanese imperial Prince Kyoto he becomes a target for the resistance in a monastery on his way to Hi...
The Smallest Show on Earth
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Francis De Wolff, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis
Directors: Basil Dearden
Country: UK
Year: 1957
Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business - a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. They pack their bags and travel to Sloughborough expecting to sell the cinema to gain a huge inheritance, however, they discover the cinema is falling apart and is run by a comically incompetant staff who seem to have worked there forever. They set out with a plan to sell it but things don't quite go to plan.
Being There
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, David Clennon, Richard Basehart, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart
Directors: Hal Ashby
Country: USA
Year: 1979
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.
After the Fox
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Starring: Martin Balsam, Peter Sellers, Paolo Stoppa, Maurice Denham, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland, Akim Tamiroff
Directors: Vittorio De Sica
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Year: 1966
Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), one of the greatest criminals of the world, and master of disguise. After Aldo escapes from the Italian prison he was held in, he meets again with his friends, and plans to retrieve the "gold of Cairo" a large shipment of gold, that waits to be unloaded somewhere in Italy. Aldo devices the perfect plan. Posing as a famous director, he finds the ideal coastal village to unload the shipment, and persuades the entire population that he has chosen their village as the set for his new movie. Everybody, including the idiot chief of the local police is so excited, that they can't even imagine that in f...
The World of Henry Orient
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Peter Sellers, Angela Lansbury, Tom Bosley, John Fiedler, Bibi Osterwald, Al Lewis, Phyllis Thaxter
Directors: George Roy Hill
Country: USA
Year: 1964
Henry Orient is a madly egocentric and overly amorous avant-garde concert pianist who is hilariously pursued all around New York City by two 14-year-old fans. The girls, Val and Gil chase a harassed Henry all over the city, thwarting his afternoon liaisons with a married woman and leaving utter chaos behind them - until Val's sexually promiscuous mother appears on the scene to put a stop to the girls' shenanigans.
Two Way Stretch
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Starring: Lionel Jeffries, Cyril Chamberlain, Irene Handl, Peter Sellers, Maurice Denham, Liz Fraser, David Lodge
Directors: Robert Day
Country: UK
Year: 1960
Peter Sellers has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices. With only a few days sentence left, and the perfect alibi - what could possibly go wrong ?
The Magic Christian
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee, Peter Sellers, Leonard Frey, Richard Attenborough, Roman Polanski, Victor Maddern
Directors: Joseph McGrath
Country: UK
Year: 1969
Sir Guy Grand adopts homeless bum Youngman to be heir to his obscene wealth, and immediately begins bringing him into the intricacies of the family business, which is to prey upon people's greed by use of the vast holdings of the Grand empire. They leave no stone unturned as sporting events, restaurants, art galleries, and traditional pheasant hunts turn into lurid displays of bad manners and profiteering. Things climax at the social event of the season, the inaugural voyage of the new pleasure cruiser The Magic Christian.
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Family
Starring: Ferdy Mayne, Dyan Cannon, Robert Loggia, Burt Kwouk, Tony Beckley, Peter Sellers, Sue Lloyd
Directors: Blake Edwards
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1978
To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. Once Clouseau's death has been announced, the former Chief Inspector, Charles Dreyfus, feels much, much better and is released from the mental hospital. Jacques Clouseau tries to take advantage of his "death" and goes under cover with Cato to find out who tried to assassinate him.
Let's Go Crazy
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Short
Starring: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Wallas Eaton, Tommy Manley, Florence Austin, Freddie Mirfield, Keith Warwick
Directors: Alan Cullimore
Country: UK
Year: 1951
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Two valuable early Peter Sellers performances, rescued from obscurity and restored by the BFI National Archive. Penny Points to Paradise sees all the Goons beside the seaside in a cheap and cheerful comic escapade climaxing in a Brighton waxworks. Shot around the same time Let's Go Crazy, is a madcap selection of variety turns, with memorable performances from Spike Milligan and Sellers in multiple roles. Both films provide an important insight into British comedy history and, specifically, chart the beginnings of Seller's rise to stardom. A must-have for all Goons fans.
Penny Points to Paradise
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Starring: Sam Kydd, Peter Sellers, Bill Kerr, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Alfred Marks, Paddie O'Neil
Directors: Anthony Young
Country: UK
Year: 1951
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Harry Flakers is a pools winner who is targeted by a forger.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Genres: Comedy, Thriller
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Peter Bull, Shane Rimmer, George C. Scott, Peter Sellers, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Country: UK
Year: 1964
U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a "Doomsday Machine" which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Peter Sellers portrays the three men who might avert this tragedy: British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to the demented Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Merkin Muffley, whose...
The Mouse That Roared
Genres: Comedy
Starring: David Kossoff, Leo McKern, Peter Sellers, Alan Gifford, Timothy Bateson, Monte Landis, Austin Willis
Directors: Jack Arnold
Country: USA
Year: 1959
The best laid plans of mice and men ... A cold war satire emphasising the new emerged American Superpower's use of foreign aid to buy friends and keep then away from the USSR's influence. Peter Sellers, as the scheming Prime Minister of Grand Fenwick, plots with Peter Sellers, as the scheming Grand Duchess, to declare war on the USA, lose and get that foreign aid. Unfortunately, they forget to tell Peter Sellers, as Tully Bascombe, commander of their mediaeval army. This honourable man does his best for his country and through a series of unbelievable circumstances (well, this is a comedy) to win. Now, who has to give aid to whom?
The Pink Panther: Strikes Again
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Family
Starring: Colin Blakely, Burt Kwouk, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Murray Kash, Leonard Rossiter, Dudley Sutton
Directors: Blake Edwards
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1976
Charles Dreyfuss, the Chief Inspector of the Surete and superior of Inspector Clouseau was last seen in the previous movie, suffering a breakdown cause of Clouseau's torment. He decides to try and kill him but fails and was last seen confined to a mental asylum. This movie begins three years later, Dreyfuss' doctors think is well enough to be released but before he is, Clouseau visits him and agitates him into killing him, so he's not released. But he escapes and tries to kill clouseau but fails. He then decides to recruit some of the best criminals in the world, and then kidnaps a noted English scientist and creates a device that can destroy...