He has been called one of the few comic geniuses of the 20th century. Fellow actors found Sellers so funny, they often had difficulty finishing scenes without bursting into fits of laughter. Yet he ...

PETER SELLERS died 40 years ago, aged only 54, yet his reputation endures in a way many of his peers’ have not. It is hard to think of any British comic actor—indeed, any Western comic actor at all—of ...

The original occasion for this article was a Peter Sellers retrospective at the Quad Cinema in Manhattan that was supposed to run from March 20 to March 26. For obvious reasons, that retrospective was ...

In death, great comedians leave behind the sense memory of what made them great -- Jackie Gleason’s sweaty snarl, Milton Berle’s withering look -- but the case of Peter Sellers, another great comedian ...

The sad clown. The character actor with no character of his own. The Jewish entertainer racked with guilt and self-loathing. The man with a genius for everything but making himself and those around ...

You never can tell with art. Take Blake Edwards’s “The Party” (1969), a movie that will be included in an upcoming series at Film Forum, “100 Years of Peter Sellers: From Britcoms to International ...