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 ...

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 ...

Not all of the offerings are top quality in ‘100 Years of Peter Sellers: From Britcoms to International Icon,’ but the series will give movie fans a good chance to reassess the actor’s career.

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 ...