Chance (Peter Sellers) is a mentally handicapped gardener confined to the house of the old man who supported him all his life. When his benefactor dies, Chance is thrown out into the streets, knowing nothing except what he has heard on television. When an encounter on the street brings him together with Benjamin (Melvyn Douglas) and Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine), Chance's simple-minded utterances become the basis for a move into serious politics. Directed by Hal Ashby. With Jack Warden and Richard A. Dysart. Categories: Politics, Drama, Comedy, Based on a Novel. Year: 1979.
Peter Sellers in Being There
A fatalistic American general (Sterling Hayden), convinced that Russia is trying to corrupt the American people, begins a countdown to nuclear holocaust that a council of politicians and generals, including Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, frantically tries to stop. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and James Earl Jones. Categories: Politics, Cult Classics, Comedy, War. Year: 1964.
Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Humbert Humbert (James Mason), a troubled professor of French literature in his mid-forties, rents a room from sex-starved widow Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters) and falls in love with her teenage daughter, Lolita (Sue Lyon). After Charlotte is hit by a car and killed, Humbert and Lolita take their disturbing affair on the road, posing as father and daughter to escape suspicion. But, their forbidden love is threatened when they realize they are being followed by a stranger (Peter Sellers) intent on taking Lolita for his own. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Gary Cockrell and Shirley Douglas. Categories: Cult Classics, Comedy, Drama, Romance. Year: 1962.
Peter Sellers in Lolita