The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
- ISBN-10
- 0099747006
- ISBN-13
- 9780099747000
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 1108
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Author
- Roger Lewis
Description
Sellers has long been acknowledged as one of the screen's greatest comic actors. In this biography, Roger Lewis draws on over 300 interviews with Sellers's family, wives, mistresses, enemies and co-stars to show how he succeeded, and why it was at such a cost to himself and to those who he professed to love.
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