The Life & Death Of Peter Sellers By Roger Lewis (1994) The Pink Panther movie film Actor biography

The Life & Death Of Peter Sellers By Roger Lewis (1994) The Pink Panther movie film Actor famous biography

The book is a paperback book in a like new condition as per the photos

There are photos in the book and there are 1110 pages

Barcode 9780099747000

******ABOUT THE BOOK******

From Strangelove to Clouseau, Peter Sellers was one of the screen's greatest ever comic actors.

Yet his life was more complex and multilayered than most believe.

In this gripping, classic biography, Roger Lewis draws on over three hundred interviews with Sellers's family, wives, mistresses, enemies and co-stars to show how Sellers succeeded, and why it was at such terrible cost to himself and to those whom he professed to love.

For one man to have been behind the completely mad roles of Inspector Clouseau, Dr. Strangelove, and Clare Quilty in Lolita is nuts in itself. Any surprise then that Peter Sellers, the comic genius who pulled it all off, was himself a bit of a mad bugger? Roger Lewis recounts the details of Sellers's rise to fame and the sordid mess he made of it in this telling biography. 

The book succeeds at depicting the actor's artistic genius while also describing the myriad obsessions that ruled his personal life. Drugs, domestic abuse, womanizing, mysticism, and unbridled ruthlessness all fit into the story. As Lewis himself describes it, "What made Sellers an artist on the grand scale was what made him the intensity and excitement of his imagination."