Mr. Strangelove_ A Biography of Peter Sellers - Ed Sikov [217]
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959). Peter Sellers (photographer), Dick Lester (painter), Spike Milligan (record player, etc.), and Graham Stark (kite master), with Audrey Stark, Mario Fabrizi, Leo McKern, and David Lodge. Director: Dick Lester; “Thoughts by Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Mario Fabrizi, and Dick Lester; devised by Peter Sellers.” 11 minutes.
The Mouse That Roared (1959). Peter Sellers (Tully Bascombe, Grand Duchess Gloriana XII, and the Prime Minister, Count Mountjoy), Jean Seberg (Helen Kokintz), William Hartnell (Will), David Kossoff (Professor Kokintz), Austin Willis (U.S. Secretary of Defense), Leo McKern (Benter), and Jacques Cey (ticket collector). Director: Jack Arnold; screenwriters: Roger MacDougall and Stanley Mann, based on the novel by Leonard Wibberley; director of photography: John Wilcox; producer: Walter Shenson. Highroad/Columbia Pictures, 83 minutes.
I’m All Right, Jack (1959). Ian Carmichael (Stanley Windrush), Terry-Thomas (Major Hitchcock), Peter Sellers (Fred Kite, Sir John Kennaway), Richard Attenborough (Sidney De Vere Cox), Margaret Rutherford (Aunt Dolly), Dennis Price (Bertram Tracepurcel), Irene Handl (Mrs. Kite), Miles Malleson (Windrush, Sr.), Liz Fraser (Cynthia Kite), Marne Maitland (Mr. Mohammed), John Le Mesurier (Waters), Raymond Huntley (Magistrate), Victor Maddern (Knowles), Kenneth Griffith (Dai), David Lodge (card player), and Malcolm Muggeridge (himself). Director: John Boulting; screenwriters: John Boulting, Frank Harvey, and Alan Hackney, based on a novel by Alan Hackney; director of photography: Mutz Greenbaum; producer: Roy Boulting. British Lion, 101 minutes.
The Battle of the Sexes (1959). Peter Sellers (Mr. Martin), Robert Morley (Robert MacPherson), Constance Cummings (Angela Barrows), Jameson Clark (Andrew Darling), Ernest Thesiger (Old MacPherson), Donald Pleasence (Irwin Hoffman), and Moultrie Kelsall (Graham). Director: Charles Chrichton; screenwriter: Monja Danischewsky, based on “The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber; director of photography: Freddie Francis; producer: Monja Danischewsky. Bryanston / Continental / British Lion, 84 minutes.
Never Let Go (1960). Richard Todd (John Cummings), Peter Sellers (Lionel Meadows), Elizabeth Sellars (Ann Cummings), Adam Faith (Tommy Towers), Carol White (Jackie), Noel Willman (Inspector Thomas), and David Lodge (Cliff). Director: John Guillermin; screenwriter: Alun Falconer, from a story by John Guillermin and Peter de Sarigny; director of photography: Christopher Challis; producer: Peter de Sarigny. Independent Artists/Rank, 90 minutes.
Two-Way Stretch (1960). Peter Sellers (Dodger Lane), David Lodge (Jelly Knight), Bernard Cribbins (Lennie Price), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Soapy Stevens), Maurice Denham (the governor), Lionel Jeffries (Crout), Irene Handl (Mrs. Price), Liz Fraser (Ethel), Beryl Reid (Miss Pringle), Mario Fabrizi (Jones). Director: Robert Day; screenwriters: John Warren and Len Heath, with additional dialogue by Alan Hackney; director of photography: Geoffrey Faithfull; producer: M. Smedley Aston. British Lion, 84 minutes.
The Millionairess (1960). Sophia Loren (Epifania), Peter Sellers (Dr. Kabir), Alastair Sim (Sagamore), Vittorio De Sica (Joe), Dennis Price (Adrian), Gary Raymond (Alastair), Alfie Bass (fish curer), Miriam Karlin (Mrs. Joe), and Graham Stark (butler). Director: Anthony Asquith; screenwriter: Wolf Mankowitz, based on Riccardo Aragno’s adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play; director of photography: Jack Hildyard; producers: Dimitri de Grunwald and Pierre Rouve. Twentieth Century-Fox, 90 minutes.
Mr. Topaze (1961). Peter Sellers (Auguste Topaze), Herbert Lom (Castel Benac), Nadia Gray (Suzy), Leo McKern (Muche), Marita Hunt (baroness), John Neville (Roger), Billie Whitelaw