Mr. Strangelove_ A Biography of Peter Sellers - Ed Sikov [218]
Only Two Can Play (1962). Peter Sellers (John Lewis), Mai Zetterling (Elizabeth Gruffydd Williams), Virginia Maskell (Jean), Kenneth Griffith (Jenkins), Richard Attenborough (Probert), Raymond Huntley (Vernon Gruffydd Williams), Maudie Edwards (Mrs. Davies), John Le Mesurier (Salter), and Graham Stark (Hyman). Director: Sidney Gilliat; screenwriter: Bryan Forbes, based on Kingsley Amis’s novel That Uncertain Feeling; director of photography: John Wilcox; producer: Leslie Gilliat. British Lion/Vale/Kingsley/Columbia, 106 minutes.
The Road to Hong Kong (1962). Bing Crosby (Harry Turner), Bob Hope (Chester Babcock), Joan Collins (Diane), Robert Morley (spy leader), Dorothy Lamour (herself), and Peter Sellers (Indian neurologist, uncredited). Director: Norman Panama; screenwriters: Norman Panama and Melvin Frank; director of photography: Jack Hildyard; producer: Melvin Frank. Melnor Films/United Artists, 92 minutes.
Lolita (1962). James Mason (Humbert Humbert), Shelley Winters (Charlotte Haze), Peter Sellers (Claire Quilty), Sue Lyon (Lolita), Gary Cockrell (Richard Schiller), Jerry Stovin (John Farlow), Diana Decker (Jean Farlow), and Marianne Stone (Vivian Darkbloom). Director: Stanley Kubrick; screenwriters: Vladimir Nabokov, based on his novel, and James B. Harris (uncredited); director of photography: Oswald Morris; producer: James B. Harris. Seven Arts/MGM, 152 minutes.
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962). Peter Sellers (Gen. Leo Fitzjohn), Dany Robin (Ghislaine), Margaret Leighton (Emily Fitzjohn), John Fraser (Lt. Robert Finch), Cyril Cusack (Dr. Grogan), Prunella Scales (Estella Fitzjohn), Denise Coffey (Sidonia), Raymond Huntley (Ackroyd), John Le Mesurier (Rev. Grimsley). Director: John Guillermin; screenwriter: Wolf Mankowitz, based on the play by Jean Anouilh; director of photography: John Wilcox; producer: Peter de Sarigny. Rank Organization, 104 minutes. Released in the U.K. as The Amorous General.
The Wrong Arm of the Law (1962). Peter Sellers (Pearly Gates), Lionel Jeffries (Inspector Parker), Bernard Cribbins (Nervous O’Toole), Davy Kaye (Trainer King), Nanette Newman (Valerie), Bill Kerr (Jack Coombes), Ed Devereaux (Bluey May), Reg Lye (Reg Denton), John Le Mesurier (assistant commissioner), Graham Stark (Sid Cooper), Michael Caine (uncredited), and Mario Fabrizi (uncredited). Director: Cliff Owen; screenwriters: Len Heath and John Warren, with additional dialogue by John Antrobus, Ray Galton, and Alan Simpson, from a story by Ivor Jay and William Whistance Smith; director of photography: Ernest Steward; producers: Aubrey Baring, Cecil F. Ford, E. M. Smedley-Aston, and Robert Velaise. Romulus/British Lion/Continental, 94 minutes.
The Dock Brief (1962). Peter Sellers (Wilfred Morgenhall), Richard Attenborough (Herbert Fowle), Beryl Reid (Doris Fowle), David Lodge (Frank Bateson), Frank Pettingell (Tuppy Morgan), Audrey Nicholson (young Morgenhall’s girlfriend), Tristram Jellinek (Mr. Perkins), Eric Woodburn (Judge Banter). Director: James Hill; screenwriter: Pierre Rouve, based on the play by John Mortimer; cinematography: Edward Scaife; producer: Dimitri De Grunwald. MGM, 78 minutes. Released in the U.S. as Trial and Error.
Heavens Above! (1963). Peter Sellers (The Rev. John Smallwood), Cecil Parker (Archdeacon Aspinall), Isabel Jeans (Lady Despard), Ian Carmichael (the other Smallwood), Bernard Miles (Simpson), Brock Peters (Matthew Robinson), Eric Sykes (Harry Smith), Irene Handl (Rene Smith), Kenneth Griffith (Rev. Owen Smith), and Geoffrey Hibbert (council official). Directors: John Boulting and Roy Boulting; screenwriters: John Boulting and Frank Harvey; cinematography: Mutz Greenbaum; producers: John Boulting and Roy Boulting. Charter Films, 105 minutes.
The Pink Panther (1964). David Niven (Sir Charles