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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Biographers put their hope and trust in hundreds of friends and strangers, some of whom become friends, and who collectively turn the author’s wishful thoughts into a book.

It was an honor to interview such generous and articulate people as Rod Amateau, Ian Carmichael, Hilda Parkin Durante, Peter Eyre, Kenneth Geist, Max Geldray, Gail Gerber, Kenneth Griffith, John Guillermin, the late Sir Alec Guinness, Gene Gutowski, the late John P. Hamilton, Anthony Harvey, Burt Kwouk, David Lodge, Herbert Lom, Salem Ludwig, Malcolm McDowell, Joseph McGrath, Dr. Jonathan Miller, Hans Moellinger, Angela Morley, Kathleen Parrish, the late Robert Parrish, Siân Phillips, Larry Pizer, Roman Polanski, Alvin Rakoff, Clive Rees, the late Walter Shenson, and Dame Maggie Smith. For reasons that will be obvious to anyone who has followed the course of Peter Sellers’s reputation after his death, his immediate family declined to speak to me about him; I think I understand why, and I hope I have not hurt them further.

I drew quotations from Peter Sellers, Anne Levy, Michael Sellers, Victoria Sellers, Britt Ekland, and others from a variety of sources, most significantly Alexander Walker’s invaluable Peter Sellers; Michael Sellers’s equally worthy P.S. I Love You; Graham Stark’s informative and funny memoir, Remembering Peter Sellers; Peter Evans’s fine (and unduly criticized) The Mask Behind the Mask: A Life of Peter Sellers, and Britt Ekland’s engrossing autobiography, True Britt. I drew additional quotations from Peter Sellers and his friends and colleagues from three fine documentaries: John Scheinfeld and David Leaf’s The Unknown Peter Sellers; the three-part The Peter Sellers Story, which was produced by Arena and aired on BBC2; and Sellers’ Best?: An Introduction to the Channel Four Season of Peter Sellers’ Films, which aired on Channel Four. And I owe every person named in this book’s admittedly lengthy bibliography my deepest gratitude.

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