Peter Richard Henry Sellers (1925-1980) was an English comedy genius of theater, radio, television, and movies. Peter Sellers was born in Southsea, Hampshire, in southern England, where by chance his parents were performing in a local vaudeville show,...

Born in London to parents who were professional performers in the music halls, Peter Sellers became one of Britain's foremost comic actors of radio, film, and television in the 1950s and 1960s. Famous for his impeccable comic timing, his...

Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was a British comedian and actor best known for his three roles in Dr. Strangelove , as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther films, and as Clare Quilty in the original screen version of...

Hollywood works in mysterious ways—from Marilyn Monroe’s untimely death to a best-picture Oscar for Crash to a strange propensity to dabble in the all-American phenomenon that is NASCAR at least once every 16 years since the seminal piece of stock-car cinema arrived in 1974 with...

It's a dramatic shift, when funny men turn serious. Even Eddie Murphy, the latest of Hollywood's top comic performers to try, has had some laughs over his own transformation, which could bring him an Academy Award.At the Screen Actors Guild awards, where he won yet...

Geoffrey Rush lives the actor's life much the way his buccaneer character Barbossa lives the pirate's life.Both Rush and Barbossa, who's back on board for "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," strike a balance in their jobs between gravitas and goofiness, menace and madness,...