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Actors Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland got married only 10 days after first meeting. 6 weeks later on location filming ‘Kiss Me, Stupid,’ Sellers inhaled poppers before sex with Ekland in search of “the ultimate orgasm” and suffered 8 heart attacks in 3 hours, forcing withdrawal from the film.
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On 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb', Peter Sellers was paid $1 million (55% of the film's budget) to which Stanley Kubrick later famously quipped, "I got three for the price of six".
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Peter Sellers tried to change his will just hours before he died to prevent his entire fortune passing to his estranged fourth wife
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Because Humphrey Bogart lost some of his teeth and could not speak clearly, Peter Sellers was called in to dub some of Bogart's lines in Beat the Devil.
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Comedian Peter Sellers was a wifebeater and vicious parent
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Peter Sellers was reportedly changing his will to exclude his 3rd wife in the week before his death. She ended up inheriting almost everything (£4.5 million in 1980), and his 3 children only received £800 each. When Spike Milligan asked her to increase the amount, she refused.
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Peter Sellers plays three entirely separate roles in Kubrick's 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove": the President of the USA, US military Captain Mandrake, and Dr. Strangelove himself, all three of which have entirely different accents. He was nominated for several academy awards for his performances.
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Michael Sellers, son of British Comic Actor Peter Sellers, like his father, also died of a heart attack, exactly 26 years to the day of his father's death.
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Before Peter Sellers played Inspector Clouseau, he played a similar character as an inept detective in "The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn" in 1956. The short film included cast and writers from "The Goon Show" (the greatest influence on Monty Python's work).
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In the classic Kubrick film, Peter Sellers’ eccentric character Dr. Strangelove suffered from agonistic apraxia, or "alien hand syndrome". It's caused by damaging the corpus callosum—the nerve fibers that connect the brain's two hemispheres. It’s now often known as Dr. Strangelove Syndrome.
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During the filming of John Huston’s 'Beat The Devil' Humphrey Bogart was in a serious car accident and had several teeth knocked out. When he was unable to provide some of his dialogue Peter Sellers was hired to dub his voice. It remains undetected in the movie to this day.
