Peter Sellers in one of his last English language TV interviews

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Peter Sellers talks about his Oscar nominated film Being There - and his experience of dying and coming back to life.
One of my favourite comedic actors was British star, and member of The Goons, Peter Sellers, whose films, like The Pink Panther series, Dr Strangelove, The Party and Lolita entertained millions around the world.
In 1979 his film Being There, a brilliant political satire co-starring Shirley Maclaine, was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
But there was great speculation in the London media that illness would prevent him attending the festival. Some years prior to that he had once clinically died.
So the speculation about his health was quite serious.
But Peter did attend the Festival, and a few days after the film’s screening, he sat down for a series of one-on-one interviews, at the six star Hotel Du Cap, along the coast from Cannes
Little did I know it would be one of his last English language TV interviews.
I began by asking him how he came to get the role of the enigmatic character Chauncey Gardner, which won him an Oscar nomination, and a Golden Globe, for Best Actor:.
Very Sadly, barely two months after we did the interview, Peter collapsed and died in the Dorchester Hotel in London, on the eve of a planned Goon Show gang reunion.
His final film was The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu, co-starring Helen Mirren, American comedian Sid Caesar and John Le Mesurier.

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