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The problem with Peter Sellers improvising dialogue
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The real Peter Sellers
Ken Adam
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He also had all these... fixated ideas that Peter Sellers was the greatest actor in the world, but Peter had been a friend of mine when we were both very poor, you know, after the war and I knew that Peter had this enormous talent of… I don’t know, making a... caricature of somebody he knew, you know, but... and that was his greatest talent, you know. Unbelievable clown, really, in many senses.
Sir Kenneth Adam (1921-2016), OBE, born Klaus Hugo Adam, was a production designer famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s. Initially, he trained as an architect in London, but in October 1943, he became one of only two German-born fighter pilots to fly with the RAF in wartime. He joined 609 Squadron where he flew the Hawker Typhoon fighter bomber. After the war, he entered the film industry, initially as a draughtsman on This Was a Woman. His portfolio of work includes Barry Lyndon and The Madness of King George; he won an Oscar for both films. Having a close relationship with Stanley Kubrick, he also designed the set for the iconic war room in Dr Strangelove. Sir Ken Adam was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.
Title: The real Peter Sellers
Listeners: Christopher Sykes
Christopher Sykes is an independent documentary producer who has made a number of films about science and scientists for BBC TV, Channel Four, and PBS.
Tags: Dr Strangelove, Peter Sellers, Stanley Kubrick
Duration: 47 seconds
Date story recorded: December 2010 and January 2011
Date story went live: 07 September 2011
