Remembering Peter Sellers

by Graham Stark

Book by Stark, Graham

212 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Tabatha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full disclosure: I'm a Peter Sellers fanatic. He was a fascinating, complex, contrary, immensely talented, and confusing individual. I'll read anything and everything written about him and watch anything and everything that he was ever in, no matter how terrible. Luckily for me, this book was a joy to read. It was refreshing to read a book by someone who knew him, respected him, and, more importantly, loved him. "Remembering Peter Sellers" is currently ranking as my favorite out of all of the biographies I have read about him.

Being best friends with Peter since the end of the war as well as appearing in many of Peter Sellers' films, Graham Stark gives a unique account of life with Peter Sellers through stories of events both on set and away from it. He doesn't gloss over his faults nor does he harp on them, as other biographies do, rather he forgives them.

You get a good glimpse into how Peter was around his friends, versus the way he was with directors, producers, and fellow actors. You also get a fair account of his wives, another unique aspect of this book versus other biographies. They are treated with respect and yet Graham doesn't shy away from giving his opinion of them, which is not always a positive one. You get a picture of Peter's descent emotionally, professionally, and physically. It is, as always, painful to read but it is treated with the affection and sorrow of someone who was close to him rather than being used as fodder for a biographer's own armchair psychiatry.

... And the pictures included in the book are worth the price of admission alone.

[Ujval Nanavati · Rating 4 out of 5]

Graham Stark and Peter Sellers were the best of friends for decades and acted together in several films. This little audio book narrated by Stark himself is an intimate account of the friendship. It is not a Sellers biography as Stark makes it clear at the start itself.

Must read for any Sellers fan.

[A Cesspool · Rating 2 out of 5]

like he narrates at the very top, '...this is not a biography, rather...' re-telling of my infrequent Pete interactions

[Rupert · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice chatty book about Senor Sellers by one of his lifelong closest friends. Didn't go into much depth about the films or much of anything else, though, other than saying Peter's mom was extremely possessive and he was an obvious, occasionally deluded womanizer. Kind of became a back door autobiography of Graham Stark and his career, which was okay because he seems like a good fellow.

[Jaime · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a very touching and heartfelt bok about two firends, Peter sellers and Graham Stark, the author. The actors shared a bond ike brothers and it shows. This book is good but tnot a complete biography. Stil, it was worth the read.