Gosh! Was waiting for Sellers to make his appearance - then realized the "tough guy" had to be him! I've seen almost every Sellers role but didn't recognise him here at all. What a master!
Many of Eric Sykes shows in the 70s were remakes of his shows in the 60s . This was one of them The Stranger. Original made 11 years previously in 1961 . The Peter Sellers part was then played by Leo McKern.
Eric and Hattie I was thinking just then that he played a similar character in an episode of Steptoe and Son, but then remembered that it was actually Leonard Rossiter
I had no idea or intention to find out that, this was actually Peter Sellers' last role. I thought it was when he appeared as; Chance Johnson in the 1980, Rated PG comedy movie called 'Being There!'
Being There was not a comedy. Peter Sellers' last movie was The Fiendish Plot Of Dr Fu Manchu, which _is_ a comedy. Not a very good one. He fired Piers Haggard, the guy directing it, halfway through filming and reshot large chunks of the film with himself in the directors chair. It was released in August 1980, 15 days after his death. Technically speaking, his very last movie is 1982's Trail Of The Pink Panther, which incorporates about half an hour of deleted scenes from The Pink Panther Strikes Again.
What Chance Johnson did in 'Being There,' was totally impossible. Can you believe what Joseph Ceracini did how he kept him from going to school, during the 1920s and 30s?
This was a reunion: Eric Sykes had worked as a writer on The Goon Show, where he'd met Peter Sellers years before. By the way, Sellers's character in Being There was simply named Chance, the gardener; where the heck is everybody getting Johnson?
.Hi there 🙂🌻🤞🏻.. just my humble opinion . .. . .I think it's **Chauncey***.. (nicknamed ' Chaunce' .. silent 'e' ..) Gardener.🌱🌱🌻🌻.I have the film and never have I heard👂 Mr. Sellers' character referred to as 'Chance' ☺️...silent 'a' .. 🤨🤔🙄..🍀☕☕☕
@@jmason2838 Early in the film, he identifies himself as "Chance, the gardener". Later on, when Shirley MacLaine picks him up in the limo, she asks him his name after giving him an alcoholic drink. Chance hasn't ever drunk alcohol before; when he tries to say "Chance the gardener", he chokes on it, and Shirley mishears it as "Chauncey Gardiner" ... ... much as you did ...
Add to above: Much later, the doctor (Richard Dysart) asks Chance outright, "Your name is Chance, isn't it? and you are a gardener?" And Chance, blissfully unaware of all that has gone before, confirms this with a smile. And Dr. Dysart lets it ride ...
Not _quite_ true. Sellers' last TV role was as 'Monty Casino' in a series of Barclays Bank adverts shot in Ireland in 1980, mere weeks before his death. He nearly died of a heart attack while filming one of those, in fact.
Peter Sellers was a highly gifted comic actor. The fact that you can see it's still Peter Sellers in this piece might be something to do with the fact that they were performing in front of a studio audience, and Peter was the special guest star. He would be expected to be Peter Sellers, albeit in the guise of a Cockney bad boy.
Show me one actor you don't recognise in a role. Apart maybe from one dressed in an animal costume. It was funny, and because we knew it was Sellers.on top form.
What a true genius Peter Sellers was...incredible.
I miss him
Gosh! Was waiting for Sellers to make his appearance - then realized the "tough guy" had to be him! I've seen almost every Sellers role but didn't recognise him here at all. What a master!
@Skylab 5691 Spot on 100%, Sellers was a genius.
Peter , Eric and Hattie were great . Great London humour .
I think he’s doing one fantastic job. He isn’t himself, he is 100% that character!
i thought he was Al Pacino he was so brilliant
In memory of Peter the best pink panther
Many of Eric Sykes shows in the 70s were remakes of his shows in the 60s . This was one of them The Stranger. Original made 11 years previously in 1961 . The Peter Sellers part was then played by Leo McKern.
all of them - on the edge of corpsing. brilliant!
Great stuff. In memory of Peter the best pink panther.
Actually The Pink Panther was a Diamond
Eric and Hattie
I was thinking just then that he played a similar character in an episode of Steptoe and Son, but then remembered that it was actually Leonard Rossiter
Brilliant 👏 👏 ❤
I had no idea or intention to find out that, this was actually Peter Sellers' last role. I thought it was when he appeared as; Chance Johnson in the 1980, Rated PG comedy movie called 'Being There!'
Being There was not a comedy. Peter Sellers' last movie was The Fiendish Plot Of Dr Fu Manchu, which _is_ a comedy. Not a very good one. He fired Piers Haggard, the guy directing it, halfway through filming and reshot large chunks of the film with himself in the directors chair. It was released in August 1980, 15 days after his death. Technically speaking, his very last movie is 1982's Trail Of The Pink Panther, which incorporates about half an hour of deleted scenes from The Pink Panther Strikes Again.
This was his last TELEVISION role
Great stuff
He did the muppets tv show after this
No, that was years before this…after this he kicked it
What a genius
What Chance Johnson did in 'Being There,' was totally impossible. Can you believe what Joseph Ceracini did how he kept him from going to school, during the 1920s and 30s?
Sellers is doing the voice of Michael Caine.
Not a lot of people know that.
❤🎉❤
She sounds like Smeigal!!
This was a reunion: Eric Sykes had worked as a writer on The Goon Show, where he'd met Peter Sellers years before.
By the way, Sellers's character in Being There was simply named Chance, the gardener; where the heck is everybody getting Johnson?
.Hi there 🙂🌻🤞🏻.. just my humble opinion . .. . .I think it's **Chauncey***.. (nicknamed ' Chaunce' .. silent 'e' ..) Gardener.🌱🌱🌻🌻.I have the film and never have I heard👂 Mr. Sellers' character referred to as 'Chance' ☺️...silent 'a' .. 🤨🤔🙄..🍀☕☕☕
@@jmason2838 Early in the film, he identifies himself as "Chance, the gardener".
Later on, when Shirley MacLaine picks him up in the limo, she asks him his name after giving him an alcoholic drink.
Chance hasn't ever drunk alcohol before; when he tries to say "Chance the gardener", he chokes on it, and Shirley mishears it as "Chauncey Gardiner" ...
... much as you did ...
Add to above:
Much later, the doctor (Richard Dysart) asks Chance outright, "Your name is Chance, isn't it? and you are a gardener?"
And Chance, blissfully unaware of all that has gone before, confirms this with a smile.
And Dr. Dysart lets it ride ...
Not _quite_ true. Sellers' last TV role was as 'Monty Casino' in a series of Barclays Bank adverts shot in Ireland in 1980, mere weeks before his death. He nearly died of a heart attack while filming one of those, in fact.
He looks like Sly Stallone
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🙌🙌🙌
Cut off way too quick . Funniest part is when he " snogs" hattie jakes
Will you always remember the time when Peter Sellers worked with Stanley Kubrick, the author of 'Eyes Wide Shut?'
It was Lolita who during 3001 told Closeau, and I’ll never forget this:
Ever noticed how comedians seem to die young from heart attacks!!!!!
Especially this year.😉
Peter's intake of amyl nitrate didn't help. His first attack came after a session with Britt Ekland.
@@billcobbett9259 Not surprised with that .
What else Chance Johnson did that was impossible was when, he made no previous bank statements. He said; "I've never ridden in a car before."
Chance Johnson told one woman who was a newsreporter; "I don't know how to read or write!" We ought to get completely/totally shocked about this.
Sellers was a Mason, hence the joke.
Not funny. And you can still see he's Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers was a highly gifted comic actor. The fact that you can see it's still Peter Sellers in this piece might be something to do with the fact that they were performing in front of a studio audience, and Peter was the special guest star. He would be expected to be Peter Sellers, albeit in the guise of a Cockney bad boy.
Show me one actor you don't recognise in a role. Apart maybe from one dressed in an animal costume. It was funny, and because we knew it was Sellers.on top form.
Is this meant to be funny?