![]() ![]() But as far as he and I were concerned he was up there with Rudolf Valentino in the hot stakes.īorn Henry Peter Sellers in 1925 in my native Portsmouth he started in comedy during the Second World War where a talent for mimicry took him out from behind a drum kit, and gained worldwide fame first as a member of The Goons with Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan and then as the hapless Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series of movies.īut when Casino Royale came along his inner romantic lead sprang to life – in both our eyes at least.Ĭasino Royale did not work out well. Granted, Sellers was not the most natural and obvious of sex symbols. Thus began my obsession with being a spy (and Bionic) and with Casino Royale (1967). My mother won Herb Alpert’s Greatest Hits in a radio call-in competition and The Champions aired on TV. Two things happened in my late 60s childhood.
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