Peter Sellers: Mild-Mannered & Many-Guised

September, 1961

Peter Sellers:mild-mannered & many-guised unassuming, unactorish Peter Sellers is comfortably riding the crest of England's New Wave of film funnymen. The diffident thirty-five-year-old student prince of English comedy may soon succeed to the throne if its current tenant, Alec Guinness, continues to be preoccupied with the serious side of the cinema. Sellers, who uses his almost unearthly talent for mimicry ("I work from the voice inward") as a self-effacing shield, has confessed his i...