Peter Sellers starred in the title role, as well as playing the somewhat vague U.S. President.
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The Peter Sellers award for comedy was presented to the black comedy Sightseers, directed by Ben Wheatley.
He also did the makeup for Peter Sellers in "Doctor Strangelove, " Lucasfilm said on its starwars.com website.
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Milligan, along with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, had revolutionised radio comedy in the 1950s with their anarchic and absurdist Goon Shows.
K. Simmons, and Ryan Hurst, cannot hope to match the fooling of Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, and Herbert Lom in the earlier film.
The Goon Show, which also starred Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine, was first broadcast in 1949, and enjoyed a nine-year run.
Freeborn went on to work with director Stanley Kubrick, designing the three different faces sported by Peter Sellers in Cold War satire Doctor Strangelove.
Wheatley, whose previous films include Down Terrace and the Kill List, has a further nod with a nomination for the Peter Sellers award for comedy.
In a year when Hollywood seems like one big biographical wax museum, Steve Martin does not play Inspector Clouseau rather, he plays Peter Sellers playing the role.
The Republic's militia, were it not for its arsenal of guns and explosives, could pass for the cast of an Ealing comedy, with Peter Sellers in the lead.
Which is precisely what happens to the Presidents played by Henry Fonda in Fail-Safe and Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove, both released the same year as The Best Man.
Fifteen years later, his son Anthony, together with another Italian, Paul Peter Colnaghi, moved to London, establishing themselves as sellers and publishers of prints.
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