High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 film British/American about the life of English comedy actor Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis`s book of the same name. It was directed by Stephen Hopkins and starred Geoffrey Rush as Sellers, Miriam Margolyes as his mother Peg Sellers, Emily Watson as his first wife Anne Howe, Charlize Theron as his second wife Britt Ekland, John Lithgow as Blake Edwards, Stephen Fry as Maurice Woodruff and Stanley Tucci as Stanley Kubrick.