What is the name of the character played by Peter Sellers in the movie that inspired Mastermind?
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Mastermind (film) Mastermind is a Charlie Chan spoof filmed in 1969 that sat on the shelf for seven years before receiving a limited theatrical release in 1976. It has developed a cult following in recent years since making its home video debut. The second of producer Malcolm Stuart's two-picture deal with screenwriter, William Peter Blatty, the project was inspired by the success of the 1964 Peter Sellers comedy, A Shot in the Dark which Blatty had co-written with producer/director Blake Edwards. Blatty's script was drastically revised by Ian McLellan Hunter prior to production and the disgruntled screenwriter chose the pseudonym of Terence Clyne for his screen credit. By 1973 it had recorded a loss of $2.9 million. Blatty's original screenplay was published as part of a limited edition collection by Lonely Road Books in 2013 under the title, Five Lost Screenplays by William Peter Blatty.
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A Shot in the Dark (1964 film) A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards. It is the second installment in "The Pink Panther" series. Peter Sellers is featured again as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté.
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A View to a Kill A View to a Kill (1985) is the fourteenth spy film of the "James Bond" series, and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Although the title is adapted from Ian Fleming's short story "From a View to a Kill", the film has an entirely original screenplay. In "A View to a Kill", Bond is pitted against Max Zorin, who plans to destroy California's Silicon Valley.
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Let's Go Crazy (film) Let's Go Crazy is a 1951 comedy film marking an early appearance of Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers playing multiple roles.
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James Bond in film The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond, "007", who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming. It is one of the longest continually-running film series in history, having been in on-going production from 1962 to the present (with a six-year hiatus between 1989 and 1995). In that time Eon Productions has produced 24 films, most of them at Pinewood Studios. With a combined gross of over $7 billion to date, the films produced by Eon constitute the fourth-highest-grossing film series. Six actors have portrayed 007 in the Eon series, the latest being Daniel Craig.
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Oswald Cobblepot (Gotham) Oswald Cobblepot, known as The Penguin, is a fictional character who appears on the Fox TV series Gotham. He is portrayed by American actor Robin Lord Taylor and is based on the character of the same name, created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, that appears as one of Batman's greatest foes. He has been considered the show's breakout character.
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Major Bloodnok Major Denis Bloodnok is a fictional character from the 1950s BBC Radio comedy "The Goon Show". He was voiced by Peter Sellers.
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The Bobo The Bobo is a 1967 British comedy film starring Peter Sellers and co-starring his then-wife Britt Ekland.
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Nancy Wilkinson Nancy Wilkinson (29 September 1919 – 21 November 1999) was the winner of the first BBC TV Mastermind quiz series in 1972.
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Wallander: Mastermind Wallander - Mastermind is a 2005 film about the Swedish police detective Kurt Wallander directed by Peter Flinth.
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Elizabeth Horrocks Elizabeth Horrocks (born 3 May 1946) is an author and winner of the BBC quiz series "Mastermind".
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Filming of James Bond in the 1960s Ian Fleming, the writer who created the fictional character James Bond, lived to see the success of his novels depicted on screen before he died. All fourteen books in the series created by Fleming went on to be huge successes on screen. Goldfinger, one of the most epic stories in the James Bond saga, became a fan favorite with Shirley Bassey singing the iconic song, Goldfinger, that was played for the fiftieth anniversary of the Bond series at the Oscars in 2012. Bond was played by Sean Connery and George Lazenby in the movies shot throughout the 60s. The Bond movies were filmed all across the world and by different directors each time, with some of the old directors collaborating with the new ones. The success of each Bond film lead to bigger budget prices for the following films adapted to the big screen. Each movie recovered its budget and won critically acclaimed awards the years that they came out. Of all the Bond films in cinema today, Thunderball is the most successful movie with the whole Bond series being the third highest grossing of all time in Hollywood cinema.
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Mastermind (Irish TV series) Mastermind was an Irish television quiz show that aired on TV3 as part of its autumn/winter 2011 schedule. The show is licensed to TV3 through BBC Worldwide.
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Celestial Toymaker The Celestial Toymaker is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series, "Doctor Who". He was played by Michael Gough, and featured in the 1966 story "The Celestial Toymaker" by Brian Hayles.
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Michael Klinger (producer) Michael Klinger (1 November 1920 – 15 September 1989) was a British film producer and distributor. After Tony Tenser, then a publicist became his business partner, the two men created the Compton cinema chain and distribution company and financed "Repulsion" (1965) and "Cul-de-sac" (1966) both directed by Roman Polanski. After their association ended, Klinger produced "Get Carter" (1971), starring Michael Caine, and "Gold" (1974), with Roger Moore in the lead, and was the executive producer of the 'Confessions' series of sex comedies with Robin Askwith.
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Johnny English Johnny English is a 2003 British-American spy comedy film parodying the James Bond secret agent genre infused with comedy similar to Atkinson's Mr. Bean character. The film stars Rowan Atkinson, Natalie Imbruglia, Ben Miller and John Malkovich. The screenplay was written by Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, with William Davies, and the film was directed by Peter Howitt. It is the first installment of the "Johnny English film series".
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Peter the Brazen Peter the Brazen is a fictional pulp character written by George F. Worts under his pen-name Loring Brent. Peter Moore—his true name—is considered by pulp historians Rick Lai and Will Murray an early inspiration of Lester Dent's character Doc Savage (Dent was an avid reader of "Argosy").
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You Only Live Twice (film) You Only Live Twice (1967) is the fifth spy film in the "James Bond" series, and the fifth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name. It is the first "James Bond" film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story.
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Austin Powers (character) Sir Austin Danger Powers, KBE, is a fictional character from the Austin Powers series of films, and is created and portrayed by Mike Myers. He is the protagonist of "" (1997), "The Spy Who Shagged Me" (1999) and "Austin Powers in Goldmember" (2002). He is a womanizing, hard-partying British spy embodying the Swinging London mod culture and hippie culture of the 1960s who, with his nemesis Dr. Evil, was frozen in a cryonics experiment. The series' humor follows his attempts to adjust to the modern world as he continues to try to save it from terrorism.
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Master Man (Marvel Comics) Master Man is the name of three fictional characters that appear in comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (film) The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella. An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel of the same name, the film stars Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf, Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge Sherwood and Cate Blanchett as Meredith Logue.
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The Saint (novel) The Saint is the title of a mystery novel by Burl Barer published by Pocket Books in 1997. It was based upon the screenplay for the film "The Saint", which in turn was loosely based upon the character Simon Templar, created by Leslie Charteris. Val Kilmer portrayed Templar and is pictured on the book's front cover.