Career
Michael Sellers' film career started early when at age seven he played the role of Gaston in the film Mr. Topaze, directed by his father. As an adult he became a builder and property dealer. He was also a car salesman, musician and writer.
He went on to star in I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan (2005), a film he did in collaboration with the children of Spike Milligan. He also wrote three biographical books about his father.
Despite his turbulent relationship with his father, he often defended his father's legacy. Upon the release of the 2004 film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, based on the book of the same name by Roger Lewis, Sellers railed against Lewis and Stephen Hopkins, the film's director. Sellers was incensed at the portrayal of his father as clinically insane. Sellers, at the time, called Roger Lewis' book "400 pages of rubbish". Hopkins responded to Seller's comments when he appeared at the film festival to promote the film, stating that the film was not disrespectful to Peter Sellers.
In 2000 he authored his last book, Sellers On Sellers, where he wrote:
He had been there: starred in the movies, married the young women, driven the fast cars, taken the drugs, drunk the wine, made all the cash, spent the cash and let down all those people who had ever really cared for him.Michael Sellers died of a heart attack, like his father, exactly 26 years to the day after Peter Sellers' death.
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