Cast
Many familiar faces have small roles in the film: Edward Tudor-Pole (former Tenpole Tudor lead singer and second presenter of The Crystal Maze) plays Spike Milligan and The League of Gentlemen's Steve Pemberton plays Harry Secombe. Mackenzie Crook of The Office also has a small role as a luxury automobile salesman and Richard Ayoade from The IT Crowd in a bit-part as a photographer. In The Trip, actor and comedian Rob Brydon plays a fictionalized version of himself and claims that he had a bit part in the film where he impersonated Dustin Hoffman giving his acceptance speech but was subsequently cut out. Ray Ellington was played by his son, Lance Ellington.
- Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers
- Charlize Theron as Britt Ekland
- Emily Watson as Anne Sellers
- John Lithgow as Blake Edwards
- Miriam Margolyes as Peg Sellers
- Peter Vaughan as Bill Sellers
- Sonia Aquino as Sophia Loren
- Stanley Tucci as Stanley Kubrick
- Stephen Fry as Maurice Woodruff
- Henry Goodman as Dennis Selinger
- Alison Steadman as the Casting Agent
- Emilia Fox as Lynne Frederick
- Nigel Havers as David Niven
- Heidi Klum as Ursula Andress
- Lucy Punch as a Stewardess
- Joseph Long as Carlo Ponti
Read more about this topic: The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers
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