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60 Years Ago, Peter Sellers Got Into a Fistfight With His ‘Casino Royale’ Director Over Orson Welles

Joe McGrath says Sellers became furious after Princess Margaret ignored him for Orson Welles during ‘Casino Royale.’

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Pink Panther star Peter Sellers was well-known for his erratic behavior. Director Joe McGrath witnessed it firsthand while working with Sellers on the 1967 James Bond parody Casino Royale. The film was a troubled production as it was, but Sellers’s conduct behind the scenes didn’t serve to help matters any. According to McGrath, the problem stemmed from Sellers’s jealousy of his co-star, Orson Welles.

As McGrath explained in a recent........

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