Patrick Cargill (1965), "The Magic Christian" (1969) with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr and Charlie Chaplin's "A Countess from Hong Kong", in which he played the part of the butler, Hudson. A lesser known detail of Cargill's showbusiness career is the handful of recordings that he made in the 1960s and 1970s. The first was an album called "Father, Dear Father" (1969) in which Cargill sang a medley of songs. The female voice on the album was not Noel Dyson (Nanny) but that of June Hunt, a friend of Cargill. He followed this with three singles. One called "Father, Dear Father Christmas"
Peter Sellers was Sellers who "changed like a chameleon throughout the era, dazzling audiences". In a 2005 poll to find "The Comedian's Comedian", Sellers was voted 14 in the list of the top 20 greatest comedians by fellow comics and comedy insiders. Sellers and "The Goon Show" were a strong influence on the Monty Python performers, as well as on Peter Cook, who described Sellers as "the best comic actor in the world". The British actor Stephen Mangan stated that Sellers was a large influence, as did the comedians Alan Carr and Rob Brydon. The comic performer Sacha Baron Cohen referred to