and police inspectors and he again played opposite Michel Piccoli once again in Luís Buñuel’s swan song, Le Fantôme de la Liberté. He continued acting through 1985, and died of a heart attack on February 19, 1986, in Rome. Celi’s performance as Valmont is believably ruthless and a valuable asset to the film, though his line readings are compromised by his post-synched English. The international cast was rounded out with the British gap-toothed co- median Terry-Thomas, who filmed his two amusing scenes as the Min- ister of the Interior and Minister of Finance in a single day. Often cast as a lascivious rogue, rascal, or dandified twit, Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens was born July 14, 1911, in Finchley, near London, and made his earliest screen appearances under his screen name in 1940. By 1949, he had attained enough success to play himself in such films as Helter Skelter and The Queen Steps Out, and he became a television star in the 1950s thanks to regular appearances on How Do You View? (which he also wrote), Strictly T-T, and My Wildest Dream. After becoming a fixture in sex comedies produced and directed by the Boulting brothers, Terry-Tho- mas fuelled his celebrity with an au- tobiography (1959’s Filling the Gap), and then moved up to large-scale, often international productions, such as George Pal’s The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962), Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), and Those Mag- nificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). Prior to Diabolik, he had ap- peared in a number of spy pictures— including Don Sharp’s Our Man in Marrakesh/Bang! Bang! You’re Dead (1966), Henry Levin’s Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966), and the makeshift Man From U.N.C.L.E. fea- ture, The Karate Killers (1967)— which made him very appropriate casting. Terry-Thomas ended his career in the late 1970s with Paul Morrissey’s comedy The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978, starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore). In 1980, he announced his retirement by pub- licly revealing that he had been liv- ing with Parkinson’s disease for close to a decade. In the late 1980s, the US syndicated series Entertainment