Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928), U.S. director, screenwriter, Peter George (1925–1966), U.S. screenwriter, and Terry Southern (1928–1995), U.S. screenwriter. President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, breaking up a fight between an American general and the Soviet ambassador (1964).
Adapted from Peter George's novel Red Alert, which he wrote under the pseudonym Peter Bryant.