Peter Sellers
Acting
🎂 1925-09-08
Richard Henry Sellers, CBE (September 8, 1925 – July 24, 1980), known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, for playing three different characters in Dr. Strangelove, as Clare Quilty in Lolita, and as the man-child and TV-addicted Chance the gardener in his penultimate film, Being There. Leading actress Bette Davis once remarked of him, "He isn't an actor—he's a chameleon." Sellers rose to fame on the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. His ability to speak in different accents (e.g., French, Indian, American, German, as well as British regional accents), along with his talent to portray a range of characters to comic effect, contributed to his success as a radio personality and screen actor and earned him national and international nominations and awards. Many of his characters became ingrained in public perception of his work. Sellers' private life was characterized by turmoil and crises, and included emotional problems and substance abuse. Sellers was married four times, and had three children from the first two marriages. An enigmatic figure, he often claimed to have no identity outside the roles that he played, but he left his own portrait since, "he obsessively filmed his homes, his family, people he knew, anything that took his fancy right to the end of his life—intimate film that remained undiscovered until long after his death in 1980." The director Peter Hall has said: "Peter had the ability to identify completely with another person, and think his way physically, mentally and emotionally into their skin. Where does that come from? I have no idea. Is it a curse? Often. I think it's not enough though in this business to have talent. You have to have talent to handle the talent. And that I think Peter did not have." Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Sellers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(124)
Self (archive footage)
1961
Man in Harbor Records Office
1968
Self
1969
Self
2021
1965
Tommy Grando
1972
Self - Special Guest Star
1976
Self
1968
1963
Self
1971
1954
Self
1966
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
1964
Jacques Clouseau
1964
Evelyn Tremble
1967
Clare Quilty
1962
Percy Quill
1957
Insp. Jacques Clouseau
1963
1956
1956
The March Hare
1972
1957
Chance
1979
Extrait du film « La Malédiction de la Panthère rose », 1978
1978
Inspector Clouseau
1975
Chief Inspector Clouseau
1976
Sidney Wang
1976
Hrundi V. Bakshi
1968
Chief Inspector Clouseau
1978
Billy Dannreuther (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Harry, alias 'Mr. Robinson'
1955
Voice of Parrot
1953
Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (archive footage)
1982
1956
Winston Churchill (voice)
1956
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE
1969
(archive footage)
1992
Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe
1959
Lu Chung (voice)
1950
Doctor Pratt
1966
Dr. Fritz Fassbender
1965
Pvt. Goffin
1954
Fred Kite
1959
Aldo Vanucci / Federico Fabrizi
1966
Henry Orient
1964
Dodger Lane
1960
Jean
1967
Dr. Kabir
1960
Pearly Gates
1963
Indian Neurologist (uncredited)
1962
Auguste Topaze
1961
Harold
1968
Fu Manchu / Nayland Smith
1980
Sonny MacGregor
1957
Antony
1958
Mr. Hoffman
1970
Dr. Albert T. Hopfnegal
1972
Dr. Strangelove / Fred Kite (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
Sam
1973
Robert Danvers
1970
King of Hearts
1966
Self
1978
Salesman
1970
Juan Bautista
1967
Lionel Meadows
1960
Prime Minister Amphibulos
1959
Rudolf IV/Rudolf V/Sidney Frewin
1979
Général Latour / Major Robinson / Herr Schroeder / Adolf Hitler / The President / Prince Kyoto
1974
Gen. Leo Fitzjohn
1962
Self (archive footage)
2020
Mr. Martin
1960
CPO Doherty
1958
Self (archive footage)
2004
Assorted
1956
The Rev. John Smallwood
1963
John Lewis
1962
1965
Imperial Me
1964
1969
Major Bloodnok
1952
Rouquet
1973
Man with Two Cars
1970
The Major / Arnold Fringe
1951
(archive footage)
1951
Self (archive footage)
2023
Queen Victoria
1975
Dick Scratcher
1973
Self (Archival Footage)
2020
The Villain Antony (archive footage)
2013
Himself (Archive)
2018
Wilfred Morgenhall
1962
1966
Self
1985
Self
1985
Voice narrator
1951
1990
1969
Self (archive footage)
2005
Police Constable Diamond
1955
1959
1977
Himself
1996
Self
1975
Self
1973
1964
Self (Archive footage)
2001
Various
1975
G.W. Ross
1970
Self
1974
Himself
1995
Hector Dimwittie
1957
Sir Walter Smood / Reuben J. Crouch
1953
Himself (archive footage)
2014
Narrator (voice)
1965
Self
1972
Self (archive footage)
1992
Self (archive material)
1981
1957
Self
2021
The Slightly Larcenous Mayor
1978
Himself
2003
Multiple Roles
1951
