Peter Sellers

ActorCrewDirectorEditorProducer Sep 8 (died age 54) Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK 1950–2025 (75 year career)

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Biography

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…

Known For

Film

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove

Film

Lolita

Clare Quilty

Film

Being There

Chance

Film

Koyaanisqatsi

Self (archive footage)

Film

The Party

Hrundi V. Bakshi

Film

Murder by Death

Sidney Wang

Film

The Pink Panther

Insp. Jacques Clouseau

Film

A Shot in the Dark

Jacques Clouseau

Filmography

Acting (132)

Movies (109)

John Candy: I Like Me

2025

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

7.9

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story

2025

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

8.0

Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders

2025

as Archive

10.0

Peter Sellers: Genius at Work

2023

as Self (archive footage)

Directed By Blake Edwards

2021

as Self

8.0

Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy

2020

as Self (Archival Footage)

8.0

The Ghost of Peter Sellers

2018

as Self (Archive)

5.8

Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace

2014

as Self (archive footage)

The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'

2013

as The Villain Antony (archive footage)

7.0

Hitler: The Comedy Years

2007

as Dr. Strangelove / Fred Kite (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.0

The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent

2005

as Self (archive footage)

6.8

Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'

2004

as Self (archive footage)

5.8

The Peter Sellers Story - As He Filmed It

2003

as Himself

The Paranormal Peter Sellers

2001

as Self (Archive footage)

The Unknown Peter Sellers

2000

8.0

Spike

1996

as Himself

The Peter Sellers Story

1995

as Himself

7.0

Sellers' Best

1992

as Self (archive footage)

The Very Best of Peter Sellers

1990

9.5

Muppet Video: Rowlf's Rhapsodies with the Muppets

1985

as Self

Muppet Treasures

1985

as Self

Koyaanisqatsi

1983

as Self (archive footage)

7.9

Trail of the Pink Panther

1982

as Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (archive footage)

5.2

Eric Sykes: One of the Great Troupers

1981

as Self (archive material)

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

1980

as Fu Manchu / Nayland Smith

4.8

Being There

1979

as Chance

7.6

The Prisoner of Zenda

1979

as Rudolf IV/Rudolf V/Sidney Frewin

5.7

Revenge of the Pink Panther

1978

as Chief Inspector Clouseau

6.4

Mickey's 50

1978

as Self

Kingdom Of Gifts

1978

as The Slightly Larcenous Mayor

To See Such Fun

1977

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

1976

as Chief Inspector Clouseau

6.9

Murder by Death

1976

as Sidney Wang

7.2

The Return of the Pink Panther

1975

as Inspector Clouseau

6.8

A Salute to Sir Lew Grade

1975

as Self

The Great McGonagall

1975

as Queen Victoria

5.2

Julie: My Favourite Things

1975

as Various

Flip Wilson... Of Course

1974

as Self

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

1974

as Général Latour / Major Robinson / Herr Schroeder / Adolf Hitler / The President / Prince Kyoto

4.3

Ghost in the Noonday Sun

1973

as Dick Scratcher

4.1

The Big Screen

1973

as Self

The Blockhouse

1973

as Rouquet

6.0

The Optimists of Nine Elms

1973

as Sam

6.6

The Last Goon Show of All

1972

as Self

6.0

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1972

as The March Hare

6.2

Where Does It Hurt?

1972

as Dr. Albert T. Hopfnegal

5.1

Hoffman

1970

as Mr. Hoffman

7.2

There's a Girl in My Soup

as Robert Danvers

A Day at the Beach

as Salesman

Simon Simon

as Man with Two Cars

Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town

1970

as G.W. Ross

The Magic Christian

1969

as Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE

5.6

Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?

1969

as Self

One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously

1969

The Party

1968

as Hrundi V. Bakshi

7.3

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!

as Harold

Casino Royale

as Evelyn Tremble

Woman Times Seven

as Jean

The Bobo

as Juan Bautista

With Love, Sophia

as Self

After the Fox

1966

as Aldo Vanucci/Federico Fabrizi

Alice in Wonderland

as King of Hearts

The Wrong Box

as Doctor Pratt

El Rey en Londres

What's New Pussycat?

as Dr. Fritz Fassbender

6.0

Birds, Bees and Storks

1965

as Narrator (voice)

6.0

The Music of Lennon & McCartney

1965

A Shot in the Dark

1964

as Jacques Clouseau

7.2

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

as Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove

8.1

Carol for Another Christmas

1964

as Imperial Me

5.8

The World of Henry Orient

as Henry Orient

I Say I Say I Say

The Pink Panther

as Insp. Jacques Clouseau

6.8

Heavens Above!

1963

as The Rev. John Smallwood

6.5

The Wrong Arm of the Law

as Pearly Gates

Lolita

as Clare Quilty

The Dock Brief

as Wilfred Morgenhall

6.5

Waltz of the Toreadors

1962

as Gen. Leo Fitzjohn

4.8

The Road to Hong Kong

1962

as Indian Neurologist (uncredited)

Only Two Can Play

as John Lewis

Mr. Topaze

as Auguste Topaze

Two-Way Stretch

as Dodger Lane

The Millionairess

as Dr. Kabir

The Battle of the Sexes

as Mr. Martin

Never Let Go

as Lionel Meadows

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

1959

as Prime Minister Amphibulos

6.1

The Mouse That Roared

1959

as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe

6.3

I'm All Right Jack

1959

as Fred Kite / Sir John Kennaway

6.6

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

Up the Creek

as CPO Doherty

Tom Thumb

as Antony

The Smallest Show on Earth

1957

as Percy Quill

6.5

The Naked Truth

1957

as "Wee" Sonny MacGregor

6.7

Insomnia is Good for You

1957

Dearth of a Salesman

1957

as Hector Dimwittie

The Man Who Never Was

1956

as Voice of Winston Churchill (uncredited)

7.0

The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn

1956

as Assorted

6.9

The Ladykillers

1955

as Harry, alias 'Mr. Robinson'

7.3

John and Julie

1955

as Police Constable Diamond

4.6

Orders Are Orders

1954

as Pvt. Goffin

6.4

The Super Secret Service

1953

as Sir Walter Smood / Reuben J. Crouch

4.5

Beat the Devil

1953

as Billy Dannreuther (voice) (uncredited)

Our Girl Friday

as Voice of Parrot

Down Among the Z Men

as Major Bloodnok

A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen"

as Voice narrator

Let's Go Crazy

as Multiple Roles

Penny Points to Paradise

1951

as The Major / Arnold Fringe

3.9

The Slappiest Days of Our Lives

1951

as (archive footage)

The Black Rose

1950

as Lu Chung (voice)

6.6

Television (23)

The Beatles: Get Back

2021

as Self

8.4

The World of Hammer

1994

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Funny Business

1992

as (archive footage)

7.0

Rire et sourire : Le Splendid

1978

as Extrait du film « La Malédiction de la Panthère rose », 1978

8.0

The Muppet Show

1976

as Self - Special Guest Star

Sykes

as Tommy Grando

V.I.P. Schaukel

as Self

This Is Tom Jones

as Self

It Takes a Thief

as Man in Harbor Records Office

7.2

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

as Self

One Pair of Eyes

ABC Stage 67

as Self

The Dean Martin Show

The Telegoons

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self (archive footage)

5.4

Tempo

1961

as Self

Theatre Night

1957

as The Sultan

Yes, It's The Cathode-Ray Tube Show!

1957

Son of Fred

1956

A Show Called Fred

1956

The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d

1956

And So To Bentley

1954

Talking Comedy

Crew (9)

Movies (9)

The Magic Christian

Additional Writing

The Caretaker

Thanks

I Say I Say I Say

Director

Mr. Topaze

1961

Director

5.6

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

1959

Editor

5.4

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

1959

Producer

5.4

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

1959

Writer

5.4

The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn

Additional Writing

Let's Go Crazy

Writer