Acting

Peter Sellers

Born September 8, 1925 · Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK

Died July 24, 1980 · aged 54

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 Davi…

Known For

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

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964

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

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

Lolita

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther · 1963

The Pink Panther

MovieComedyCrime

The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...

Casino Royale

Casino Royale · 1967

MovieAdventureAction

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark · 1964

A Shot in the Dark

MovieComedyMystery

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Revenge of the Pink Panther · 1978

Revenge of the Pink Panther

MovieComedyCrime

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.

Trail of the Pink Panther

Trail of the Pink Panther · 1982

Trail of the Pink Panther

MovieComedyCrime

The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.

Murder by Death

Murder by Death · 1976

Murder by Death

MovieComedyCrime

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

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

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964

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

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

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

Lolita

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Clare Quilty

The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther · 1963

The Pink Panther

MovieComedyCrime

The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...

Insp. Jacques Clouseau

Casino Royale

Casino Royale · 1967

MovieAdventureAction

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.

Evelyn Tremble

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark · 1964

A Shot in the Dark

MovieComedyMystery

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.

Jacques Clouseau

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Revenge of the Pink Panther · 1978

Revenge of the Pink Panther

MovieComedyCrime

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.

Chief Inspector Clouseau

Trail of the Pink Panther

Trail of the Pink Panther · 1982

Trail of the Pink Panther

MovieComedyCrime

The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.

Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (archive footage)

Murder by Death

Murder by Death · 1976

Murder by Death

MovieComedyCrime

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

Sidney Wang

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Pink Panther Strikes Again · 1976

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

MovieComedyCrime

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

Chief Inspector Clouseau

Being There

Being There · 1979

MovieComedyDrama

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

Chance

The Return of the Pink Panther

The Return of the Pink Panther · 1975

The Return of the Pink Panther

MovieComedyCrime

The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.

Inspector Clouseau

The Party

The Party · 1968

Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.

Hrundi V. Bakshi

The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers · 1955

The Ladykillers

MovieComedyCrime

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

Harry, alias 'Mr. Robinson'

The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared · 1959

The Mouse That Roared

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.

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

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda · 1979

The Prisoner of Zenda

MovieActionAdventure

Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.

Rudolf IV/Rudolf V/Sidney Frewin

Beat the Devil

Beat the Devil · 1953

MovieAdventureComedy

A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.

Billy Dannreuther (voice) (uncredited)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · 1972

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

MovieFamilyFantasy

An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.

The March Hare

What's New Pussycat?

What's New Pussycat? · 1965

What's New Pussycat?

MovieComedyRomance

A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.

Dr. Fritz Fassbender

The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was · 1956

The Man Who Never Was

MovieThrillerWar

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.

Voice of Winston Churchill (uncredited)

Woman Times Seven

Woman Times Seven · 1967

Woman Times Seven

MovieComedyDrama

Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.

Jean

There's a Girl in My Soup

There's a Girl in My Soup · 1970

There's a Girl in My Soup

MovieComedyRomance

TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.

Robert Danvers

The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box · 1966

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

Doctor Pratt

The Magic Christian

The Magic Christian · 1969

The Magic Christian

Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.

Additional Writing

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! · 1968

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!

MovieComedyRomance

Harold Fine is a self-described square - a 35-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who's not looking forward to middle age nor his upcoming wedding. His life changes when he falls in love with Nancy, a free-spirited, innocent, and beautiful young hippie. After Harold and his family enjoy some of her "groovy" brownies, he decides to "drop out" with her and become a hippie too. But can he return to his old life when he discovers that the hippie lifestyle is just a little too independent and irresponsible for his tastes?

Harold

The Dean Martin Show

The Dean Martin Show · 1965

The Dean Martin Show

The Dean Martin Show, also known as The Dean Martin Variety Show, is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by entertainer Dean Martin. The theme song to the series was his 1964 hit "Everybody Loves Somebody."

It Takes a Thief

It Takes a Thief · 1968

It Takes a Thief

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Convicted cat burglar Alexander Mundy gets an offer he can't refuse from the United States government: If he puts his formidable thieving skills to work for them, he'll be released from prison. Alexander's dad, Alister, sometimes comes out of retirement as a thief to help his son on special jobs.

Man in Harbor Records Office

Sykes

Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.

Tommy Grando

Whicker's World

Whicker's World · 1959

Whicker's World

SeriesDocumentary

Whicker's World is an award-winning British television documentary series that ran from 1958 to 1994, presented by journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker. Originally a segment on the BBC's Tonight programme in 1958, Whicker's World became a fully-fledged television series in its own right in the 1960s. The series was first shown by the BBC until 1968, and then by ITV from 1969 to 1983, when it was produced by Yorkshire Television, in which Whicker himself was a shareholder. The series returned to the BBC in 1984, and to ITV again in 1992.

One Pair of Eyes

One Pair of Eyes · 1967

One Pair of Eyes

SeriesDocumentary

A monthly series of highly personal documentary films in which individuals are given a platform to discuss issues close to their heart.

Theatre Night

Theatre Night · 1957

A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.

The Sultan

Funny Business

Funny Business · 1992

Funny Business is a documentary style television series about the craft of comedy consisting of six 50-minute episodes. The first episode aired in the UK 22 November 1992. The show was also shown in Germany and released on video. It was directed by David Hinton. The writers were Rowan Atkinson, Robin Driscoll, and David Hinton. It was produced by Tiger Television Productions. The show featured appearances by many comedians, including Rowan Atkinson who made an appearance both as the presenter/narrator, and as an aspiring comedy actor named Kevin. Atkinson demonstrated many of the principles of comedy in a manner which was instantly identifiable to anyone familiar with his Mr. Bean character.

(archive footage)

The Telegoons

The Telegoons · 1963

The Telegoons is a comedy puppet show, adapted from the highly successful BBC radio comedy show of the 1950s.

Rire et sourire : Le Splendid

Rire et sourire : Le Splendid · 1978

Rire et sourire : Le Splendid

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