Peter Sellers

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-09-08 (55 years old)

Deathday

1980-07-24

Place of Birth

Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK

Peter Sellers

Biography

Richard Henry Sellers, CBE, 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 ...

Acting

1964

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

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

1963

The Pink Panther

as Insp. Jacques Clouseau

1964

A Shot in the Dark

as Jacques Clouseau

1962

Lolita

as Clare Quilty

1979

The Prisoner of Zenda

as Rudolf IV/Rudolf V/Sidney Frewin

1980

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

as Fu Manchu / Nayland Smith

1979

Being There

as Chance

1960

The Millionairess

as Dr. Kabir

1965

What's New Pussycat?

as Dr. Fritz Fassbender

1968

The Party

as Hrundi V. Bakshi

1955

The Ladykillers

as Harry, alias 'Mr. Robinson'

1976

Murder by Death

as Sidney Wang

1978

Revenge of the Pink Panther

as Chief Inspector Clouseau

1969

The Magic Christian

as Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE

1962

The Road to Hong Kong

as Indian Neurologist (uncredited)

1975

The Return of the Pink Panther

as Inspector Clouseau

1967

Casino Royale

as Evelyn Tremble

1976

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

as Chief Inspector Clouseau

1970

Hoffman

as Mr. Hoffman

1959

The Mouse That Roared

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

1982

Trail of the Pink Panther

as Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (archive footage)

1959

I'm All Right Jack

as Fred Kite

1966

Alice in Wonderland

as King of Hearts

1957

1951

Penny Points to Paradise

as The Major / Arnold Fringe

1962

Trial and Error

as Wilfred Morgenhall

1959

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

as Prime Minister Amphibulos

1960

Never Let Go

as Lionel Meadows

1970

There's a Girl in My Soup

as Robert Danvers

1963

1962

Waltz of the Toreadors

as Gen. Leo Fitzjohn

1960

1974

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

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

1966

The Wrong Box

as Doctor Pratt

1960

Two-Way Stretch

as Dodger Lane

2007

Hitler: The Comedy Years

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

1957

The Naked Truth

as Sonny MacGregor

1985

1961

Mr. Topaze

as Auguste Topaze

1966

After the Fox

as Aldo Vanucci / Federico Fabrizi

1964

1973

The Blockhouse

as Rouquet

1951

Let's Go Crazy

as Multiple Roles

1962

Only Two Can Play

as John Lewis

1958

Tom Thumb

as Antony

1972

Where Does It Hurt?

as Dr. Albert T. Hopfnegal

1975

The Great McGonagall

as Queen Victoria

1964

1952

Down Among the Z Men

as Major Bloodnok

1954

Orders Are Orders

as Pvt. Goffin

1978

Kingdom Of Gifts

as The Slightly Larcenous Mayor

1970

1973

1967

The Bobo

as Juan Bautista

1992

Sellers' Best

as Self (archive footage)

1951

1958

Up the Creek

as CPO Doherty

1955

John and Julie

as Police Constable Diamond

2023

Peter Sellers: Genius at Work

as Self (archive footage)

1953

Our Girl Friday

as Voice of Parrot

1963

Heavens Above!

as The Rev. John Smallwood

1970

Simon Simon

as Man with Two Cars

1973

Ghost in the Noonday Sun

as Dick Scratcher

1956

The Man Who Never Was

as Winston Churchill (voice)

1981

Eric Sykes: One of the Great Troupers

as Self (archive material)

1957

Dearth of a Salesman

as Hector Dimwittie

2013

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

as The Villain Antony (archive footage)

2001

The Paranormal Peter Sellers

as Self (Archive footage)

2014

Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace

as Himself (archive footage)

1965

Birds, Bees and Storks

as Narrator (voice)

1953

Beat the Devil

as Billy Dannreuther (voice) (uncredited)

2018

The Ghost of Peter Sellers

as Himself (Archive)

1996

Spike

as Himself

1978

1950

The Black Rose

as Lu Chung (voice)

2020

Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy

as Self (Archival Footage)

2020

Kubrick by Kubrick

as Self (archive footage)

1951

1983

Koyaanisqatsi

as Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)

1953

The Super Secret Service

as Sir Walter Smood / Reuben J. Crouch

2025

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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