Peter Sellers

Personal Info

Birthday

September 8, 1925

Day of Death

1980-07-24

(54 years old)

Place of Birth

Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK

Also Known As

A. Queen

彼得·塞勒斯

پیتر سلرز

Richard Henry Sellers

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.

Known For

It Takes a Thief

Sykes

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

Lolita

Casino Royale

The Pink Panther

The Smallest Show on Earth

The Return of the Pink Panther

Filmography

2025
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
as Archive
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Peter Sellers: Genius at Work
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Directed By Blake Edwards
as Self
2020
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
as Self (Archival Footage)
2018
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
as Himself (Archive)
2014
Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace
as Himself (archive footage)
2013
The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'
as The Villain Antony (archive footage)
2007
Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Dr. Strangelove / Fred Kite (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005
The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
as Self (archive footage)
2003
The Peter Sellers Story - As He Filmed It
as Himself
2001
The Paranormal Peter Sellers
as Self (Archive footage)
1996
Spike
as Himself
1995
The Peter Sellers Story
as Himself
1992
Sellers' Best
as Self (archive footage)
1985
Muppet Video: Rowlf's Rhapsodies with the Muppets
as Self
Muppet Treasures
as Self
1982
Trail of the Pink Panther
as Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (archive footage)
1981
Eric Sykes: One of the Great Troupers
as Self (archive material)
1980
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
as Fu Manchu / Nayland Smith
1979
Being There
as Chance
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Rudolf IV/Rudolf V/Sidney Frewin
1978
Mickey's 50
as Self
Revenge of the Pink Panther
as Chief Inspector Clouseau
Kingdom Of Gifts
as The Slightly Larcenous Mayor
1976
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
as Chief Inspector Clouseau
Murder by Death
as Sidney Wang
1975
The Return of the Pink Panther
as Inspector Clouseau
A Salute to Sir Lew Grade
as Self
Julie: My Favourite Things
as Various
The Great McGonagall
as Queen Victoria
1974
Flip Wilson... Of Course
as Self
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
as Général Latour / Major Robinson / Herr Schroeder / Adolf Hitler / The President / Prince Kyoto
1973
The Optimists of Nine Elms
as Sam
The Big Screen
as Self
The Blockhouse
as Rouquet
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
as Dick Scratcher
1972
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
as The March Hare
Where Does It Hurt?
as Dr. Albert T. Hopfnegal
The Last Goon Show of All
as Self
1970
Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town
as G.W. Ross
There's a Girl in My Soup
as Robert Danvers
Hoffman
as Mr. Hoffman
Simon Simon
as Man with Two Cars
A Day at the Beach
as Salesman
1969
The Magic Christian
as Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE
1968
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
as Harold
The Party
as Hrundi V. Bakshi
1967
Woman Times Seven
as Jean
Casino Royale
as Evelyn Tremble
The Bobo
as Juan Bautista
1966
Alice in Wonderland
as King of Hearts
After the Fox
as Aldo Vanucci / Federico Fabrizi
The Wrong Box
as Doctor Pratt
1965
Birds, Bees and Storks
as Narrator (voice)
What's New Pussycat?
as Dr. Fritz Fassbender
1964
Carol for Another Christmas
as Imperial Me
A Shot in the Dark
as Jacques Clouseau
The World of Henry Orient
as Henry Orient
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
Heavens Above!
as The Rev. John Smallwood
The Wrong Arm of the Law
as Pearly Gates
1962
Trial and Error
as Wilfred Morgenhall
Lolita
as Clare Quilty
Waltz of the Toreadors
as Gen. Leo Fitzjohn
The Road to Hong Kong
as Indian Neurologist (uncredited)
Only Two Can Play
as John Lewis
1961
Mr. Topaze
as Auguste Topaze
1960
Two-Way Stretch
as Dodger Lane
The Millionairess
as Dr. Kabir
Never Let Go
as Lionel Meadows
The Battle of the Sexes
as Mr. Martin
1959
I'm All Right Jack
as Fred Kite
The Mouse That Roared
as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
as Prime Minister Amphibulos
1958
Tom Thumb
as Antony
Up the Creek
as CPO Doherty
1957
The Naked Truth
as Sonny MacGregor
The Smallest Show on Earth
as Percy Quill
Dearth of a Salesman
as Hector Dimwittie
1956
The Man Who Never Was
as Winston Churchill (voice)
The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn
as Assorted
1955
The Ladykillers
as Harry, alias 'Mr. Robinson'
John and Julie
as Police Constable Diamond
1954
Orders Are Orders
as Pvt. Goffin
1953
Our Girl Friday
as Voice of Parrot
Beat the Devil
as Billy Dannreuther (voice) (uncredited)
The Super Secret Service
as Sir Walter Smood / Reuben J. Crouch
1952
Down Among the Z Men
as Major Bloodnok
1951
Let's Go Crazy
as Multiple Roles
Penny Points to Paradise
as The Major / Arnold Fringe
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
as (archive footage)
A Burlesque on the Opera Carmen
as Voice narrator
1950
The Black Rose
as Lu Chung (voice)