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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 8, 1925
Died
July 24, 1980
Place of Birth
Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- A. Queen
- 彼得·塞勒斯
- پیتر سلرز
- Richard Henry Sellers
Peter Sellers
1.5 Popularity
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 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."
Known For
7.8
Self - Actor (archive footage)
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
10.0
Archive
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
2025
8.0
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
2025
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Peter Sellers: Genius at Work
2023
8.4
Self
The Beatles: Get Back
2021
8.0
Self
Directed By Blake Edwards
2021
8.0
Self (Archival Footage)
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
2020
5.8
Self (Archive)
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
2018
🎬
0.0
Dr. Strangelove (archive footage)
Black Baby
2018
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace
2014
Credits
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2025
7.8
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
as Archive
2025
10.0
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
8.0
Peter Sellers: Genius at Work
as Self (archive footage)
2023
0.0
The Beatles: Get Back
as Self
2021
8.4
Directed By Blake Edwards
as Self
2021
8.0
Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
as Self (Archival Footage)
2020
8.0
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
as Self (Archive)
2018
5.8
🎬
Black Baby
as Dr. Strangelove (archive footage)
2018
0.0
Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace
as Self (archive footage)
2014
0.0
The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'
as The Villain Antony (archive footage)
2013
7.0
Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Dr. Strangelove / Fred Kite (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
5.0
The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
as Self (archive footage)
2005
6.8
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
as Self (archive footage)
2004
5.8
The Peter Sellers Story - As He Filmed It
as Himself
2003
0.0
The Paranormal Peter Sellers
as Self (Archive footage)
2001
0.0
🎬
Spike
as Himself
1996
0.0
The Peter Sellers Story
as Himself
1995
7.0
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
6.5
Funny Business
as (archive footage)
1992
7.0
Sellers' Best
as Self (archive footage)
1992
0.0
The Very Best of Peter Sellers
1990
9.5
🎬
Muppet Video: Rowlf's Rhapsodies with the Muppets
as Self
1985
0.0
Muppet Treasures
as Self
1985
0.0
Trail of the Pink Panther
as Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (archive footage)
1982
5.2
Eric Sykes: One of the Great Troupers
as Self (archive material)
1981
0.0
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
as Fu Manchu / Nayland Smith
1980
4.8
Being There
as Chance
1979
7.6
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Rudolf IV/Rudolf V/Sidney Frewin
1979
5.7
Rire et sourire : Le Splendid
as Extrait du film « La Malédiction de la Panthère rose », 1978
1978
8.0
Mickey's 50
as Self
1978
0.0
Revenge of the Pink Panther
as Chief Inspector Clouseau
1978
6.4
🎬
Kingdom Of Gifts
as The Slightly Larcenous Mayor
1978
0.0
To See Such Fun
1977
0.0
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
as Chief Inspector Clouseau
1976
6.9
The Muppet Show
as Self - Special Guest Star
1976
8.0
Murder by Death
as Sidney Wang
1976
7.2
The Return of the Pink Panther
as Inspector Clouseau
1975
6.8
Julie: My Favourite Things
as Various
1975
0.0
A Salute to Sir Lew Grade
as Self
1975
0.0
The Great McGonagall
as Queen Victoria
1975
5.2
Flip Wilson... Of Course
as Self
1974
0.0
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
as Général Latour / Major Robinson / Herr Schroeder / Adolf Hitler / The President / Prince Kyoto
1974
4.3
The Optimists of Nine Elms
as Sam
1973
6.6
The Big Screen
as Self
1973
0.0
The Blockhouse
as Rouquet
1973
6.3
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
as Dick Scratcher
1973
4.1
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
as The March Hare
1972
6.2
Sykes
as Tommy Grando
1972
6.4
Where Does It Hurt?
as Dr. Albert T. Hopfnegal
1972
5.1
The Last Goon Show of All
as Self
1972
6.0
🎬
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
7.5
Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town
as G.W. Ross
1970
0.0
There's a Girl in My Soup
as Robert Danvers
1970
5.4
Hoffman
as Mr. Hoffman
1970
7.2
Simon Simon
as Man with Two Cars
1970
6.0
A Day at the Beach
as Salesman
1970
4.5
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1969
0.0
The Magic Christian
as Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE
1969
5.6
One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously
1969
0.0
This Is Tom Jones
as Self
1969
6.0
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
as Harold
1968
4.9
The Party
as Hrundi V. Bakshi
1968
7.3
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
1968
6.6
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self (uncredited)
1968
6.6
It Takes a Thief
as Man in Harbor Records Office
1968
7.2
🎬
With Love, Sophia
as Self
1967
0.0
Woman Times Seven
as Jean
1967
6.2
Casino Royale
as Evelyn Tremble
1967
5.3
The Bobo
as Juan Bautista
1967
6.0
Alice in Wonderland
as King of Hearts
1966
5.9
El Rey en Londres
1966
0.0
ABC Stage 67
as Self
1966
6.2
After the Fox
as Aldo Vanucci/Federico Fabrizi
1966
6.0
The Wrong Box
as Doctor Pratt
1966
6.5
🎬
Birds, Bees and Storks
as Narrator (voice)
1965
6.0
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
1965
0.0
The Dean Martin Show
1965
7.3
What's New Pussycat?
as Dr. Fritz Fassbender
1965
6.0
Carol for Another Christmas
as Imperial Me
1964
5.8
I Say I Say I Say
1964
0.0
A Shot in the Dark
as Jacques Clouseau
1964
7.2
The World of Henry Orient
as Henry Orient
1964
5.8
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
as Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
1964
8.1
The Pink Panther
as Insp. Jacques Clouseau
1963
6.8
The Telegoons
1963
4.5
Heavens Above!
as The Rev. John Smallwood
1963
6.4
The Wrong Arm of the Law
as Pearly Gates
1963
6.5
The Dock Brief
as Wilfred Morgenhall
1962
6.5
Lolita
as Clare Quilty
1962
7.3
Waltz of the Toreadors
as Gen. Leo Fitzjohn
1962
4.8
The Road to Hong Kong
as Indian Neurologist (uncredited)
1962
5.8
Only Two Can Play
as John Lewis
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self (archive footage)
1961
5.4
🎬
Tempo
as Self
1961
0.0
Mr. Topaze
as Auguste Topaze
1961
5.6
Two-Way Stretch
as Dodger Lane
1960
6.7
The Millionairess
as Dr. Kabir
1960
5.4
Never Let Go
as Lionel Meadows
1960
6.5
The Battle of the Sexes
as Mr. Martin
1960
6.5
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
1959
5.4
I'm All Right Jack
as Fred Kite / Sir John Kennaway
1959
6.6
The Mouse That Roared
as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe
1959
6.3
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
as Prime Minister Amphibulos
1959
5.9
Tom Thumb
as Antony
1958
6.3
Up the Creek
as CPO Doherty
1958
5.5
Insomnia is Good for You
1957
0.0
The Naked Truth
as "Wee" Sonny MacGregor
1957
6.7
The Smallest Show on Earth
as Percy Quill
1957
6.5
🎬
Yes, It's The Cathode-Ray Tube Show!
1957
0.0
Theatre Night
as The Sultan
1957
0.0
Dearth of a Salesman
as Hector Dimwittie
1957
0.0
🎬
Son of Fred
1956
0.0
🎬
A Show Called Fred
1956
0.0
The Man Who Never Was
as Voice of Winston Churchill (uncredited)
1956
7.0
🎬
The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d
1956
0.0
The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn
as Assorted
1956
6.9
The Ladykillers
as Harry, alias 'Mr. Robinson'
1955
7.3
John and Julie
as Police Constable Diamond
1955
4.6
Orders Are Orders
as Pvt. Goffin
1954
6.4
🎬
And So To Bentley
1954
0.0
Our Girl Friday
as Voice of Parrot
1953
4.8
Beat the Devil
as Billy Dannreuther (voice) (uncredited)
1953
6.1
The Super Secret Service
as Sir Walter Smood / Reuben J. Crouch
1953
4.5
Down Among the Z Men
as Major Bloodnok
1952
5.1
Let's Go Crazy
as Multiple Roles
1951
5.0
Penny Points to Paradise
as The Major / Arnold Fringe
1951
3.9
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
as (archive footage)
1951
0.0
A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen"
as Voice narrator
1951
10.0
The Black Rose
as Lu Chung (voice)
1950
6.6
Talking Comedy
N/A
0.0