Peter Sellers Biography

Sellers appears as Cedric in the revue-style short film Let's Go Crazy.

Sellers portrays Crystal Jollibottom in the short film Let's Go Crazy.

Sellers takes the part of Giuseppe in the multi-character short Let's Go Crazy.

Sellers adds the character Gozzunk to his range of parts in Let's Go Crazy.

Sellers performs a Groucho-style character in the short comedy Let's Go Crazy.

Sellers plays Izzy as one of several comic identities in Let's Go Crazy.

Sellers appears in the British entertainment film London Entertains.

Sellers also portrays Arnold Fringe in Penny Points to Paradise.

Sellers plays the Major in the comedy Penny Points to Paradise.

Sellers plays Major Bloodnok in the Goon-related comedy Down Among the Z Men.

Sellers appears in the comedy film Super Secret Service.

Sellers plays Private Goffin in Orders Are Orders.

Sellers portrays Police Constable Diamond in John and Julie.

Sellers plays Harry Robinson in the Ealing black comedy The Ladykillers.

Sellers performs the character Henry Crun in The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn.

Sellers portrays Inspector Quilt in The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn.

Sellers plays Sid Crimp in the Goon-influenced short The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn.

Sellers portrays Sir Jervis Fruit in The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn.

Sellers supplies the voice of Winston Churchill in The Man Who Never Was.

Sellers appears in the Bestsellers Series short film Cold Comfort.

Sellers appears in Dearth of a Salesman, one of the Bestsellers Series short films.

Sellers plays salesman Hector Dimwittie in the short film Insomnia Is Good for You.

Sellers plays television personality Sonny MacGregor in the comedy The Naked Truth.

Sellers plays cinema projectionist Percy Quill in The Smallest Show on Earth.

Sellers plays the villainous Tony in the fantasy musical Tom Thumb.

Sellers portrays Chief Petty Officer Doherty in the naval comedy Up the Creek.

Sellers plays Prime Minister Amphibulos in the political satire Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Sellers plays trade-union official Fred Kite in the industrial satire I'm All Right Jack.

Sellers performs Count Rupert Mountjoy as a third principal role in The Mouse That Roared.

Sellers plays Grand Duchess Gloriana XII in The Mouse That Roared.

Sellers portrays Tully Bascombe in The Mouse That Roared.

Sellers produces the surreal short The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film.

Sellers receives an Academy Award nomination as producer of The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film.

Sellers wins the BAFTA for Best British Actor for his performance in I'm All Right Jack.

Sellers takes the unusually menacing role of garage owner Lionel Meadows in Never Let Go.

Sellers plays the traditionalist Scottish clerk Mr Martin in The Battle of the Sexes.

Sellers plays Dr Ahmed el Kabir opposite Sophia Loren in The Millionairess.

Sellers portrays career criminal Dodger Lane in the prison comedy Two Way Stretch.

Sellers stars as the schoolteacher Topaze in the comedy-drama Mr Topaze.

Sellers directs Mr Topaze, his only officially credited feature film as director.

Sellers portrays Clare Quilty in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Lolita.

Sellers portrays Welsh librarian John Lewis in Only Two Can Play.

Sellers plays barrister Wilfred Morgenhall in the film adaptation The Dock Brief.

Sellers makes a cameo appearance in The Road to Hong Kong.

Sellers plays General Leo Fitzjohn in Waltz of the Toreadors.

Sellers receives a BAFTA British Actor nomination for Only Two Can Play.

Sellers receives a Golden Globe supporting-actor nomination for Lolita.

Sellers portrays the Reverend John Smallwood in the satire Heavens Above!

Sellers first appears as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Pink Panther.

Sellers introduces Inspector Jacques Clouseau in Blake Edwards's The Pink Panther.

Sellers plays criminal mastermind Pearly Gates in The Wrong Arm of the Law.

Sellers returns as Inspector Clouseau in A Shot in the Dark.

Sellers performs the title character, the eccentric nuclear strategist Dr. Strangelove.

Sellers plays RAF officer Group Captain Lionel Mandrake in Dr. Strangelove.

Sellers portrays United States President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove.

Sellers is originally intended to play Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove, but the fourth role is reassigned to Slim Pickens.

Sellers plays concert pianist Henry Orient in The World of Henry Orient.

The Academy nominates Sellers for Best Actor at the 1965 Oscars for his three-role performance in Dr. Strangelove.

BAFTA nominates Sellers for British Actor for Dr. Strangelove and The Pink Panther.

The Golden Globes place Sellers among the 1965 musical-or-comedy actor nominees for The Pink Panther.

Sellers plays psychiatrist Dr Fritz Fassbender in What's New, Pussycat?

Sellers plays master criminal Aldo Vanucci in Vittorio De Sica's After the Fox.

Sellers portrays the eccentric physician Dr Pratt in The Wrong Box.

Sellers portrays baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale.

Sellers plays struggling Spanish performer Juan Bautista in The Bobo.

Sellers appears as Jean in Vittorio De Sica's anthology comedy Woman Times Seven.

Sellers portrays lawyer Harold Fine in I Love You, Alice B. Toklas.

Sellers plays accident-prone actor Hrundi V. Bakshi in Blake Edwards's The Party.

Sellers plays wealthy eccentric Sir Guy Grand in the satire The Magic Christian.

Sellers makes a small appearance in the drama A Day at the Beach.

Sellers takes the title role of Benjamin Hoffman in the dark comedy-drama Hoffman.

Sellers appears in the short comedy Simon, Simon.

Sellers plays television cook and womaniser Robert Danvers in There's a Girl in My Soup.

Sellers plays the King of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Sellers stars in the hospital satire Where Does It Hurt?

Sellers portrays Adolf Hitler as one of several roles in Soft Beds, Hard Battles.

Sellers portrays the French President in Soft Beds, Hard Battles.

Sellers portrays General Latour in the wartime comedy Soft Beds, Hard Battles.

Sellers performs the Gestapo character Herr Schroeder in Soft Beds, Hard Battles.

Sellers plays British Major Robinson in Soft Beds, Hard Battles.

Sellers plays Prince Kyoto in the multi-role comedy Soft Beds, Hard Battles.

Sellers portrays Bouquet in the wartime drama The Blockhouse.

Sellers plays ageing London busker Sam in The Optimists of Nine Elms.

Sellers plays pirate Dick Scratcher in Ghost in the Noonday Sun.

Sellers portrays Queen Victoria in the comic biographical film The Great McGonagall.

Sellers and Blake Edwards revive Inspector Clouseau in The Return of the Pink Panther after an eleven-year gap.

Sellers reprises Inspector Clouseau in The Return of the Pink Panther.

His return as Clouseau earns Sellers a 1976 Golden Globe nomination in the musical-or-comedy actor category.

Sellers plays detective Sidney Wang in Neil Simon's mystery spoof Murder by Death.

Sellers continues as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther Strikes Again.

The Pink Panther Strikes Again brings Sellers another Golden Globe musical-or-comedy actor nomination in 1977.

Sellers again portrays Inspector Clouseau in Revenge of the Pink Panther.

Sellers plays Chance, the sheltered gardener at the centre of Being There.

Sellers plays the royal lookalikes Rudolf IV and Rudolf V in The Prisoner of Zenda.

Sellers also portrays Syd Frewin in The Prisoner of Zenda.

At the 1980 Oscars, Sellers is nominated for Actor in a Leading Role for Being There.

Sellers wins the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Being There.

Sellers plays the title villain Fu Manchu in The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu.

Sellers also portrays Fu Manchu's adversary Nayland Smith in his final completed film.

Peter Sellers dies in London aged 54.

Trail of the Pink Panther is released posthumously using previously filmed Sellers footage as Inspector Clouseau.