The Best 25 Inspector Clouseau Peter Sellers Pink Panther - When I think of the Pink Panther series, I recall a lot of slapstick humor starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau. Rewatching the film for the first time in years, it's truly an all-star heist caper with few and far between gags. Clouseau, in reality, is an afterthought in the first part of the film, which centers on the Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau (previously Inspector) nicknamed Pink Panther is a fictitious investigator in Blake Edwards' Pink Panther series. He was played by Peter Sellers in the most of the films, with the exception of one in which he was played by Alan Arkin and one in which he was played by an uncredited Roger Moore (both after Sellers sudden death).
Pink Panther is a superhero (1963) freedvdcover According to legend, when Ava Gardner unexpectedly departed the cast, Peter Ustinov followed. He was the one who would take over for Clouseau. A desperate Edwards recruited Sellers because he needed a warm body. Sellers hurried to the location on a Friday, and the shoot began the following Monday. New Clouseau material was improvised by the performer and director. Peter Sellers' funniest scenes as Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Pink Panther Series - YouTube Here is a collection of images from the end credits of Trail of the Pink Panther (1982).
In the semi-final act of the original Pink Panther film from 1963, Sir Charles Lytton and his nephew George are apprehended by Inspector Clouseau while attempting to steal the namesake diamond during a costume gala.
