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Richard Henry Sellers, better known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian, talented comic actor and member of the The Goon Show (a long-running BBC radio show - 1951-1960). Born September 8, 1925 in Southsea, Hampshire, England, in a family of vaudeville entertainers, Sellers died of a heart attack on July 24 1980 in London, England.

Probably following his family in the vaudeville circuit Sellers learnt this popular yet difficult art and the immediate instict of the "gag"; but, an incredibly versatile artist, his preparation includes dancing and was completed with a notably musical activity as an ukulele, banjo and, in particular, drum player touring with jazz bands.

Sellers is famous for his role as the bungling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies, which granted him a really wide popularity, but he also played a number of important roles, including the eponymous Dr. Strangelove, in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, easily varying from brilliant themes as in Hollywood Party, to more intense performances as in Lolita (from Vladimir Nabukov's book). Commonly considered a master actor, sometimes described as an "obsessive perfectionist", he found in Blake Edwards perhaps his most devote director, who was delicately able to underline and follow his comic rhythms; Edwards will define Sellers as a "mercurial clown" abel to turm the comedy into drama, and vice-versa, in a fraction of time. Other directors he played for include above mentioned Kubrick, Roman Polanski, Paul Mazursky, Billy Wilder. He played with really many stars, among which Shirley MacLaine, Sophia Loren, Maggie Smith, Goldie Hawn, Shelley Winters, Elke Sommer, Claudine Longet, and even Ringo Starr (Beatles' drum player). Sellers' career include, mainly in its early times, radio and television

He was married four times, first marriage was to Swedish actress Britt Ekland.

Sellers had explicitly requested that Glenn Miller's song In The Mood" was played for his funeral; it is considered his last touch of humour, since he deeply hated that tune.

Films:

• The Black Rose (1950).
• London Entertains (1951).
• Let's Go Crazy (1951).
• Burlesque of Carmen (1951).
• Penny Points to Paradise (1951).
• Down Among the Z Men (1952).
• Beat the Devil (Humphrey Bogart's voice) (1953).
• The Super Secret Service (1953).
• Our Girl Friday aka The Adventures of Sadie (1954).
• Malaga (voice of 14 characters) (1954).
• Orders are Orders (1954).
• John and Julie (1955).
• The Man Who Never Was (1956).
• The Ladykillers (1956).
• The Case of the Mukkineese Battlehorn (1956).
• The Smallest Show on Earth (1957).
• Cold Comfort (1957).
• Insomnia Is Good For You (1957).
• Dearth of a Salesman (1957).
• The Naked Truth aka Your Past Is Showing (1958).
• Tom thumb (1958).
• Up the Creek (1958).
• Carlton-Browne of the F.O. aka Man in a Cocked Hat (1959).
• The Mouse That Roared (1959).
• I'm Alright, Jack (1959).
• The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film (1960).
• The Battle of the Sexes (1960).
• Two-Way Stretch (1960).
• Never Let Go (1960).
• The Millionairess (1960).
• Climb Up the Wall (1960).
• Mr. Topaze aka I Like Money (1961).
• Only Two Can Play (1962).
• The Road to Hong Kong (1962).
• Waltz of the Toreadors (1962).
• Lolita (1962).
• Trial and Error aka The Dock Brief (1962).
• The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963).
• Heavens Above! (1963).
• Light of Day (1963)
• The Pink Panther (1964).
• Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964 - first Oscar nomination).
• The World of Henry Orient (1964).
• A Shot in the Dark (1964, sequel to The Pink Panther).
• A Carol For Another Christmas (1964).
• Birds, Bees and Storks (1964).
• What's New Pussycat? (1965).
• The Wrong Box (1965).
• After the Fox (1966).
• Casino Royale (1967).
• The Bobo (1967).
• Woman Times Seven (1967).
• The Party aka Hollywood Party (1968).
• I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968).
• The Magic Christian (1970).
• Hoffman (1970).
• A Day at the Beach (1970).
• Simon, Simon (1970).
• There's a Girl in My Soup (1971).
• Where Does It Hurt? (1972).
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972).
• The Blockhouse (1973).
• Soft Beds, Hard Battles aka Undercovers Heroes (1973).
• The Optimists of Nine Elms (1974).
• Ghost In The Noonday Sun (1974).
• The Great McGonagall (1975).
• The Return of the Pink Panther (1975).
• Murder By Death (1976).
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976).
• The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).
• The Prisoner of Zenda (1979).
• Being There (1979, second nomination for an Academy Award for best actor.
• The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980).
• The Great Pram Race (1980).
• Trail of the Pink Panther - posthumousl (1982).

In some of above titles, Sellers appears only by his voice