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Acting

Peter Sellers

Career: Active from 1951 to 2025, with a break from 1993 to 2024, busiest in 1957 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 61
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
91/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 53 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Peter Sellers Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.0, average 5.4
Violence
2.5, average 4.1
Coming of Age
1.6, average 3.0
Scare
1.2, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Absurdist Humor 8
Nostalgic Charm 7
Quirky Characters 6
Slapstick Comedy 5
Eccentric Characters 5
Character Study 4
Satirical 4
Nostalgic 4
Slapstick Humor 4
Witty Dialogue 4
Social Satire 4
Social Commentary 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

95

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

2 titles

Hybrid Creatures

as participant

TV show

2020s

1 title

Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders

as Archive

2010s

1 title

The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'

as The Villain Antony (archive footage)

2000s

1 title

Hitler: The Comedy Years

as Dr. Strangelove / Fred Kite (archive footage) (uncredited)

1990s

1 title

Funny Business

TV show · as (archive footage)

1980s

2 titles · average score 35

Trail of the Pink Panther

39

as Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (archive footage)

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

30

as Fu Manchu / Nayland Smith

1970s

22 titles · average score 62

Being There

85

as Chance

The Prisoner of Zenda

49

as Rudolf IV/Rudolf V/Sidney Frewin

Revenge of the Pink Panther

68

as Chief Inspector Clouseau

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

69

as Chief Inspector Clouseau

Murder by Death

66

as Sidney Wang

The Return of the Pink Panther

70

as Inspector Clouseau

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

51

as Général Latour / Major Robinson / Herr Schroeder / Adolf Hitler / The President / Prince Kyoto

The Optimists of Nine Elms

77

as Sam

Where Does It Hurt?

56

as Dr. Albert T. Hopfnegal

There's a Girl in My Soup

50

as Robert Danvers

A Day at the Beach

55

as Stallholder

Hoffman

71

as Mr. Hoffman

1960s

34 titles · average score 64

The Magic Christian

48

as Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE

The Party

75

as Hrundi V. Bakshi

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!

34

as Harold

Casino Royale

46

as Evelyn Tremble

Woman Times Seven

51

as Jean

After the Fox

70

as Aldo Vanucci/Federico Fabrizi

What's New Pussycat?

43

as Dr. Fritz Fassbender

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

91

as Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove

A Shot in the Dark

79

as Jacques Clouseau

The World of Henry Orient

76

as Henry Orient

The Pink Panther

70

as Insp. Jacques Clouseau

The Wrong Arm of the Law

64

as Pearly Gates

1950s

31 titles · average score 64

The Mouse That Roared

79

as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe

I'm All Right Jack

77

as Fred Kite / Sir John Kennaway

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

58

as Prime Minister Amphibulos

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

57

Writer, Producer

Up the Creek

53

as CPO Doherty

Tom Thumb

82

as Antony

The Naked Truth

64

as "Wee" Sonny MacGregor

The Ladykillers

86

as Harry, alias 'Mr. Robinson'

The Super Secret Service

as Sir Walter Smood / Reuben J. Crouch

Down Among the Z Men

43

as Major Bloodnok

Let's Go Crazy

as Multiple Roles

Penny Points to Paradise

46

as The Major / Arnold Fringe