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Peter Sellers

A legend of British comedy Peter Sellers served in the RAF during World War II serving in India and Burma, and also in Germany and France after the war. Acclaimed for his ability to portray and mimic different characters he was claimed to have practised this by donning a fake moustache and bluffing his way into the Officers Club.

He was famous for a lot of Radio plays, The Goon Show, and the British comedies, including The Ladykillers (the U.S made a rubbish version and trashed it as they always do when they pinch British ideas!), I’m All Right Jack and The Mouse That Roared.

Internationally he is mainly known for his role as Inspector Clouseau in the The Pink Panther films in the 1960’s and ’70’s but has had many other interesting roles including his multi-tasking one in Stanley Kubrick’s Doctor Strangelove about Nuclear Assured Destruction.

It is also little known that Peter Sellers was the first ever male to appear on the cover of Playboy Magazine.

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