Sellers was front and center starting with the 1964 follow-up A Shot in the Dark, and in 1968’s Inspector Closeau, in which Bud Yorkin took over directing duties from Edwards. (It contains a barely perceptible flaw that resembles a panther.) Clumsy policeman Jacques Gambrelli (Roberto Benigni) is assigned to assist him - and Dreyfus is appalled to learn Jacques is the illegitimate son of his old nemesis, the late Inspector Clouseau.
Strangelove, stole the movie out from under Niven the way a thief might steal the Pink Panther diamond that gives the series its name. (2) The Pink Painter Show - Painters Pink Panther and Big Nose paint with two very differen. But Sellers, a year away from his performance in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. (1) Pink Suds and Clean Duds - Pink Panther and Big Nose fight over machines at a very busy laundromat. Non-fans may be surprised to learn that Sellers was not the lead character in the first film, which focused on the Phantom/Sir Charles Lytton, played by David Niven. Some Pink Panther BackgroundĪfter Sellers’ death, Edwards mounted an ambitious plan to continue the series - which had started with 1963’s The Pink Panther. Even if you’ve never seen a Pink Panther movie, you surely know Henry Mancini’s swanky theme song for the series, or may have seen the Saturday morning cartoon series The Pink Panther, featuring the lanky, unflappable cat often featured in credit sequences for the live action films.
