Peter Sellers is one of the greatest character actors in the history of British cinema; a name to rank alongside Peter Finch, Alec Guinness and Trevor Howard. To mark the centenary of the year of his birth, The Cinema Museum will commence a seasons of six key Sellers performances.

Inspector Clouseau is perhaps Sellers’s signature role (he played it often enough!) and this is his second outing as the bumbling French detective. In fact the play on which the play was based did not feature Clouseau at all, but Blake Edwards, who directed the first Pink Panther film, re-wrote the script as a Clouseau vehicle, and persuaded Sellers to reprise the role. This was the film where Clouseau gained his thick French accent, as well as Herbert Lom as his boss, Commissioner Dreyfus, and Burt Kwouk as his manservant Cato. Sellers and Edwards fell out as the production progressed, a sign of things to come for Sellers’s film career as the Sixties progressed.

Followed by a Q&A discussion with leading film and media experts Robert Ross and David Stubbs.

Dr. Andrew Roberts, the curator of the event says: “Selecting the best of Seller’s work was a genuine challenge. At worst, he could be utterly self-indulgent; at his finest, he could variously induce laughter, fear and pain by his expressions alone”.

Doors open at 18.30, for a 19.30 start.

Refreshments will be available in our licensed cafe/bar.

TICKETS & PRICING

Tickets £10.

Advance tickets may be purchased from Ticketlab, or direct from the Museum by calling 020 7840 2200 in office hours.