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Peter Sellers wearing a trench coat, tie, hat, and leather gloves, with a mustache and a confident expression. Peter Sellers and Alfie Bass in Revenge of the Pink Panther Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau sits on the floor in a white robe, looking surprised, in a scene from the 1963 film The Pink Panther. Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau wears a tweed hat, trench coat, and striped tie in a close-up from the film The Pink Panther Strikes Again.
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Jacques Clouseau

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Jacques Clouseau, fictional French police detective inspector, most memorably portrayed by the English comic actor Peter Sellers, in a popular series of slapstick comedies beginning with The Pink Panther (1963). Inspector Clouseau is a bumbling, accident-prone Parisian detective who lurches from crisis to crisis, bumping into furniture and stumbling blindly over carpets and clues. In The Pink Panther, he is unaware that his wife is having an affair with the jewel thief who has stolen...

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