High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Henry Sellers, CBE, commonly known as Peter Sellers, (8 September 1925 ? 24 July 1980) was a British comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr. Strangelove, as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, as Clare Quilty in the original 1962 screen version of Lolita, and as the guileless man-child Chance in his penultimate film, Being There. Sellers rose to fame on the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show.