FrameThrower · Actors · Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
4 films · 250 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1964–1982
Born 8 September 1925 · Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK · died 24 July 1980
Richard Henry Sellers, CBE, known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, for playing three different characters in Dr. Strangelove, as Clare Quilty in Lolita, and as the man-child and TV-addicted Chance the gardener in his penultimate film, Being There. Leading actress Bette Davis once remarked of him, "He isn't an actor—he's a chameleon." Sellers rose to fame on the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 250 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1964–1982
- Golden Globe Awards
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
How their films are shot
Measured across 250 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Peter takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 43% of their frames are day, 41% natural — the look of the work Peter takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 250 frames from Peter Sellers's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.