A Shot in the Dark (1964 film) as Burt Kwouk as his stalwart man servant Cato and André Maranne as François, all of whom would become series regulars. Elke Sommer portrays the murder suspect, Maria Gambrelli. The character of Gambrelli would return in "Son of the Pink Panther" (1993), this time played by Claudia Cardinale, who appeared as Princess Dala in "The Pink Panther" (1963). Graham Stark, who portrays police officer Hercule Lajoy, would reprise this role eighteen years later, in "Trail of the Pink Panther" (1982). The film was not originally written to include Clouseau, but was an adaptation of a stage play by Harry Kurnitz
Follow the Sun (TV series) Gigi Perreau played Katherine Ann "Kathy" Richards, the pretty secretary, and Jay Lanin was Lieutenant Frank Roper, the writers' friend on the police force. Lockwood's success on "Follow the Sun" propelled him thereafter to the role of William T. "Bill" Rice in "The Lieutenant", a program about the peacetime United States Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton, which aired on NBC during the 1963-1964 season. "Follow the Sun" is somewhat similar in theme and tone to Rod Taylor's "Hong Kong" (1960-1961) and Robert Conrad's "Hawaiian Eye" (1959-1963). Taylor's role as Glenn Evans, a foreign correspondent, could have fit in with the