A Shot in the Dark (1964 film) A Shot in the Dark (1964 film) A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 British-American DeLuxe Color comedy film directed by Blake Edwards in Panavision. It is the second installment in "The Pink Panther" film series. Peter Sellers is featured again as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté. Clouseau's blundering personality is unchanged, but it was in this film that Sellers began to give him the idiosyncratically exaggerated French accent that was to later become a hallmark of the character. The film also marks the first appearances of Herbert Lom as his long-suffering boss, Commissioner Dreyfus, as well
Inspector Clouseau Inspector Clouseau Inspector Jacques Clouseau () is a fictional character in Blake Edwards's farcical "The Pink Panther" series. He is portrayed by Peter Sellers in the original series, and also by Alan Arkin in the 1968 film "Inspector Clouseau" and, in a cameo, by Roger Moore (credited as Turk Thrust II) in the 1983 film "Curse of the Pink Panther". In the 2006 remake and its 2009 sequel, he is played by Steve Martin. Clouseau's likeness also appears in the Pink Panther animated cartoon shorts and segments. More recent animated depictions from the 1970s onward were redesigned to more closely