Pink Panther

The Pink Panther is a series of American/British comedic films which feature the bumbling French police detective Jacques Clouseau. more...

The role was originated by and is most closely associated with Peter Sellers, and most of the films were directed and co-written by Blake Edwards, with theme music by Henry Mancini.

Despite its use in the titles of most of the films of the series, all but the first of which center on the comic adventures of Clouseau, "The Pink Panther" is not the Clouseau character, but a large and valuable fictitious diamond which is the MacGuffin of the first film in the series. (It bears that name because the flaw at its center, when viewed closely, is said to resemble a pink panther.) The phrase reappears in the title of the fourth film, The Return of the Pink Panther, in which the theft of the diamond is again the center of the plot, the film in which Sellers returned to the role after a one film hiatus. The phrase has been used for all the subsequent films in the series, even when the jewel does not figure into the plot.

The first film in the series had an animated opening sequence set to the theme music by Henry Mancini that featured the The Pink Panther cartoon character. This character was subsequently given its own series of animated films—as well as being featured in the opening of every film in the series except A Shot in the Dark—and came to be known simply as "The Pink Panther".

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