Pink Panther

Cartoon-film character created by David de Partie and Friz Freleng for the opening credits of Blake Edwards's film The Pink Panther (1964). It appeared again in Pink Phink (1964), for which its creators won an Academy Award. The mute Pink Panther was subsequently seen in a number of comedies about the accident-prone detective Inspector Clouseau, played by English actor Peter Sellers, including A Shot in the Dark (1964) and The Return of the Pink Panther (1975). In 2006, Steve Martin assumed the role of Inspector Clouseau in a film loosely based on the original, also named The Pink Panther.