8 Actors Who Have Played An Insane Amount Of Nationalities

7. Peter Sellers

Nationality: British Notable Roles: The Pink Panther (French), The Bobo (Spanish), After the Fox (Italian), The Party (Indian), Dr. Strangelove (German/American), Murder by Death (Chinese), Mr. Topaze (French), The Mouse That Roared (Fenwickian), The Prisoner of Zenda (Ruritanian) Peter Sellers feels like something of an enigma - culturally, at least - which makes more sense when you cast an eye over his filmography. What's probably not apparent until you see it in writing and it clicks is the fact that Sellers spent the sum of his career playing characters from all over the world. Best known, perhaps, will be his turn as the bumbling French Inspector Closeau in the Pink Panther movies, but Sellers' range afford him roles in an all manner of national territories. So he was Italian in After the Fox, Spanish in The Bobo, Indian in The Party, and played two different nationalities in Stanley Kubrick's now infamous war comedy Dr. Strangelove (he was both German and American). And Sellers wasn't confined to playing nationalities that actually exist in the real world - he was "Fenwickian" in The Mouse That Roared, after all, and "Ruritanian" in The Prisoner of Zenda. We're not too sure about those times he played Chinese characters in Murder by Death and The Fiendish Plot of Doctor Fu Manchu, though.