Who was Jacques 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'. Roger Moore even appeared as Clouseau (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 and was known as "the Inspector". More recent animated depictions from the 1970s onward were redesigned to more closely resemble Sellers, and later Martin.

Clouseau is the name of a Belgian pop group founded in 1994 and of course Jacques Cousteau was a marine conservationist and filmaker who developed the aqualung.