The Character: Herbert Lom’s Chief Inspector was on the same side of the law as Peter Sellers’ bungling Inspector Clouseau, though the pair rarely saw eye to eye.

In fact, over the course of Blake Edwards’ film series (from A Shot In The Dark to Son Of The Pink Panther), Dreyfus gradually succumbs to the stress of Clouseau’s continual bungling, from a nervous tic, to committal in an institution and attempts on his former subordinate’s life.

Lom became so well known for the role, he even kept it up when the films continued after Sellers’ death with Son Of Pink Panther.

Craziest Moment: He probably steps over the edge in The Pink Panther Strikes Again, when, on being freed from the asylum, he sets about finding a scientist to build him a doomsday device so that he can threaten the world into assassinating Clouseau. There must have been easier ways to do it.