RIP Cato (The Pink Panther series and Bond movies)

[Bazza]

Sad to report this.....what a wonderful actor......

Burt Kwouk, who was best known for playing Inspector Clouseau's manservant Cato in the Pink Panther films, has died aged 85.

He appeared in seven Pink Panther films opposite Peter Sellers as Clouseau's servant who regularly attacked his employer to keep him alert.

On the big screen Kwouk also appeared in three James Bond films including Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice.

"Bond movies are always great fun because everything about them is big, expansive, huge - the sets are big, the amounts of money that is spent is huge as well, and the whole thing has a big atmosphere about it. And actors like doing that kind of thing."

But if he had to pick a favourite role, the star said it would be the first time he "had a featured role in a good movie".
"You always remember your first of anything - your first house, your first car, your first child, your first woman - you always remember those things and this was a picture made in 1958.
"It was The Inn of the Sixth Happiness which starred a great lady called Ingrid Bergman, I remember that very fondly."

 

[seebell]

I loved those Inspector [FONT=Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Clouseau films. Cato was liable to attack from any where. LOL. Didn't know about his other film rolls. Thanks[/FONT]