Charles Dreyfus

Charles Dreyfus
Gender:	Male
Films:	9
Nationality:	French

Chief Inspector Charles LaRousse Dreyfus is a fictional police officer in Blake Edwards's Pink Panther series. His first appearance was in A Shot in The Dark where he held the rank of the Commissioner, despite his health problems, involving personal injuries with his gun and a cigarette lighter resembling the gun or accidentally cutting off his thumb with a cigar cutter. His trauma leads him to accidentally strangle his therapist while fantasizing Clouseau's death, then trying to assassinate Clouseau with a sniper's rifle. He is constantly driven to distraction by Clouseau's bungling and is eventually driven insane. In The Return of the Pink Panther, Dreyfus holds the rank of Chief Inspector (but again becomes insane by the end of the film) which shows Dreyfus straitjacketed in a padded cell, writing "Kill Clouseau" on the wall (with his toes).

In The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Dreyfus is about to be released from an asylum after a complete recovery; however, within five minutes of Clouseau's arrival to speak to the board on Dreyfus' behalf, he suffers a variety of injuries, causing him to relapse. Thence Dreyfus escapes the asylum and kidnaps a scientist, forcing him to build a disintegrator ray later used to intimidate the rest of the world into attempting to assassinate Clouseau. Dreyfus appears to disintegrate at the end of Strikes Again, but subsequently (and without any explanation) re-appears in Revenge of the Pink Panther and is reinstated Chief Inspector when Clouseau is mistakenly declared dead. Herbert Lom famously gave his character a pronounced tic which occurred under particular stress...and an accompanying childlike giggle when plotting Clouseau's murder.

Friends and Family

• Sharon Dreyfus - Mother
• C.Dreyfus - Twin Brother
• Marie Jouvet - Lover
• Phantom - Old Friend and Enemy/Ally (Different Beliefs)
• Francios Duval - Friend
• Olga Bariosova - Friend
• Professor Auguste Balls - Friend
• Hugh McClaren - Friend
• Inspector Clouseau - Friend
• Hercule LaJoy - Student
• Clifton Sleigh - Former Student
• Lady Simone Litton - Foster Adopted Sister turned Enemy
• Maurice - student

Enemies

• Phantom - Old Friend and Enemy/Ally (Different Beliefs)
• Lady Simone Litton - Foster Adopted Sister turned Enemy
• Nanna - Enemy
• George Lytton - Enemy
• Countess Chandra - Enemy
• Clouseau's Father - Enemy
• Drummond and Quinlan - Enemy
• Charwoman - Former Student turned Enemy
• Artoff - Former Student turned Enemy
• Mr. Chong - Former Student turned Enemy
• Thugs - Enemy