Post by ChasWeazle on Jun 2, 2019 0:55:50 GMT
Let us remember...
Peter John Sallis, OBE.
Born 1st February 1921.
Peter passed away on the 2 June 2017 aged 96.
He was an English actor known for his work on British television.
He was the voice of Wallace in the Academy Award-winning Wallace and Gromit films and played Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine from its 1973 inception until the final episode in 2010, making him the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes.
Although he was born and brought up in London, the characters of Wallace and Clegg were both Northerners.
He also voiced Rat in The Wind in the Willows, appeared in Danger Man in the episode "Find and Destroy" (1961)... as Gordon; the BBC Doctor Who serial "The Ice Warriors" (1967)... as renegade scientist Elric Penley and in an episode of The Persuaders!"The Long Goodbye" (1971).
Other appearances include The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) and Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970).
He retired from acting in 2010.
He is buried next to fellow Last of the Summer Wine actor Bill Owen in the churchyard of St John's Parish Church, Upperthong, near the town of Holmfirth in Yorkshire, the home of Last of the Summer Wine.
Films include...
Stranger from Venus (1954) – Soldier (uncredited)
Child's Play (1954) – Bill – grocery merchant
Anastasia (1956) – Grischa (uncredited)
The Doctor's Dilemma (1958) – Secretary at Picture Gallery
The Scapegoat (1959) – Customs Official
Doctor in Love (1960) – Love-Struck Patient (uncredited)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) – Man in Suit (uncredited)
No Love for Johnnie (1961) – M.P.
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) – Don Enrique
I Thank a Fool (1962) – Sleazy Doctor
The V.I.P.s (1963) – Doctor
The Mouse on the Moon (1963) – Russian Delegate
The Third Secret (1964) – Lawrence Jacks
Clash by Night (1964) – Victor Lush
Rapture (1965) – Armand
Charlie Bubbles (1967) – Solicitor
Inadmissible Evidence (1968) – Hudson
The Reckoning (1970) – Keresley (uncredited)
Scream and Scream Again (1970) – Schweitz
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) – Samuel Paxton
My Lover, My Son (1970) – Sir Sidney Brent
Wuthering Heights (1970) – Mr. Shielders.
The Night Digger[9] (1971) – Reverend Rupert Palafox
The Incredible Sarah (1976) – Thierry
Full Circle (1977) – Jeffrey Branscombe
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) – St. Claire
Witness for the Prosecution (1982) – Carter
A Dangerous Kind of Love (1986) – Mr. Walker
A Grand Day Out (1989) – Wallace (voice)
The Wrong Trousers (1993) – Wallace (voice)
A Close Shave (1995) – Wallace (voice)
Hotel (2001, uncredited)
The Incredible Adventures of Wallace and Gromit (2001) – Wallace (voice)
Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions (2002) – Wallace (voice)
Belonging (2004) – Nathan
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) – Wallace / Hutch (voice)
Colour Me Kubrick (2005) – The Second Patient (cameo)
A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) – Wallace (voice).
... But we remember him as Stuffy Gladstone in the 3rd episode of the first series 'The curse of Rapkyn'.
Peter John Sallis, OBE.
Born 1st February 1921.
Peter passed away on the 2 June 2017 aged 96.
He was an English actor known for his work on British television.
He was the voice of Wallace in the Academy Award-winning Wallace and Gromit films and played Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine from its 1973 inception until the final episode in 2010, making him the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes.
Although he was born and brought up in London, the characters of Wallace and Clegg were both Northerners.
He also voiced Rat in The Wind in the Willows, appeared in Danger Man in the episode "Find and Destroy" (1961)... as Gordon; the BBC Doctor Who serial "The Ice Warriors" (1967)... as renegade scientist Elric Penley and in an episode of The Persuaders!"The Long Goodbye" (1971).
Other appearances include The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) and Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970).
He retired from acting in 2010.
He is buried next to fellow Last of the Summer Wine actor Bill Owen in the churchyard of St John's Parish Church, Upperthong, near the town of Holmfirth in Yorkshire, the home of Last of the Summer Wine.
Films include...
Stranger from Venus (1954) – Soldier (uncredited)
Child's Play (1954) – Bill – grocery merchant
Anastasia (1956) – Grischa (uncredited)
The Doctor's Dilemma (1958) – Secretary at Picture Gallery
The Scapegoat (1959) – Customs Official
Doctor in Love (1960) – Love-Struck Patient (uncredited)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) – Man in Suit (uncredited)
No Love for Johnnie (1961) – M.P.
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) – Don Enrique
I Thank a Fool (1962) – Sleazy Doctor
The V.I.P.s (1963) – Doctor
The Mouse on the Moon (1963) – Russian Delegate
The Third Secret (1964) – Lawrence Jacks
Clash by Night (1964) – Victor Lush
Rapture (1965) – Armand
Charlie Bubbles (1967) – Solicitor
Inadmissible Evidence (1968) – Hudson
The Reckoning (1970) – Keresley (uncredited)
Scream and Scream Again (1970) – Schweitz
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) – Samuel Paxton
My Lover, My Son (1970) – Sir Sidney Brent
Wuthering Heights (1970) – Mr. Shielders.
The Night Digger[9] (1971) – Reverend Rupert Palafox
The Incredible Sarah (1976) – Thierry
Full Circle (1977) – Jeffrey Branscombe
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) – St. Claire
Witness for the Prosecution (1982) – Carter
A Dangerous Kind of Love (1986) – Mr. Walker
A Grand Day Out (1989) – Wallace (voice)
The Wrong Trousers (1993) – Wallace (voice)
A Close Shave (1995) – Wallace (voice)
Hotel (2001, uncredited)
The Incredible Adventures of Wallace and Gromit (2001) – Wallace (voice)
Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions (2002) – Wallace (voice)
Belonging (2004) – Nathan
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) – Wallace / Hutch (voice)
Colour Me Kubrick (2005) – The Second Patient (cameo)
A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) – Wallace (voice).
... But we remember him as Stuffy Gladstone in the 3rd episode of the first series 'The curse of Rapkyn'.
It's funny you should say that as I've always thought I was the only person to have such mad thoughts, but when I see Alfred on the box, I straightaway think of Geoffrey and vice versa. Two fine actors who I believe deserve a lot more recognition in the industry. Alas, with what's been pouring out of our screens for the last decade or more, it's all downhill. I can see Alfie in long whiskers and a beard, funny enough. Let's face it, Marker's dress sense was half way there! 