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Peter Wyngarde (born as either Peter Paul Wyngarde or Cyril Goldbert[1] on 23 August 1927[2], 1933[3], 1937[4] or 28 August 1928[5], 1929[6] or in 1930[7] in Singapore[6] or Marseilles[7] , died 15 January 2018[8][9]) played Timanov in the Doctor Who television story Planet of Fire.
He was previously considered for the role of Commander Vorshak in Warriors of the Deep. (TCH 38)
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Wyngarde is best known for playing debonair novelist/detective Jason King in the early 1970s TV series Department S (1969-1970) and its spinoff, Jason King (1971-72). Wyngarde's performance in those shows — topped off by a huge head of hair — was later cited as one of the inspirations for Mike Myers' character Austin Powers.
The two Jason King series were part of the ITV stable of action-adventure shows of the late 60s-early 70s. At one point or another Wyngarde appeared in virtually all of the major ones, including The Avengers (1961-69), The Prisoner (1967-68) as one of the show's Number Twos, The Saint (1962-69), The Champions (1968-69), and The Baron (1966-67). He also guest-starred in an episode of the US spy series I Spy (1965-68). His birthdate has been a debated matter and is often given in conflicting accounts. This was further complicated by his own admission in an interview that he could not recollect his own age.[10]
Wyngarde was primarily a television actor, though he made a rare big-screen appearance in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon.
His last dramatic TV credit was a 1994 episode of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1984-1994), although as recently as 2007 he was seen engaging in an intentionally humorous mock interview for a DVD/Blu-Ray featurette for a reissue of The Prisoner. Ironically, given his hirsute image as Jason King, he appeared in the featurette bald-headed.
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- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3266755
- ↑ Ballard, J. G., Miracles of Life (2008)
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20161014013110/https://peterwyngarde.wordpress.com/about/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180226090424/https://peterwyngarde.wordpress.com/about/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190724111651/https://peterwyngarde.wordpress.com/2019/04/19/review-negative-evidence/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Ancestry.com, California U.S. Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959 [database on-line]. (Original data; Selected Passenger and Crew Lists and Manifests, National Archives, Washington D.C.)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Straits Times, 13 Sept 1956, pg. 8
- ↑ Belfast Telegraph
- ↑ Doctor Who News
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jan/18/peter-wyngarde-interview-andrew-billen-1993