Peter Wyngarde

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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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