Peter Wyngarde

Peter Wyngarde
Birth date:	23 August 1927 (debated)
Death date:	15 January 2018
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Timanov
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	Planet of Fire
Main time period active:	1984
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	A Tale of Two Cities, Sword of Freedom, The Innocents, Out of This World, Rupert of Hentzau, Sherlock Holmes, The Saint, The Baron, The Avengers, I Spy, Mogul, The Prisoner, The Champions, Department S, Jason King, Flash Gordon, The Two Ronnies, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
IMDb profile

Peter Wyngarde (born as either Peter Paul Wyngarde or Cyril Goldbert on 23 August 1927, 1933, 1937 or 28 August 1928, 1929 or in 1930 in Singapore or Marseilles , died 15 January 2018) 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)

Career

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.

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.

External links

• Peter Wyngarde at the Internet Movie Database