Peter Sallis: Difference between revisions

 

Line 70: Line 70:

==Death==

==Death==

Sallis died from [[natural causes]] at the [[Denville Hall]] nursing home in [[Northwood, London]], on 2 June 2017 at the age of 96.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40165443 |title=Peter Sallis: Last of the Summer Wine actor dies aged 96 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=5 June 2017 |access-date=5 June 2017}}{{Cite news |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/people-news/peter-sallis-dead-dies-wallace-and-gromit-1202454203/ |title=Peter Sallis, Voice of Wallace in ‘Wallace & Gromit’ Films, Dies at 96 |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |access-date=6 June 2017 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=5 June 2017}} He was buried next to fellow ”[[Last of the Summer Wine]]” actor [[Bill Owen (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”.{{cite news|url=https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/last-summer-wine-star-peter-14103261 |title=Last of the Summer Wine star Peter Sallis is laid to rest next to co-star Bill Owen in Holmfirth |work=Huddersfield Examiner |publisher=Trinity Mirror Group |date=2 January 2018 |access-date=28 May 2018}}

Sallis died from [[natural causes]] at the [[Denville Hall]] nursing home in [[Northwood, London]], on 2 June 2017 96.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40165443 |title=Peter Sallis: Last of the Summer Wine actor dies aged 96 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=5 June 2017 |access-date=5 June 2017}}{{Cite news |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/people-news/peter-sallis-dead-dies-wallace-and-gromit-1202454203/ |title=Peter Sallis, Voice of Wallace in ‘Wallace & Gromit’ Films, Dies at 96 |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |access-date=6 June 2017 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=5 June 2017}} He was buried next to fellow ”[[Last of the Summer Wine]]” actor [[Bill Owen (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”.{{cite news|url=https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/last-summer-wine-star-peter-14103261 |title=Last of the Summer Wine star Peter Sallis is laid to rest next to co-star Bill Owen in Holmfirth |work=Huddersfield Examiner |publisher=Trinity Mirror Group |date=2 January 2018 |access-date=28 May 2018}}

==Filmography==

==Filmography==

British actor

Peter John Sallis OBE (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) 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. Additionally, he portrayed Norman Clegg’s father in the prequel series First of the Summer Wine. Although Sallis was born and brought up in London, the characters of Wallace and Clegg were both Northerners.

Among his television credits, Sallis appeared in Danger Man, The Avengers, Doctor Who (“The Ice Warriors“), The Persuaders! and The Ghosts of Motley Hall. Sallis’s film appearances include the Hammer horror films The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) and Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970).

Early life[edit]

Peter John Sallis^[1] was born on 1 February 1921 in Twickenham, Middlesex (now in Greater London), the only child of bank manager Harry Sallis (1889–1964) and Dorothy Amea Frances (née Barnard; 1891–1975).^[2][3] After attending Minchenden Grammar School in Southgate, also in Middlesex (also now Greater London), Sallis went to work in a bank, working on shipping transactions. After the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the RAF. He was unable to serve as aircrew because of a serum albumin disorder and was told he might black out at high altitudes.^{[4][better source needed]} He became a wireless mechanic instead and went on to teach radio procedures at RAF Cranwell.^[5]

Early career[edit]

Theatre work[edit]

Sallis began his career as an amateur actor during his four years with the RAF when one of his students offered him the lead in an amateur production of Noël Coward‘s Hay Fever.^[6] After his success in the role, he resolved to become an actor after the war, winning a Korda scholarship and training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He made his first professional appearance on the London stage in September 1946 in a walk-on part in Richard Brinsley Sheridan‘s The Scheming Lieutenant (1775).^[5]

Sallis then spent three years in repertory theatre before appearing in his first speaking role on the London stage in 1949.^[5] Other roles followed in the 1950s and 1960s including Orson Welles‘ 1955 production of Moby Dick—Rehearsed.^[6] In his autobiography, Fading…