Peter Sallis
Peter Sallis | |
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![]() Sallis in October 2008 | |
Born | Peter John Sallis 1 February 1921 Twickenham, England |
Died | 2 June 2017 Denville Hall, London, England | (aged 96)
Resting place | St John the Evangelist Churchyard, Upperthong, West Yorkshire, England |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1946–2015 |
Notable work | Wallace and Gromit, Last of the Summer Wine |
Spouse | |
Children | Crispian Sallis |
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.
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 into the Limelight, Sallis recounts a later meeting with Welles where he received a mysterious telephone call summoning him to the deserted Gare d'Orsay in Paris where Welles announced he wanted him to dub Hungarian bit-players in his cinema adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial (1962). Sallis wrote that "the episode was Kafka-esque, to coin a phrase". Later, he was in the first West End production of Cabaret in 1968 opposite Judi Dench.[7]
Sallis appeared in the Hal Prince-produced musical She Loves Me in 1963.[8] Though not a success it led to him making his Broadway debut the following year. Prince was producer of a musical based on the work of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes called Baker Street. Sallis was asked by Prince to take the role of Dr. Watson to Fritz Weaver's Sherlock Holmes. The show ran for six months on Broadway.[8] Just before Baker Street ended he was offered the role of Wally in John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence, which had been played by Arthur Lowe in London with Nicol Williamson reprising the lead role. The production was troubled with Williamson hitting producer David Merrick with a bottle and walking out before being persuaded to continue. The show was a minor success and ran for six months in New York, opening at the Belasco Theater before transferring to the Shubert Theater.[8] Sallis reprised his role in the 1968 film adaptation.[9]
Television and films
[edit]Sallis appeared in more than 100 films and in more than 140 television shows. His first extended television role as Samuel Pepys in the BBC serial of the same name in 1958.[5] That same year Sallis started in the tv show The Black Arrow as Sir Oliver Oates and he appeared in the tv show The Lost King as abbe Fleuriel in the episode "Monsieur Charles Deslys".[9] In 1959 Sallis played Cady in the 1959 tv show The Widow of Bath based of the book of the same name by Margot Bennett.[9] He appeared in Jango in the episode "Treacle on Three Fingers" (1961) as Oscar Grant.[9] He appeared in Danger Man in the episode "Find and Destroy" (1961) as Gordon.[10] He appeared in the BBC Doctor Who story "The Ice Warriors" (1967), playing renegade scientist Elric Penley;[11] and in 1983 was due to play the role of Striker in another Doctor Who serial, "Enlightenment", but had to withdraw.[12]
Sallis appeared as schoolteacher Mr Gladstone in an episode of the first series of Catweazle in 1970. He was cast in the BBC comedy series The Culture Vultures (1970), which saw him play stuffy Professor George Hobbs to Leslie Phillips's laid-back rogue Dr Michael Cunningham.[13] During the production, Phillips was rushed to hospital with an internal haemorrhage and as a result, only five episodes were completed.[14]
Sallis started along side Robin Ellis, Suzanne Neve, Garfield Morgan, Margaret Courtenay, Elvi Hale, John Bryans, Maurice Quick, James Cossins and Arthur Pentelow in the 1971 British tv show Bel Ami based of the French novel by Guy de Maupassant. Sallis played the character Norbert de Varenne in 4 episodes of the series.[15]
Sallis acted alongside Roger Moore and Tony Curtis in an episode of The Persuaders! ("The Long Goodbye", 1971).[16] He appeared in many British films of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s including Child's Play (1954), Anastasia (1956), The Doctor's Dilemma (1958), The Scapegoat (1959),[9] Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,[17] Doctor in Love (1960), No Love for Johnnie,[9] The Curse of the Werewolf (1961),[17] I Thank a Fool (1962), The Mouse on the Moon,[9] The V.I.P.s ,[17] Clash by Night (1963), The Third Secret (1964), Rapture (1965),[9] Charlie Bubbles,[17] Inadmissible Evidence (1968),[9] The Reckoning,[9] Scream and Scream Again, Taste the Blood of Dracula, My Lover My Son,[9] Wuthering Heights (1970),[17] The Night Digger (1971),[9] The Incredible Sarah (1976),[17] Full Circle (1977)[9] and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978).[18] Additionally in 1968, he was cast as the well-intentioned Coker in a BBC Radio production of John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids.[19]
Sallis played a priest in the TV film Frankenstein: The True Story (1973), and the following year he played Mr Bonteen in the BBC period drama The Pallisers.[9]
Later career
[edit]Sallis was cast in a pilot for Comedy Playhouse which became the first episode of Last of the Summer Wine (retrospectively titled "Of Funerals and Fish", 1973), as the unobtrusive lover of a quiet life, Norman Clegg.[6] The pilot was successful and the BBC commissioned a series. Sallis had already worked on stage with Michael Bates, who played the self-appointed leader Blamire in the first two series. Sallis played the role of Clegg from 1973 to 2010, and was the only cast member to appear in every episode. He also appeared, in 1988, as Clegg's father in First of the Summer Wine,[9] a prequel to Last of the Summer Wine set in 1939.
In 1974 Sallis started along side Glyn Owen, Isobel Black, John Thaw, Roland Curram, Jill Dixon and John Bown in the tv show The Capone Investment.[20] He appeared in the children's series The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976–78), in which he played Arnold Gudgin, an estate agent who did not want to see the hall fall into the wrong hands,[9] and he played Rodney Gloss in the BBC series Murder Most English (1977).[21] Sallis also appeared in the TV show Yanks Go Home where he played Randell Todd for 4 episodes in 1977.[9] In the same period, he starred alongside Northern comic actor David Roper in the ITV sitcom Leave it to Charlie as Charlie's pessimistic boss.[22] The programme ran for four series, ending in 1980. Sallis also played the part of the ghost-hunter Milton Guest in the children's paranormal drama series The Clifton House Mystery (1978).[23]
Voice acting
[edit]In 1962 Sallis dubbed the Hungarian voice of Max Haufler in the 1962 film The Trial.[8] Sallis was the narrator on Rocky Hollow (1983), a show produced by Bumper Films, who later produced Fireman Sam, and alternated with Ian Carmichael as the voice of Rat in the British television series The Wind in the Willows (1984–90), based on the book by Kenneth Grahame and produced by Cosgrove Hall Films. Alongside him were Michael Hordern as Badger, David Jason as Toad and Richard Pearson as Mole. The series was animated in stop motion, prefiguring his work with Aardman Animations. Also in 1983 he played the lead character Jim Bloggs, alongside Brenda Bruce as Hilda, in a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Raymond Briggs' When the Wind Blows.[24][25] Sallis appeared in the last episode of Rumpole of the Bailey (1992)[26] and he later starred alongside Brenda Blethyn, Kevin Whately and Anna Massey in the one-off ITV1 drama Belonging (2004).[27]
During the 1980s to the 1990s, Peter Sallis provided the voiceover for the Polo Mint television adverts.[28]
Sallis also voiced Hugo in the animated series Victor and Hugo: Bunglers in Crime (filling in for The Wind in the Willows co-star David Jason who was the usual voice of Hugo, although Jason's voice of Hugo can still be heard in the opening and closing theme songs) for audio cassettes as well.[citation needed] He narrated "Postman Pat's Parcel of Stories" in the children's television series Postman Pat for audio cassettes.[29]
While a student in 1983, animator Nick Park wrote to Sallis asking him if he would voice his character Wallace, an eccentric inventor. Sallis agreed to do so for a donation of £50 to his favourite charity.[30] The work was eventually released in 1989 and Aardman Animations' Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out went on to win a BAFTA award.[30] Sallis reprised his role in the Oscar and BAFTA Award-winning films The Wrong Trousers in 1993 and A Close Shave in 1995.[6]
Sallis returned to voice Wallace in several short films and in the Oscar-winning 2005 motion picture Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, for which he won an Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production.[6] In 2008, Sallis voiced a new Wallace and Gromit adventure, A Matter of Loaf and Death.[6] Following the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Sallis's eyesight began to fail as a result of macular degeneration and he used a talking portable typewriter with a specially illuminated scanner to continue working.[6] His last role as Wallace was in 2010's Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention.[6] Two years later Sallis then retired due to ill health, with Ben Whitehead taking over the role.[6]
Autobiography
[edit]In 2006, Sallis published an autobiography entitled Fading into the Limelight.[8] As well as his 36 years in Last of the Summer Wine, Sallis also recounts the early era of his relationship with Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park when it took six years for A Grand Day Out to be completed. He says that his work as Wallace has "raised his standing a few notches in the public eye".[31]
Personal life
[edit]Sallis married actress Elaine Usher at St. John's Wood Church in London on 9 February 1957.[32][2][33] However, it was a turbulent relationship, with Usher leaving him sixteen times before they divorced in 1965 on grounds of desertion and adultery.[5] They eventually reconciled and continued to live together until 1999. Sallis remained close to Usher until her death in 2014.[6][34] They had one son, Crispian Sallis (born 1959), who went on to become an Oscar-nominated film set designer.[6] Sallis also had two grandchildren.[6]
Sallis suffered from macular degeneration,[6] and in 2005 recorded an appeal on BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Macular Society, of which he was a patron.[35] He also recorded on behalf of the society a television appeal, which was broadcast on BBC One on 8 March 2009. Following his diagnosis of the disease, Aardman produced a short animated film for the society.[36]
Sallis was awarded the OBE in the 2007 Birthday Honours for services to Drama.[6] On 17 May 2009, he appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs, selecting Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major as his favourite.[37]
Death
[edit]Sallis died from natural causes at the Denville Hall nursing home in Northwood, London, on 2 June 2017, at the age of 96.[38][39] He was 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 the sitcom.[40]
Tributes
[edit]Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park led tributes to Sallis, describing him as a "unique character".[38]
"I'm so sad, but feel so grateful and privileged to have known and worked with Peter over so many years. He was always my first and only choice for Wallace," Park said in a statement. "Working with him was always a delight and I will miss his wry, unpredictable humour and silliness - that started the moment he greeted you at the door, and didn't stop when the mic was switched off." Park added: "Peter had naturally funny bones and was a great storyteller and raconteur off stage too and would keep us amused for hours."[38]
Shane Allen, BBC controller of comedy commissioning said Sallis would be "fondly remembered for having the most distinctive and well-loved voice in animation".[38]
Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead, director general of the BBC, said: "Peter Sallis featured in many of the BBC's most popular programmes. He was a marvellous actor - who could forget that remarkable voice?"[41]
Stage credits
[edit]Theatre
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Director | Theatre |
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1946 | The Scheming Lieutenant[5] | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
1949 | Grand National Night[42] | Lionel Dunn | Civic Theatre, Chesterfield | |
Suspect[43] | ||||
1951 | Three Sisters[44] | Alexei Petrovitch Fedotik | Peter Ashmore | Aldwych Theatre |
Summer and Smoke[45] | Roger Doremus | Peter Glenville | Lyric Theatre, Duchess Theatre | |
Timon of Athens[46] | Unknown | Tyrone Guthrie | The Old Vic | |
1953 | Venice Preserv'd[5] | Retrosi | Thomas Otway | Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) |
1954 | The Dark Is Light Enough[47] | 1st Soldier | Unknown | West End theatre |
1955 | Moby Dick-Rehearsed[6] | A Stage Manager/Flask | Orson Welles | Duke of York's Theatre |
1960 | Rhinoceros[5] | Bottard | Eugeue Ionesco | Royal Court Theatre, West End theatre, Novello Theatre |
1963 | She Loves Me[8] | Mr Maraczek | Harold Prince | West End theatre |
1965 | Baker Street[8] | Dr. Watson | Fritz Weaver | Broadway theatre |
1966 | Wait Until Dark[48] | Roat | Arthur Penn | West End theatre |
1968 | Cabaret[49] | Herr Schultz | Harold Prince | Palace Theatre, London |
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1947 | A Midsummer Night's Dream[9] | Quince | |
1948 | Scenes from Twelfth Night and Macbeth[9] | Sir Toby Belch | |
Scenes from Twelfth Night and Macbeth/II[9] | |||
1951 | Mr. Denning Drives North[50] | Minor Role | Uncredited |
1953 | King in Motley[9] | Will | |
The New Shilling[9] | Mr. Bligh | ||
1954 | Stranger from Venus | Soldier | Uncredited |
Child's Play | Bill (grocery merchant) | Filmed in 1952 | |
Nine Eighty-Four[9] | Unknown | ||
1955 | Fcb TV Show No.1[9] | Guest | |
Moby Dick Rehearsed[9] | Actor | ||
Cheltenham Festival of Contemporary Literature[9] | Oscar Wilde | ||
1956 | Kitty Clive[9] | John Hall | |
Anastasia | Grischa | Uncredited | |
1958 | A Night to Remember[51] | Minor Role | |
The Doctor's Dilemma | Secretary at Picture Gallery | ||
Cinderella[9] | Baron Aristide de Pennilac | ||
1959 | The Scapegoat[9] | Customs Official | |
1960 | David and Broccoli[9] | Mr. Slingsby | |
Doctor in Love[9] | Love-Struck Patient | Uncredited | |
The Millionairess[5] | Minor Role | ||
The Poet[9] | Giulio | ||
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning[9] | Man in Suit | Uncredited | |
The Adventures of Alice[9] | Tweedledee | ||
1961 | No Love for Johnnie[9] | M.P. | |
Dear Charles | Edward | ||
The Curse of the Werewolf[9] | Don Enrique | ||
The Renegade | Henry Stolt | ||
Candida[9] | Rev. Alexander Mill | ||
1962 | I Thank a Fool | Sleazy Doctor | |
The Trial[9] | Dubbing (voice) | ||
Heart to Heart (TV play)[9] | Frank Godsell | ||
1963 | The Mouse on the Moon | Russian Delegate | |
The V.I.P.s[9] | Doctor | ||
Clash by Night | Victor Lush | ||
1964 | Don't Ever Talk to Clocks | Unknown | |
The Third Secret[9] | Lawrence Jacks | ||
1965 | Rapture[9] | Armand | |
1966 | The Bible: In the Beginning...[9] | Minor Role | Uncredited |
1968 | Charlie Bubbles[9] | Solicitor | |
Inadmissible Evidence[9] | Hudson | ||
1970 | The Reckoning[9] | Keresley | |
Scream and Scream Again[9] | Schweitz | ||
Taste the Blood of Dracula[9] | Samuel Paxton | ||
My Lover, My Son[9] | Sir Sidney Brent | ||
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary | Ernest Charles, KC | ||
Wuthering Heights[9] | Mr. Shielders | ||
1971 | The Night Digger[9] | Reverend Rupert Palafox | |
The Bristol Entertainment | Unknown | ||
1972 | The Reprieve[9] | Cossack Horseman | |
1973 | Hitler: The Last Ten Days[9] | Banker #2 | |
Frankenstein: The True Story | Priest | ||
1974 | Who Killed Lamb?[9] | Lloyd | |
Graceless Go I[9] | Guest Star | ||
1975 | The Secret Agent[9] | Chief Inspector Heat | |
The Snowdropper[52] | Spicer | ||
1976 | The Incredible Sarah[9] | Thierry | |
1977 | Full Circle[9] | Jeffrey Branscombe | |
1978 | Across a Crowded Room[9] | Cyril Smallpiece | |
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?[9] | St. Claire | ||
1979 | She Loves Me[9] | Ladislav Sipos | |
1982 | Witness for the Prosecution[9] | Carter | |
The Funny Side of Christmas[9] | Clegg | ||
1986 | The Secret Diary's of the Film Censors[9] | Unknown | |
A Dangerous Kind of Love[9] | Mr. Walker | ||
That's Television Television[9] | Clegg | ||
1989 | A Tale of Two Toads[9] | Ratty (voice) | |
A Grand Day Out[9] | Wallace (voice) | ||
1990 | Wallace & Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures[53] | ||
1993 | The Wrong Trousers[9] | ||
1995 | A Close Shave[9] | ||
1996 | Wallace & Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation | ||
1998 | Everyday Readers[9] | Narrator (voice) | |
1999 | Pokémon the Movie 2000[9] | (voice) | English dub (Uncredited) |
Shaggy Dog Story (TV)[9] | Norman Clegg | ||
2001 | Hotel! | Radio Voice of little Ashford Flying Club | Uncredited |
The Incredible Adventures of Wallace and Gromit | Wallace (voice) | ||
2003 | Renault Commercial [Wallace & Gromit][54] | ||
2004 | Jacobs Crackers Commercial [Wallace & Gromit][55] | ||
Belonging[9] | Nathan | ||
2005 | PG Tips Commercial [Wallace & Gromit][56] | Wallace (voice) | |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit[9] | Wallace, Hutch (voice) | Won - Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production | |
Colour Me Kubrick[57] | The Second Patient | Cameo appearance | |
2008 | A Matter of Loaf and Death[9] | Wallace (voice) | Additional lines by Ben Whitehead |
2009 | Npower Hometeam Commercial [Wallace & Gromit][9] | ||
Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection[58] | |||
M&S Commercial [Wallace & Gromit][59] | |||
2012 | The Lark Ascending | Self | |
2013 | Dr. Who: The Ice Warriors | archive sound |
Television
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1948 | For The Children[9] | Sir Toby Belch | 1 episode |
1952 | The March of the peasants[9] | Blakeley | |
1953 | The Heir of Skipton | Thomas | 4 episodes |
1955-1961 | ITV Television Playhouse[9] | Daniel Kevin, Corporal Foster, Professor Coogan, Pasquale Sanzio, Peter | 5 episodes |
1956 | Strange Experiences[9] | Unknown | 3 episodes |
1957-1963 | Play of the Week[9] | Homer Bolton, Hannibal, 'Dusty' Miller | |
1957-1959 | Sunday Night Theatre[9] | J. G., Snug, Wallace Porter | |
1958 | The Black Arrow[9] | Sir Oliver Oates | |
The Diary of Samuel Pepys[5] | Samuel Pepys | 14 episodes | |
The Invisible Man | Nesib | 1 episode | |
The Lost King[9] | Abbe Fleuriel | ||
1959 | The Widow of Bath[9] | Cady | 6 episodes |
World Theatre[9] | Barere, Simon, Prisoner, Doctor, Provost | 2 episodes | |
1960-1963 | BBC Sunday-Night Play[9] | Robinet, Capt. Hardy, Hesketh-Payne, Harry Shell, Danny Fellows, Housing clerk, Gerald Swinney | 7 episodes |
1960 | Musical Playhouse[60] | Max | 1 episode |
International Detective | Eugene Payas | ||
1960-1973 | Armchair Theatre[9] | Sam Carter, Alfred Purdie, Mr. Pender, Onslow | 5 episodes |
1961 | Jango[9] | Oscar Grant | 1 episode |
Danger Man | John Gordon | Episode: "Find and Destroy" | |
Amelia[9] | William Hogarth | 7 episodes | |
A Chance of Thunder | Howard | 3 episodes | |
1962 | Maigret[9] | Armand Lachaume | 1 episode |
The Largest Theatre in the World[9] | Frank Godsell | ||
Crying Down the Lane[9] | Champion | 6 episodes | |
1963 | The Chem. Lab. Mystery[9] | Mad Willy | |
It Happened Like This[9] | Bill Canford | 1 episode | |
1963-1964 | Drama 61-67 | Philip Mallard, Ronald Green | 2 episodes |
Z-Cars[9] | Seaton, Williams | ||
1963 | Zero One[9] | Major Konel | 1 episode |
1963-1964 | Festival | Captain of the Fire Brigade, Romainville | 2 episodes |
1964 | The Avengers | Hal Anderson | Episode: "The Wringer" |
Story Box | Bilbo Baggins | 1 episode | |
Detective[9] | Man | ||
Sergeant Cork[9] | Rev. Hubert Wales, Feng | 2 episodes | |
The Sullavan Brothers | Kenneth K. Hirst | 1 episode | |
1965-1971 | Public Eye | Colin Renolds, Eddie Meadows | 2 episodes |
1966 | Knock on Any Door[9] | Unknown | 1 episode |
Blackmail[9] | Miles Beckett | ||
1967 | Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors[9] | Penley | 6 episodes |
1968-1969 | The Wednesday Play[9] | Eric, Unknown | 2 episode |
1969-1978 | Omnibus[9] | Guest, Mirbeau | |
1969 | Play of the Month[9] | Unknown | 1 episode |
Plays of Today[9] | Mr. Street | ||
1970 | Catweazle | Stuffy Gladstone | |
Mystery and Imagination[9] | Brogden, Mundel, Hopkins | ||
Parkin's Patch[9] | Chief Supt. Mitchum | ||
The Culture Vultures | Professor George Hobbes | 3 episodes | |
The Troubleshooters | Henry Wynn | 1 episode | |
Menace[9] | Sonny Waters | ||
1971-1976 | Hadleigh[9] | Dakin, Strapper Strapton | 2 episodes |
Softly, Softly: Task Force[9] | Lodge, Professor Dowell, Edward Letheridge | 3 episodes | |
1971 | Thirty-Minute Theatre[9] | Lumley | 1 episode |
The Ten Commandments[9] | Gerry | ||
Budgie | Peter Olliphant | ||
Bel Ami | Norbert de Varenne | 4 episodes | |
Paul Temple | George Robertson | 1 episode | |
Trial | Almond | ||
Justice | Coroner | ||
The Persuaders![9] | David Piper | ||
1972 | Spyder's Web[9] | Grovnik | |
The Moonstone[9] | Mr. Bruff | 3 episodes | |
Callan | Routledge | 1 episode | |
Kate | Sammy Harrison | 2 episodes | |
1973–2010 | Last of the Summer Wine[9] | Norman Clegg | 295 episodes |
1973 | Comedy Playhouse[9] | Clegg | 1 episode |
1973-1974 | Thriller[9] | Man, Lloyd | 2 episodes |
1973-1981 | Play for Today[9] | Austin Melcroft, Minor Role, Minor Role, Shushin | 4 episodes |
1973 | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes[9] | Dr. Jervis | 1 episode |
For the Sake of Appearance[9] | Samuel Pepys | ||
1974 | Barlow at Large[9] | Joseph Miller | |
The Pallisers[9] | Mr Bonteen | 5 episodes | |
Armchair Cinema[9] | Benitet | 1 episode | |
The Capone Investment | Wheatfield | 6 episodes | |
1974-1977 | Crown Court[9] | Gerald Prosser, Insp. George Storton | |
1974-1979 | Playhouse[9] | Patient, Leslie | 2 episodes |
1975 | Prometheus: The Life of Balzac[9] | Victor Hugo | 1 episode |
1976–1978 | The Ghosts of Motley Hall[9] | Mr Gudgin | 15 episodes |
1976 | BBC2 Playhouse[9] | Major Venables | 1 episode |
Jackanory Playhouse[9] | Deor | ||
1977 | Raffles[9] | Kingsmill | |
Murder Most English: A Falxborough Chronicle[9] | Rodney Gloss | 2 episodes | |
Yanks Go Home[9] | Randall Todd | 4 episodes | |
Premiere[9] | Ernest | 1 episode | |
1978 | The Clifton House Mystery[9] | Milton Guest | 3 episodes |
1978–1980 | Leave It To Charlie[9] | Arthur Simister | 26 episodes |
1979 | Room Service[9] | Mr. Fellows | 1 episode |
1980 | Ladykillers (TV series)[9] | O'Brien | |
Tales of the Unexpected[9] | Solicitor | ||
1982 | The Kids International Show | Clegg | |
Hallmark Hall of Fame[9] | Carter | ||
1983 | 60 Minutes | Mr. Bennet | |
1984 | Strangers and Brothers | Leonard March | 3 episodes |
1984–1990 | The Wind in the Willows[9] | Ratty (voice) | 66 episodes |
1985 | Rocky Hollow[9] | Narrator (voice) | 26 episodes |
1986 | Mountain Men[9] | Mr. Walker | 1 episode |
1987 | The New Statesman | Sidney Bliss | 2 episodes |
The Bretts[9] | Dr. Woodward | 1 episode | |
Last of the Summer Wine : Big Day at Dream Acres[9] | Clegg | ||
1988–1989 | First of the Summer Wine[9] | Mr David Clegg | 13 episodes |
1989–2010 | Wallace and Gromit | Wallace (voice) | 5 episodes |
1990 | Come Home Charlie and Face Them[9] | Evans Rhys-Jones | 3 episodes |
1991-1992 | Victor & Hugo: Bunglers in Crime[9] | Hugo (voice) | 30 episodes |
1991 | Junglies[9] | Dentist Aligator (voice) | 1 episode |
1992 | Rumpole of the Bailey[9] | Henry Tong | |
1993 | Aardman: A Cracking Collection[9] | Wallace (voice) | |
1996 | Wildlife Showcase[9] | Narrator (voice) | |
1997 | First Light[9] | Guest | |
Animal People[9] | Narrator | ||
Exclusive[9] | Guest | ||
1999 | Whatever You Want[9] | Clegg | |
2000 | Turning Point[9] | Guest | |
2001 | Holby City | Lionel Davis | |
Then and Now[9] | Guest | ||
2002 | Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions | Wallace (voice) | 10 episodes |
2003 | Balamory[9] | Man at Train Station | 1 episode |
Sooty[9] | (voice) | ||
2004 | Doctors | Arthur Weartherill | |
2007 | Eureka[9] | Guest | |
2009 | Kingdom[9] | Cyril | |
2010 | Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention[6] | Wallace (voice) | 6 episodes |
2012 | BBC Proms[61] | 1 episode |
Radio
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1967 | The War of the Worlds[62] | Narrator | |
1968 | The Day of the Triffids[19] | Coker | 2 episodes |
1971 | Haunted: Tales of the Supernatural[63] | Narrator | |
1977 | The Importance of being Earnest[64] | Unknown | |
1983 | When the Wind Blows[65][66] | Jim Bloggs | |
1986-1987 | Living With Betty[67] | Betty | 6 episodes |
1992 | Postman Pat[29] | Narrator | |
1993 | The Adventure of the Norwood Builder[68] | Jones Oldacre | |
1996 | Wallace & Gromit[69] | Narrator | 3 episodes |
2000 | Hercule Poirot's Christmas[70] | Hercule Poirot | |
2009 | Desert Island Discs[71] | Himself |
Video Games
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1996 | Wallace & Gromit Fun Pack[72] | Wallace (voice) | |
1997 | Wallace & Gromit Cracking Animator[73] | ||
1998 | Wallace & Gromit Print O Matic[74] | ||
1999 | Wallace & Gromit: Go Karting[75] | ||
Mugen[76] | (voice) | ||
2000 | Wallace & Gromit Fun Pack 2[77] | Wallace (voice) | |
2003 | Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo | ||
2005 | Wallace & Gromit PG Tips Flash Game[78] | ||
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (video game) | |||
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (DVD game)[79] | Uncredited | ||
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Paint & Create[80] | |||
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Print Studio[81] | |||
2008 | Raccoon Racing[82] | (voice) | |
2009 | Wallace & Gromit: Top Bun[83] | Wallace (voice) | |
Wallace & Gromit Adventures Java[84] | |||
2010 | Wallace & Gromit: Wallace's Workshop[85] | ||
Los Banditos[86] | Cowboy (voice) |
Covers
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1965 | A Married Man[87] | Singer | |
1968 | It Couldn’t Please Me More (Pineapple)[88] | ||
Married[89] | |||
Meeskite[90] |
Music Videos
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1999 | National Television Awards | Self |
Awards and nominations
[edit]Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1999 | Unsung Heroes Award | Acting | Film and Television | Won | [91] |
2005 | Annie Award | Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Won | [92] |
2007 | OBE | Order of the British Empire | Services to Drama | Won | [38] |
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External links
[edit]- Peter Sallis at the British Film Institute
- Peter Sallis at IMDb
- "Desert Island Discs". Desert Island Discs. 17 May 2009. BBC. Radio 4.
- "Peter Sallis at Kinorium".
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