Sallis (right) along with Brian Wilde (centre) and Bill Owen in Last of the Summer Wine

Peter Sallis (b. February 1, 1921, Twickenham, Middlesex, England), is a British actor. Image File history File links Losw28. ... Image File history File links Losw28. ... Brian Wilde as prison warden Mr Barrowclough Brian Wilde (b. ... Bill Owen as Compo, along side Co-star Kathy Staff as Nora Batty Bill Rowbotham (March 14, 1914 - July 12, 1999), better known as Bill Owen, was an English actor and songwriter. ... Last of the Summer Wine, written by Roy Clarke, is a British television sitcom. ... February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ... Twickenham is a suburb in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, south west London. ... Middlesex is one of the 39 historic counties of England and the second smallest (after Rutland). ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ...

Biography

He is best known for his role of the level-headed widower Norman Clegg in the BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine which he has played since 1973. He is also famous for providing the voice for Wallace in the Wallace and Gromit films. However his long career has included many other stage, film and TV appearances. His IMDB entry alone credits him with 102 films and TV programmes. The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Last of the Summer Wine, written by Roy Clarke, is a British television sitcom. ... Wallace and Gromit Wallace & Gromit are the main characters in a series of three British animated short films, a series of ten short animated sequences, and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. ...

Sallis started as an amateur actor in the RAF during World War II. He failed to get into the aircrew because of a medical problem and so taught radio procedures at RAF Cranwell. During his four years with the RAF, one of his students offered him the lead in an amateur production. His success in the role caused him to resolve to become an actor after the war, and so he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, making his first professional appearance on the London stage in 1946. Numerous appearances in London’s West End then followed. The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... RAF Cranwell is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire close to the village of Cranwell, near Sleaford. ... Categories: United Kingdom-related stubs | Performing arts education in London ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the...

He also appeared in a couple of the most notable Hammer Horror Films including The Curse of the Werewolf and Taste the Blood of Dracula; in the latter he plays a leading role as a Victorian/Edwardian gentleman, one of three who betrays Dracula and has to face his revenge. A poster for Dracula Prince of Darkness (1966). ... Oliver Reed and Yvonne Romain in Curse of the Werewolf promotional photo. ... Taste the Blood of Dracula is a horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions. ...

His first notable television role was as Samuel Pepys in the BBC serial of the same name in 1958. He appeared in the Doctor Who story The Ice Warriors in 1968, playing renegade scientist Elric Penley; and in 1983 was due to play the role of Striker in another Doctor Who story, Enlightenment before having to withdraw. In 1970 he was cast in the BBC comedy The Culture Vultures, which saw him play stuffy Professor George Hobbs to Leslie Phillips' laid-back rogue Dr Michael Cunningham. During the production, Phillips was rushed to hospital with an internal haemorrhage and as a result, only five episodes were ever made. Samuel Pepys, FRS (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, famous chiefly for his comprehensive diary. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme (and 1996 television movie) produced by the BBC about the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, solving problems and righting wrongs. ... The Ice Warriors is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from November 11 to December 16, 1967. ... Enlightenment is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from March 1 to March 9, 1983. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... Leslie Phillips OBE (born April 20, 1924) is a British comedy actor, born in Tottenham, London. ... A subconjunctival hemorrhage is a common and relatively minor post-LASIK complication. ...

Sallis was cast in a one-off pilot for Comedy Playhouse entitled The Last of the Summer Wine as the unobtrusive lover of a quiet life, Norman Clegg. Sallis had already worked with Michael Bates, who played unofficial ring-leader Blamire in the first two series, on stage. The pilot proved popular and the BBC commissioned a series. As of 2006 Sallis is still playing the role of Clegg, and is one of only three cast members remaining from the original Comedy Playhouse pilot (Kathy Staff, who plays Nora Batty, and Jane Freeman who plays Ivy, the cafe owner, are also still in the series). In 1988 he appeared as Clegg's father in First of the Summer Wine, a prequel to Last Of The Summer Wine set in 1939. Comedy Playhouse was an occasional BBC television anthology series of the 1960s and early 1970s, consisting of one-off plays with the potential to be turned into regular sitcoms. ... Michael Bates (December 4, 1920 – January 11, 1978) was a British actor born in Jhansi, British India (now in Uttar Pradesh). ... Kathy Staff (born July 12, 1928) is a British actress born at Dukinfield, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. ... Nora Batty is a character in the long-running British sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine. ... Jane Freeman is a British actress who is best known for playing Ivy on the British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine. ... First of the Summer Wine (FOTSW) was a prequel to Last of the Summer Wine (LOTSW), also written by Roy Clarke. ...

Between 1976 and 1978 he appeared in the children's series The Ghosts of Motley Hall, in which he played Mr Gudgin, an estate agent who did not want to see the eponymous hall fall into the wrong hands. The Ghosts of Motley Hall was a British childrens television series written by Richard Carpenter, produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence, and shown in 1976 by Granada Television. ...

In 1978 he starred alongside fellow northern comic actor David Roper for the ITV sitcom Leave it to Charlie as Charlie's (Roper) pessimistic boss. The programme lasted for four series, ending in 1980. David Roper (born June 20, 1944 in Bradford) is a British actor, best known for his roles in the sitcoms, The Cuckoo Waltz and Leave it to Charlie. ... It has been suggested that Channel 3 (UK) be merged into this article or section. ...

Between 1984 and 1990, he alternated with Ian Carmichael as the voice of Rat in the British television series The Wind in the Willows, based on the book by Kenneth Grahame. 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. Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey Ian Carmichael OBE (born 18 June 1920) is a British film, stage and television actor. ... The Wind in the Willows is a 52 episodes series that aired between 1984 and 1990, based on characters from Kenneth Grahames classic story The Wind in the Willows and follows the 1983 film The Wind in the Willows. ... Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame (March 8, 1859 – July 6, 1932) was a Scottish novelist. ... Sir Michael Hordern (October 3, 1911-May 2, 1995) was a British actor, knighted in 1983 for his services to the theatre. ... David Jason in A Touch of Frost. ... Stop motion is an animation technique which makes things that are static appear to be moving. ... Aardman Animations, Ltd. ...

Sallis achieved great success when, in 1989 he voiced Wallace, the eccentric inventor in Aardman Animations' Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out. The made-for-television film won a BAFTA award and was followed by the Oscar-winning films The Wrong Trousers in 1993 and A Close Shave in 1995. Though the characters were temporarily retired in 1996, Sallis has returned to voice Wallace in several short films and in the Oscar-winning 2005 motion picture Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Aardman Animations, Ltd. ... A Grand Day Out is a 1989 animated film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 animated film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. ... Wallace and Gromit on their way to wash windows A Close Shave is a 1995 animated film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. ...

Sallis was then recruited to play the part of Sidney Bliss in two episodes of The New Statesman. Bliss was a pub landlord and ex-hangman in main character Alan B'Stard's constituency. Rik Mayall as Alan Bstard in The New Statesman The New Statesman was an award-winning British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time. ... Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two players. ...

Sallis suffers from macular degeneration and in 2005 recorded an appeal on BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Macular Degeneration Society. Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2005-07-19, and may not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...

Peter Sallis is currently starring in BBC1's 27th series of Last of the Summer Wine.

Fading Into the Limelight

Sallis has recently published a well-received autobiography entitled, with typical self-deprecation "Looking up the cracks of a time of plenty". Reviewing in The Mail on Sunday, Roger Lewis said 'Though Sallis is seemingly submissive, he has a sly wit and sharp intelligence that make this book a total delight.' Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The Daily Mail and its Sunday edition the Mail on Sunday are British newspapers, first published in 1896. ...

Sallis recounts revealing tales from his lifetime as an actor: on a tour of Rhodesia, John Gielgud cheerfully told the press 'We've all been working like blacks.' Orson Welles had to travel round Paris in a converted cattle truck - he was too fat to fix in a taxi. When Laurence Olivier was on stage he became demonically possessed and his face turned a livid green. 'If it was acting it was frightening acting' says Sallis. Anthem: Rise O Voices of Rhodesia (from 1974) Capital Salisbury Language(s) English Government Republic President¹  - 1970-1975 Clifford Dupont  - 1976-1978 John Wrathall Officer Administering the Government¹  - 1965-1970 Clifford Dupont Prime minister  - 1965-1979 Ian Smith Historical era Cold War  - Independence (UDI) November 11, 1965  - Republic declared March... Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning English theatre and film actor, and is generally regarded as one of the great British actors in history. ... George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, a film and theatre director, a film producer and a actor in film, theatre and radio. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907–11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ...

Sallis starred with Welles in his stage version of Moby Dick entitled Moby Dick Rehearsed and tells of a later meeting with him where he received a mysterious telephone call summoning him to the deserted and spooky Gare d'Orsay in Paris where Welles announced he wanted him to dub Hungarian bit-players in his cinema adaptaion of Kafka's The Trial. As Sallis says 'the episode was Kafka-esque, to coin a phrase.' For other uses see Moby-Dick in popular culture Moby-Dick[1] is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. ... Gare dOrsay site seen from The Louvre in March 2006. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Kafka at the age of five Franz Kafka (IPA: ) (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. ... The Trial book cover This article is about the novel by Kafka. ...

Despite his 30 years in Last Of The Summer Wine, this is far from the main focus of the book, in which Sallis 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 admits modestly that his work as Wallace has 'raised his standing a few notches in the public eye.' Wallace and Gromit Wallace & Gromit are the main characters in a series of three British animated short films, a series of ten short animated sequences, and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. ... Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE (b. ...

External link

• Peter Sallis at the Internet Movie Database