Peter Wyngarde

Peter Wyngarde (born as either Peter Paul Wyngarde or Cyril Goldberthttps://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3266755 on 23 August 1927Ballard, J. G., Miracles of Life (2008), 1933https://web.archive.org/web/20161014013110/https://peterwyngarde.wordpress.com/about/, 1937https://web.archive.org/web/20180226090424/https://peterwyngarde.wordpress.com/about/ or 28 August 1928https://web.archive.org/web/20190724111651/https://peterwyngarde.wordpress.com/2019/04/19/review-negative-evidence/, 1929Ancestry.com, California U.S. Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959 [database on-line. (Original data; Selected Passenger and Crew Lists and Manifests, National Archives, Washington D.C.)] or in 1930The Straits Times, 13 Sept 1956, pg. 8 in Singapore or Marseilles , died 15 January 2018Belfast TelegraphDoctor Who News) 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, (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), (1967-68) as one of the show's Number Twos, The Saint (1962-69), (1968-69), and (1966-67). He also guest-starred in an episode of the US spy series (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.https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jan/18/peter-wyngarde-interview-andrew-billen-1993
Wyngarde was primarily a television actor, though he made a rare big-screen appearance in the 1980 version of . 
His last dramatic TV credit was a 1994 episode of (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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Category:Doctor Who guest actors