Small wonder then that Mike Myers based his hugely successful spoof spy Austen Powers on the moustached sleuth who could seduce continental beauties at the drop of his felt hat. Failed to remove flower. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. In 1970, the actor Peter Wyngarde, who has died at what is believed to be the age of 90, was declared Britains best-dressed male personality. Wyngarde told an interviewer that after his parents' divorce his father took him to China "only months before war with China broke out" in the summer of 1937. He was dropped from mainstream acting roles and his career was virtually over. Birth Place: Hicolieff, Soviet Union cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Following the cancellation of the series at the end of 1972, Peter decided to return to the theatre, and after being greeted at Melbourne Airport by more than 30,000 screaming fans, he took the city by storm in the world premiere of Butley before packed houses every night. We have set your language to Son of an English father and French mother. Are you adding a grave photo that will fulfill this request? Although reluctant at first, Peter was at last persuaded to reprise his role as Count Marcellus, and he made his Broadway debut at the Helen Hayes Theatre in 1959, taking the coveted award for Best Actor in a Foreign Play.On his triumphant return to Britain in 1960, he was almost immediately cast as the enigmatic Peter the Painter in Monty Barman's production of The Siege of Sidney Street - a film which was based on the true story of the British Governments legendary battle with a notorious gang of Slavonic anarchist, whose reputation throughout Europe for robbery and murder lead to one of the bloodiest confrontations in British criminal history.Between numerous starring roles in television productions such as Independent Televisions popular Armchair Theatre and Play of the Week, Peter made two more big screen appearances - both Albert Fennell productions.The first, in 1961, was The Innocents - a feature-length adaptation of the Henry James book, Turn of the Screw, which was followed in 1962 by the classic supernatural thriller, Night of the Eagle (aka Burn, Witch, Burn) which was once again based on a novel - this time Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife.Between July of 1960 and March of 1969, Peter appeared in no less than thirty television plays, and guest starred in such classic series as The Avengers, I Love Lucy, The Baron, The Saint, The Champions and The Prisoner. However, one just goes on learning from one's mistakes doesn't one? Confined in these desperately brutal conditions for four years, Peter struggled to prevent his family and friends from dying at the hands of the cruel and barbaric soldiers who governed the camp, and on one occasion while running errands between accommodation huts, he was discovered and punished by having both his feet broken with a rifle butt, and then put into solitary confinement for two weeks. Official Number: 164521, The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; General Register Office: Foreign Registers and Returns; Class: RG 33; Piece: 31. He also appeared in The Prisoner ("Checkmate", 1967) as the authority figure called Number Two. Ballard, author of Empire of the Sun (1987) among others. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. [citation needed], In the late 1950s he moved to a flat in number 1 Earls Terrace off Kensington High Street in London. English [65] Also on stage he appeared in the thriller Underground with Raymond Burr and Marc Sinden (whose father Donald had worked with Wyngarde on The Siege of Sidney Street) at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto and at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London in 1983.[66]. Owing to his father's work as a member of the British Diplomatic Service, Peter spent much of his early childhood moving from one country to another, and was educated in a number of different schools. Actor famous as the suave television sleuth Jason King. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? His first acting credit was as a policeman at the Buxton Playhouse in May 1946, making nonsense of the 1933 birth date he claimed. [83] She married the Canadian cinematographer William Michael Boultbee (19332005) in Nairobi in 1957[84] while filming for African Patrol. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. Peter Wyngardes income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. In his youth, he toyed with the idea of calling himself Lawrence Templeton. Between 1976 and 1979, DC Thompson - publishers of the Beano comic - ran a story called "Fireball" in its comic, Bullet. [30][31][27] Wyngarde had claimed that Henry Goldbert was his stepfather,[32] and that his birth father was an Englishman named Henry Wyngarde[24][32] who had a prestigious career in the British Diplomatic Service in Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore and India, before becoming an importer-exporter of antique watches living in Eaton Square, London. Wyngarde became a British household name through his starring role in the espionage series Department S (1969). As a boy during World War II, he was interned by the Japanese in the Lunghua Civil Assembly Centre in China. It would be very easy for me to cry in my Campari and say the court case was the reason that TV work has not been flooding in but I dont think it is true, Wyngarde reasoned in 1980. Please enter your email and password to sign in. They would move to England in 1946, shortly after Wyngarde did,[37] but the 2020 biography says that he chose to have very little further contact with them or their children. Document FO 916/1345, The National Archives, Kew, England, US Social Security Applications and Claims Index, via ancestry.com. The fictional actor "Todd Rivers" (actually played by. A reputable actor, whose television roles had brought an intriguing hint of decadence, had come to believe his own publicity. Include gps location with grave photos where possible. Owing to his father's work as a member of the British Diplomatic Service, Peter spent much of his early childhood moving from one country to another, and was educated in a number of different schools. [4], After making his film debut in a brief, uncredited role as a soldier in Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949), Wyngarde had more roles in feature films, television plays and television series guest appearances from the mid-1950s. Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. Wyngarde and the singer Morrissey were friends. However, it's believed his original name was. He was a busy leading man on television in Britain by the mid-50s, and seemed then clearly older than his early 20s. You can always change this later in your Account settings. Interviewed in 1973, Wyngarde said: "As a child it was difficult to differentiate sometimes between fact and fantasy. Peter Paul Wyngarde was born at the home of an aunt in Marseille, Southern France, and is the son of an English father and French mother. GREAT NEWS! 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One city which left a lasting impression on him was Shanghai, where he had been temporarily left in the care of a Swiss family whilst his father was away in India on business. Try again later. And, in the journalist Andrew Billens words, Jason King went from national idol to national joke the day the first narrow lapel was sold in Carnaby Street in 1977.. His director, Cyril Frankel, said: "It got to a point where he wouldn't accept direction. When the camp was finally liberated in 1945 Peter, who was then suffering from malnutrition, beriberi and malaria, was taken to a sanatorium in the Swiss mountains where he remained for the next two years.After completing his education in Switzerland, France and England, Peter reluctantly honoured his parents' wishes, and entered university, where he began studying law, but soon dropped the idea in favour of a career in advertising. After liberation, Wyngarde claimed to have read law at Oxford, but there is no record of him having studied there in the postwar years. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Ballard were prisoners of the Japanese during World War II. Peter Wyngarde was one of the biggest names in TV in the mid 1970s but he hid his homosexuality and when it was exposed it signaled the end of his career. By 1971 it was reported that more babies [had been] christened Jason during the last 12 months than ever before. His performance in an episode of the gritty thriller series Bulman (1985) confirmed that the naturalistic stuff had rendered his style archaic. Peter Wyngarde in Department S, 1969. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. [69][70] In 2003 he appeared as a guest of Simon Dee in the Channel 4 one-off revival of his chat show Dee Time. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. One of his friends there was future author, Flamboyant cravat and luxurious moustache, The OFFICIAL Peter Wyngarde Appreciation Society. An obituary reported that he lived partly on social security benefits. An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request, There is an open photo request for this memorial. Sad too, when one considers that Wyngarde was, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, a household name thanks to his role as the flamboyantly camp and immaculately attired author-cum-investigator Jason King. He harboured feelings of regret in accepting the Jason King role. Born in Marseilles, France, his father worked for the British Diplomatic Service. In interviews he claims that his father was a French [sic] diplomat and is vague about his age, sometimes claiming to be younger than me. Upon the fraud scheme being discovered Dallas-Cope persuaded his flatmate Anthony O'Donoghue, a male model, "to attempt suicide and take the blame". The year was 1941, and amidst a mass of turmoil and confusion, news broke that the Japanese had captured the city, and before long, Peter and his surrogate family found themselves in Lung Hau concentration camp. Wyngarde claimed that: "It sold out in next to no time but RCA point-blankly refused to press any more. This character is a university student, and, if Wyngarde had actually been born in August of 1933, he would have been 16 at the time, far too young for the part. His voice is still of great clarity and sound, his eyes unchanged since that period known as his prime. After Wyngarde had filmed Flash Gordon (1980) behind the gold mask of the chief of the secret police, Klytus, his agent, Dennis Selinger, admitted the actor was out of work. In the late 1970s, he performed in the theatre in South Africa and Austria. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Civil Assembly Organization entry list, British Residents' Association, June 1943. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. On his triumphant return to Britain in 1960, he was almost immediately cast as the enigmatic Peter the Painter in Monty Barman's production of The Siege of Sidney Street - a film which was based on the true story of the British Governments legendary battle with a notorious gang of Slavonic anarchist, whose reputation throughout Europe for robbery and murder lead to one of the bloodiest confrontations in British criminal history. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? The following year, he once again took up the mantle of actor/director with Present Laughter, stopping off along the way to host the 1974 Miss Television Contest. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. based on information from your browser. His wife is Dorinda Stevens (6 March1951 - 24 June1956)( divorced). He was best known for portraying the character Jason King, a bestselling novelist turned sleuth, in two television series: Department S (196970) and Jason King (197172). They told me that everything would have to go on the back burner, but I just believe that they got cold feet". The organiser of The Hellfire Club, formerly Tina Bate, took Wyngarde's surname after his death, becoming Tina Wyngarde-Hopkins,[105] and in 2020 she published a biography which claimed to draw on personal knowledge of the subject. He appeared opposite Vivien Leigh in Duel of Angels at the Apollo in 1958, and said that the highlight of his career, at the Bristol Old Vic in 1959, had been playing Cyrano de Bergerac. [1][3] His full name may have been Cyril Louis Goldbert. [91][92] The Evening Standard reported that Wyngarde pleaded guilty although his solicitor tried to mitigate the charge as a "mental aberration" brought on by excessive drinking. In part, this helped account for the six-year gap created by his claim to have been a 12-year-old boy when he left Shanghai, not a man of 18 as the passenger manifest says. Some sources list his birth year as 1924. Peter Schickele won four straight Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album in the 1990s, beating out this list of comedians: George Carlin, Weird Al Yankovic, Rita Rudner, Sandra Bernhard, Andrew Dice Clay, Sam Kinison, Jackie Mason, George Burns, Bob and Ray, Jonathan Winters and Garrison Keillor. The year was 1941, and amidst a mass of turmoil and confusion, news broke that the Japanese had captured the city, and before long, Peter and his surrogate family found themselves in Lunghua concentration camp.Confined in these desperately brutal conditions for four years, Peter struggled to prevent his family and friends from dying at the hands of the cruel and barbaric soldiers who governed the camp, and on one occasion while running errands between accommodation huts, he was discovered and punished by having both his feet broken with a rifle butt, and then put into solitary confinement for two weeks.During better times however, the young Mr Wyngarde worked in the camp laundry and gardens, and began to write and appear in plays staged by, and for, his fellow inmates, making his acting debut in his own production of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has won the presidential election in Lagos State. [9] The Guardian newspaper said in March 2020 that "his life story is shrouded in mystery". After a brief spell with an agency in London, he walked into an audition, read the part, and was cast as the understudy for the lead in a play in Brighton. [103][104] It was reissued in 2019. He was considered for many guest roles on, He nearly fell out of a moving Swiss Cable Car whilst filming, He served as the visual inspiration for a redesign of Mastermind/Jason Wyngarde (a classic X-Men villain) in the late 1970s and the early 1980s. [4], Wyngarde's film work was not extensive, but gained attention. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. Birth Date: abt 1933 The original vinyl album is now much sought after by fans and collectors alike. 40K views, 324 likes, 40 loves, 84 comments, 216 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from BBC Archive: Peter Wyngarde on Pebble Mill in 1993, recalling a time when he was so sexy that he was hospitalised. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. Something went wrong, please try again later. In 1970 RCA Records released the eponymous album "Peter Wyngarde" (RCA SF 8087). RCA Records have never officially disclosed the reasons behind their decision to discontinue pressings. The first, in 1961, was The Innocents - a feature-length adaptation of the Henry James book, Turn of the Screw, which was followed in 1962 by the classic supernatural thriller, Night of the Eagle (aka Burn, Witch, Burn) which was once again based on a novel - this time Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife. Interviewed for The Sydney Morning Herald in 1972, Wyngarde said his biggest regret was that he "married far too young", adding: "It lasted three [sic] years and the last year was pretty hell. Weve updated the security on the site. He was crushed when they rushed forward and spent three days in a hospital after suffering concussion. [38][39], After Peter Wyngarde's parents divorced, his mother is said to have married Charles Lo Juvet[40][41] of the Shanghai-based Swiss horological family[42][43][44] through whom she gained Swiss citizenship. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Please try again later. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Peter Wyngarde I found on Findagrave.com. Peter Paul Wyngarde was born at the home of an aunt in Marseille, Southern France, and is the son of an English father and French mother. He began acting during his internment when he played all the characters in a version of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. One of these, a television adaptation of Julien Green's novel South (1959, originally Sud), in which Wyngarde featured in a lead role, is thought to be the earliest television play with an overtly homosexual theme. 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