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| - Peter Wyngarde is a British actor who portrayed Langdale Pike in the Granada Television series of Sherlock Holmes. His version of Langdale Pike appeared in the 1994 episode The Three Gables.
- Peter Paul Wyngarde was born on 23rd August 1933 to Anglo-French parents in Marseille, France. His father was a British diplomat and consequently his childhood involved a great deal of travelling to different countries. During the Second World War he was interned in a Japanese Concentration Camp when captured as a childhood civilian in Shanghai. Suffering greatly from the brutality of the Japanese guards, he went into acting after his release, appearing in a range of adventure television series such as The Avengers, The Prisoner, The Saint, The Baron and the Granada series The Man in Room 17. It was during this phase of his career that he guest-starred as astrologer Richard Merlin in the opening episode of the Coronation Street spin-off Turn out the lights, The Boyhood Haunt, opposite Arth
- Wyngarde is best known for playing debonair detective Jason King in the early 1970s TV series Department S and its spinoff, Jason King. 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' Austin Powers character. Wyngarde was primarily a television actor, though he made a rare big-screen appearance in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon.
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| - Peter Wyngarde is a British actor who portrayed Langdale Pike in the Granada Television series of Sherlock Holmes. His version of Langdale Pike appeared in the 1994 episode The Three Gables.
- Wyngarde is best known for playing debonair detective Jason King in the early 1970s TV series Department S and its spinoff, Jason King. 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' Austin Powers character. 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, The Prisoner (as one of the show's Number Twos), The Saint, The Champions, and The Baron. He also guest-starred in an episode of the US spy series I Spy. Wyngarde was considered a major TV star thanks to Jason King, but his career was hurt when he experienced a series of legal and financial issues. Wyngarde was primarily a television actor, though he made a rare big-screen appearance in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon. His most recent dramatic TV credit was a 1994 episode of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 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.
- Peter Paul Wyngarde was born on 23rd August 1933 to Anglo-French parents in Marseille, France. His father was a British diplomat and consequently his childhood involved a great deal of travelling to different countries. During the Second World War he was interned in a Japanese Concentration Camp when captured as a childhood civilian in Shanghai. Suffering greatly from the brutality of the Japanese guards, he went into acting after his release, appearing in a range of adventure television series such as The Avengers, The Prisoner, The Saint, The Baron and the Granada series The Man in Room 17. It was during this phase of his career that he guest-starred as astrologer Richard Merlin in the opening episode of the Coronation Street spin-off Turn out the lights, The Boyhood Haunt, opposite Arthur Lowe as Leonard Swindley in January 1967. Two years later, Wyngarde became a household name when he received top billing in the ITC adventure series Department S as the impossibly trendy and raffish Jason King, also the name given to a spin-off series starring Wyngarde in 1971. Four years later his homosexuality, an open secret in the acting profession, became public knowledge when he was arrested for Gross Indecency in Gloucester and, in the less tolerant climes of the 1970s, his fanbase declined somewhat however he continued acting in series such as Doctor Who and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (again for Granada).
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