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Peter Paul Wyngarde (natural August 23 1933) is a British actor better known for swimming a character Jason King in two television series in the late 1960s early 1970s.
He was natural within Marseille, France, the boy of an English father & the French mother. His father worked for the British Diplomatic Service, & following his childhood was spent inside the total of different countries. Around 1941, while his parents were away inside Indithe, he attend stay by owning a Swiss personal inside Shanghai. While a Imperial Japanese Army invaded the city, it were captured & situated in the Lung-hai concentration camp. Conditions within the campy were periodically harsh - in a single occasion Peter experienced two his feet broken & spent fortnight in solitary when existence caught ingesting messages between camp huts.
(1971), which ran for 1 year (26 a single-hour episodes).
Inside 1975 he was arrested and convicted for an work of "gross indecency" using the trucker in the toilets of Gloucester bus station. His career never recovered. When losing his TV celebrity status, Wyngarde worked around Austria, acting and directing at a English Theatre within Vienna, South Africa and Germany. He as well landed a role of General Klytus in the film version of Flash Gordon, although it is possibly important the a share needed him to put on a metallic mask throughout.
In a period of the 1980s and 1990s he made a total of TV appearances, including the Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire in 1984, and he appeared in the film Tank Malling'' (1989).
An enduring myth is that Wyngarde's very title is Cyril Louis Goldbert. This story experienced its genesis within the early Seventies after, in the newspaper locate Wyngarde was asked his rattling title & as a joke gave the title of his uncle, Louis Juvet, himself a noted French actor. A title non lone stuck however was added to on top a years.
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