Peter Wyngarde Has Passed Away.

[mikey4444]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/peter-wyngarde-dead-90-jason-11870928

Department S was required viewing when I was younger...rip Peter !

[murraymints]

Aw... another name from childhood ..sad..RIP

[andy-hughes]

Very sad.

I remember him being voted 'The man most women would like to lose their virginity to ...' in a magazine poll, and then being arrested for importuning a few months later!

He always retained that wonderful voice, which he used to great effect as Klytus in Flash Gordon.

A sad loss.

[murraymints]

Saw him at Edinburgh Kings at the height of Jason King....Very flamboyant

[Islay]

So sad and being arrested changed him forever

[Sqad]

Yes, AB continues to remind us of our vulnerability and every death is sad to somebody.

[Jomlett]

Age 90 and his agent said the actor had roles and personal appearances coming up.

[mikey4444]

Looking at his performance history, I'm not sure that his arrest had any lasting detrimental effect on his career.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wyngarde#Later_career

[melv16]

He made a career out of being a lounge lizard.

[emmie]

RIP Peter, as you say it was required viewing when i was a kid.

[Islay]

Mikey, one of the reasons you didn't see his face for a long time was because he was apparently ashamed at being arrested.

[mikey4444]

Islay....I know you don't believe anything in Wiki, but his absence from the stage and screen appears to have nothing to do with shame :::

"After leaving a 1995 stage production of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari due to a throat infection while still in previews[42] Wyngarde mostly stopped acting but he has done occasional voice work"

[Islay]

This was well before 1995 Mikey
We will have to agree to disagree - it was something that was said in an interview that I watched in the 80's.

[erik2]

his breakfast was a cigarette (in a long holder) and a glass of champagne :-)

[Bathsheba]

Aaaww, poor Jason King.
Don't know anything about him being arrested, shall have to investigate that.

~Baths~

[mikey4444]

Lets remember Wyngarde as an actor, in a show that lots of us liked, rather than someone that was arrested over 40 years ago shall we ?

[Bathsheba]

Yes Mikey, let's.

[marval]

Another well known one gone, RIP Peter.

[Lie-in King]

Sad news indeed - RIP Peter.

[Mamyalynne]

RIP Peter - always a man of mystery.

[Khandro]

Was that the series in which he drove a Rolls?