Weba video slideshow tribute to peter wyngrade star of department s and jason king. I just said, give me a couple of days to get over the flight. A spokesman for Pembertons told newspapers at the time that Peterhad been specifically chosen to feature in the advertisements as market research had revealed that upwards of 70% of all mens toiletries were actually purchased by women on behalf of their husbands and boyfriends, and that they felt that his association with the product would have a huge effect on future sales. 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. I smiled back. The character was re-introduced as a member of the Hellfire Club, and the actor had portrayed the leader of the Hellfire Club in an episode of the British television series "The Avengers". Rosa Klivger 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.His first role on the London stage, however, was with the Nottingham Repertory Company at the Embassy Theatre as Cassio in Othello. [52] In one interview in the 1970s, Wyngarde says that he was interned as an unaccompanied 5-year-old due to an administrative error,[53] but this appears to be age fabrication since records show that he was interned from age 15 to just before his 18th birthday. The resultant mix of spoken word and alternative arrangements was subject to a very short pressing run, which has led some to conclude that it was not the recording that RCA had expected. Spent his childhood in a number of different countries. Race: White Screenwriter Mark Millar says that when casting his 2004 film Layer Cake, the director Matthew Vaughn wanted Wyngarde for a role, but was told that he had died. I wouldnt attempt to define it. Anyone remember the Comic Strip spoof of Jason King? Im so pleased that you like the website. In 1970, Wyngarde recorded an album released by RCA Victor entitled simply Peter Wyngarde, featuring a single, "La Ronde De L'Amour"/"The Way I Cry Over You". [93] It is said that Wyngarde's career never fully recovered from the publicity surrounding this prosecution. [47] Madge MacAulay does not appear to have been Louis Jouvet's sister or sister-in-law[48] and moreover the French Louis Jouvet appears to be unrelated to the Swiss Juvet family. His role in Alexander the Great was so drastically cut that the fruits of nearly a years work was rarely seen. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. It is informative, enlightening, moving and lively- giving an absorbing account of the life of a talented and cultured man. NameHarry GoldbertArrival Date2 May 1945Birth Date1897Age48GenderMaleEthnicity/ NationalityRussianPort of DepartureManchester, EnglandPort of ArrivalNew York, New York, USAShip NameLlandaffHousehold Members, Scottish statutory death register 1992, ref 221/ 96, Stornoway, Name: Marion Goldbert He was a busy leading man on television in Britain by the mid-50s, and seemed then clearly older than his early 20s. Tip #4: Know Your Formulas Inside Out! Its fatal. Dutch media campaign from 1970 for Aqua Brava mens grooming products, which included aftershave, soap, shampoo, deodorant and talcum powder. He followed this appearance as the lead in the occult thriller Night of the Eagle (US title: Burn Witch Burn, 1962), his only film appearance in a lead role. The idea was, of course, accepted and the campaign, which began just prior to Christmas, 1971, proved to be an enormous success, with high street stockists announcing record sales. He began acting during his internment when he played all the characters in a version of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. [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 [75] The album is a collection of spoken-word musical arrangements produced by Vic Smith and Hubert Thomas Valverde. Tip #2: Eat Well, Score Well. Wyngarde claimed that: "It sold out in next to no time but RCA point-blankly refused to press any more. Ports of Voyage: Shanghai and Hong Kong Within three and a half weeks of its launch in Stratford-Upon-Avon, the manufacturers reported that orders for the Module 21 Kitchen Unit had reached 274,000, which was a huge uplift from the all-time low which had rocked the industry only six months earlier. Wow ..that's a name I hadn't heard of for years. O'Donoghue was found by police when close to death, and was sentenced to 15 months, after also being found guilty. Do you know what I mean?. [27] He later claimed that the ship had arrived in Liverpool not Southampton, and that he was personally greeted by King George VI.[55][56]. In one of the newspaper advertisements, Petertold prospective customers: Module 21 is essentially designed to suite all sizes and shapes of kitchen, and there are nine worktop finishes and seven door colours featured in the range., Above: Original Gower Kitchen brochure featuring Peter, from January 1974. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. [97] Morrissey wrote in his 2013 autobiography about visiting Wyngarde at home in Earls Terrace: [His flat is] an Edwardian warren of clerical ferocity a tornado of books and papers and swelling pyramids of typescripts, half-finished, half-begun. [33] No such person appears in any public records in the UK or anywhere in the world. | Millions of men would give their all to look, act, sound and, somebody obviously believes, smell like him because he as the sort of sex appeal they can only dream about. This is an intimate biography that is elegantly crafted, intensively researched, and presented with the utmost honour. Steven Berkoff. On the subject of his own sex appeal he has little to say. Considered for Dr. Hans Fallada, Dr. Armstrong, Dr. Bukovsky, and Sir Percy Heseltine in. [4], In 1974, Wyngarde played the lead role of the King of Siam in a stage revival of The King and I, initially with Sally Ann Howes as Anna, which ran for 260 performances at the Adelphi Theatre in London. "Peter Wyngarde An Incurable Romantic". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 9. Retrieved 23 July 2020 via Newspapers.com. ^ "Peter Wyngarde". The Times. 18 January 2018. ^ a b Lewis, Roger (28 June 2007). "The minute they got close, he ran". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 18 January 2018. ^ a b What a life. He moved on the repertory companies in Nottingham, Penge, Canterbury and Colchester and made his first London appearance in rival of Somerset Maughams Loaves and Fishes. I was very broke at the time. The British author J. G. Ballard was also interned at the Lunghua camp and he travelled to the UK with Wyngarde and other former internees. One of the forerunners on the market was a new fragrance called Tabac which, along with such brands as Brute, Hi Karate and Old Spice, had sold reasonably well in Europe, but was in desperate need of a boost in Britain. 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.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. Please note that some of the additional information provided here by the journalist named below may not be accurate, so it should be treated with caution. Just before we landed I notice this pop group in front of me. Thanks to the ingenuity of one high-flyer in the marketing department of the German-based cosmetics company, Peter Wyngardewas approached to help promote the product tempted by the offer of an undisclosed fee, AND the ownership of a brand new Rolls-Royce! Cant wait to buy your biography as your style of writing on the site is so warm and friendly counting the days to publication ! peter wyngarde smells great advert. It was his performance in 'The Innocents' that really impressed me. If he is surprised by the extent of his appeal, you can believe the shock its given the TV moguls who were dubious about his portrayal of Jason King in Department S in the first place. [83] She married the Canadian cinematographer William Michael Boultbee (19332005) in Nairobi in 1957[84] while filming for African Patrol. Born in Marseilles, France, his father worked for the British Diplomatic Service. Very powerfull. [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. This makes the end chapters heartbreaking, as the author takes the reader through Peter Wyngarde's final illnesses, with the couple's home life scrutinised in raw detail. [36] She and Henry Goldbert divorced in 1937. [103][104] It was reissued in 2019. You can almost see Peter nonchalantly walking out of the pages!
Immigration records from his arrival in the UK in 1945 indicate he was 18 years old at the time, with a birth year of 1927, and Wyngarde was first listed on the UK electoral roll in 1948 which also confirms 1927 as his year of birth, as only those aged 21 and over were included on the electoral roll at that time. Austin Macauley Publishers 2023 In 1969, Peter was cast in what was undoubtedly his most famous role as the legendary author-cum-investigator, Jason King, in the ITC action series, Department S, and soon became the idol of thousands of women the world over. It is an intimate memoir in many ways at times, painfully so. I just assume Tina then describes him playing General Klytus in the Flash Gordon movie (another unforgettable role). If you're going to quote dubious headlines at least do your homework. Peter Wyngarde Smells Best advert ever. With Peternow in their corner, the company couldnt fail but make an impression with the male population of the UK, and with somewhat of a flourish, the new TV advertising campaign was launched. He grew up in British Malaya, where he became a naturalised British citizen. In many respects there is little difference between Peter Wyngarde and the character that has made him famous. The film sets are described in a very detailed way and you will find yourself looking for many a lost DVD gems. Wyngarde played the masked character Klytus in the film Flash Gordon (1980) and Sir Robert Knight in the film Tank Malling (1989) with Ray Winstone. The conversation is easily switched back to Jason King. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Dear Tina He uses Tabac aftershave" spoofing his Jason King Hippie and The Skinhead - Peter Wyngarde. He is slim, tall and boney-faced with curiously long features and wrinkles under his green eyes. Bromeliads can be grown from seed, but it requires two plants to cross to produce sexually viable seed. 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. [50] Correspondence held in the UK's National Archives[51] shows that in 1942 Henry Goldbert's three children including 15-year-old Cyril were living in Shanghai and that efforts were being made by the UK's Ministry of War Transport, the Prisoners of War Department and various boarding schools to facilitate the children's repatriation to the UK, but that Cyril could not be accommodated because of his age. Someone once told me that I had a beautiful voice. His character, Jason King, a novelist turned sleuth, was reputedly based on the author Ian Fleming. So from now on Im sticking to handshakes. Despite being named as Wyngarde's next of kin on the passenger manifest, Henry Goldbert appears to have died in the US in October 1945, a few weeks before his son arrived in the UK from Shanghai.[28]. However, one just goes on learning from one's mistakes doesn't one?". "[62] In 1970, he was described as "Britain's best-dressed male personality", and the following year it was reported that more babies were christened Jason that year than ever before. - 1971 Tabac Original After-shave ad. It hits you like Peter himself with his incredible performances and stylish accents. 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. Posted by 5 years ago. Regardless of what he does in the future, with or without Jason King during role Peter Wyngarde will never be able to give up. Wyngarde and the singer Morrissey were friends. Peter Wyngarde - Neville Thumbcatch. He was 90. Welcome to the Digital Spy forums. During this series change the whole perspective of the acting world and its place in it. But the ratings proved everybody wrong and ATV decided that the next series would be centred upon the character of Jason King and named after him. He played the role of the Comte De Guiche in Caedmon Records' complete recording of "Cyrano de Bergerac", starring Ralph Richardson. WebThe layout, style and finish of the house is fabulous with stunning views from every window. 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INTERVIEW: The Hong-Kong Sunday MorningPost, https://www.facebook.com/groups/813997125389790/, The OFFICIAL Peter Wyngarde Appreciation Society, Follow PETER WYNGARDE: The Official Website on WordPress.com. Looking at him camping it up in Dept S, and even more so in Jason KIng, it's almost unbelievable that the public couldn't see that he was gay. To begin with, there is not a timid green-serge suited dresser looking behind the fabulous wardrobe you see on the box. [4] A biography published in 2020 which claimed to draw on personal knowledge of the subject gave his date of birth as 28 (not 23) August 1928. The character was re-introduced as a member of the Hellfire Club, and the actor had portrayed the leader of the Hellfire Club in. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The Tabac range of mens toiletries was given its first-ever national campaign, running from the week beginning November 12th, 1971, until Christmas of that year, fronted by a 30,000 magazine burst and the broadcasting of live action advertisements on TV and in cinemas in the London area. It was a personal success but the play was generally loathed. An episode of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett. Actors so easily becomes schizophrenic. After that series ended, his character, the suave womaniser Jason King, was spun off into a new action espionage series entitled Jason King (1971), which ran for one season of 26 fifty-minute episodes. Peter Wyngarde: A Life Amongst Strangers is a phenomenal book, and is most certainly the most detailed and intimate biography Ive ever read. In the second part of this unique biography, we get a very personal insight into the life and further career of the icon. I suppose hes a sort of romantic extension of myself. However it is difficult to imagine a record being released without official approval, particularly given that the album also spawned two singles, "La Ronde De L'Amour" (RCA 1967) and the track sampler "Peter Wyngarde Commits Rape". Having changed his name from Cyril Goldbert to Peter Wyngarde on arrival in the UK in December 1945, within a few months he began his professional acting career. 30, "A story of intrique not for those with weak stomachs" Thank you so much for your kind message. [10], Mike Myers credited Wyngarde with inspiring the character Austin Powers.[62]. This year he was invited to be one of the judges and accepted with relish at the prospect of so many beautiful girls. [106], His agent and manager reported that Wyngarde was admitted to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London in October 2017 with an unspecified illness. Peter Wyngarde! He claimed to have spent two years in a Swiss sanatorium recovering from his war experiences before attending public schools in England, France and/or Switzerland,[59] after which he claimed to have studied in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford for three months, and to have worked in a London advertising agency for a while[32] before starting work as a professional actor. [25] Carl Gresham, his promotional manager at this time said later that "During the '70s we had a contract to officially open over 30 Woolworths newly refurbished stores throughout the UK. It really makes all the hard work seem worthwhile to hear such things. [39], An auction of 250 items from his estate took place on 26 March 2020. Id been doing that stupid thing with a newspaper so I wouldnt be recognised, you know this! (He demonstrates behind the marble coffee table painting at me from behind a broadsheet). , style and finish of the Hellfire Club, and presented with the utmost honour into life. 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He began acting during his internment when he played all the characters in a version of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. [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 [75] The album is a collection of spoken-word musical arrangements produced by Vic Smith and Hubert Thomas Valverde. Tip #2: Eat Well, Score Well. 
Wyngarde claimed that: "It sold out in next to no time but RCA point-blankly refused to press any more. Ports of Voyage: Shanghai and Hong Kong Within three and a half weeks of its launch in Stratford-Upon-Avon, the manufacturers reported that orders for the Module 21 Kitchen Unit had reached 274,000, which was a huge uplift from the all-time low which had rocked the industry only six months earlier. Wow ..that's a name I hadn't heard of for years. O'Donoghue was found by police when close to death, and was sentenced to 15 months, after also being found guilty. Do you know what I mean?. [27] He later claimed that the ship had arrived in Liverpool not Southampton, and that he was personally greeted by King George VI.[55][56]. In one of the newspaper advertisements, Petertold prospective customers: Module 21 is essentially designed to suite all sizes and shapes of kitchen, and there are nine worktop finishes and seven door colours featured in the range., Above: Original Gower Kitchen brochure featuring Peter, from January 1974. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. [97] Morrissey wrote in his 2013 autobiography about visiting Wyngarde at home in Earls Terrace: [His flat is] an Edwardian warren of clerical ferocity a tornado of books and papers and swelling pyramids of typescripts, half-finished, half-begun. [33] No such person appears in any public records in the UK or anywhere in the world. | Millions of men would give their all to look, act, sound and, somebody obviously believes, smell like him because he as the sort of sex appeal they can only dream about. This is an intimate biography that is elegantly crafted, intensively researched, and presented with the utmost honour. Steven Berkoff. On the subject of his own sex appeal he has little to say. Considered for Dr. Hans Fallada, Dr. Armstrong, Dr. Bukovsky, and Sir Percy Heseltine in. [4], In 1974, Wyngarde played the lead role of the King of Siam in a stage revival of The King and I, initially with Sally Ann Howes as Anna, which ran for 260 performances at the Adelphi Theatre in London. "Peter Wyngarde An Incurable Romantic". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 9. Retrieved 23 July 2020 via Newspapers.com. ^ "Peter Wyngarde". The Times. 18 January 2018. ^ a b Lewis, Roger (28 June 2007). "The minute they got close, he ran". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 18 January 2018. ^ a b What a life. He moved on the repertory companies in Nottingham, Penge, Canterbury and Colchester and made his first London appearance in rival of Somerset Maughams Loaves and Fishes. I was very broke at the time. The British author J. G. Ballard was also interned at the Lunghua camp and he travelled to the UK with Wyngarde and other former internees. One of the forerunners on the market was a new fragrance called Tabac which, along with such brands as Brute, Hi Karate and Old Spice, had sold reasonably well in Europe, but was in desperate need of a boost in Britain. 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.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. Please note that some of the additional information provided here by the journalist named below may not be accurate, so it should be treated with caution. Just before we landed I notice this pop group in front of me. Thanks to the ingenuity of one high-flyer in the marketing department of the German-based cosmetics company, Peter Wyngardewas approached to help promote the product tempted by the offer of an undisclosed fee, AND the ownership of a brand new Rolls-Royce! Cant wait to buy your biography as your style of writing on the site is so warm and friendly counting the days to publication ! peter wyngarde smells great advert. It was his performance in 'The Innocents' that really impressed me. If he is surprised by the extent of his appeal, you can believe the shock its given the TV moguls who were dubious about his portrayal of Jason King in Department S in the first place. [83] She married the Canadian cinematographer William Michael Boultbee (19332005) in Nairobi in 1957[84] while filming for African Patrol. Born in Marseilles, France, his father worked for the British Diplomatic Service. Very powerfull. [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. This makes the end chapters heartbreaking, as the author takes the reader through Peter Wyngarde's final illnesses, with the couple's home life scrutinised in raw detail. [36] She and Henry Goldbert divorced in 1937. [103][104] It was reissued in 2019. You can almost see Peter nonchalantly walking out of the pages!
Immigration records from his arrival in the UK in 1945 indicate he was 18 years old at the time, with a birth year of 1927, and Wyngarde was first listed on the UK electoral roll in 1948 which also confirms 1927 as his year of birth, as only those aged 21 and over were included on the electoral roll at that time. Austin Macauley Publishers 2023 In 1969, Peter was cast in what was undoubtedly his most famous role as the legendary author-cum-investigator, Jason King, in the ITC action series, Department S, and soon became the idol of thousands of women the world over. It is an intimate memoir in many ways at times, painfully so. I just assume Tina then describes him playing General Klytus in the Flash Gordon movie (another unforgettable role). If you're going to quote dubious headlines at least do your homework. Peter Wyngarde Smells Best advert ever. With Peternow in their corner, the company couldnt fail but make an impression with the male population of the UK, and with somewhat of a flourish, the new TV advertising campaign was launched. He grew up in British Malaya, where he became a naturalised British citizen. In many respects there is little difference between Peter Wyngarde and the character that has made him famous. The film sets are described in a very detailed way and you will find yourself looking for many a lost DVD gems. Wyngarde played the masked character Klytus in the film Flash Gordon (1980) and Sir Robert Knight in the film Tank Malling (1989) with Ray Winstone. The conversation is easily switched back to Jason King. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Dear Tina He uses Tabac aftershave" spoofing his Jason King Hippie and The Skinhead - Peter Wyngarde. He is slim, tall and boney-faced with curiously long features and wrinkles under his green eyes. Bromeliads can be grown from seed, but it requires two plants to cross to produce sexually viable seed. 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. [50] Correspondence held in the UK's National Archives[51] shows that in 1942 Henry Goldbert's three children including 15-year-old Cyril were living in Shanghai and that efforts were being made by the UK's Ministry of War Transport, the Prisoners of War Department and various boarding schools to facilitate the children's repatriation to the UK, but that Cyril could not be accommodated because of his age. Someone once told me that I had a beautiful voice. His character, Jason King, a novelist turned sleuth, was reputedly based on the author Ian Fleming. So from now on Im sticking to handshakes. Despite being named as Wyngarde's next of kin on the passenger manifest, Henry Goldbert appears to have died in the US in October 1945, a few weeks before his son arrived in the UK from Shanghai.[28]. However, one just goes on learning from one's mistakes doesn't one?". "[62] In 1970, he was described as "Britain's best-dressed male personality", and the following year it was reported that more babies were christened Jason that year than ever before. - 1971 Tabac Original After-shave ad. It hits you like Peter himself with his incredible performances and stylish accents. 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. Posted by 5 years ago. Regardless of what he does in the future, with or without Jason King during role Peter Wyngarde will never be able to give up. Wyngarde and the singer Morrissey were friends. Peter Wyngarde - Neville Thumbcatch. He was 90. Welcome to the Digital Spy forums. During this series change the whole perspective of the acting world and its place in it. But the ratings proved everybody wrong and ATV decided that the next series would be centred upon the character of Jason King and named after him. He played the role of the Comte De Guiche in Caedmon Records' complete recording of "Cyrano de Bergerac", starring Ralph Richardson. WebThe layout, style and finish of the house is fabulous with stunning views from every window. 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INTERVIEW: The Hong-Kong Sunday MorningPost, https://www.facebook.com/groups/813997125389790/, The OFFICIAL Peter Wyngarde Appreciation Society, Follow PETER WYNGARDE: The Official Website on WordPress.com. Looking at him camping it up in Dept S, and even more so in Jason KIng, it's almost unbelievable that the public couldn't see that he was gay. To begin with, there is not a timid green-serge suited dresser looking behind the fabulous wardrobe you see on the box. [4] A biography published in 2020 which claimed to draw on personal knowledge of the subject gave his date of birth as 28 (not 23) August 1928. The character was re-introduced as a member of the Hellfire Club, and the actor had portrayed the leader of the Hellfire Club in. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The Tabac range of mens toiletries was given its first-ever national campaign, running from the week beginning November 12th, 1971, until Christmas of that year, fronted by a 30,000 magazine burst and the broadcasting of live action advertisements on TV and in cinemas in the London area. It was a personal success but the play was generally loathed. An episode of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett. Actors so easily becomes schizophrenic. After that series ended, his character, the suave womaniser Jason King, was spun off into a new action espionage series entitled Jason King (1971), which ran for one season of 26 fifty-minute episodes. Peter Wyngarde: A Life Amongst Strangers is a phenomenal book, and is most certainly the most detailed and intimate biography Ive ever read. In the second part of this unique biography, we get a very personal insight into the life and further career of the icon. I suppose hes a sort of romantic extension of myself. However it is difficult to imagine a record being released without official approval, particularly given that the album also spawned two singles, "La Ronde De L'Amour" (RCA 1967) and the track sampler "Peter Wyngarde Commits Rape". Having changed his name from Cyril Goldbert to Peter Wyngarde on arrival in the UK in December 1945, within a few months he began his professional acting career. 30, "A story of intrique not for those with weak stomachs" Thank you so much for your kind message. [10], Mike Myers credited Wyngarde with inspiring the character Austin Powers.[62]. This year he was invited to be one of the judges and accepted with relish at the prospect of so many beautiful girls. [106], His agent and manager reported that Wyngarde was admitted to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London in October 2017 with an unspecified illness. Peter Wyngarde! 
He claimed to have spent two years in a Swiss sanatorium recovering from his war experiences before attending public schools in England, France and/or Switzerland,[59] after which he claimed to have studied in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford for three months, and to have worked in a London advertising agency for a while[32] before starting work as a professional actor. [25] Carl Gresham, his promotional manager at this time said later that "During the '70s we had a contract to officially open over 30 Woolworths newly refurbished stores throughout the UK. It really makes all the hard work seem worthwhile to hear such things. [39], An auction of 250 items from his estate took place on 26 March 2020. Id been doing that stupid thing with a newspaper so I wouldnt be recognised, you know this! (He demonstrates behind the marble coffee table painting at me from behind a broadsheet). 
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