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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 1, 1921
Died
June 2, 2017
Place of Birth
Twickenham, England, UK
Also Known As
- Peter John Sallis
- Pete Sallis
- ピーター・サリス
- Pītā Sarisu
- 彼得·薩里斯
- Pedro Sallis
- Pierre Sallis
- Pietro Sallis
- بيتر ساليس
Peter Sallis
0.9 Popularity
Biography
Peter Sallis, OBE (February 1, 1921 – June 2, 2017) was an English actor and entertainer, well-known for his work on British television. Although he was born and brought up in London, his two most notable roles required him to adopt the accents and mannerisms of a Northerner. Peter John Sallis was born on 1 February 1921 in Twickenham, Middlesex (now in Greater London). He was the only child of bank manager Harry Sallis (1889–1964) and Dorothy Amea Frances (née Barnard; 1891–1975). His first big television role came in 1958 where he played the role of Samuel Pepys in the BBC serial The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Sallis was best known for his role as the main character Norman Clegg in the long-running British TV comedy Last of the Summer Wine, set in a Yorkshire town. He was the longest serving cast member, appearing in all 295 episodes, and by the end of the show's run was the only one surviving from the programme's first episode in 1973. He also appeared in all 13 of the episodes of the prequel series First of the Summer Wine as Norman Clegg's father. He was also famous for providing the voice of Wallace in the Wallace and Gromit films, again using a northern accent. Sallis also starred alongside Richard Pearson, Michael Horden and David Jason in Cosgrove Hall's The Wind in the Willows (1984-1990) as the voice of Rat/Ratty. In 1975 he appeared in the BBC Wales, TV play The Snowdropper as Spicer, a snowdropper that where's Overalls/Dungarees. In 1976 he played Mr. Gudgin/Arnold Gudgin in the children's series The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976–78). The character Gudgin Sallis played in the series was a estate agent who did not want to see the hall fall into the wrong hands. Sallis also appeared in the TV series Yanks Go Home (1976-1977) where he played Randell Todd in four episodes of the series. Around the same period, he starred alongside Northern comic actor David Roper in the ITV sitcom Leave it to Charlie (1978-1980) as Charlie's pessimistic boss. The programme ran for a total of 26 episodes over four series, ending in 1980. He also played the part of the ghost-hunter Milton Guest in the children's paranormal drama TV series The Clifton House Mystery (1978). Sallis was married to Elaine Usher in 1957 until they eventually divorced in 1965. Sallis and Usher eventually reconciled and decided to come living together until 1999. Sallis continued to remain close to Usher until eventually she died on 1 January 2014 at the age of 81. They both had one son named Crispian Sallis who was born on 24 June 1959 who later became a British art director and set decorator. Sallis and Usher also had two grandchildren from Crispian. Sallis also lived with three small cats in a small cottage. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Sallis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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0.0
Wallace (archive footage)
Access All Areas - The Making of Wallace and Gromit
2024
7.0
Cleggy (archive footage, uncredited)
Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances
2023
0.0
Self (archive)
Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs
2022
7.5
Clegg (archive footage, uncredited)
What We Were Watching
2018
7.0
Self - Voice of Wallace
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015
0.0
Wallace (voice)
Aardman: A Cracking Collection
2015
0.0
Reccoat (archive footage)
Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
2012
0.0
Self (uncredited)
The Lark Ascending
2012
6.6
Wallace (voice)
Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention
2010
6.1
Wallace (voice)
Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention
2010
Credits
🎬
Access All Areas - The Making of Wallace and Gromit
as Wallace (archive footage)
2024
0.0
Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances
as Cleggy (archive footage, uncredited)
2023
7.0
Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs
as Self (archive)
2022
0.0
What We Were Watching
as Clegg (archive footage, uncredited)
2018
7.5
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
as Self - Voice of Wallace
2015
7.0
Aardman: A Cracking Collection
as Wallace (voice)
2015
0.0
Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
as Reccoat (archive footage)
2012
0.0
The Lark Ascending
as Self (uncredited)
2012
0.0
Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention
as Wallace (voice)
2010
6.6
Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention
as Wallace (voice)
2010
6.1
Orson Welles Over Europe
as Himself
2009
7.0
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Living with Macular Disease
as Peter Sallis/Narrator Voice
2009
0.0
A Matter of Loaf and Death
as Wallace (voice)
2008
7.3
British Film Forever
as Self (as Peter Sallis OBE)
2007
5.5
Kingdom
as Cyril
2007
7.1
Gromit's Tail-Waggin' DVD
as Wallace (voice)
2006
0.0
Time Trumpet
as Clegg
2006
7.4
Time Trumpet
as Clegg (archive footage)
2006
7.4
Eureka
as Guest (uncredited)
2006
7.8
How Wallace & Gromit Went to Hollywood
as Self
2006
8.0
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
as Clegg (archive footage, uncredited)
2006
8.1
🎬
The Making of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Wallace (archive footage)
2006
0.0
🎬
Displacements
as himself
2006
0.0
Colour Me Kubrick
as Patient
2005
5.7
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Wallace / Hutch (voice)
2005
7.1
Belonging
as Nathan
2004
5.6
Britain's Best Sitcom
as Self
2004
0.0
Easy
as Man (uncredited)
2003
5.6
Comedy Connections
as Clegg (archive footage, uncredited)
2003
2.0
Comedy Connections
as Norman Clegg (archive footage, uncredited)
2003
2.0
🎬
Thora Hird Tribute
as Self
2003
0.0
Harry Hill's TV Burp
as Wallace (voice)
2002
6.3
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions
as Wallace (voice)
2002
8.6
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions
as Wallace (voice)
2002
7.3
Shopper 13
as Wallace (voice)
2002
9.0
The 525 Crackervac
as Wallace (voice)
2002
7.0
The Turbo Diner
as Wallace (voice)
2002
7.0
The Tellyscope
as Wallace (voice)
2002
7.5
The Snoozatron
as Wallace (voice)
2002
7.0
A Christmas Cardomatic
as Wallace (voice)
2002
7.0
The Snowmantron
as Wallace (voice)
2002
8.0
The Autochef
as Wallace (voice)
2002
8.0
The Bully Proof Vest
as Wallace (voice)
2002
7.0
The Soccamatic
as Wallace (voice)
2002
9.0
Balamory
as Man at Train Station (uncredited)
2002
7.0
Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions: Behind the Scenes
as Wallace (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
0.0
🎬
Then and Now
as Guest
2001
0.0
🎬
Sooty
as (voice) (uncredited)
2001
1.0
The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit
as Wallace (Voice)
2001
0.0
Hotel!
as Radio Voice of Little Ashford Flying Club (Uncredited)
2001
4.5
Songs of Praise
as Guest
2001
0.0
Doctors
as Arthur Weatherill
2000
4.7
Holby City
as Lionel Davis
1999
5.8
The Amazing World of Wallace & Gromit
as Wallace (Voice) (Archive Footage)
1999
7.1
Rex the Runt
as Wallace (voice) (uncredited)
1998
7.0
🎬
Wallace & Gromit in A Grand Day Out
as Wallace (Voice)
1998
0.0
🎬
Everyday Readers
as Narrator (voice)
1998
0.0
Operation Good Guys
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1997
6.5
🎬
Whatever You Want
as Clegg
1997
0.0
🎬
Light Lunch
as Self
1997
0.0
🎬
Smillie's People
as Self
1996
0.0
Wallace & Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation
as Wallace
1996
7.6
A Close Shave
as Wallace (voice)
1996
7.6
The National Television Awards
as Self
1995
1.0
🎬
Character Building
as Wallace (voice)
1995
0.0
Room 101
as Norman Clegg (archive footage, uncredited)
1994
6.3
Room 101
as Wallace (archive footage, uncredited)
1994
6.3
Inside the Wrong Trousers
as Wallace (archive footage, uncredited)
1993
0.0
The Wrong Trousers
as Wallace (voice)
1993
7.8
🎬
Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
as Self - Interviewee
1993
0.0
The Crane
as Man (uncredited)
1993
6.7
🎬
The Christmas Collection
as Rat (voice)
1992
0.0
HBO First Look
as Self
1992
4.9
Auntie's Bloomers
as Self/Acting Role (uncredited)
1991
0.0
Noel's House Party
as Clegg
1991
7.2
🎬
Come Home Charlie and Face Them
1990
0.0
🎬
More Children's Holiday Favourites
as Rat (voice)
1990
0.0
A Grand Day Out
as Wallace (voice)
1990
7.5
🎬
Oh, Mr. Toad
as Rat
1990
0.0
The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads
as Rat (voice)
1989
5.0
🎬
More Children's Summer Stories
as Rat (voice)
1989
0.0
🎬
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1
as Rat (voice)
1989
0.0
🎬
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2
as Rat (voice)
1989
0.0
Troldspejlet
as Wallace (archive footage)
1989
6.1
First of the Summer Wine
1988
5.8
🎬
Motormouth
as Wallace (Voice)
1988
8.0
🎬
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
as Rat (voice)
1988
0.0
Sylvanian Families
as Rabbit (voice, uncredited)
1987
1.0
The New Statesman
as Sidney Bliss
1987
7.4
The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales
as Rat (voice)
1986
0.0
🎬
Open Air
as Self
1986
5.5
🎬
A Dangerous Kind of Love
as Mr. Walker
1986
0.0
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
1986
0.0
Rocky Hollow
as Narrator (voice)
1985
7.0
Rocky Hollow
as Narrator (voice)
1985
0.0
Royal Variety Performance 1984
as Clegg
1984
0.0
The Wind in the Willows
as Rat (voice)
1984
7.6
🎬
The Wind in the Willows
as Rat (voice)
1984
0.0
Strangers and Brothers
as Leonard March
1984
5.5
Getting Sam Home
as Norman Clegg
1983
8.0
The Funny Side of Christmas
as Clegg
1982
0.0
Witness for the Prosecution
as Carter
1982
6.3
🎬
The Kids International Show
as Clegg
1982
0.0
🎬
The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
as Shushin
1981
0.0
🎬
Tales of the Unexpected: A Picture of a Place
as Solicitor
1980
0.0
Lady Killers
as O'Brien
1980
5.0
She Loves Me
as Ladislav Sipos
1979
8.7
Tales of the Unexpected
as Solicitor
1979
6.7
🎬
You're Not Watching Me, Mummy
as Leslie
1979
0.0
Room Service
as Mr. Fellows
1979
0.0
🎬
Last of the Summer Wine Christmas Specials 1978-1982
as Clegg
1978
4.0
628-E8
as Mirbeau
1978
0.0
The Clifton House Mystery
1978
6.0
The Clifton House Mystery
as Milton Guest
1978
0.0
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
as St. Claire
1978
6.1
🎬
Leave it to Charlie
as Arthur Simister, Alfred Simister
1978
5.0
🎬
Across a Crowded Room
as Cyril Smallpiece
1978
0.0
Full Circle
as Jeffrey Branscombe
1978
6.2
The South Bank Show
as Self
1978
5.6
The Obelisk
as Ernest
1977
0.0
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
as Rodney Gloss
1977
5.5
🎬
The Val Doonican Music Show
as Self
1977
0.0
The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
as Worker (uncredited)
1977
5.0
The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1977
5.0
Raffles
1977
8.0
🎬
The Winter Warrior
as Deor
1976
0.0
🎬
Yanks Go Home
1976
5.0
The Incredible Sarah
as Thierry
1976
5.0
The Daedalus Equations
as Major Venables
1976
0.0
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1976
6.8
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
6.9
🎬
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
1975
0.0
🎬
The Secret Agent
as Chief Inspector Heat
1975
0.0
🎬
The Snowdropper
as Spicer
1975
0.0
Back of Beyond
as Man (uncredited)
1974
0.0
🎬
Graceless Go I
as Mr. Wainwright
1974
0.0
Frankenstein: The True Story
as Priest
1974
7.3
Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
as Man (uncredited)
1974
0.0
🎬
Late Night Drama
as Patient
1974
0.0
The Capone Investment
as Wheatfield
1974
6.2
Armchair Cinema
as Benitet
1974
7.0
The Prison
as Benitet
1974
0.0
Playhouse
as Maj. Venables
1974
7.0
Who Killed Lamb?
as Lloyd
1974
0.0
Frankenstein: The True Story
as Priest
1973
8.5
Beyond Our Means
as Onslow
1973
0.0
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
as Banker #2 (uncredited)
1973
6.1
Song at Twilight
as Austin Melcroft
1973
0.0
Lady Killer
as Man
1973
6.7
Frankenstein
as Man (uncredited)
1973
6.9
Last of the Summer Wine
as Clegg
1973
7.1
Crown Court
as Gerald Prosser
1972
5.4
Crown Court
as Insp. George Storton
1972
5.4
🎬
The Reprieve
as Cossack Horseman
1972
0.0
Spyder's Web
as Grovnik
1972
4.0
The Moonstone
as Mr. Bruff
1972
6.0
The Moonstone
as Mr. Buff
1972
8.0
🎬
The Bristol Entertainment
as Water Seller / Coachman / Ameryk / Mayor / Captain Kimber / King Henry Voice
1971
0.0
Justice
as Coroner
1971
6.0
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Dr. Jervis
1971
7.4
The Persuaders!
as Piper
1971
7.6
🎬
Trial
as Almond
1971
0.0
🎬
Bel Ami
as Norbert de Varenne
1971
0.0
🎬
Bel Ami
as Norbert de Varenne
1971
0.0
Budgie
as Peter Olliphant
1971
7.0
🎬
The Ten Commandments
as Gerry
1971
0.0
🎬
The Railwayman's New Clothes
as Lumley
1971
0.0
The Road Builder
as Rev. Rupert Palafox
1971
6.1
The Hallelujah Handshake
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1970
7.5
Play for Today
1970
6.3
🎬
Menace
1970
0.0
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
as Ernest Charles, KC
1970
0.0
Wuthering Heights
as Mr. Shielders
1970
6.3
My Lover, My Son
as Sir Sidney Brent
1970
3.9
Taste the Blood of Dracula
as Samuel Paxton
1970
6.1
Sweeney Todd
as Brogden / Mundel / Hopkins
1970
0.0
Catweazle
as Stuffy Gladstone
1970
7.6
Scream and Scream Again
as Schweitz
1970
5.3
The Reckoning
as Keresley
1970
7.3
🎬
Kate
as Sammy Harrison
1970
0.0
🎬
Menace
as Narrator (voice)
1970
0.0
Paul Temple
1969
7.0
Softly Softly: Task Force
as Lodge
1969
6.0
Softly Softly: Task Force
as Edward Letheridge
1969
6.0
Softly Softly: Task Force
as Professor Dowell
1969
6.0
🎬
The Ladies: Joan
as Mr. Street
1969
0.0
Hadleigh
as Dakin
1969
5.5
Hadleigh
as Strapper Strapton
1969
5.5
The Big Flame
as Man (uncredited)
1969
5.0
🎬
Maigret at Bay
as (uncredited)
1969
0.0
Cream – Farewell Concert
as Guest
1969
5.2
60 Minutes
as Guest
1968
6.6
Wind Versus Polygamy
as Man (uncredited)
1968
0.0
Inadmissible Evidence
as Hudson
1968
6.0
Charlie Bubbles
as Solicitor
1968
6.4
🎬
The Drummer and the Bloke
as Eric
1968
0.0
Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
as Penley
1967
7.6
Omnibus
as Mirbeau
1967
7.2
Omnibus
as Guest
1967
7.2
Omnibus
as Self
1967
7.2
ITV Playhouse
as Leslie
1967
6.5
Callan
as Routledge
1967
7.0
The Bible: In the Beginning...
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1966
7.3
Mystery and Imagination
1966
5.5
Softly, Softly
1966
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as (uncredited)
1965
5.0
Call My Bluff
as Self
1965
7.5
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Lumley
1965
3.4
🎬
Knock on Any Door
as Stannage
1965
0.0
Rapture
as Armand
1965
7.0
The Troubleshooters
as Henry Wynn
1965
5.0
Public Eye
as Eddie Meadows
1965
7.8
Public Eye
as Colin Reynolds
1965
7.8
🎬
The Sullavan Brothers
as Kenneth K. Hirst
1964
0.0
🎬
The Trial of Dr. Fancy
as Mr. Pender
1964
0.0
Clash by Night
as Victor
1964
7.0
Drama '64/Studio '64: A Wicked World
as Ronald Green
1964
0.0
🎬
Don't Ever Talk to Clocks
1964
0.0
The Third Secret
as Lawrence Jacks
1964
6.1
Doctor Who
as Penley
1963
7.9
🎬
Festival
as Captain of the Fire Brigade
1963
8.0
🎬
Festival
as Romainville
1963
8.0
The V.I.P.s
as Doctor
1963
6.1
Drama '63: A Well Dressed Man
as Philip Mallard
1963
0.0
The Mouse on the Moon
as Russian Delegate
1963
6.1
🎬
Into the Dark
as Alfred Purdie
1963
0.0
🎬
The Chem. Lab. Mystery
as Mad Willy
1963
0.0
Heart to Heart
as Frank Godsell
1962
0.0
Zero One
as Major Konel
1962
6.0
I Thank a Fool
as Sleazy Doctor
1962
5.5
The Trial
as Uncle Max (uncredited)
1962
7.4
🎬
Crying Down the Lane
as Champion
1962
0.0
Z-Cars
1962
7.0
Z-Cars
as Seaton
1962
7.0
Candida
as Rev. Alexander Mill
1961
0.0
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
as Man (uncredited)
1961
6.8
A Taste of Honey
as Man (uncredited)
1961
6.9
🎬
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
as Hesketh-Payne
1961
0.0
The Curse of the Werewolf
as Don Enrique
1961
6.5
🎬
Amelia
1961
0.0
🎬
Drama 61-67
as Philip Mallard
1961
0.0
🎬
Drama 61-67
as Roland Green
1961
0.0
No Love for Johnnie
as M.P.
1961
6.2
The Zoo Story
as Peter
1961
0.0
The Avengers
as Hal Anderson
1961
7.7
🎬
The Adventures of Alice
as Tweedledee
1960
0.0
Maigret
1960
7.2
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
as Man in Suit (uncredited)
1960
7.0
🎬
The Poet
as Giulio
1960
0.0
The Millionairess
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1960
5.4
🎬
Sunday-Night Play
as Hesketh-Payne
1960
0.0
Danger Man
as John Gordon
1960
7.3
Doctor in Love
as Mr. Luke (uncredited)
1960
5.2
Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe
as Robinet
1960
0.0
🎬
International Detective
as Eugene Payas
1959
7.0
Brand
as Doctor & Provost
1959
0.0
The Scapegoat
as Customs Official
1959
6.8
🎬
World Theatre
as Barere, Simon, Prisoner
1959
5.0
🎬
World Theatre
as Doctor & Provost
1959
5.0
The Doctor's Dilemma
as Secretary at Picture Gallery
1959
6.1
Cinderella
as Baron Aristide de Pennilac
1958
0.0
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Snug
1958
0.0
A Night to Remember
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1958
7.7
🎬
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
as Samuel Pepys
1958
0.0
Anastasia
as Grischa (uncredited)
1956
6.8
Armchair Theatre
as Alfred Purdie
1956
5.8
Armchair Theatre
as Mr. Pender
1956
5.8
Armchair Theatre
as Onslow
1956
5.8
🎬
Kitty Clive
as John Hall
1956
0.0
🎬
The Inveterate Gambler
as The Burglar
1956
0.0
🎬
Safe and Sound
as Squishy Taylor
1956
0.0
Quay South
as Corporal Foster
1955
0.0
The Concert
as Daniel Kevin (as Pete Sallis)
1955
0.0
🎬
Strange Experiences
as Chippy Griggs
1955
0.0
🎬
Strange Experiences
as Squishy Taylor
1955
0.0
🎬
Strange Experiences
as The Burglar
1955
0.0
🎬
The Pickpocket
as Chippy Criggs
1955
0.0
This Is Your Life
as Self
1955
6.4
This Is Your Life
as Self - Filmed Tribute
1955
6.4
Moby Dick Rehearsed
as A Stage Manger /Flask
1955
0.0
🎬
Fcb TV Show No.1
as Squishy Taylor
1955
0.0
Nineteen Eighty-Four
as Man (uncredited)
1954
7.3
Child's Play
as Bill - grocery merchant
1954
6.5
Stranger from Venus
as Soldier (uncredited)
1954
5.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Carter
1951
8.6
Mr. Denning Drives North
as Man (uncredited)
1951
6.0
Sunday Night Theatre
as Snug
1950
3.5
The Loves of Joanna Godden
as Man (uncredited)
1947
7.0
🎬
Esther
as Self
N/A
0.0