Peter John Sallis OBE (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor, best known as Clegg from Last of the Summer Wine and the voice of Wallace from Wallace & Gromit. Despite that fact that both of those characters had Yorkshire accents, Sallis was in fact a Southerner, hailing from Twickenham in Middlesex note . He got into acting while serving in the RAF, subsequently becoming a stage actor before moving into television - his first major TV role being the title character in the 1958 BBC series The Diary of Samuel Pepys. He is buried alongside his long-standing Summer Wine co-star Bill Owen in the West Yorkshire village of Upperthong — not far from Holmfirth, where that show was filmed.
Not to be confused with Peter Sellers.
Works on TV Tropes that he appeared in:
Film- Doctor in Love (1960) as Mr. Luke (Uncredited Role)
- Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) as Samuel Paxton
- The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) as the voice of Wallace
- Danger Man (1 episode note , 1961) as John Gordon
- The Avengers (1960s) (1 episode note , 1964) as Hal Anderson
- Doctor Who - "The Ice Warriors" (6 episodes, 1967) as Penley
- The Culture Vultures, (3 episodesshow list 1970) — Professor George Hobbes
- The Persuaders! (1 episode, 1971) as David Piper
- Callan (1 episode, 1972) as Routledge
- Last of the Summer Wine (all 295 episodes, 1973-2010) as Norman Clegg
- Tales of the Unexpected (1 episode note , 1980) as Solicitor
- The New Statesman (2 episodes, 1987) as Sidney Bliss
- A Grand Day Out (1989) as the voice of Wallace
- Rumpole of the Bailey (1 episode, 1992) as Henry Tong
- The Wrong Trousers (1993) as the voice of Wallace
- A Close Shave (1995) as the voice of Wallace
- A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) as the voice of Wallace
