Biography
Peter Wyngarde was a British actor whose screen career spanned stage, television and film from the 1940s to the 2010s. He appeared as Klytus in the 1980 film Flash Gordon and as Peter Quint in The Innocents (1961).
On television he played Timanov in the 1984 Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire, Number Two in an episode of The Prisoner (1967), and guest roles in The Avengers, The Saint and Sherlock Holmes. He became widely known for portraying the novelist-turned-investigator Jason King in the series Department S (1969–1970) and its spin-off Jason King (1971–1972).
