Peter Sallis and he later starred alongside Brenda Blethyn, Kevin Whately and Anna Massey in the one-off ITV1 drama "Belonging" (2004). While a student in 1983, animator Nick Park wrote to Sallis asking him if he would voice his character Wallace, an eccentric inventor. Sallis agreed to do so for a donation of £50 to his favourite charity. The work was eventually released in 1989 and Aardman Animations' "Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out" went on to win a BAFTA award. Sallis reprised his role in the Oscar- and BAFTA Award-winning films "The Wrong Trousers" in 1993 and "A Close Shave"
The Wrong Trousers Animated Short Film. It also inspired a charity fundraising day, known as "Wrong Trousers Day", one of several events. A sequel, "A Close Shave", was released in 1995. Wallace gives Gromit a pair of futuristic ‘techno trousers’. Wallace decides to advertise the spare bedroom to let. The room is taken by a penguin, who befriends Wallace and isolates Gromit. The penguin takes an interest in the techno trousers after seeing Gromit use their suction feet to walk on the ceiling while decorating. After Gromit is driven from the house, the penguin secretly rewires the techno trousers for radio control. While