Peter Wyngarde Peter Wyngarde Peter Wyngarde (23 August 1927 – 15 January 2018) was a British actor best known for playing the character Jason King, a bestselling novelist turned sleuth, in two television series: "Department S" (1969–70) and "Jason King" (1971–72). His flamboyant dress sense and stylish performances led to popular success, and he was considered a style icon in Britain and elsewhere in the early 1970s; Mike Myers credited Wyngarde with inspiring the character Austin Powers. Peter Wyngarde's date and place of birth, his birth name, and his parents' nationalities and occupations are all disputed. According to his own account, he
Jim Rockford (television character) (1994), Jim married Halley "Kit" Kittredge (Joanna Cassidy), who appears in an early scene. It is unknown when they were married, for how long, or the reason for their divorce. They had no children. In 1999, "TV Guide" ranked him # 25 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. AOL TV named him one of TV's Smartest Detectives. The detective story writer Stuart M. Kaminsky has written two books with Jim Rockford as the main character, entitled "The Green Bottle" and "The Devil on My Doorstep". In "Ruskie Business", an episode of the television series "Veronica Mars",