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
1970s in television a black woman as her housekeeper. Maude's housekeeper, Florida Evans (played by Esther Rolle), became popular in her own right and was given her own television series in 1974, "Good Times", which proved to be another hit for Lear's production company. Lear developed two shows in 1975: "The Jeffersons", a spin-off of "All in the Family" in which Archie Bunker's black next-door neighbors moved to a luxury apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and "One Day at a Time", about a single mother raising her two teenage daughters in Indianapolis. With the rise in socially responsible programming, the