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
Jason Dark of the John Sinclair series, Rellergerd invented other horror fiction series like "Professor Zamorra" and "Damona King". Under the pseudonym Red Geller he wrote the youth book series "Das Schloß-Trio". Since 2006 he has written under his pseudonym for the Blanvalet Publishing House the crime fiction series "Don Harris Psycho-Cop". Rellergerd lives in a district of Bergisch Gladbach. From 1973 onwards Jason Dark started publishing horror detective stories of the pulp fiction variety, centred on an English Scotland Yard inspector named John Sinclair. The latter's surname was inspired by the "Sinclair" character played by Roger Moore in the popular 1970s