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
William Lyon Mackenzie King until 1916. King was mentioned in the book "Alligator Pie" by Dennis Lee, appearing as the subject of a nonsensical children's poem, which reads "William Lyon Mackenzie King / He sat in the middle and played with string / He loved his mother like anything / William Lyon Mackenzie King." King is a prominent character in Donald Jack's novel "Me Too", set in Ottawa in the 1920s. A character who appeared twice in the popular 1990s Canadian television series "Due South" was named "Mackenzie King" in obvious reference. King chose the following jurists to be appointed as justices of the