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 Hughes (actor) Jason Hughes (actor) Jason Hughes (born 18 December 1971) is an actor known for playing lawyer Warren Jones in the BBC TV series "This Life" from 1996 to 1997 (and the 2007 special), and as Detective Sergeant Ben Jones in "Midsomer Murders" between 2005 and 2013. Hughes joined the National Youth Theatre as a teenager, before going on to study drama at LAMDA, where he won the Alec Clunes Award for Best Actor. When he first moved to London, he shared a house with fellow Welsh actor Michael Sheen. He reveals in 2013 he gave up "Midsomer Murders" because of