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
The Winifred Atwell Show to have her own series on British television. The Winifred Atwell Show The Winifred Atwell Show was a British TV series which aired 1956 to 1957. It starred pianist Winifred Atwell, who had had a number of hits on the UK charts. Regulars performers included comedy act Morecambe and Wise, and singing act Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr, and all episodes are believed to be lost. It spent part of its run on the BBC, and part of its run on ITV. Atwell did a later series in the early 1960s called The Amazing Miss A, of which most episodes