Peter Sallis
- English
- Actor
Press clippings
Wallace & Gromit without Peter Sallis is 'emotional' says Nick Park
If you asked TV viewers to name a favourite double act, chances are the two stars of Vengeance Most Fowl would be close to the top of the list.
Lizo Mzimba, BBC, 23rd December 2024Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl star on replacing Peter Sallis and honouring the actor's legacy
When Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl arrives on Christmas Day, it will be just the sixth film in Britain's favourite stop-motion franchise, but the first to star Ben Whitehead as the voice of Wallace.
David Opie, Radio Times, 23rd December 2024Wallace & Gromit return with Vengeance Most Fowl
The BBC has confirmed that the new Wallace & Gromit special, the first in 16 years, will be titled Vengeance Most Fowl. It will see the return of iconic supervillain penguin Feathers McGraw.
British Comedy Guide, 6th June 2024New book to shine a light on creation of 1970s sitcoms
Raising Laughter, a new book due to be published in September, will take a look at the creation of 1970s sitcoms. Writer Robert Sellers has interviewed a number of those involved in the shows.
British Comedy Guide, 17th June 2021Why I reach for Aardman in dark times
Full of visual wit and narrative ingenuity, the tactile warmth and joie de vivre of these Aardman animations is soul-invigorating.
Luke Buckmaster, The Guardian, 5th April 2020Summer Wine stars Compo and Clegg buried side-by-side
Actors Peter Sallis and Bill Owen became best friends during the 26 years they spent filming the sitcom together before Compo star Bill passed away in 1999. The two close friends now lie next to each other in St John's Church graveyard in the iconic Yorkshire Dales town of Holmfirth where they filmed the sitcom.
Robin Perrie, The Sun, 1st January 2018Peter Sallis had a secret and surprising sex life
Peter, whose death at 96 was announced on Monday, had a murky past that was a far cry from his showbiz alter egos -- he was a serial adulterer who could not resist the lure of the opposite sex. He was so prolific as a love cheat that his long-suffering wife Elaine threw him out sixteen times because of his affairs.
Mike Ridley, The Sun, 7th June 2017Peter Sallis dies aged 96
Peter Sallis has died at the age of 96, his agents have announced.
British Comedy Guide, 5th June 2017Wallace and Gromit may retire
Nick Park said he was unsure whether to continue the much-loved British comedy without actor Peter Sallis, who has voiced Wallace since 1990 when he accepted the voiceover job for £25, yet is growing increasingly frail at 93. The voice of the veteran, who starred in Last of the Summer Wine, is inextricably linked with Wensleydale-loving Wallace, - but Sallis is said to be in poor health.
Jim Norton, Daily Mail, 16th May 2014The holy trinity - Foggy, Compo and Nora - have long departed, sadly, but original cast member Peter Sallis remains to provide continuity down the full length of Last Of The Summer Wine's 37 years. Unsurprisingly for a show whose whole purpose was to illustrate the equanimity it might be possible to have with the later stages of a quiet life, tonight's very final episode is gentle stuff. As the gang assemble for a wedding, Howard is left in the cold by Pearl, who may not even let him have his best suit. You may want to be in that number as the last bathtub, so to speak, is precariously rolled down the hill.
The Guardian, 28th August 2010