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My Take
Peter Sallis is, to me, proof that a voice can be a whole career and a national treasure at once. He gave Wallace that cheerful, cheese-obsessed Yorkshire warmth, and in doing so breathed a soul into clay that no animation alone could supply. But the statistic I never get over is Last of the Summer Wine: all 295 episodes, the only actor to appear in every single one, across nearly four decades. That is a staggering kind of constancy. The OBE feels almost like an understatement. He passed in 2017 at ninety-six, yet his voice keeps reaching for the cheese in our memories, and I love him for it.
Overview
Peter Sallis (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor. He was the original voice of Wallace in the Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit films and played Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine from its 1973 inception until the final episode in 2010, making him the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Peter Sallis
- Name (Japanese)
- ピーター・サリス
- Reading
- ぴーたー・さりす
- Born
- February 1, 1921 – June 2, 2017
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Rooster
- Origin
- Twickenham, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- stage actor / film actor / television actor / voice actor / soldier
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Annie Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.