Peter Sallis

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.

This take was written by generative AI, one per person, from publicly reported facts (editorial policy). It is a reading of the record, not reporting.

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

Origin

Twickenham, United Kingdom

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / television actor / voice actor / soldier

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rooster

Awards & achievements

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• Annie Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Sallis
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739052

Tags

• stage actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.