“It is with sadness that we announce that our client Peter Sallis died peacefully, with his family by his side, at Denville Hall on Friday, June 2,” his agents, Jonathan Altaras Associates, said. Sallis was already an experienced actor before he took the role on Last of the Summer Wine, with more than 25 years in the business. The programme made him a recognisable figure throughout the UK, while he found international fame late in life for his Wallace and Gromit appearances. It was six years later that the first Wallace and Gromit film, A Grand Day Out, reached the screen. Tony Hall, director general of the BBC, said: “Alongside Last of the Summer Wine, Peter Sallis featured in many of the BBC’s most popular programmes.

Source: The Guardian June 05, 2017 16:12 UTC