British actor Peter Sallis, who played irrepressible, cheese-loving inventor Wallace in the "Wallace and Gromit" cartoons, has died, his agent said Monday. Sallis' talent agency, Jonathan Altaras Associates, said he died Friday at a retirement home for actors in London. Born in London in 1921, Sallis began his working life in a bank but caught the acting bug as a Royal Air Force serviceman during World War II. Millions across the world know his voice from animator Nick Park's "Wallace and Gromit," which charted the adventures of a cheese-loving Yorkshireman with a passion for inventing wild contraptions and his level-headed, silent dog, Gromit. With their old-fashioned stop-motion animation and lightly anarchic British humor, Park's short films, feature and BBC series gained international fans.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 06, 2017 22:52 UTC