Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out
7:00 pm - 7:25 pm, Friday, December 26 on BBC Three (23)
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Nick Park's Bafta-winning film which introduced the animated inventor and his faithful canine sidekick to the world. Wallace is distraught when his cheese supply runs out, so he decides to take a trip to the moon. All he needs to do is build himself a space rocket. With the voice of Peter Sallis
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Peter Sallis
(Actor)
.. Wallace
Born:
February 01, 1921
in
Twickenham, Middlesex
Best Known For:
Playing Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine and providing the voice of Wallace in Wallace & Gromit.
Early-life:
Peter Sallis was born on February 1, 1921, in Twickenham, Middlesex. His first job was as a bank clerk and he held no desire to be an actor until he became an RAF instructor during the Second World War. One of his pupils, Peter Bridge, asked him to play the leading part in Noel Coward's Hay Fever at the YMCA. Peter never looked back and eventually maked his TV debut in a 1947 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Career:
Roles in films such as Doctor in Love, The Mouse on the Moon, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Charlie Bubbles followed. BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine made him a household name. He featured in all 295 episodes as Norman Clegg between 1973 and 2010. He also played his character's father in short-lived prequel First of the Summer Wine. He was also the voice of Wallace of Wallace & Gromit fame in the acclaimed A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and A Matter of Loaf and Death. He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours list for services to drama. He died on June 2, 2017 at the age of 96.
Quote:
"I don't eat it, because of the cholesterol effect. I've never eaten much in the way of cheese ever. However, I don't mind pretending that I like it."
Trivia:
When Sallis was first asked by Nick Park to voice Wallace for a student film, he donatated his £50 fee to charity.
Nick Park
(Director)
