Peter Wyngarde signing

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 7:00 pm

Found this online, a film fair at Camden in London, with Avengers actors Peter Wyngarde and Edina Ronay attending,
Not met Peter before, so cant wait.
More details here http://midnight-media.net/id10.html

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 7:24 pm

Peter did an interview for me many years ago for the magazine I used to publish called Action TV. My mate Martin Gainsford went along and did the actual interview and found Peter to be very entertaining. To confirm that the interview was on Peter telephoned me, but I wasn't in and so he left a message on the answer machine and it was just like getting message from Jason King.

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 8:15 pm

Sounds great.
I spoke to the organisers, when I went last time and they said Peter will have photos of himself from The Avengers and The Prisoner (another show I like).
I have got a book of The Avengers that I try and get signed, so might go for that instead.

darren · Post by **darren** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 10:04 am

Wyngarde is someone I'd love to meet socially as you just know he'd have countless stories and keep you entertained for hours if not days.

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 10:22 am

Darren wrote:Wyngarde is someone I'd love to meet socially as you just know he'd have countless stories and keep you entertained for hours if not days.

I've heard a couple of interviews with him and he can really talk and talk and talk and he seemed to have a huge amount of ideas and I get the impression that he would have loved to have been a scriptwriter.

anti-clockwise · Post by **anti-clockwise** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 5:20 pm

Darren wrote:Wyngarde is someone I'd love to meet socially as you just know he'd have countless stories and keep you entertained for hours if not days.

Have you heard his interview on the extras he did with Jazz? It is an hour of him talking about the episode Epic, but he diverts quite a bit.

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 7:11 pm

anti-clockwise wrote:
Darren wrote:Wyngarde is someone I'd love to meet socially as you just know he'd have countless stories and keep you entertained for hours if not days.
Have you heard his interview on the extras he did with Jazz? It is an hour of him talking about the episode Epic, but he diverts quite a bit.

Margo

Yes I have, he wanted to rewrite portions of Epic. Years ago when I interviewed Cyril Frankel, he told me that Peter offered lots of outlandish ideas when they were working on Department S, but most of them were unusable.

darren · Post by **darren** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 10:02 pm

Yeah, he's wonderful on the Epic commentary where he talks about the idea they were going to make a film of it(?!).

He's a fascinating man.

The extras on Department S I think are very enlightening, Frankel treats him with good humour and he's how he had to be on set as he was only one who could really control Peter.

anti-clockwise · Post by **anti-clockwise** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 4:33 am

MikeR wrote:
anti-clockwise wrote:
Darren wrote:Wyngarde is someone I'd love to meet socially as you just know he'd have countless stories and keep you entertained for hours if not days.
Have you heard his interview on the extras he did with Jazz? It is an hour of him talking about the episode Epic, but he diverts quite a bit.
Margo

Yes I have, he wanted to rewrite portions of Epic. Years ago when I interviewed Cyril Frankel, he told me that Peter offered lots of outlandish ideas when they were working on Department S, but most of them were unusable.

yes I recall reading that in your book. I was always sorry they did not follow his ideas. ANy idea why? Perhaps was it impractical?

anti-clockwise · Post by **anti-clockwise** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 4:35 am

Darren wrote:Yeah, he's wonderful on the Epic commentary where he talks about the idea they were going to make a film of it(?!).

He's a fascinating man.

The extras on Department S I think are very enlightening, Frankel treats him with good humour and he's how he had to be on set as he was only one who could really control Peter.

That's rather funny that you say he is hard to control. So the characters he plays are not that far different than him?

Can you think of any other actors that could pull off the 11 characters in Epic? When I first saw it, I never realized that the same actor did all 11 parts. Now that's good acting!