Actor. He was a British actor of the 20th century, who was best-known for his roles as Norman Clegg in the BBC longest-running comedy "Last of the Summer Wine." From the first episode in 1973 to the final in 2010, he is the only actor who appeared in all 295 episodes. Never a leading man during his long career, he retired after the last episode. Born the son of bank manager Harry Sallis and his wife Dorothy, a piano player, he was a bank clerk, enjoying the theater at the dawn of World War II. During the war, he was in the Royal Air Force as a radio instructor. As an instructor, one of his pupils was theatre impresario, Peter Bridge. After the war, he was asked by Bridge to play the father character of David Bliss in his stage production of Noel Coward's "Hay Fever," thus beginning his acting career. On a scholarship, he graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before touring with theatre companies with bit character roles. In 1951, Sallis received a West End role in Chekhov's "The Three Sisters," which opened doors for his career. He was given the opportunities to act alongside Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, and Sir John Gielgud. He had a couple of roles in the television series "Doctor Who." With his distinctive voice, he was the voice actor for the character Wallace in "Wallace and Gromit," an animated series. Besides several short films, he appeared in the full-length 2005 Academy Award Best Animated Film of the Year, "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," which is the longest claymation movie ever produced. To recognize his work, he received the 2005 Annie Award for the Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production and was the first British actor to receive the award. At Buckingham Palace in 2007, he received from Queen Elizabeth II the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his service in theatre and acting. Published in 2006, he authored "Fading into The Limelight: The Autobiography." After being diagnosed with the complications of aging, including macular degeneration disease of the eyes in 1994, he died in Denville Hall, an actors' retirement home, at age 96. Since St. John the Evangelist Church was the filming location for "Last of the Summer Wine," he chose to be buried there next to his acting colleague, Bill Owen. On February 9, 1957, he married actress Elaine Usher. After a stormy relationship, the couple divorced in 1965, only to reconciled, keeping a home together off and on until 1999 and remaining close friends until her death in 2014. The couple had a son, Crispian Sallis, a three-time Oscar-nominated and Emmy-award set decorator.