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Gordon Peter Wilkinson (29 November 1926 – 15 June 2022), known professionally as Gordon Peters, was an English actor.

Gordon Peters
Born	Gordon Peter Wilkinson (1926-11-29)29 November 1926 Shildon, County Durham, England[1]
Died	15 June 2022(2022-06-15) (aged 95)
Occupation	Actor

Peters starred in a BBC TV comedy series in 1973 called The Gordon Peters Show, which was a situation comedy in which he played a character with his own name. The series was cancelled after one season.

As a child, Peters sang in the choir of Durham Cathedral.[2] He later enrolled at Durham Commercial College to learn bookkeeping. He worked as a junior clerk before volunteering for the Royal Navy.[2]

Peters had many roles in other television shows over the years, including Oh Brother!, two episodes of Hi-de-Hi!, four episodes of Dad's Army, two episodes of Are You Being Served?, one episode of Grace & Favour (also called Are You Being Served? Again! in the United States).[3] He played Victor and Margaret Meldrew's family friend Ronnie in three episodes of the long-running BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave during the 1990s,[4] five episodes of Never the Twain. Moreover, he featured in one episode of Little Britain, as a booking clerk in an episode of the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and in one episode of HBO's Tales from the Crypt. He voiced the narrator, male characters and all the Mr. Men in the 1995–1997 series Mr. Men and Little Miss save for the 1998 special The Christmas Letter, where the roles of the narrator and Santa Claus were taken up by Geoffrey Palmer.

Peters died on 15 June 2022, at the age of 95.[2]

References

External links

• Official website
• Gordon Peters at IMDb

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