Peter Wyngarde

Peter Paul Wyngarde is a Frenchborn English actor best known for playing the character Jason King, a bestselling novelist turned sleuth, in two British television series Department S and Jason King .

Wyngarde was born as Cyril Louis Goldbert in Marseille, France, the son of an English father and a French mother. His father worked for the British Diplomatic Service, and as a result his childhood was spent in a number of different countries. In 1941, while his parents were away in India, he went to stay with a Swiss family in Shanghai. The Japanese Army took over Shanghais International Settlement onDecember 1941, and as a British citizen Goldbert was interned in the Lunghua civilian internment camp onApril 1943. Conditions in the camp were sometimes harsh. According to J. G. Ballards autobiography Miracles of Life, Cyril Goldbert, the future Peter Wyngarde was a fellow internee at Lunghua Camp and He was four years older than me.... Ballard was born in November 1930 but according to Lunghwa Camp records compiled in 1943, Goldbert was actually born in 1928. His younger siblings, Adolphe Henry and Marion Simeone, were under Swiss protection and thus exempt from internment.

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