Abbot was cast to allow Sallis and Thornton to reduce their role on the show to only indoor scenes.

A 2008 release named Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1976 focuses on the third series of the show and includes bonus interviews with Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde, and Frank Thornton.

Owen's character is a scruffy working class pensioner, often made use of by the characters played by Michael Bates, Brian Wilde, Michael Aldridge and Frank Thornton for dirty jobs, stunts and escapades, while his indomitably docile friend Peter Sallis follows and watches with a smirk.

The original trio consisted of Bill Owen as the scruffy and childlike Compo Simmonite, Peter Sallis as deep-thinking and meek Norman Clegg and Michael Bates as authoritarian and snobbish Cyril Blamire.

The opening night cast included Fritz Weaver, Peter Sallis, Martin Gabel, Inga Swenson, Virginia Vestoff, and, in small supporting roles, Tommy Tune and Christopher Walken in their Broadway debuts.

While Bill Owen and Peter Sallis reprised their roles as Compo and Clegg, Brian Wilde chose not to take part because of personal differences with Owen.

1971 saw Sallis acting alongside Roger Moore and Tony Curtis in an episode of " The Persuaders!

Sallis was reluctant to appear in the new production, and his role in the show was rewritten and played by Derek Fowlds.

Most recently Sallis starred in a new Wallace and Gromit adventure, A Matter of Loaf and Death, in 2008.

Peter Sallis and Jonathan Linsley were the only actors from the original series to appear in the spin-off: Sallis played the father of his own character from the original show and Linsley appeared during the second series as a different character.

Other actors of note who took part in the series include Anthony Hopkins, Nigel Havers, Peter Sallis and Tom Wilkinson.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

Wallace is voiced by veteran actor Peter Sallis ; Gromit remains silent, communicating only through facial expressions and body language.

Voiced by Peter Sallis and by Ben Whitehead in Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures and Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels, Wallace can usually be found wearing a white shirt, brown wool trousers, a green knitted pullover, and a red tie.

Wallace's accent ( voiced by Peter Sallis ) comes from the Holme Valley of West Yorkshire.

Both games were developed by Frontier Developments with the assistance of Aardman, with Peter Sallis reprising his role as Wallace.

Wolf and his team combined concepts and ideas with Playmates marketing crew, headed by Karl Aaronian and then VP of Sales, Richard Sallis and VP of Playmates, Bill Carlson.

* Sallis, John ( ed.

* Grand Parade campus in Brighton city centre is home to the Faculty of Arts, the University of Brighton gallery and Sallis Benney Theatre.

Every episode of Last of the Summer Wine was written by Roy Clarke and every episode featured Peter Sallis as Clegg.

The most famous of the Last of the Summer Wine trios: From left to right: Peter Sallis as Norman Clegg, Brian Wilde as " Foggy " Dewhurst and Bill Owen ( actor ) | Bill Owen as " Compo " Simmonite.

Initially, the only certain cast member for the show was Peter Sallis.

Clarke had already collaborated on a few scripts with him and the character of Norman Clegg was created especially for Sallis, who liked the character and agreed to play him.

According to Peter Sallis, Roy Clarke felt there was little more he could do with them.

Peter Sallis provided narration to compensate for the loss of the televised visual elements.

All of Cook's records released from that point onwards have involved both of them to varying degrees ( Thornton is credited in 2004 as " Executive Producer ", for example ).

Here both Wilberforce and Thornton, the sect's two most influential leaders, resided and many of the group's meetings were held in their houses.

He moved to Los Angeles, where he taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles, both of which later named a music building on their respective campuses Schoenberg Hall ( UCLA Department of Music ; University of Southern California Thornton School of Music ).

The delicate, gem-like jigsaw of Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Ray could not be more unlike the feverishly cunning philosophical monologue of Albert Camus ' The Fall, but both novels are about the same length.

Architecturally, Thornton Heath is predominantly Victorian in both its residential and commercial sectors.

Joe Thornton became the first Hart Trophy winner to switch clubs during his winning campaign in 2005 – 06 NHL season, having played for both the Boston Bruins and San Jose Sharks that year.

He married Rose Ellen Freer ( 1885 – 1958 ), daughter of Russell John Freer ( 1852 – 1932 ) and Annie Cecile Thornton ( 1863 – 1928 ), both of whom would later live with the Cicottes.

Fellow Canadians Joe Thornton ( then of the Boston Bruins ) and Joe Sakic ( Colorado Avalanche ), who each wore the number 19 for their respective NHL clubs and who were now eligible to wear it for team Canada due to Yzerman's enforced absence, both refused the number out of respect for their injured countryman.

He was the son of Lt. William Lewis of Locust Hill ( 1733 – November 17, 1779 ), who was of Welsh ancestry, and Lucy Meriwether ( February 4, 1752 – September 8, 1837 ), daughter of Thomas Meriwether and Elizabeth Thornton who were both of English ancestry.

After the renovation, the original show and storyline remained but with a digitally remastered audio ( remastered by Randy Thornton, who produced A Musical History of Disneyland ( 2005 )), a new sound system both indoors and out, and completely new Audio-Animatronics.

In Josephine Pullein-Thompson's " Pony Club Team " the second novel in her " West Barsetshire Pony Club " series, Landor's " I Strove With None " is quoted by both Noel Kettering and Henry Thornton

He contributed both prose and verse to Blackwood's Magazine, in which appeared his vigorous and popular military novel, Cyril Thornton ( 1827 ).

Joe Thornton and Ryane Clowe of the Sharks both recorded 1G 1A and 1 fight each.

The crew members included Robert F. Overmyer, commander ; Frederick D. Gregory, pilot ; Don L. Lind, Norman E. Thagard and William E. Thornton, mission specialists ; and Lodewijk van den Berg, of EG & G Energy Management, Inc., and Taylor G. Wang, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both payload specialists.

Growing scientific recognition of the role of private lands for endangered species recovery and the landmark 1981 court decision in Palila v. Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources both contributed to making Habitat Conservation Plans / Incidental Take Permits " a major force for wildlife conservation and a major headache to the development community ", wrote Robert D. Thornton in the 1991 Environmental Law article, Searching for Consensus and Predictability: Habitat Conservation Planning under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

In the 1960s, notable presentations included The Tulip Bee by N. C. Hunter starring Celia Johnson and John Clements and Thornton Wilder's Ides of March directed by Gielgud ( both 1963 ).

More or less a remake, and with the hero and villain roles now both played by females, Blood of Dracula could have easily been titled " I Was a Teenage Vampire "; Blood of Dracula, with a story and screenplay credit by I Was a Teenage Werewolf writer Ralph Thornton ( a pseudonym for AIP producer Herman Cohen and Aben Kandel ), features many other similarities to I Was a Teenage Werewolf-for instance, both have ( among other things ): a teenager with social behavior problems, an adult ' mad scientist ' who is searching for the perfect guinea pig under the guise of helping troubled youth, an observer who can tell the killings are the work of a monster, a disbelieving police chief afraid of the press, a song written by Jerry Blaine and Paul Dunlap accompanied by a choreographed " ad-lib " dance number, hypnosis as scientific medical treatment, drug injections, specific references to Carpathia, hairy transformation scenes, and even some of the same dialogue.

She co-starred with Jim Carrey in The Number 23 and Billy Bob Thornton in The Astronaut Farmer ; both films opened in North America on February 23, 2007.

Thornton – Cleveleys FC and Norcross & Warbreck FC play football in The West Lancashire Football League, both side's home pitches are based in Thornton.

" The band agreed to change the artwork, while continuing to assert that Kate Thornton had misinterpreted the meaning of both the sleeve art and the song's lyrics.

* I Was a Teenage Werewolf ( 1957 ) ( with Aben Kandel, both credited as Ralph Thornton )

Currently, both she and Kirk Thornton are directing the ADR process for Bleach.