1. William Wallis was an English actor who appeared in numerous radio and television roles, as well as in the theatre.
15 Facts About Bill Wallis
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Bill Wallis was born in Guildford in Surrey, the only son of Albert Bill Wallis, a trainee fishmonger turned engineer, and his wife, Anne, a nurse.
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Bill Wallis attended Farnham Grammar School from 1948 to 1955, where he was head boy.
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Bill Wallis gained a State Scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, and while at Cambridge met Peter Cook and David Frost.
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When Cook and the team took Beyond the Fringe to Broadway, Bill Wallis took over the roles played by Alan Bennett.
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Bill Wallis played the disgruntled scientist who kills his boss in Poirot.
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Bill Wallis appeared as Gestapo-man Werner Beck in award-winning War and Remembrance.
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Bill Wallis appeared briefly in the first episode of ITV's Midsomer Murders, apparently driving a Morgan sports car.
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Bill Wallis reprised the latter in the second episode and in one episode of the second series; however, due to unavailability, the roles of Jeltz and Prosser were taken over by Toby Longworth.
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Bill Wallis played Winston Hayballs in Peter Tinniswood's Winston series.
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Bill Wallis read audiobooks, among them unabridged productions of Robert Harris's first two novels about the life of Cicero, Imperium and Lustrum.
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Bill Wallis has read several audiobooks in John Mortimer's "Rumpole of the Bailey" series.
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Bill Wallis had two children with his first wife, the cellist Jean Spalding, and two children with his second wife, Karen Bill Wallis, whom he married in 1979.
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Bill Wallis suffered from multiple myeloma, a form of bone marrow cancer, but was able to continue performing in audio and radio work.
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Bill Wallis died at his home in Bath on 6 September 2013.