Peter Wyngarde (1933 – ) Peter Wyngarde was born in Marseilles, France to an English father and a French mother. For about three years between 1969 and 1972, he portrayed the suave, silky-voiced, woman chasing sleuth Jason King in two series, (Department ‘S’ and Jason King), and seemed to be forever getting the girl, but always avoiding kissing her at the last moment – week after week. His arrest in 1974 and again in 1975 in men’s toilets on ‘gross indecency’ charges pretty much curtailed his career, even though his homosexuality was well known in acting circles. In fact, he had been in a sexual relationship with prominent actor Alan Bates for a decade, and was known around the industry by his nickname ‘Petunia Winegum’. Amanda Bearse (1958 – ) Diminutive Amanda Bearse is both an actor and director. Her big break came in 1987 when she was cast to play Al Bundy’s next door neighbour Marcy Rhoades in the hit sitcom Married with Children (1987-97). By 1991 she was directing the show (over 30 episodes), as well as stints directing Reba, Dharma & Greg and Veronica’s Closet. She came out as a lesbian in 1993, the first prime-time [...]
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