R.I.P. Peter Sallis, Star of ‘Wallace and Gromit’ (1921-2017)

Peter Sallis hailed from a generation of British working actors who managed to appear on TV and in movies consistently throughout the course of his 60-odd-year career. In his native England, he may be most celebrated for his work on the long, long, long-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, which ran from 1973 to 2010, and on which Sallis played the character of Norman…