Peter Bayliss (27 June 1922 – 29 July 2002) was an English actor.
Bayliss was born in Kingston upon Thames and trained at the Italia Conti Academy and the John Gielgud Company.
More than six feet tall, with a voice to match, he supplemented it with a barrage of wheezings, croakings, mutterings and, as the opera singer in Frontiers of Farce (Old Vic, 1977), garglings.
(he played the part of Mr Dunstable, Dennis Dunstable's father), The Sweeney, Coronation Street, Lovejoy and The Bill, plus dramas like Bye, Bye Columbus (1990), Merlin (1998) and The Arabian Nights (1999).
On radio he was particularly good in Jacobean adaptations, playing characters with names such as Sir Moth-Interest[2] and Walter Whorehound.