[8][better source needed] He became a wireless mechanic instead and went on to teach radio procedures at RAF Cranwell for which he won a Korda Scholarship.

Prince was producer of a musical based on the work of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes called Baker Street.

The show was a minor success and ran for six months in New York, opening at the Belasco Theatre before transferring to the Shubert Theater.

They were included in the TV movie/TV play to give some idea of how an evening's viewing might appear on the forthcoming ITA channel in London.

[9] In 1959 Sallis played Cady in the 1959 TV series The Widow of Bath based on the book of the same name by Margot Bennett.

He was cast in the BBC comedy sitcom series The Culture Vultures (1970), which saw him play stuffy Professor George Hobbs to Leslie Phillips's laid-back rogue Dr Michael Cunningham.

[9] Sallis started alongside Robin Ellis, Suzanne Neve, Garfield Morgan, Margaret Courtenay, Elvi Hale, John Bryans, Maurice Quick, James Cossins and Arthur Pentelow in the 1971 British TV Series Bel Ami, based on the French novel by Guy de Maupassant.

[17] He appeared in many British films of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s including Child's Play (1954), Anastasia (1956), The Doctor's Dilemma (1958), The Scapegoat (1959),[9] Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,[18] Doctor in Love (1960), No Love for Johnnie,[9] The Curse of the Werewolf (1961),[18] I Thank a Fool (1962), The Mouse on the Moon,[9] The V.I.P.s ,[18] Clash by Night (1963), The Third Secret (1964), Rapture (1965),[9] Charlie Bubbles,[18] Inadmissible Evidence (1968),[9] The Reckoning,[9] Scream and Scream Again, Taste the Blood of Dracula, My Lover My Son,[9] Wuthering Heights (1970),[18] The Night Digger (1971),[9] The Incredible Sarah (1976),[18] Full Circle (1977)[9] and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

[19] Sallis appeared in many British TV movies/TV plays of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 2000s, including Fcb TV Show No.1 (1955), Kitty Clive (1956), Cinderella (1958), David and Broccoli (1960), Candida (1961), Heart to Heart (1962), Who Killed Lamb?, Graceless Go I (1974), The Secret Agent (1975), Across A Crowded Room (1978), She Loves Me (1979), The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors, A Dangerous Kind of Love, That's Television Entertainment (1986), A Tale of Two Toads (1989) and Belonging (2004).

[9] In 1972, Sallis played Mr. Bruff in three episodes of the 1972 TV series The Moonstone, based on the book of the same name by Wilkie Collins.

[9] Sallis was cast in the pilot for Comedy Playhouse which became the first episode of Last of the Summer Wine (retrospectively titled Of Funerals and Fish, 1973) as the unobtrusive lover of a quiet life, Norman Clegg.

[23] Sallis appeared twice in the TV series Crown Court first in 1974 in "Triangle" as Gerald Prosser in all three parts and again in 1977 in "Such a Charming Man" as Insp.

Sallis also played the part of the ghost-hunter Milton Guest in the children's paranormal drama series The Clifton House Mystery (1978).

[9] In 1990 Sallis played another major acting role in the TV series titled Come Home Charlie and Face Them based on the book of the same name by R. F. Delderfield.

[27] In his autobiography, Fading into the Limelight, Sallis recounts a meeting with Orson Welles, where he received a mysterious telephone call summoning him to the deserted Gare d'Orsay in Paris where Welles announced he wanted him to dub Hungarian bit-players in his film adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial (1962).

He voiced Rat in The Wind in the Willows (1984–90), based on the book by Kenneth Grahame and produced by Cosgrove Hall Films, alongside Michael Hordern as Badger, David Jason as Toad and Richard Pearson as Mole.

Also in 1983 he played the lead character Jim Bloggs, alongside Brenda Bruce as Hilda, in a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Raymond Briggs' When the Wind Blows.

[28][29] From 1986-1987 Sallis voiced Harold in all six episodes of the BBC Radio series Living with Betty and he also voiced the lead character Hercule Poirot, alongside Manning Wilson as Col Johnson, in a BBC Radio 4 audio cassette titled Hercule Poirot's Christmas.

[32][33] Sallis appeared in the last episode of Rumpole of the Bailey (1992)[34] and he later starred alongside Brenda Blethyn, Kevin Whately and Anna Massey in the one-off ITV1 drama Belonging (2004).

[35] During the 1980s to the 1990s, Sallis provided the voiceover for the Polo Mint television adverts as well as voiceover and live action appearances for many other adverts such as Heinz Classic Soup Cream of Chicken with White Wine, Panasonic, Contac 400, Lift Lemon Tea, Hotpoint, Persil Liquid, Super Poli-Grip, Shredded Wheat Gold, Zoflora Disinfectant, Sudafed, Medinex, Flymo Ventura Lawnmower, Flymo Turbo Compact, Mr Muscle Sink and Plughole Unblocker and Beamish.

The work was eventually released in 1989 and Aardman Animations' Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out went on to win a BAFTA award.

Following the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Sallis's eyesight began to fail as a result of macular degeneration and he used a talking portable typewriter with a specially illuminated scanner to continue working.

Two years later Sallis retired from acting due to ill health, with Ben Whitehead taking over as the voice of Wallace.

[3][53] He was buried next to fellow Last of the Summer Wine actor Bill Owen in the churchyard of St John's Parish Church, Upperthong, near the town of Holmfirth in Yorkshire, the home of the sitcom.