R.I.P Peter Sallis of 'Moby Dick Rehearsed'

[Wellesnet]

British actor Peter Sallis, who voiced one half of the beloved duo Wallace & Gromit, died at the age of 96, on Friday, June 2, 2017. Sallis was a member of the cast of Orson Welles’ Moby Dick—Rehearsed in 1955. He played Stage Manager / Flask.

[Roger Ryan]

If one is to believe IMDb trivia, Sallis was also asked to do some dubbing for Welles' The Trial:

"He did some dubbing work on the English soundtrack of Orson Welles's "The Trial", flying to Paris for a few days to do so. His agent told him he was unlikely to be paid anything for this, not even traveling expenses. Sallis replied that, on the contrary, he would be prepared to pay for the honor of working with Welles, whom he has always described as one of the two true geniuses he has worked with in his long career, the other being Nick Park."

If this is true then Sallis would have agreed to do the unpaid voice work about six years after having worked with Welles on Moby Dick Rehearsed; Welles must have made a good impression on him!

[tonyw]

Roger, He certainly did. In the recent issue of Little Shoppe of Horrors 39 (2017) is a detailed interview with Peter Sallis by
David Wilson conducted on 1 February 1921. On p.59, he not only mentions dubbing on THE TRIAL, his appreciation of Welles but also the missing film version of the play, all filmed "except his own part."

It's still lying there, somewhere, perhaps in Columbia's archives. We did it in the Hackney Empire...The tragedy is that nobody has ever seen it because if it still exists it is probably lying on the floor somewhere."