Anecdotes

Although he was British, he performed with an American accent in both Les sentinelles de l'air! (1965) and Docteur Satan (1959), a very low-budget, Japanese-shot horror film that has achieved a cult reputation.

Though born and mostly employed in England, his early life in Canada gave him such a perfect ear for the North American accent that many of his best remembered roles (such as the voice of Jeff Tracey in the Les sentinelles de l'air! (1965) TV series) were Americans. He was for many years a member of ITC's stable of character actors, and in one episode of Le Saint (1962)--"The Bunco Artists"--he plays a con artist who starts out with an American accent and later reverts to British.

He spoke fluent English, French, German and Spanish.

Educated at Radley College in Oxfordshire and trained for opera at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

His death in 1977 was registered at Hackney Register Office under three names: Peter Dyneley, Peter Dyneley Hessey-White and his original unhyphenated name Peter Dyneley Hessey White.

His wife, Jane Hylton, died of a heart attack on 28 February 1979.