From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peter Paul Wyngarde  (born Cyril Goldbert, 23 August 1928) is an Anglo-French actor best known for playing the character Jason King, a bestselling novelist turned sleuth, in two British television series in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Department S (1969–1970) and Jason King (1971–1972). Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Wyngarde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia