Peter Reynolds (actor)

Peter Reynolds (born Peter Gordon Horrocks; 16 August 1921 – 22 April 1975) was an English actor.
Career.
Most of his career was spent in B films, as "the archetypal spiv, unreliable boyfriend, unscrupulous blackmailer, the smoothie ever ready to light a lady's cigarette".
He starred in two early films for John Guillermin.
Death.
By the mid-1970s he had moved to Australia and lived alone, apart from his little dog, in Sydney where he worked in local television drama and as a spokesperson for Woodbine cigarette commercials. His brother lived in Sydney.
He and his dog died in a fire in his flat in Oxford St Paddington on 22 April, 1975. The fire was caused by Reynolds smoking in bed.