"Born in Shropshire in April 1924, Vaughan was the son of a bank clerk and nurse. Vaughan's parents did not have a happy marriage and he spent his younger years as something of a loner, an experience that left him emotionally repressed. The Ohms were of Austrian origin and Peter was their only child. He recounted his school days in Uttoxeter as being unremarkable and, although he played both cricket and football for the school, he was not good enough to follow sport professionally. After leaving school, he joined the Wolverhampton Repertory Theatre. His career had been marked out by Miss Joy Belford, a supervisor of the Staffordshire Education Committee who had seen his performances in school plays. He soon decided that he could not become a successful actor with the name Ohm so he adapted his mother's maiden name Vorn, altering the spelling to Vaughan. But his time in touring theatre was was interrupted during the war when he was called up to the army in 1942. He saw service as an officer in Normandy and Belgium, before being transferred to the Far East. While in Singapore, where he was commissioned in the Royal Corps of Signals, he had his first experience of radio work as a newscaster for Radio Malaya. At the end of the war the radio company offered him a three-year contract but he decided to rejoin his old rep company in England." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4005600/Actor-Peter-Vaughan-starred-Porridge-Game-Thrones-dies-age-93.html#ixzz4S4g1zCUM
