Peter Halliday
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 2, 1924
- Died
- February 19, 2012 (aged 87)
- Birthplace
- near Llangollen, Wales, UK
Biography
One of the UK's most prolific television actors for 50 years, Peter Halliday was the son of an auctioneer and estate agent. He was schooled in Shropshire. Halliday failed his exam as apprentice auctioneer, worked briefly for Rolls-Royce, then served in the British Army during the Second World War, based in Iraq, Palestine and Egypt, until 1947. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1949. He became a member of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, which later became the Royal Shakespeare Company. He achieved his greatest fame in the BBC's science-fiction television drama A for Andromeda (1961). He also gained further cult status for several appearances in Doctor Who (1963), which included providing monster voices for two serials and appearing under heavy makeup to play the alien Pletrac in Robert Holmes' witty parody of television and its viewers, Carnival of Monsters: Episode One (1973).
Known For
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Filmography
Lassie
Movie · as Vicar
Hear the Silence
Movie · as Sir Kenneth Calman
Night Flight
Movie · as Jenkins
Anybody's Nightmare
Movie · as Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
Perfect
TV · as Ted · 2 eps
Esther
Movie · as Karschena
Births, Marriages and Deaths
TV · as Vicar · 3 eps
Dalziel and Pascoe
TV · as Mr Edward Soper · 3 eps
Our Friends in the North
TV · as Speaker · 1 ep
Hearts and Minds
TV · as Shotgun · 4 eps
The Remains of the Day
Movie · as Canon Tufnell
Goodnight Sweetheart
TV · as Vicar · 3 eps
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
Movie · as Vicar
Lovejoy
TV · as Mr. Reynolds · 1 ep
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
Movie · as Headmaster
Tales Out of School
TV · as Headmaster · 1 ep
Giro City
Movie · as Government Minister
Doctor Who: City of Death
Movie · as Soldier
Safety and the Supervisor
Movie
Beasts: Buddyboy
Movie · as Crisp
Keep It Up Downstairs
Movie · as P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
Beasts
TV · as Crisp · 1 ep
The Sweeney
TV · as Chief Insp. Gordon · 1 ep
The Hanged Man
TV · as Jean-Claud de Salle · 1 ep
Looking for Clancy
TV · as Sam Cook · 1 ep
How Green Was My Valley
TV · as Jack Richards · 2 eps
The Black Windmill
Movie · as Customs Officer (uncredited)
Madhouse
Movie · as Psychiatrist
The Swordsman
Movie · as Rabelais
Churchill's People
TV · as Sir George Carew · 1 ep
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
Movie · as Pletrac
The Fast Kill
Movie
Virgin Witch
Movie · as Club Manager
Clinic Exclusive
Movie · as Fawcett
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Movie · as Rowing Husband
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Movie · as Aliens' Voices
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Movie · as Silurian (voices)
UFO
TV · as Dr. Segal · 1 ep
The Last Lonely Man
Movie · as Patrick Wilson
The Main Chance
TV · as John Smith · 1 ep
Doctor Who: The Invasion
Movie · as Packer/Cyberman Voice
Calamity the Cow
Movie · as Sgt. Watkins
Thirteen Against Fate
TV · as Gaston · 1 ep
BBC Play of the Month
TV · 1 ep
Out of the Unknown
TV · as Patrick Wilson · 1 ep
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV · as Tony Elliot · 1 ep
The Troubleshooters
TV · as Major Rigby-Lowther, Hepburn · 1 ep
Down to Sussex
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Theatre 625
TV · as Sir William Mallet · 2 eps
Doctor Who
TV · as Soldier, Pletrac, Packer, Aliens (voice), Silurians (voice), Vicar · 2 eps
Sergeant Cork
TV · as Dr. Cato · 1 ep
Captain Clegg
Movie · as Sailor Jack Pott
Dilemma
Movie · as Harry Barnes
The Andromeda Breakthrough
TV · as John Fleming · 6 eps
The Saint
TV · as Vargas · 1 ep
Sir Francis Drake
TV · as Theobald Burke · 1 ep
A for Andromeda
TV · as John Fleming · 7 eps
The Avengers
TV · as Perrier · 1 ep
Tiger Bay
Movie · as Seaman (uncredited)
The Boy with Two Heads
Movie · as Mr. Page
Dunkirk
Movie · as Battery Major
The Anatomist
Movie · as Adolphus Raby
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Mike Regan · 1 ep
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
TV · as Sergeant · 1 ep
Fatal Journey
Movie · as Gypsy