- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- June 2, 1924
- Place of Birth
- near Llangollen, Wales, UK
- Died
- February 19, 2012
Peter Halliday
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: Episod…
Filmography
movieLassie
2005 · Vicar
movieHear the Silence
2003 · Sir Kenneth Calman
Night Flight
movieNight Flight
2002 · Jenkins
movieAnybody's Nightmare
2001 · Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
tvPerfect
2001 · Ted
movieEsther
1999 · Karschena
tvBirths, Marriages and Deaths
1999 · Vicar
tvDalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Mr Edward Soper
tvOur Friends in the North
1996 · Speaker
tvHearts and Minds
1995 · Shotgun
movieThe Remains of the Day
1993 · Canon Tufnell
movieDoctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988 · Vicar
tvLovejoy
1986 · Mr. Reynolds
movieR.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
1983 · Headmaster
tvTales Out of School
1983 · Headmaster
movieGiro City
1982 · Government Minister
movieDoctor Who: City of Death
1979 · Soldier
Safety and the Supervisor
movieSafety and the Supervisor
1978
movieBeasts: Buddyboy
1976 · Crisp
tvBeasts
1976 · Crisp
movieKeep It Up Downstairs
1976 · P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
tvHow Green Was My Valley
1975 · Jack Richards
Looking for Clancy
tvLooking for Clancy
1975 · Sam Cook
The Hanged Man
tvThe Hanged Man
1975 · Jean-Claud de Salle
tvThe Sweeney
1975 · Chief Insp. Gordon
tvChurchill's People
1974 · Sir George Carew
movieThe Black Windmill
1974 · Customs Officer (uncredited)
movieMadhouse
1974 · Psychiatrist
movieThe Swordsman
1974 · Rabelais
movieDoctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973 · Pletrac
movieThe Fast Kill
1972
movieVirgin Witch
1972 · Club Manager
movieSunday Bloody Sunday
1971 · Rowing Husband
movieClinic Exclusive
1971 · Fawcett
tvUFO
1970 · Dr. Segal
movieDoctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970 · Aliens' Voices
movieDoctor Who and the Silurians
1970 · Silurian (voices)
tvThe Main Chance
1969 · John Smith
movieThe Last Lonely Man
1969 · Patrick Wilson
movieDoctor Who: The Invasion
1968 · Packer/Cyberman Voice
movieCalamity the Cow
1967 · Sgt. Watkins
tvThirteen Against Fate
1966 · Gaston
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965
tvThirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Tony Elliot
tvOut of the Unknown
1965 · Patrick Wilson
tvTheatre 625
1964 · Sir William Mallet
movieDown to Sussex
1964 · Narrator (voice)
tvDoctor Who
1963 · Soldier, Pletrac, Packer, Aliens (voice), Silurians (voice)
tvSergeant Cork
1963 · Dr. Cato
tvThe Saint
1962 · Vargas
tvThe Andromeda Breakthrough
1962 · John Fleming
movieCaptain Clegg
1962 · Sailor Jack Pott
movieDilemma
1962 · Harry Barnes
tvSir Francis Drake
1961 · Theobald Burke
tvA for Andromeda
1961 · John Fleming
tvThe Avengers
1961 · Perrier
movieTiger Bay
1959 · Seaman (uncredited)
movieThe Boy with Two Heads
1958 · Mr. Page
movieDunkirk
1958 · Battery Major
tvArmchair Theatre
1956 · Mike Regan
movieThe Anatomist
1956 · Adolphus Raby
tvThe Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955 · Sergeant
movieFatal Journey
1954 · Gypsy