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Peter Halliday

Peter Halliday

Actor · Born 1924-06-02 · near Llangollen, Wales, UK

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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).

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Remains of the Day (1993) — Canon Tufnell
  2. Doctor Who (1963) — Soldier
  3. The Avengers (1961) — Perrier
  4. Lassie (2005) — Vicar
  5. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) — Rowing Husband
  6. The Saint (1962) — Vargas
  7. Madhouse (1974) — Psychiatrist
  8. The Black Windmill (1974) — Customs Officer (uncredited)
  9. Captain Clegg (1962) — Sailor Jack Pott
  10. Dunkirk (1958) — Battery Major
  11. UFO (1970) — Dr. Segal
  12. Tiger Bay (1959) — Seaman (uncredited)
  13. Virgin Witch (1972) — Club Manager
  14. Lovejoy (1986) — Mr. Reynolds
  15. Goodnight Sweetheart (1993) — Vicar
  16. Esther (1999) — Karschena
  17. The Sweeney (1975) — Chief Insp. Gordon
  18. Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) — Mr Edward Soper
  19. Our Friends in the North (1996) — Speaker
  20. Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks (1988) — Vicar
  21. Doctor Who: The Invasion (1968) — Packer/Cyberman Voice
  22. R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only (1983) — Headmaster
  23. Keep It Up Downstairs (1976) — P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
  24. Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970) — Silurian (voices)
  25. Dilemma (1962) — Harry Barnes
  26. Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death (1970) — Aliens' Voices
  27. Doctor Who: City of Death (1979) — Soldier
  28. BBC Play of the Month (1965)
  29. Out of the Unknown (1965) — Patrick Wilson
  30. Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) — Tony Elliot
  31. Clinic Exclusive (1971) — Fawcett
  32. Beasts (1976) — Crisp
  33. Sir Francis Drake (1961) — Theobald Burke
  34. Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters (1973) — Pletrac
  35. The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955) — Sergeant
  36. Armchair Theatre (1956) — Mike Regan
  37. Anybody's Nightmare (2001) — Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
  38. Giro City (1982) — Government Minister
  39. Sergeant Cork (1963) — Dr. Cato
  40. Theatre 625 (1964) — Sir William Mallet