Peter Halliday
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
All Movies (34)
- Lassie2005 · as Vicar
- Hear the Silence2003 · as Sir Kenneth Calman
- Night Flight2002 · as Jenkins
- Anybody's Nightmare2001 · as Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
- Esther1999 · as Karschena
- The Remains of the Day1993 · as Canon Tufnell
- Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks1988 · as Vicar
- R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only1983 · as Headmaster
- Giro City1982 · as Government Minister
- Doctor Who: City of Death1979 · as Soldier
- Safety and the Supervisor1978
- Beasts: Buddyboy1976 · as Crisp
- Keep It Up Downstairs1976 · as P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
- The Black Windmill1974 · as Customs Officer (uncredited)
- Madhouse1974 · as Psychiatrist
- The Swordsman1974 · as Rabelais
- Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters1973 · as Pletrac
- The Fast Kill1972
- Virgin Witch1972 · as Club Manager
- Sunday Bloody Sunday1971 · as Rowing Husband
- Clinic Exclusive1971 · as Fawcett
- Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death1970 · as Aliens' Voices
- Doctor Who and the Silurians1970 · as Silurian (voices)
- The Last Lonely Man1969 · as Patrick Wilson
- Doctor Who: The Invasion1968 · as Packer/Cyberman Voice
- Calamity the Cow1967 · as Sgt. Watkins
- Down to Sussex1964 · as Narrator (voice)
- Captain Clegg1962 · as Sailor Jack Pott
- Dilemma1962 · as Harry Barnes
- Tiger Bay1959 · as Seaman (uncredited)
- The Boy with Two Heads1958 · as Mr. Page
- Dunkirk1958 · as Battery Major
- The Anatomist1956 · as Adolphus Raby
- Fatal Journey1954 · as Gypsy
All TV Shows (32)
- Perfect2001 · as Ted
- Births, Marriages and Deaths1999 · as Vicar
- Dalziel and Pascoe1996 · as Mr Edward Soper
- Our Friends in the North1996 · as Speaker
- Hearts and Minds1995 · as Shotgun
- Lovejoy1986 · as Mr. Reynolds
- Tales Out of School1983 · as Headmaster
- Beasts1976 · as Crisp
- How Green Was My Valley1975 · as Jack Richards
- Looking for Clancy1975 · as Sam Cook
- The Hanged Man1975 · as Jean-Claud de Salle
- The Sweeney1975 · as Chief Insp. Gordon
- Churchill's People1974 · as Sir George Carew
- UFO1970 · as Dr. Segal
- The Main Chance1969 · as John Smith
- Thirteen Against Fate1966 · as Gaston
- BBC Play of the Month1965
- Out of the Unknown1965 · as Patrick Wilson
- Theatre 6251964 · as Sir William Mallet
- Doctor Who1963 · as Soldier
- Doctor Who1963 · as Pletrac
- Doctor Who1963 · as Packer
- Doctor Who1963 · as Silurians (voice)
- Doctor Who1963 · as Aliens (voice)
- Sergeant Cork1963 · as Dr. Cato
- The Saint1962 · as Vargas
- The Andromeda Breakthrough1962 · as John Fleming
- Sir Francis Drake1961 · as Theobald Burke
- A for Andromeda1961 · as John Fleming
- The Avengers1961 · as Perrier
- Armchair Theatre1956 · as Mike Regan
- The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel1955 · as Sergeant