Peter Halliday
Born: 1924-06-02 in near Llangollen, Wales, UK
Died: 2012-02-19
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2005
- Lassie as Vicar
2003
- Hear the Silence as Sir Kenneth Calman
2002
- Night Flight as Jenkins
2001
- Perfect as Ted
- Anybody's Nightmare as Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
1999
- Esther as Karschena
- Births, Marriages and Deaths as Vicar
1996
- Dalziel and Pascoe as Mr Edward Soper
- Our Friends in the North as Speaker
1995
- Hearts and Minds as Shotgun
1993
- The Remains of the Day as Canon Tufnell
1988
1986
- Lovejoy as Mr. Reynolds
1983
- Tales Out of School as Headmaster
- R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only as Headmaster
1982
- Giro City as Government Minister
1979
- Doctor Who: City of Death as Soldier
1976
- Beasts as Crisp
- Keep It Up Downstairs as P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
- Beasts: Buddyboy as Crisp
1975
- The Sweeney as Chief Insp. Gordon
- The Hanged Man as Jean-Claud de Salle
- How Green Was My Valley as Jack Richards
- Looking for Clancy as Sam Cook
1974
- Churchill's People as Sir George Carew
- Madhouse as Psychiatrist
- The Black Windmill as Customs Officer (uncredited)
- The Swordsman as Rabelais
1973
- Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters as Pletrac
1972
- Virgin Witch as Club Manager
- The Fast Kill
1971
- Sunday Bloody Sunday as Rowing Husband
- Clinic Exclusive as Fawcett
1970
- UFO as Dr. Segal
- Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death as Aliens' Voices
- Doctor Who and the Silurians as Silurian (voices)
1969
- The Main Chance as John Smith
- The Last Lonely Man as Patrick Wilson
1968
- Doctor Who: The Invasion as Packer/Cyberman Voice
1967
- Calamity the Cow as Sgt. Watkins
1966
- Thirteen Against Fate as Gaston
1965
- BBC Play of the Month
- Out of the Unknown as Patrick Wilson
1964
- Theatre 625 as Sir William Mallet
- Down to Sussex as Narrator (voice)
1963
- Doctor Who as Soldier
- Sergeant Cork as Dr. Cato
1962
- The Saint as Vargas
- Captain Clegg as Sailor Jack Pott
- The Andromeda Breakthrough as John Fleming
- Dilemma as Harry Barnes
1961
- The Avengers as Perrier
- Sir Francis Drake as Theobald Burke
- A for Andromeda as John Fleming
1959
- Tiger Bay as Seaman (uncredited)
1958
- Dunkirk as Battery Major
- The Boy with Two Heads as Mr. Page
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Mike Regan
- The Anatomist as Adolphus Raby
1955
- The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel as Sergeant
1954
- Fatal Journey as Gypsy