Peter Halliday
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Doctor Who
Soldier
1963
Series
Doctor Who
Pletrac
1963
Series
Doctor Who
Packer
1963
Series
Doctor Who
Silurians (voice)
1963
Series
Doctor Who
Aliens (voice)
1963
Series
Doctor Who
Vicar
1963
Series
The Avengers
Perrier
1961
Series
The Saint
Vargas
1962
Series
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Series
Theatre 625
Sir William Mallet
1964
Series
The Sweeney
Chief Insp. Gordon
1975
Series
Dalziel and Pascoe
Mr Edward Soper
1996
Series
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Tony Elliot
1965
Series
UFO
Dr. Segal
1970
Series
Lovejoy
Mr. Reynolds
1986
Series
Churchill's People
Sir George Carew
1974
Series
The Main Chance
John Smith
1969
Series
Goodnight Sweetheart
Vicar
1993
Series
Out of the Unknown
Patrick Wilson
1965
Series
Sergeant Cork
Dr. Cato
1963
Series
Sir Francis Drake
Theobald Burke
1961
Series
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Sergeant
1955
Film
The Remains of the Day
Canon Tufnell
1993
Series
Our Friends in the North
Speaker
1996
Series
Beasts
Crisp
1976
Film
Clinic Exclusive
Fawcett
1971
Film
Lassie
Vicar
2005
Film
Beasts: Buddyboy
Crisp
1976
The Hanged Man
Jean-Claud de Salle
1975
Series
Hearts and Minds
Shotgun
1995
Series
How Green Was My Valley
Jack Richards
1975
Film
Esther
Karschena
1999
Film
Dunkirk
Battery Major
1958
Series
A for Andromeda
John Fleming
1961
Film
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Rowing Husband
1971
Series
Tales Out of School
Headmaster
1983
Looking for Clancy
Sam Cook
1975
Series
Thirteen Against Fate
Gaston
1966
Film
Virgin Witch
Club Manager
1972
Series
Armchair Theatre
Mike Regan
1956
Film
Tiger Bay
Seaman (uncredited)
1959
Series
Births, Marriages and Deaths
Vicar
1999
Film
The Black Windmill
Customs Officer (uncredited)
1974
Film
Captain Clegg
Sailor Jack Pott
1962
Series
The Andromeda Breakthrough
John Fleming
1962
Film
Doctor Who: City of Death
Soldier
1979
Series
Perfect
Ted
2001
Film
Madhouse
Psychiatrist
1974
Night Flight
Jenkins
2002
Film
The Boy with Two Heads
Mr. Page
1958
Film
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Silurian (voices)
1970
Film
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Aliens' Voices
1970
Film
Giro City
Government Minister
1982
Film
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
Vicar
1988
Film
Calamity the Cow
Sgt. Watkins
1967
Film
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
Headmaster
1983
Film
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
Pletrac
1973
Film
Keep It Up Downstairs
P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
1976
Film
Doctor Who: The Invasion
Packer/Cyberman Voice
1968
Safety and the Supervisor
1978
Film
The Anatomist
Adolphus Raby
1956
Film
Dilemma
Harry Barnes
1962
Film
Hear the Silence
Sir Kenneth Calman
2003
Film
Anybody's Nightmare
Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
2001
Film
The Last Lonely Man
Patrick Wilson
1969
Film
The Swordsman
Rabelais
1974
Film
The Fast Kill
1972
Film
Fatal Journey
Gypsy
1954
Film
Down to Sussex
Narrator (voice)
1964