Cast
Peter Halliday
Acting
Cast
Peter Halliday
Known for
Acting
Born
1924-06-02
From
near Llangollen, Wales, UK
Died
2012-02-19
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).
The Remains of the Day
as Canon Tufnell
Lassie
as Vicar
Night Flight
as Jenkins
Dunkirk
as Battery Major
Esther
as Karschena
Clinic Exclusive
as Fawcett
The Black Windmill
as Customs Officer (uncredited)
Captain Clegg
as Sailor Jack Pott
Tiger Bay
as Seaman (uncredited)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Rowing Husband
Madhouse
as Psychiatrist
Giro City
as Government Minister
Beasts: Buddyboy
as Crisp
Keep It Up Downstairs
as P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
Virgin Witch
as Club Manager
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
as Headmaster
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
as Aliens' Voices
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
as Pletrac
The Fast Kill
Doctor Who: The Invasion
as Packer/Cyberman Voice
Anybody's Nightmare
as Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
Doctor Who: City of Death
as Soldier
Safety and the Supervisor
Hear the Silence
as Sir Kenneth Calman
Doctor Who and the Silurians
as Silurian (voices)
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
as Vicar
The Anatomist
as Adolphus Raby
The Swordsman
as Rabelais
Calamity the Cow
as Sgt. Watkins
The Last Lonely Man
as Patrick Wilson
Dilemma
as Harry Barnes
The Boy with Two Heads
as Mr. Page
Down to Sussex
as Narrator (voice)
Fatal Journey
as Gypsy