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).
★7.4
MOVIE1993
The Remains of the Day
as Canon Tufnell
★3.0
MOVIE1976
Beasts: Buddyboy
as Crisp
★3.4
MOVIE1971
Clinic Exclusive
as Fawcett
★6.4
MOVIE2005
Lassie
as Vicar
★6.6
MOVIE1971
Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Rowing Husband
★6.8
MOVIE1999
Esther
as Karschena
★6.3
MOVIE1974
The Black Windmill
as Customs Officer (uncredited)
★4.5
MOVIE1972
Virgin Witch
as Club Manager
★6.8
MOVIE1958
Dunkirk
as Battery Major
★6.3
MOVIE1962
Captain Clegg
as Sailor Jack Pott
★7.2
MOVIE1959
Tiger Bay
as Seaman (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1974
Madhouse
as Psychiatrist
★9.0
MOVIE2003
Hear the Silence
as Sir Kenneth Calman
★4.2
MOVIE1976
Keep It Up Downstairs
as P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
★6.5
MOVIE1958
The Boy with Two Heads
as Mr. Page
MOVIE1978
Safety and the Supervisor
★7.3
MOVIE1970
Doctor Who and the Silurians
as Silurian (voices)
★8.9
MOVIE1988
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
as Vicar
★5.8
MOVIE2001
Anybody's Nightmare
as Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
★6.7
MOVIE1983
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
as Headmaster
★8.0
MOVIE1974
The Swordsman
as Rabelais
★5.6
MOVIE1967
Calamity the Cow
as Sgt. Watkins
★5.6
MOVIE1982
Giro City
as Government Minister
★8.8
MOVIE1968
Doctor Who: The Invasion
as Packer/Cyberman Voice
★7.5
MOVIE2002
Night Flight
as Jenkins
★8.0
MOVIE1969
The Last Lonely Man
as Patrick Wilson
★9.0
MOVIE1979
Doctor Who: City of Death
as Soldier
★7.2
MOVIE1970
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
as Aliens' Voices
★7.8
MOVIE1973
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
as Pletrac
★5.8
MOVIE1962
Dilemma
as Harry Barnes
★6.3
MOVIE1956
The Anatomist
as Adolphus Raby
★10.0
MOVIE1972
The Fast Kill
★9.0
MOVIE1954
Fatal Journey
as Gypsy
★8.0
MOVIE1964
Down to Sussex
as Narrator (voice)