Peter Halliday
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 2, 1924
- Died
- Feb 19, 2012 (aged 87)
- Place of birth
- near Llangollen, Wales, UK
- Credits
- 64
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
The Remains of the Day
1993Movie
Canon Tufnell
Doctor Who
1963TV
Soldier, Pletrac, Packer, Silurians (voice), Aliens (voice), Vicar
The Avengers
1961TV
Perrier
Lassie
2005Movie
Vicar
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971Movie
Rowing Husband
The Saint
1962TV
Vargas
Filmography
Lassie
2005Movie
Vicar
Hear the Silence
2003Movie
Sir Kenneth Calman
Night Flight
2002Movie
Jenkins
Anybody's Nightmare
2001Movie
Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
Perfect
2001TV
Ted
Esther
1999Movie
Karschena
Births, Marriages and Deaths
1999TV
Vicar
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996TV
Mr Edward Soper
Our Friends in the North
1996TV
Speaker
Hearts and Minds
1995TV
Shotgun
Goodnight Sweetheart
1993TV
Vicar
The Remains of the Day
1993Movie
Canon Tufnell
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988Movie
Vicar
Lovejoy
1986TV
Mr. Reynolds
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
1983Movie
Headmaster
Tales Out of School
1983TV
Headmaster
Giro City
1982Movie
Government Minister
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979Movie
Soldier
Safety and the Supervisor
1978Movie
Beasts: Buddyboy
1976Movie
Crisp
Beasts
1976TV
Crisp
Keep It Up Downstairs
1976Movie
P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
How Green Was My Valley
1975TV
Jack Richards
Looking for Clancy
1975TV
Sam Cook
The Hanged Man
1975TV
Jean-Claud de Salle
The Sweeney
1975TV
Chief Insp. Gordon
Churchill's People
1974TV
Sir George Carew
The Black Windmill
1974Movie
Customs Officer (uncredited)
Madhouse
1974Movie
Psychiatrist
The Swordsman
1974Movie
Rabelais
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973Movie
Pletrac
The Fast Kill
1972Movie
Virgin Witch
1972Movie
Club Manager
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971Movie
Rowing Husband
Clinic Exclusive
1971Movie
Fawcett
UFO
1970TV
Dr. Segal
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970Movie
Aliens' Voices
Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970Movie
Silurian (voices)
The Main Chance
1969TV
John Smith
The Last Lonely Man
1969Movie
Patrick Wilson
Doctor Who: The Invasion
1968Movie
Packer/Cyberman Voice
Calamity the Cow
1967Movie
Sgt. Watkins
Thirteen Against Fate
1966TV
Gaston
BBC Play of the Month
1965TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965TV
Tony Elliot
Out of the Unknown
1965TV
Patrick Wilson
Theatre 625
1964TV
Sir William Mallet
Down to Sussex
1964Movie
Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who
1963TV
Soldier, Pletrac, Packer, Silurians (voice), Aliens (voice), Vicar
Sergeant Cork
1963TV
Dr. Cato
The Saint
1962TV
Vargas
The Andromeda Breakthrough
1962TV
John Fleming
Captain Clegg
1962Movie
Sailor Jack Pott
Dilemma
1962Movie
Harry Barnes
Sir Francis Drake
1961TV
Theobald Burke
A for Andromeda
1961TV
John Fleming
The Avengers
1961TV
Perrier
Tiger Bay
1959Movie
Seaman (uncredited)
The Boy with Two Heads
1958Movie
Mr. Page
Dunkirk
1958Movie
Battery Major
Armchair Theatre
1956TV
Mike Regan
The Anatomist
1956Movie
Adolphus Raby
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955TV
Sergeant
Fatal Journey
1954Movie
Gypsy