Peter Halliday
Acting
1924-06-02 · near Llangollen, Wales, UK
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
Lassie
2005 · Movie
Hear the Silence
2003 · Movie
Night Flight
2002 · Movie
Anybody's Nightmare
2001 · Movie
Perfect
2001 · Series
Esther
1999 · Movie
Births, Marriages and Deaths
1999 · Series
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Series
Our Friends in the North
1996 · Series
Hearts and Minds
1995 · Series
Goodnight Sweetheart
1993 · Series
The Remains of the Day
1993 · Movie
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988 · Movie
Lovejoy
1986 · Series
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
1983 · Movie
Tales Out of School
1983 · Series
Giro City
1982 · Movie
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979 · Movie
Safety and the Supervisor
1978 · Movie
Beasts: Buddyboy
1976 · Movie
Beasts
1976 · Series
Keep It Up Downstairs
1976 · Movie
How Green Was My Valley
1975 · Series
Looking for Clancy
1975 · Series
The Hanged Man
1975 · Series
The Sweeney
1975 · Series
Churchill's People
1974 · Series
The Black Windmill
1974 · Movie
Madhouse
1974 · Movie
The Swordsman
1974 · Movie
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973 · Movie
The Fast Kill
1972 · Movie
Virgin Witch
1972 · Movie
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971 · Movie
Clinic Exclusive
1971 · Movie
UFO
1970 · Series
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970 · Movie
Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970 · Movie
The Main Chance
1969 · Series
The Last Lonely Man
1969 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Invasion
1968 · Movie
Calamity the Cow
1967 · Movie
Thirteen Against Fate
1966 · Series
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Series
Out of the Unknown
1965 · Series
Theatre 625
1964 · Series
Down to Sussex
1964 · Movie
Doctor Who
1963 · Series
Sergeant Cork
1963 · Series
The Saint
1962 · Series
The Andromeda Breakthrough
1962 · Series
Captain Clegg
1962 · Movie
Dilemma
1962 · Movie
Sir Francis Drake
1961 · Series
A for Andromeda
1961 · Series
The Avengers
1961 · Series
Tiger Bay
1959 · Movie
The Boy with Two Heads
1958 · Movie
Dunkirk
1958 · Movie
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
The Anatomist
1956 · Movie
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955 · Series
Fatal Journey
1954 · Movie