Peter Halliday
Actor
Born June 2, 1924 in 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
Vicar
Hear the Silence
Sir Kenneth Calman
Anybody's Nightmare
Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
Perfect
Ted
Esther
Karschena
Births, Marriages and Deaths
Vicar
Dalziel and Pascoe
Mr Edward Soper
Our Friends in the North
Speaker
Hearts and Minds
Shotgun
The Remains of the Day
Canon Tufnell
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
Vicar
Lovejoy
Mr. Reynolds
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
Headmaster
Tales Out of School
Headmaster
Giro City
Government Minister
Doctor Who: City of Death
Soldier
Beasts: Buddyboy
Crisp
Beasts
Crisp
Keep It Up Downstairs
P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
How Green Was My Valley
Jack Richards
The Sweeney
Chief Insp. Gordon
Churchill's People
Sir George Carew
The Black Windmill
Customs Officer (uncredited)
Madhouse
Psychiatrist
The Swordsman
Rabelais
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
Pletrac
The Fast Kill
Virgin Witch
Club Manager
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Rowing Husband
Clinic Exclusive
Fawcett
UFO
Dr. Segal
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Aliens' Voices
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Silurian (voices)
The Main Chance
John Smith
The Last Lonely Man
Patrick Wilson
Doctor Who: The Invasion
Packer/Cyberman Voice
Calamity the Cow
Sgt. Watkins
Thirteen Against Fate
Gaston
BBC Play of the Month
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Tony Elliot
Out of the Unknown
Patrick Wilson
Theatre 625
Sir William Mallet
Down to Sussex
Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who
Soldier
Sergeant Cork
Dr. Cato
The Saint
Vargas
The Andromeda Breakthrough
John Fleming
Captain Clegg
Sailor Jack Pott
Dilemma
Harry Barnes
Sir Francis Drake
Theobald Burke
A for Andromeda
John Fleming
The Avengers
Perrier
Tiger Bay
Seaman (uncredited)
The Boy with Two Heads
Mr. Page
Dunkirk
Battery Major
Armchair Theatre
Mike Regan
The Anatomist
Adolphus Raby
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Sergeant
Fatal Journey
Gypsy