Peter Halliday
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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
Credits
The Remains of the Day (1993)
as Canon Tufnell
Beasts: Buddyboy (1976)
as Crisp
Clinic Exclusive (1971)
as Fawcett
Lassie (2005)
as Vicar
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
as Rowing Husband
Esther (1999)
as Karschena
The Black Windmill (1974)
as Customs Officer (uncredited)
Virgin Witch (1972)
as Club Manager
Dunkirk (1958)
as Battery Major
Captain Clegg (1962)
as Sailor Jack Pott
Tiger Bay (1959)
as Seaman (uncredited)
Madhouse (1974)
as Psychiatrist
Hear the Silence (2003)
as Sir Kenneth Calman
Keep It Up Downstairs (1976)
as P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
The Boy with Two Heads (1958)
as Mr. Page
Safety and the Supervisor (1978)
Actor
Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
as Silurian (voices)
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
as Vicar
Anybody's Nightmare (2001)
as Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only (1983)
as Headmaster
The Swordsman (1974)
as Rabelais
Calamity the Cow (1967)
as Sgt. Watkins
Giro City (1982)
as Government Minister
Doctor Who: The Invasion (1968)
as Packer/Cyberman Voice
Night Flight (2002)
as Jenkins
The Last Lonely Man (1969)
as Patrick Wilson
Doctor Who: City of Death (1979)
as Soldier
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death (1970)
as Aliens' Voices
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters (1973)
as Pletrac
Dilemma (1962)
as Harry Barnes
The Anatomist (1956)
as Adolphus Raby
The Fast Kill (1972)
Actor
Fatal Journey (1954)
as Gypsy
Down to Sussex (1964)
as Narrator (voice)