Peter Halliday
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).
Filmography
Lassie
2005
as Vicar
Hear the Silence
2003
as Sir Kenneth Calman
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Night Flight
2002
as Jenkins
Anybody's Nightmare
2001
as Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
Esther
1999
as Karschena
The Remains of the Day
1993
as Canon Tufnell
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988
as Vicar
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
1983
as Headmaster
Giro City
1982
as Government Minister
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979
as Soldier
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Safety and the Supervisor
1978
Beasts: Buddyboy
1976
as Crisp
Keep It Up Downstairs
1976
as P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
The Black Windmill
1974
as Customs Officer (uncredited)
Madhouse
1974
as Psychiatrist
The Swordsman
1974
as Rabelais
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973
as Pletrac
The Fast Kill
1972
Virgin Witch
1972
as Club Manager
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
as Rowing Husband
Clinic Exclusive
1971
as Fawcett
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970
as Aliens' Voices
Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970
as Silurian (voices)
The Last Lonely Man
1969
as Patrick Wilson