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).
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Full filmography
- Doctor Who (1963) as Soldier
- Doctor Who (1963) as Pletrac
- Doctor Who (1963) as Packer
- Doctor Who (1963) as Aliens (voice)
- Doctor Who (1963) as Silurians (voice)
- The Avengers (1961) as Perrier
- The Saint (1962) as Vargas
- BBC Play of the Month (1965)
- Theatre 625 (1964) as Sir William Mallet
- The Sweeney (1975) as Chief Insp. Gordon
- Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) as Mr Edward Soper
- UFO (1970) as Dr. Segal
- Lovejoy (1986) as Mr. Reynolds
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) as Tony Elliot
- The Main Chance (1969) as John Smith
- Churchill's People (1974) as Sir George Carew
- Out of the Unknown (1965) as Patrick Wilson
- Sir Francis Drake (1961) as Theobald Burke
- Sergeant Cork (1963) as Dr. Cato
- Our Friends in the North (1996) as Speaker
- The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955) as Sergeant
- Beasts (1976) as Crisp
- The Remains of the Day (1993) as Canon Tufnell
- How Green Was My Valley (1975) as Jack Richards