Acting credits
60
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Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Peter Halliday
Acting
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Movies: 33Series: 27
TMDB ID: 27169
IMDb ID: nm0356579
Known for: Acting
Born: June 2, 1924
Died: February 19, 2012
Age: 87
Place of birth: near Llangollen, Wales, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1954 - 2005
Years active: 52
Average TMDB rating: 6.93
Wikidata: Q7174491
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).
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Peter Halliday.
as Vicar
Lassie
2005 • Movie
as Sir Kenneth Calman
Hear the Silence
2003 • Movie
as Jenkins
Night Flight
2002 • Movie
as Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
Anybody's Nightmare
2001 • Movie
as Karschena
Esther
1999 • Movie
as Canon Tufnell
The Remains of the Day
1993 • Movie
as Vicar
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988 • Movie
as Headmaster
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
1983 • Movie
as Government Minister
Giro City
1982 • Movie
as Soldier
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979 • Movie
as Crisp
Beasts: Buddyboy
1976 • Movie
as P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
Keep It Up Downstairs
1976 • Movie
as Customs Officer (uncredited)
The Black Windmill
1974 • Movie
as Psychiatrist
Madhouse
1974 • Movie
as Rabelais
The Swordsman
1974 • Movie
as Pletrac
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973 • Movie
The Fast Kill
1972 • Movie
as Club Manager
Virgin Witch
1972 • Movie
as Rowing Husband
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971 • Movie
as Fawcett
Clinic Exclusive
1971 • Movie
as Aliens' Voices
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970 • Movie
as Silurian (voices)
Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970 • Movie
as Patrick Wilson
The Last Lonely Man
1969 • Movie
as Packer/Cyberman Voice
Doctor Who: The Invasion
1968 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Peter Halliday.
as Ted • 2 eps
Perfect
2001 • Series
as Vicar • 3 eps
Births, Marriages and Deaths
1999 • Series
as Mr Edward Soper • 3 eps
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 • Series
as Speaker • 1 eps
Our Friends in the North
1996 • Series
as Shotgun • 4 eps
Hearts and Minds
1995 • Series
as Mr. Reynolds • 1 eps
Lovejoy
1986 • Series
as Headmaster • 1 eps
Tales Out of School
1983 • Series
as Crisp • 1 eps
Beasts
1976 • Series
as Jack Richards • 2 eps
How Green Was My Valley
1975 • Series
as Chief Insp. Gordon • 1 eps
The Sweeney
1975 • Series
as Sir George Carew • 1 eps
Churchill's People
1974 • Series
as Dr. Segal • 1 eps
UFO
1970 • Series
as John Smith • 1 eps
The Main Chance
1969 • Series
as Gaston • 1 eps
Thirteen Against Fate
1966 • Series
1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
1965 • Series
as Tony Elliot • 1 eps
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 • Series
as Patrick Wilson • 1 eps
Out of the Unknown
1965 • Series
as Sir William Mallet • 2 eps
Theatre 625
1964 • Series
as Soldier • 2 eps
Doctor Who
1963 • Series
as Dr. Cato • 1 eps
Sergeant Cork
1963 • Series
as Vargas • 1 eps
The Saint
1962 • Series
as John Fleming • 6 eps
The Andromeda Breakthrough
1962 • Series
as Theobald Burke • 1 eps
Sir Francis Drake
1961 • Series
as John Fleming • 7 eps
A for Andromeda
1961 • Series