Peter Halliday
Known for: Acting
Born: June 2, 1924
Died: February 19, 2012
Place of birth: 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).
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Filmography
34 movies · 30 TV shows, newest first
6.4
Lassie
2005
7.0
Hear the Silence
20037.5
Night Flight
2002
5.8
Anybody's Nightmare
2001
7.0
Perfect
2001
6.8
Esther
1999
8.0
Births, Marriages and Deaths
1999
6.4
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
7.7
Our Friends in the North
1996
7.8
Hearts and Minds
1995
7.2
Goodnight Sweetheart
1993
7.4
The Remains of the Day
1993
8.9
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988
7.4
Lovejoy
1986
6.7
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
1983
10.0
Tales Out of School
1983
5.6
Giro City
1982
9.0
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979NR
Safety and the Supervisor
1978
3.0
Beasts: Buddyboy
1976
6.4
Beasts
1976
4.2
Keep It Up Downstairs
1976
6.7
How Green Was My Valley
1975NR
Looking for Clancy
19757.0
The Hanged Man
1975
8.1
The Sweeney
1975
5.0
Churchill's People
1974
6.3
The Black Windmill
1974
6.2
Madhouse
1974
8.0
The Swordsman
1974
7.8
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973
10.0
The Fast Kill
1972
4.5
Virgin Witch
1972
6.5
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
3.4
Clinic Exclusive
1971
7.8
UFO
1970
7.2
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970
7.3
Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970
8.3
The Main Chance
1969
8.0
The Last Lonely Man
1969
8.8
Doctor Who: The Invasion
1968
5.6
Calamity the Cow
1967
10.0
Thirteen Against Fate
1966
5.2
BBC Play of the Month
1965
4.3
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
7.1
Out of the Unknown
1965
7.2
Theatre 625
1964
8.0
Down to Sussex
1964
7.9
Doctor Who
1963
7.2
Sergeant Cork
1963
7.4
The Saint
1962
6.5
The Andromeda Breakthrough
1962
6.3
Captain Clegg
1962
5.8
Dilemma
1962
5.1
Sir Francis Drake
1961
5.5
A for Andromeda
1961
7.8
The Avengers
1961
7.2
Tiger Bay
1959
6.5
The Boy with Two Heads
1958
6.8
Dunkirk
1958
6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956
6.3
The Anatomist
1956
8.0
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955
9.0
Fatal Journey
1954