Lassie
2005 · Movie
as Vicar
Peter Halliday
1924-06-02
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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).
Filmography
Hear the Silence
2003 · Movie
as Sir Kenneth Calman
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Night Flight
2002 · Movie
as Jenkins
Anybody's Nightmare
2001 · Movie
as Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
Perfect
2001 · TV Show
as Ted
Esther
1999 · Movie
as Karschena
Births, Marriages and Deaths
1999 · TV Show
as Vicar
Our Friends in the North
1996 · TV Show
as Speaker
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · TV Show
as Mr Edward Soper
Hearts and Minds
1995 · TV Show
as Shotgun
The Remains of the Day
1993 · Movie
as Canon Tufnell
Goodnight Sweetheart
1993 · TV Show
as Vicar
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988 · Movie
as Vicar
Lovejoy
1986 · TV Show
as Mr. Reynolds
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
1983 · Movie
as Headmaster
Tales Out of School
1983 · TV Show
as Headmaster
Giro City
1982 · Movie
as Government Minister
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979 · Movie
as Soldier
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Safety and the Supervisor
1978 · Movie
Beasts: Buddyboy
1976 · Movie
as Crisp
Keep It Up Downstairs
1976 · Movie
as P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
Beasts
1976 · TV Show
as Crisp
The Sweeney
1975 · TV Show
as Chief Insp. Gordon
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The Hanged Man
1975 · TV Show
as Jean-Claud de Salle
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Looking for Clancy
1975 · TV Show
as Sam Cook
How Green Was My Valley
1975 · TV Show
as Jack Richards
The Black Windmill
1974 · Movie
as Customs Officer (uncredited)
Madhouse
1974 · Movie
as Psychiatrist
The Swordsman
1974 · Movie
as Rabelais
Churchill's People
1974 · TV Show
as Sir George Carew
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973 · Movie
as Pletrac
The Fast Kill
1972 · Movie
Virgin Witch
1972 · Movie
as Club Manager
Clinic Exclusive
1971 · Movie
as Fawcett
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971 · Movie
as Rowing Husband
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970 · Movie
as Aliens' Voices
Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970 · Movie
as Silurian (voices)
UFO
1970 · TV Show
as Dr. Segal
The Last Lonely Man
1969 · Movie
as Patrick Wilson
The Main Chance
1969 · TV Show
as John Smith
Doctor Who: The Invasion
1968 · Movie
as Packer/Cyberman Voice
Calamity the Cow
1967 · Movie
as Sgt. Watkins
Thirteen Against Fate
1966 · TV Show
as Gaston
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · TV Show
Out of the Unknown
1965 · TV Show
as Patrick Wilson
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · TV Show
as Tony Elliot
Down to Sussex
1964 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Theatre 625
1964 · TV Show
as Sir William Mallet
Doctor Who
1963 · TV Show
as Soldier, Pletrac, Packer, Aliens (voice), Silurians (voice), Vicar
Sergeant Cork
1963 · TV Show
as Dr. Cato
Captain Clegg
1962 · Movie
as Sailor Jack Pott
Dilemma
1962 · Movie
as Harry Barnes
The Andromeda Breakthrough
1962 · TV Show
as John Fleming
The Saint
1962 · TV Show
as Vargas
Sir Francis Drake
1961 · TV Show
as Theobald Burke
A for Andromeda
1961 · TV Show
as John Fleming
The Avengers
1961 · TV Show
as Perrier
Tiger Bay
1959 · Movie
as Seaman (uncredited)
The Boy with Two Heads
1958 · Movie
as Mr. Page
Dunkirk
1958 · Movie
as Battery Major
The Anatomist
1956 · Movie
as Adolphus Raby
Armchair Theatre
1956 · TV Show
as Mike Regan
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955 · TV Show
as Sergeant
Fatal Journey
1954 · Movie
as Gypsy
