Damaged
2024 · Movie
as Village Man
Brian Pettifer
1953-01-01
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Durban, Natal, South Africa
Brian Pettifer (born January 1, 1953) is a South African actor who has appeared in many television shows, and also on stage and in film. He is the younger brother of folk musician Linda Thompson. He intended to become a photographer, but pursued a career as an actor. He appeared as a child in the BBC's This Man Craig and Dr Finlay's Casebook, and Madame Bovary (with his friend Alex Norton) which gave him an avid interest in acting on television. His first film role was in Lindsay Anderson's film if.... (1968). He also appeared in Anderson's O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982) playing the same character in all three Anderson films, that of Biles. His other film credits include roles in Amadeus (1984), A Christmas Carol (1984), Gulag (1985), Heavenly Pursuits (1986), Little Dorrit (1987), The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988), Loch Ness (1996), The House of Mirth (2000), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2002), The Rocket Post (2004), Vanity Fair (2004) and Lassie (2005). Pettifer was a regular in Rab C. Nesbitt mainly propping up a bar, but was also known as aircraftman Bruce Leckie in Get Some In!, where he was constantly the butt of jokes directed at him by Corporal Marsh. He also played cousin Hughie in the long running Liverpool based 70s sitcom The Liver Birds. He also played Alfred Meyer in the BBC/HBO film Conspiracy and the part of Dr. Cameron in the Radio 4 series entitled Adventures of a Black Bag, after appearing in several episodes of Dr. Finlay's Casebook. He appeared in Hamish Macbeth, as well as guest starring in Still Game. In 2005, he also appeared in the first episode of the BBC drama Bleak House. In 2011 and 2013, he played Father Richards in The Field of Blood. He had the role of Poupart in the BBC One series The Musketeers. In 2012, Brian Pettifer appeared as Archie Milgrow in the episode Old School Ties in the series New Tricks. He has worked extensively in the theatre: writing, directing and acting. He has been in a production of The Fairy-Queen at Glyndebourne, which went to Paris and New York in 2010. In 2015, Pettifer appeared in the crime comedy The Legend of Barney Thomson along with his Hamish Macbeth co-star Robert Carlyle. In 2019, he appeared in an episode of Holby City playing patient Laurie Stocks.
Filmography
The Last Bus
2021 · Movie
as Billy (Drunk)
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Go Home
2021 · Movie
as Mike
Grace
2021 · TV Show
as Hector Hegarty
Get Duked!
2019 · Movie
as PC Dougie
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
2019 · Movie
as Self
The Flu That Killed 50 Million
2018 · Movie
as Victor Vaughan
Darkest Hour
2017 · Movie
as Lord Kingsley Wood
Whisky Galore
2016 · Movie
as Angus
The Legend of Barney Thomson
2015 · Movie
as Charlie
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2015 · TV Show
as Honeyfoot
Outlander
2014 · TV Show
as Old Charlie
Endeavour
2013 · TV Show
as Jephthah Claypole
Hattie
2011 · Movie
as Ron
The Field of Blood
2011 · TV Show
as Father Richards
Black Mirror
2011 · TV Show
as William Grange, Dentist
Donkeys
2010 · Movie
as Brian Colburn
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
2009 · Movie
as Couthon
Garrow's Law
2009 · TV Show
as Robert Boycott
A Risk Worth Taking
2008 · Movie
as Maxwell Borthwick
Lassie
2005 · Movie
as O'Donnell
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005 · Movie
as Harry How
To the Ends of the Earth
2005 · TV Show
as Wheeler
The Rocket Post
2004 · Movie
as Reverend Shand
One Last Chance
2004 · Movie
as Macgregor
Vanity Fair
2004 · Movie
as Mr. Raggles
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Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004 · Movie
as Self
Hustle
2004 · TV Show
as Tip Jones
New Tricks
2004 · TV Show
as Archie Milgrow
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2003 · Movie
as Poole
The Key
2003 · Movie
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Snoddy
2002 · TV Show
as Professor Baxter
Rockface
2002 · TV Show
as Brother Thomas
Conspiracy
2001 · Movie
as Alfred Meyer
The House of Mirth
2000 · Movie
as Mr. Bry
Monarch of the Glen
2000 · TV Show
as Eric Morton
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999 · Movie
as the executioner / the torturer of the trial
Life Support
1999 · TV Show
as Gordon Travers
Vigo
1998 · Movie
as Fatman
The James Gang
1997 · Movie
as Spanner
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997 · TV Show
as Parson Supple
Loch Ness
1996 · Movie
as Repairman
Eleven Men Against Eleven
1995 · Movie
as Cliff Tutley
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995 · Movie
as Ventriloquist
Hamish Macbeth
1995 · TV Show
as Rory Campbell
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The Ghostbusters of East Finchley
1995 · TV Show
as Howard Heights
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In Dreams
1992 · Movie
as Journalist/Dave
Is That All There Is?
1992 · Movie
as Self
Heartbeat
1992 · TV Show
as Andrew McIntyre
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
1988 · Movie
as Kirby-Green
Lucky Sunil
1988 · Movie
as Cyril
Little Dorrit
1987 · Movie
as Clarence Barnacle
Heavenly Pursuits
1986 · Movie
as Father Cobb
Happy the Man
1986 · Movie
as Andy
Lovejoy
1986 · TV Show
as Willy Kinross
City Lights
1986 · TV Show
as Alisdair
Farrington of the F.O.
1986 · TV Show
as Billy Murdoch
Gulag
1985 · Movie
as Vlasov
Amadeus
1984 · Movie
as Hospital Attendant
A Christmas Carol
1984 · Movie
as Ben
Britannia Hospital
1982 · Movie
as Biles
Cloud Howe
1982 · TV Show
as Dite Peat
Return of the Saint
1978 · TV Show
as Bartender
Clayhanger
1976 · TV Show
as Stifford
Get Some In!
1975 · TV Show
as Bruce Leckie
Bedtime Stories
1974 · TV Show
as Alan
Last of the Summer Wine
1973 · TV Show
as The Best Man
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Just Your Luck
1972 · Movie
as Youth at Wedding
Peer Gynt
1972 · Movie
as Additional cast
Villains
1972 · TV Show
as Youth
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Warm Feet, Warm Heart
1970 · Movie
as Nigel Purvis
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Is That Your Body, Boy
1970 · Movie
as Spratt
The Right Prospectus
1970 · Movie
as Boy in Grounds
Let There Be Light
1970 · Movie
as Pupil Teacher
Play for Today
1970 · TV Show
as Boy in Grounds
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · TV Show
as Adam Armour
if....
1968 · Movie
as Biles
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This Man Craig
1966 · TV Show
The Vital Spark
1965 · TV Show
Armchair Theatre
1956 · TV Show
as Nigel Purvis
