Peter Halliday
Acting
Born: 1924-06-02 in near Llangollen, Wales, UK
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).
Known For
The Avengers
Perrier
Doctor Who
Soldier
Doctor Who
Pletrac
Doctor Who
Packer
Doctor Who
Silurians (voice)
Doctor Who
Aliens (voice)
Doctor Who
Vicar
The Saint
Vargas
BBC Play of the Month
Theatre 625
Sir William Mallet
The Sweeney
Chief Insp. Gordon
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Tony Elliot
Dalziel and Pascoe
Mr Edward Soper
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Sergeant
UFO
Dr. Segal
Lovejoy
Mr. Reynolds
Churchill's People
Sir George Carew
Goodnight Sweetheart
Vicar
Out of the Unknown
Patrick Wilson
Sergeant Cork
Dr. Cato
Clinic Exclusive
Fawcett
The Main Chance
John Smith
Our Friends in the North
Speaker
The Remains of the Day
Canon Tufnell
Sir Francis Drake
Theobald Burke
Lassie
Vicar
Beasts: Buddyboy
Crisp
Beasts
Crisp
Madhouse
Psychiatrist
The Black Windmill
Customs Officer (uncredited)
How Green Was My Valley
Jack Richards
Dunkirk
Battery Major
Thirteen Against Fate
Gaston
Esther
Karschena
The Andromeda Breakthrough
John Fleming
Virgin Witch
Club Manager
A for Andromeda
John Fleming
Births, Marriages and Deaths
Vicar
Tales Out of School
Headmaster