Peter Halliday
Acting
62 titles
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
Lassie
2005
Hear the Silence
2003
Night Flight
2002
Anybody's Nightmare
2001
Perfect
2001
Esther
1999
Births, Marriages and Deaths
1999
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Our Friends in the North
1996
Hearts and Minds
1995
The Remains of the Day
1993
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988
Lovejoy
1986
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
1983
Tales Out of School
1983
Giro City
1982
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979
Safety and the Supervisor
1978
Beasts: Buddyboy
1976
Beasts
1976
Keep It Up Downstairs
1976
How Green Was My Valley
1975
Looking for Clancy
1975
The Hanged Man
1975
The Sweeney
1975
Churchill's People
1974
The Black Windmill
1974
Madhouse
1974
The Swordsman
1974
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973
The Fast Kill
1972
Virgin Witch
1972
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
Clinic Exclusive
1971
UFO
1970
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970
Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970
The Main Chance
1969
The Last Lonely Man
1969
Doctor Who: The Invasion
1968
Calamity the Cow
1967
Thirteen Against Fate
1966
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Out of the Unknown
1965
Theatre 625
1964
Down to Sussex
1964
Doctor Who
1963
Sergeant Cork
1963
The Saint
1962
The Andromeda Breakthrough
1962
Captain Clegg
1962
Dilemma
1962
Sir Francis Drake
1961
A for Andromeda
1961
The Avengers
1961
Tiger Bay
1959
The Boy with Two Heads
1958
Dunkirk
1958
Armchair Theatre
1956
The Anatomist
1956
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955
Fatal Journey
1954