Peter Halliday

Birthday: 1924-06-02
Deathday: 2012-02-19
Birthplace: near Llangollen, Wales, UK
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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).

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
	2005-12-16	Lassie	Vicar
	2003-12-15	Hear the Silence	Sir Kenneth Calman
	2002-02-02	Night Flight	Jenkins
	2001-09-28	Anybody's Nightmare	Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
	1999-03-29	Esther	Karschena
	1993-11-05	The Remains of the Day	Canon Tufnell
	1988-10-26	Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks	Vicar
	1983-07-03	R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only	Headmaster
	1982-11-01	Giro City	Government Minister
	1979-10-20	Doctor Who: City of Death	Soldier
	1978-01-01	Safety and the Supervisor
	1976-10-30	Beasts: Buddyboy	Crisp
	1976-07-28	Keep It Up Downstairs	P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
	1974-05-17	The Black Windmill	Customs Officer (uncredited)
	1974-03-28	Madhouse	Psychiatrist
	1974-01-04	The Swordsman	Rabelais
	1973-02-17	Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters	Pletrac
	1972-10-14	The Fast Kill
	1972-04-01	Virgin Witch	Club Manager
	1971-09-21	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Rowing Husband
	1971-01-01	Clinic Exclusive	Fawcett
	1970-05-02	Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death	Aliens' Voices
	1970-03-14	Doctor Who and the Silurians	Silurian (voices)
	1969-01-21	The Last Lonely Man	Patrick Wilson
	1968-12-21	Doctor Who: The Invasion	Packer/Cyberman Voice
	1967-01-01	Calamity the Cow	Sgt. Watkins
	1962-06-13	Captain Clegg	Sailor Jack Pott
	1962-01-01	Dilemma	Harry Barnes
	1959-03-01	Tiger Bay	Seaman (uncredited)
	1958-07-15	The Boy with Two Heads	Mr. Page
	1958-03-20	Dunkirk	Battery Major
	1956-02-06	The Anatomist	Adolphus Raby
	1954-08-01	Fatal Journey	Gypsy