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