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).
Acted in 60
2000s
- 2005
- 2003
Hear the Silence
Sir Kenneth Calman
- 2001
Anybody's Nightmare
Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
Perfect
Ted · 2 episodes
1990s
- 1999
Births, Marriages and Deaths
Vicar · 3 episodes
- 1996
- 1995
Hearts and Minds
Shotgun · 4 episodes
- 1993
1980s
- 1988
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
Vicar
- 1986
- 1983
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
Headmaster
Tales Out of School
Headmaster · 1 episode
- 1982
Giro City
Government Minister
1970s
- 1979
Doctor Who: City of Death
Soldier
- 1976
Beasts: Buddyboy
Crisp
Beasts
Crisp · 1 episode
Keep It Up Downstairs
P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
- 1975
How Green Was My Valley
Jack Richards · 2 episodes
- 1974
The Black Windmill
Customs Officer (uncredited)
The Swordsman
Rabelais
- 1973
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
Pletrac
- 1972
The Fast Kill
Movie
Virgin Witch
Club Manager
- 1971
- 1970
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Aliens' Voices
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Silurian (voices)
1960s
- 1969
The Last Lonely Man
Patrick Wilson
- 1968
Doctor Who: The Invasion
Packer/Cyberman Voice
- 1967
Calamity the Cow
Sgt. Watkins
- 1966
Thirteen Against Fate
Gaston · 1 episode
- 1965
- 1964
- 1963
- 1962
The Andromeda Breakthrough
John Fleming · 6 episodes
Captain Clegg
Sailor Jack Pott
- 1961
A for Andromeda
John Fleming · 7 episodes
1950s
- 1959
Tiger Bay
Seaman (uncredited)
- 1958
The Boy with Two Heads
Mr. Page
Dunkirk
Battery Major
- 1956
Armchair Theatre
Mike Regan · 1 episode
The Anatomist
Adolphus Raby
- 1955
- 1954
Fatal Journey
Gypsy
Appearances1
1960s
- 1964
Down to Sussex
Narrator (voice)