Peter Halliday
Acting · Born 1924-06-02 · age 87 at death · near Llangollen, Wales, UK
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).
Titles
The Remains of the Day
Doctor Who
The Avengers
Lassie
Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Saint
Madhouse
The Black Windmill
Captain Clegg
Dunkirk
UFO
Tiger Bay
Virgin Witch
Lovejoy
Esther
The Sweeney
Dalziel and Pascoe
Our Friends in the North
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
Doctor Who: The Invasion
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
Keep It Up Downstairs
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Dilemma
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Doctor Who: City of Death
BBC Play of the Month
Out of the Unknown
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Clinic Exclusive
Beasts
Sir Francis Drake
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Armchair Theatre
Anybody's Nightmare
Giro City
Sergeant Cork
Theatre 625
Calamity the Cow
The Main Chance
Hearts and Minds
A for Andromeda
Births, Marriages and Deaths
Beasts: Buddyboy
The Anatomist
The Hanged Man
How Green Was My Valley
The Boy with Two Heads
Night Flight
The Andromeda Breakthrough
Churchill's People
The Fast Kill
Fatal Journey
The Last Lonely Man
The Swordsman
Hear the Silence
Thirteen Against Fate
Perfect
Tales Out of School