Peter Halliday
Acting
- Born:
- 1924-06-02
- Died:
- 2012-02-19
- Place of birth:
- near Llangollen, Wales, UK
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).
Known For
Filmography
Lassie
Hear the Silence
Night Flight
Anybody's Nightmare
Perfect
Esther
Births, Marriages and Deaths
Dalziel and Pascoe
Our Friends in the North
Hearts and Minds
Goodnight Sweetheart
The Remains of the Day
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
Lovejoy
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
Tales Out of School
Giro City
Doctor Who: City of Death
Safety and the Supervisor
Beasts: Buddyboy
Beasts
Keep It Up Downstairs
How Green Was My Valley
Looking for Clancy
The Hanged Man
The Sweeney
Churchill's People
The Black Windmill
Madhouse
The Swordsman
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
The Fast Kill
Virgin Witch
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Clinic Exclusive
UFO
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Doctor Who and the Silurians
The Main Chance
The Last Lonely Man
Doctor Who: The Invasion
Calamity the Cow
Thirteen Against Fate
BBC Play of the Month
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Out of the Unknown
Theatre 625
Down to Sussex
Doctor Who
Sergeant Cork
The Saint
The Andromeda Breakthrough
Captain Clegg
Dilemma
Sir Francis Drake
A for Andromeda
The Avengers
Tiger Bay
The Boy with Two Heads
Dunkirk
Armchair Theatre
The Anatomist
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Fatal Journey