Peter Halliday

Known for ActingBorn 1924-06-02Died 2012-02-19near 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).Read more

Movies & web series

Tales Out of School

The Fast Kill

Thirteen Against Fate

Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks

Hear the Silence

Doctor Who: City of Death

Fatal Journey

Doctor Who: The Invasion

Births, Marriages and Deaths

The Main Chance

The Sweeney

The Swordsman

Hearts and Minds

The Last Lonely Man

Down to Sussex

Our Friends in the North

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Doctor Who

Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters

UFO

The Avengers

The Remains of the Day

Lovejoy

The Saint

Perfect

Doctor Who and the Silurians

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

Sergeant Cork

Theatre 625

Esther

Tiger Bay

Out of the Unknown

Beasts

The Hanged Man

R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only

Lassie

Dunkirk

How Green Was My Valley

Dalziel and Pascoe

Sunday Bloody Sunday

The Andromeda Breakthrough

The Boy with Two Heads

Night Flight

The Black Windmill

Madhouse

Captain Clegg

The Anatomist

Anybody's Nightmare