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