Cast & creator
Peter Halliday
Best known for Doctor Who, Doctor Who, Doctor Who
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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television credits
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1954–2005 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (69)
Showing 69 of 69 credits
Doctor Who
Soldier
1963Doctor Who
Pletrac
1963Doctor Who
Packer
1963Doctor Who
Aliens (voice)
1963Doctor Who
Silurians (voice)
1963Doctor Who
Vicar
1963
The Avengers
Perrier
1961
The Saint
Vargas
1962
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Theatre 625
Sir William Mallet
1964
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Tony Elliot
1965
Dalziel and Pascoe
Mr Edward Soper
1996
The Sweeney
Chief Insp. Gordon
1975
Lovejoy
Mr. Reynolds
1986
UFO
Dr. Segal
1970
Churchill's People
Sir George Carew
1974
Out of the Unknown
Patrick Wilson
1965
Goodnight Sweetheart
Vicar
1993
The Main Chance
John Smith
1969
Sergeant Cork
Dr. Cato
1963
Sir Francis Drake
Theobald Burke
1961
Our Friends in the North
Speaker
1996
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Sergeant
1955
The Remains of the Day
Canon Tufnell
1993
Beasts
Crisp
1976
Armchair Theatre
Mike Regan
1956
How Green Was My Valley
Jack Richards
1975The Hanged Man
Jean-Claud de Salle
1975Looking for Clancy
Sam Cook
1975
Tales Out of School
Headmaster
1983
Births, Marriages and Deaths
Vicar
1999
A for Andromeda
John Fleming
1961
The Andromeda Breakthrough
John Fleming
1962
Thirteen Against Fate
Gaston
1966
Hearts and Minds
Shotgun
1995
Lassie
Vicar
2005
Esther
Karschena
1999
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Rowing Husband
1971
Perfect
Ted
2001
Clinic Exclusive
Fawcett
1971
Doctor Who: City of Death
Soldier
1979
Dunkirk
Battery Major
1958
Virgin Witch
Club Manager
1972Safety and the Supervisor
1978
Beasts: Buddyboy
Crisp
1976
Captain Clegg
Sailor Jack Pott
1962
The Black Windmill
Customs Officer (uncredited)
1974
Doctor Who: The Invasion
Packer/Cyberman Voice
1968
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Silurian (voices)
1970
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Aliens' Voices
1970
Tiger Bay
Seaman (uncredited)
1959
Madhouse
Psychiatrist
1974
Keep It Up Downstairs
P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
1976
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
Pletrac
1973
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
Vicar
1988
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
Headmaster
1983
The Boy with Two Heads
Mr. Page
1958Night Flight
Jenkins
2002
Hear the Silence
Sir Kenneth Calman
2003
The Last Lonely Man
Patrick Wilson
1969
Giro City
Government Minister
1982
Calamity the Cow
Sgt. Watkins
1967
Anybody's Nightmare
Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
2001
The Anatomist
Adolphus Raby
1956
The Fast Kill
1972
The Swordsman
Rabelais
1974
Down to Sussex
Narrator (voice)
1964
Dilemma
Harry Barnes
1962
Fatal Journey
Gypsy
1954