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