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Peter Halliday
near 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…
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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).
Filmography
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2005
Lassie
Movie Vicar
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2003
Hear the Silence
Movie Sir Kenneth Calman
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2002
Night Flight
Movie Jenkins
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2001
Anybody's Nightmare
Movie Lord Justice Swinton Thomas
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2001
Perfect
TV show Ted
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1999
Esther
Movie Karschena
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1999
Births, Marriages and Deaths
TV show Vicar
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1996
Dalziel and Pascoe
TV show Mr Edward Soper
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1996
Our Friends in the North
TV show Speaker
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1995
Hearts and Minds
TV show Shotgun
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1993
Goodnight Sweetheart
TV show Vicar
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1993
The Remains of the Day
Movie Canon Tufnell
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1988
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
Movie Vicar
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1986
Lovejoy
TV show Mr. Reynolds
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1983
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
Movie Headmaster
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1983
Tales Out of School
TV show Headmaster
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1982
Giro City
Movie Government Minister
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1979
Doctor Who: City of Death
Movie Soldier
- 1978
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1976
Beasts: Buddyboy
Movie Crisp
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1976
Beasts
TV show Crisp
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1976
Keep It Up Downstairs
Movie P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle
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1975
How Green Was My Valley
TV show Jack Richards
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1975
Looking for Clancy
TV show Sam Cook
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1975
The Hanged Man
TV show Jean-Claud de Salle
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1975
The Sweeney
TV show Chief Insp. Gordon
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1974
Churchill's People
TV show Sir George Carew
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1974
The Black Windmill
Movie Customs Officer (uncredited)
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1974
Madhouse
Movie Psychiatrist
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1974
The Swordsman
Movie Rabelais
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1973
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
Movie Pletrac
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1972
The Fast Kill
Movie
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1972
Virgin Witch
Movie Club Manager
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1971
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Movie Rowing Husband
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1971
Clinic Exclusive
Movie Fawcett
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1970
UFO
TV show Dr. Segal
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1970
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Movie Aliens' Voices
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1970
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Movie Silurian (voices)
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1969
The Main Chance
TV show John Smith
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1969
The Last Lonely Man
Movie Patrick Wilson
