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).
62 acting credits
Acting · 62
The Avengers
1961
Doctor Who
1963
The Saint
1962
BBC Play of the Month
1965
The Sweeney
1975
Theatre 625
1964
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Lovejoy
1986
UFO
1970
Churchill's People
1974
Out of the Unknown
1965
The Main Chance
1969
Sir Francis Drake
1961
Our Friends in the North
1996
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955
Sergeant Cork
1963
The Remains of the Day
1993
Beasts
1976
Hearts and Minds
1995
The Hanged Man
1975
Tales Out of School
1983
Armchair Theatre
1956
How Green Was My Valley
1975
Births, Marriages and Deaths
1999
Dunkirk
1958
Lassie
2005
Looking for Clancy
1975
A for Andromeda
1961
Tiger Bay
1959
The Black Windmill
1974
Perfect
2001
Esther
1999
The Andromeda Breakthrough
1962
Captain Clegg
1962
Keep It Up Downstairs
1976
Thirteen Against Fate
1966
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988
Virgin Witch
1972
Madhouse
1974
Night Flight
2002
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
1983
Clinic Exclusive
1971
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979
Anybody's Nightmare
2001
Safety and the Supervisor
1978
Giro City
1982
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973
Doctor Who: The Invasion
1968
Dilemma
1962
The Anatomist
1956
The Fast Kill
1972
Beasts: Buddyboy
1976
The Boy with Two Heads
1958
Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970
The Last Lonely Man
1969
The Swordsman
1974
Hear the Silence
2003
Calamity the Cow
1967
Fatal Journey
1954
Down to Sussex
1964