
Brian Pettifer
Brian Pettifer (born January 1, 1953) is a South African actor who has appeared in many television shows, and also on stage and in film. He is the younger brother of folk musician Linda Thompson. He intended to become a photographer, but pursued a career as an actor. He appeared as a child in the BBC's This Man Craig and Dr Finlay's Casebook, and Madame Bovary (with his friend Alex Norton) which gave him an avid interest in acting on television. His first film role was in Lindsay Anderson's film if.... (1968). He also appeared in Anderson's O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982) playing the same character in all three Anderson films, that of Biles. His other film credits include roles in Amadeus (1984), A Christmas Carol (1984), Gulag (1985), Heavenly Pursuits (1986), Little Dorrit (1987), The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988), Loch Ness (1996), The House of Mirth (2000), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2002), The Rocket Post (2004), Vanity Fair (2004) and Lassie (2005). Pettifer was a regular in Rab C. Nesbitt mainly propping up a bar, but was also known as aircraftman Bruce Leckie in Get Some In!, where he was constantly the butt of jokes directed at him by Corporal Marsh. He also played cousin Hughie in the long running Liverpool based 70s sitcom The Liver Birds. He also played Alfred Meyer in the BBC/HBO film Conspiracy and the part of Dr. Cameron in the Radio 4 series entitled Adventures of a Black Bag, after appearing in several episodes of Dr. Finlay's Casebook. He appeared in Hamish Macbeth, as well as guest starring in Still Game. In 2005, he also appeared in the first episode of the BBC drama Bleak House. In 2011 and 2013, he played Father Richards in The Field of Blood. He had the role of Poupart in the BBC One series The Musketeers. In 2012, Brian Pettifer appeared as Archie Milgrow in the episode Old School Ties in the series New Tricks. He has worked extensively in the theatre: writing, directing and acting. He has been in a production of The Fairy-Queen at Glyndebourne, which went to Paris and New York in 2010. In 2015, Pettifer appeared in the crime comedy The Legend of Barney Thomson along with his Hamish Macbeth co-star Robert Carlyle. In 2019, he appeared in an episode of Holby City playing patient Laurie Stocks.
79 acting credits
Acting · 79

Outlander
2014

Black Mirror
2011

Play for Today
1970

Heartbeat
1992

Endeavour
2013

Hustle
2004

New Tricks
2004

Last of the Summer Wine
1973

Grace
2021

Lovejoy
1986

Monarch of the Glen
2000

Return of the Saint
1978

Amadeus
1984

Hamish Macbeth
1995

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969

Darkest Hour
2017

Garrow's Law
2009

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2015

To the Ends of the Earth
2005

Conspiracy
2001

Clayhanger
1976

City Lights
1986

Damaged
2024

Rockface
2002

Armchair Theatre
1956

A Christmas Carol
1984

The Field of Blood
2011

if....
1968

Life Support
1999

Get Some In!
1975

Bedtime Stories
1974

Cloud Howe
1982

Lassie
2005

The Last Bus
2021

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005

Villains
1972

Get Duked!
2019

In the Bleak Midwinter
1995

Vanity Fair
2004

Loch Ness
1996
This Man Craig
1966

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
1988

Little Dorrit
1987

Vigo
1998

The House of Mirth
2000

Britannia Hospital
1982

Whisky Galore
2016

The Legend of Barney Thomson
2015

The Vital Spark
1965

Farrington of the F.O.
1986

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2003

Heavenly Pursuits
1986

The James Gang
1997

The Rocket Post
2004
Snoddy
2002

Hattie
2011

Donkeys
2010

Eleven Men Against Eleven
1995

Is That All There Is?
1992

Lucky Sunil
1988

Gulag
1985

The Flu That Killed 50 Million
2018

Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
2009

One Last Chance
2004

The Key
2003
In Dreams
1992
Is That Your Body, Boy
1970

The Right Prospectus
1970
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004
Go Home
2021

Peer Gynt
1972

Let There Be Light
1970
Warm Feet, Warm Heart
1970

A Risk Worth Taking
2008
Just Your Luck
1972

Happy the Man
1986

Memories of Lindsay Anderson
2019