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