Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1924-06-02
Day of Death
2012-02-19
Place of Birth
near Llangollen, Wales, UK
Peter Halliday
Biography
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 (34)
Lassie
2005
Hear the Silence
2003Night Flight
2002
Anybody's Nightmare
2001
Esther
1999
The Remains of the Day
1993
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
1983
Giro City
1982
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979Safety and the Supervisor
1978
Beasts: Buddyboy
1976
Keep It Up Downstairs
1976
The Black Windmill
1974
