
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).
TV Shows(30)

Perfect
Ted

Births, Marriages and Deaths
Vicar

Our Friends in the North
Speaker

Dalziel and Pascoe
Mr Edward Soper

Hearts and Minds
Shotgun

Lovejoy
Mr. Reynolds

Tales Out of School
Headmaster

Beasts
Crisp

The Sweeney
Chief Insp. Gordon
The Hanged Man
Jean-Claud de Salle
Looking for Clancy
Sam Cook

How Green Was My Valley
Jack Richards

Churchill's People
Sir George Carew

UFO
Dr. Segal

The Main Chance
John Smith

Thirteen Against Fate
Gaston

BBC Play of the Month

Out of the Unknown
Patrick Wilson

Thirty-Minute Theatre
Tony Elliot

Theatre 625
Sir William Mallet