Brian Pettifer

Actor Jan 1 (age 73) Durban, Natal, South Africa 1956–2024 (68 year career)

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Biography

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 fi…

Known For

Film

Amadeus

Hospital Attendant

Film

Darkest Hour

Lord Kingsley Wood

Film

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

the executioner / the torturer of the trial

Film

A Christmas Carol

Ben

Film

Conspiracy

Alfred Meyer

Film

if....

Biles

Film

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Honeyfoot

Film

Get Duked!

PC Dougie

Filmography

Acting (73)

Movies (45)

Damaged

as Village Man

The Last Bus

as Billy (Drunk)

Go Home

as Mike

Get Duked!

2019

as PC Dougie

6.2

Memories of Lindsay Anderson

2019

as Self

The Flu That Killed 50 Million

2018

as Victor Vaughan

5.9

Darkest Hour

2017

as Lord Kingsley Wood

7.4

Whisky Galore

2016

as Angus

5.9

The Legend of Barney Thomson

as Charlie

Hattie

as Ron

Donkeys

as Brian Colburn

Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution

as Couthon

A Risk Worth Taking

as Maxwell Borthwick

Lassie

as O'Donnell

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

as Harry How

The Rocket Post

as Reverend Shand

Vanity Fair

as Mr. Raggles

One Last Chance

as Macgregor

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Poole

The Key

Conspiracy

as Alfred Meyer

The House of Mirth

as Mr. Bry

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

1999

as the executioner / the torturer of the trial

Vigo

as Fatman

The James Gang

as Spanner

Loch Ness

as Repairman

In the Bleak Midwinter

1995

as Ventriloquist

7.1

Eleven Men Against Eleven

as Cliff Tutley

In Dreams

as Journalist/Dave

Is That All There Is?

1992

as Self

7.0

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

1988

as Kirby-Green

5.2

Lucky Sunil

1988

as Cyril

Little Dorrit

as Clarence Barnacle

Heavenly Pursuits

as Father Cobb

Happy the Man

as Andy

Gulag

1985

as Vlasov

5.4

Amadeus

1984

as Hospital Attendant

A Christmas Carol

as Ben

Britannia Hospital

as Biles

Just Your Luck

as Youth at Wedding

Is That Your Body, Boy

1970

as Spratt

Let There Be Light

1970

as Pupil Teacher

The Right Prospectus

1970

as Boy in Grounds

Warm Feet, Warm Heart

1970

as Nigel Purvis

if....

1968

as Biles

7.1

Television (28)

Grace

2021

as Hector Hegarty

6.7

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

as Honeyfoot

Outlander

as Old Charlie

Endeavour

as Jephthah Claypole

Black Mirror

as William Grange, Dentist

The Field of Blood

as Father Richards

Garrow's Law

as Robert Boycott

To the Ends of the Earth

as Wheeler

New Tricks

as Archie Milgrow

Hustle

as Tip Jones

Snoddy

as Professor Baxter

Monarch of the Glen

2000

as Eric Morton

7.3

Life Support

1999

as Gordon Travers

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

as Parson Supple

Hamish Macbeth

as Rory Campbell

Hamish Macbeth

as Self

Heartbeat

as Andrew McIntyre

Lovejoy

as Willy Kinross

City Lights

as Alisdair

Farrington of the F.O.

1986

as Billy Murdoch

5.0

Cloud Howe

1982

as Dite Peat

Return of the Saint

as Bartender

Clayhanger

as Stifford

Get Some In!

as Bruce Leckie

Last of the Summer Wine

as The Best Man

Play for Today

as Boy in Grounds

This Man Craig

Armchair Theatre

as Nigel Purvis