Peter Halliday

Actor Jun 2 (died age 87) near Llangollen, Wales, UK 1954–2005 (51 year career)

6.7 avg rating

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 Shakesp…

Known For

Film

The Remains of the Day

Canon Tufnell

Film

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Rowing Husband

Film

Lassie

Vicar

Film

Madhouse

Psychiatrist

Film

Dunkirk

Battery Major

Film

Tiger Bay

Seaman (uncredited)

Film

The Black Windmill

Customs Officer (uncredited)

Film

Captain Clegg

Sailor Jack Pott

Filmography

Acting (64)

Movies (34)

Lassie

2005

as Vicar

6.4

Hear the Silence

2003

as Sir Kenneth Calman

Night Flight

as Jenkins

Anybody's Nightmare

as Lord Justice Swinton Thomas

5.8

Esther

1999

as Karschena

6.8

The Remains of the Day

1993

as Canon Tufnell

7.4

Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks

1988

as Vicar

9.4

R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only

1983

as Headmaster

6.7

Giro City

1982

as Government Minister

5.0

Doctor Who: City of Death

1979

as Soldier

9.0

Safety and the Supervisor

1978

Keep It Up Downstairs

1976

as P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle

Beasts: Buddyboy

as Crisp

Madhouse

as Psychiatrist

The Black Windmill

as Customs Officer (uncredited)

6.3

The Swordsman

1974

as Rabelais

Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters

as Pletrac

Virgin Witch

as Club Manager

The Fast Kill

Sunday Bloody Sunday

as Rowing Husband

Clinic Exclusive

as Fawcett

Doctor Who and the Silurians

1970

as Silurian (voices)

7.3

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

1970

as Aliens' Voices

7.2

The Last Lonely Man

1969

as Patrick Wilson

Doctor Who: The Invasion

1968

as Packer/Cyberman Voice

Calamity the Cow

as Sgt. Watkins

Down to Sussex

as Narrator (voice)

Captain Clegg

as Sailor Jack Pott

Dilemma

as Harry Barnes

Tiger Bay

as Seaman (uncredited)

7.2

The Boy with Two Heads

as Mr. Page

Dunkirk

as Battery Major

The Anatomist

as Adolphus Raby

Fatal Journey

as Gypsy

Television (30)

Perfect

2001

as Ted

Births, Marriages and Deaths

as Vicar

Dalziel and Pascoe

as Mr Edward Soper

Our Friends in the North

as Speaker

Hearts and Minds

as Shotgun

Lovejoy

as Mr. Reynolds

Tales Out of School

as Headmaster

Beasts

1976

as Crisp

7.0

The Sweeney

1975

as Chief Insp. Gordon

8.0

How Green Was My Valley

1975

as Jack Richards

6.5

The Hanged Man

1975

as Jean-Claud de Salle

7.0

Looking for Clancy

1975

as Sam Cook

Churchill's People

as Sir George Carew

The Befrienders

UFO

as Dr. Segal

The Main Chance

as John Smith

Thirteen Against Fate

1966

as Gaston

10.0

BBC Play of the Month

Out of the Unknown

as Patrick Wilson

Thirty-Minute Theatre

1965

as Tony Elliot

4.2

Theatre 625

1964

as Sir William Mallet

Doctor Who

as Packer

Sergeant Cork

as Dr. Cato

The Saint

as Vargas

The Andromeda Breakthrough

as John Fleming

The Avengers

as Perrier

Sir Francis Drake

as Theobald Burke

A for Andromeda

as John Fleming

Armchair Theatre

as Mike Regan

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

1955

as Sergeant

8.0