6.4
Lassie
2005
Peter Halliday
Acting
Born June 2, 1924Died February 19, 2012near Llangollen, Wales, UK
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).
Movies
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7.0
Hear the Silence
2003
Night Flight
7.5
Night Flight
2002
5.8
Anybody's Nightmare
2001
6.8
Esther
1999
7.4
The Remains of the Day
1993
8.9
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1988
6.7
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
1983
5.6
Giro City
1982
9.0
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979
Safety and the Supervisor
0.0
Safety and the Supervisor
1978
3.0
Beasts: Buddyboy
1976
4.2
Keep It Up Downstairs
1976
6.3
The Black Windmill
1974
6.2
Madhouse
1974
8.0
The Swordsman
1974
7.8
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973
10.0
The Fast Kill
1972
4.5
Virgin Witch
1972
6.5
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
3.4
Clinic Exclusive
1971
7.2
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970
7.3
Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970
8.0
The Last Lonely Man
1969
8.8
Doctor Who: The Invasion
1968
5.6
Calamity the Cow
1967
8.0
Down to Sussex
1964
6.3
Captain Clegg
1962
5.8
Dilemma
1962
7.2
Tiger Bay
1959
6.5
The Boy with Two Heads
1958
6.9
Dunkirk
1958
6.3
The Anatomist
1956
9.0
Fatal Journey
1954
TV Shows
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7.0
Perfect
8.0
Births, Marriages and Deaths
6.4
Dalziel and Pascoe
7.7
Our Friends in the North
7.8
Hearts and Minds
7.3
Goodnight Sweetheart
7.4
Lovejoy
10.0
Tales Out of School
6.4
Beasts
6.7
How Green Was My Valley
Looking for Clancy
0.0
Looking for Clancy
The Hanged Man
7.0
The Hanged Man
8.1
The Sweeney
5.0
Churchill's People
7.7
UFO
8.2
The Main Chance
10.0
Thirteen Against Fate
5.2
BBC Play of the Month
4.2
Thirty-Minute Theatre
7.1
Out of the Unknown
7.2
Theatre 625
7.9
Doctor Who
7.9
Doctor Who
7.9
Doctor Who
7.9
Doctor Who
7.9
Doctor Who
7.9
Doctor Who
7.2
Sergeant Cork
7.4
The Saint
6.5
The Andromeda Breakthrough
5.1
Sir Francis Drake
5.5
A for Andromeda
7.8
The Avengers
6.0
Armchair Theatre
8.0