
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).

as Vicar

as Sir Kenneth Calman

as Jenkins

as Lord Justice Swinton Thomas

as Karschena

as Canon Tufnell

as Headmaster

as Government Minister

as Soldier

as Crisp

as P.C. Harbottle / Old Harbottle

as Customs Officer (uncredited)

as Psychiatrist

as Rabelais

as Pletrac

as Club Manager

as Rowing Husband

as Fawcett

as Aliens' Voices

as Silurian (voices)

as Patrick Wilson

as Packer/Cyberman Voice

as Sgt. Watkins

as Narrator (voice)

as Sailor Jack Pott

as Harry Barnes

as Seaman (uncredited)

as Mr. Page

as Battery Major

as Adolphus Raby

as Gypsy