Brian Pettifer
- Recitazione
- 1 gennaio 1953 · Durban, Natal, South Africa
Biografia
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 film if.... (1968). He also appeared in Anderson's O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982) playing the same character in all three Anderson films, that of Biles. His other film credits include roles in Amadeus (1984), A Christmas Carol (1984), Gulag (1985), Heavenly Pursuits (1986), Little Dorrit (1987), The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988), Loch Ness (1996), The House of Mirth (2000), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2002), The Rocket Post (2004), Vanity Fair (2004) and Lassie (2005). Pettifer was a regular in Rab C. Nesbitt mainly propping up a bar, but was also known as aircraftman Bruce Leckie in Get Some In!, where he was constantly the butt of jokes directed at him by Corporal Marsh. He also played cousin Hughie in the long running Liverpool based 70s sitcom The Liver Birds. He also played Alfred Meyer in the BBC/HBO film Conspiracy and the part of Dr. Cameron in the Radio 4 series entitled Adventures of a Black Bag, after appearing in several episodes of Dr. Finlay's Casebook. He appeared in Hamish Macbeth, as well as guest starring in Still Game. In 2005, he also appeared in the first episode of the BBC drama Bleak House. In 2011 and 2013, he played Father Richards in The Field of Blood. He had the role of Poupart in the BBC One series The Musketeers. In 2012, Brian Pettifer appeared as Archie Milgrow in the episode Old School Ties in the series New Tricks. He has worked extensively in the theatre: writing, directing and acting. He has been in a production of The Fairy-Queen at Glyndebourne, which went to Paris and New York in 2010. In 2015, Pettifer appeared in the crime comedy The Legend of Barney Thomson along with his Hamish Macbeth co-star Robert Carlyle. In 2019, he appeared in an episode of Holby City playing patient Laurie Stocks.
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Filmografia
- Damaged · Village Man
- Appuntamento a Land’s End · Billy (Drunk)
- Le indagini di Roy Grace · Hector Hegarty
- Go Home · Mike
- Memories of Lindsay Anderson · In persona
- Get Duked! · PC Dougie
- The Flu That Killed 50 Million · Victor Vaughan
- L'ora più buia · Lord Kingsley Wood
- Whisky Galore · Angus
- La bottega degli errori · Charlie
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell · Honeyfoot
- Outlander · Old Charlie
- Il giovane ispettore Morse · Jephthah Claypole
- Black Mirror · William Grange, Dentist
- The Field of Blood · Father Richards
- Hattie · Ron
- Donkeys · Brian Colburn
- Garrow's Law · Robert Boycott
- Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution · Couthon
- Un rischio che vale la pena di correre · Maxwell Borthwick
- Lassie · O'Donnell
- The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle · Harry How
- To the Ends of the Earth · Wheeler
- Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? · In persona
- La fiera della vanità · Mr. Raggles
- The Rocket Post · Reverend Shand
- One Last Chance · Macgregor
- Hustle - I signori della truffa · Tip Jones
- New Tricks - Nuove tracce per vecchie volpi · Archie Milgrow
- The Key
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · Poole
- Snoddy · Professor Baxter
- Rockface · Brother Thomas
- Conspiracy - Soluzione finale · Alfred Meyer
- La casa della gioia · Mr. Bry
- Monarch of the Glen · Eric Morton
- Giovanna d'Arco · the executioner / the torturer of the trial
- Life Support · Gordon Travers
- Vigo, passione per la vita · Fatman
- The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling · Parson Supple
- The James Gang · Spanner
- Loch Ness · Repairman
- Dalziel and Pascoe · Mortimer
- The Ghostbusters of East Finchley · Howard Heights
- Nel bel mezzo di un gelido inverno · Ventriloquist
- Eleven Men Against Eleven · Cliff Tutley
- Hamish Macbeth · Rory Campbell
- In Dreams · Journalist/Dave
- Is That All There Is? · In persona
- Heartbeat · Andrew McIntyre
- Rab C. Nesbitt: Seasonal Greet · Andra
- La grande fuga 2 · Kirby-Green
- Lucky Sunil · Cyril
- Little Dorrit · Clarence Barnacle
- City Lights · Alisdair
- Happy the Man · Andy
- Heavenly Pursuits · Father Cobb
- Farrington of the F.O. · Billy Murdoch
- Lovejoy · Willy Kinross
- Gulag · Vlasov
- Una favola fantastica · Ben
- Amadeus · Hospital Attendant
- Cloud Howe · Dite Peat
- Britannia Hospital · Biles
- Turning Year Tales · Boy
- Il ritorno del Santo · Bartender
- Clayhanger · Stifford
- Get Some In! · Bruce Leckie
- Bedtime Stories · Alan
- Last of the Summer Wine · The Best Man
- Just Your Luck · Youth at Wedding
- Peer Gynt · Additional cast
- Villains · Youth
- Play for Today · Boy in Grounds
- Warm Feet, Warm Heart · Nigel Purvis
- Is That Your Body, Boy · Spratt
- Let There Be Light · Pupil Teacher
- The Right Prospectus · Boy in Grounds
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · Adam Armour
- Se... · Biles