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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 1, 1953
Place of Birth
Durban, Natal, South Africa
Brian Pettifer
0.7 Popularity
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 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.
Known For
5.7
Village Man
Damaged
2024
6.5
Billy (Drunk)
The Last Bus
2021
6.7
Hector Hegarty
Grace
2021
🎬
0.0
Mike
Go Home
2021
0.0
Self
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
2019
6.2
PC Dougie
Get Duked!
2019
5.9
Victor Vaughan
The Flu That Killed 50 Million
2018
7.3
Lord Kingsley Wood
Darkest Hour
2017
5.9
Angus
Whisky Galore
2016
6.1
Charlie
The Legend of Barney Thomson
2015
Credits
Damaged
as Village Man
2024
5.7
The Last Bus
as Billy (Drunk)
2021
6.5
Grace
as Hector Hegarty
2021
6.7
🎬
Go Home
as Mike
2021
0.0
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
as Self
2019
0.0
Get Duked!
as PC Dougie
2019
6.2
The Flu That Killed 50 Million
as Victor Vaughan
2018
5.9
Darkest Hour
as Lord Kingsley Wood
2017
7.3
Whisky Galore
as Angus
2016
5.9
The Legend of Barney Thomson
as Charlie
2015
6.1
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
as Honeyfoot
2015
7.4
Outlander
as Old Charlie
2014
8.2
Endeavour
as Jephthah Claypole
2013
8.1
Black Mirror
as William Grange, Dentist
2011
8.3
The Field of Blood
as Father Richards
2011
6.3
Hattie
as Ron
2011
5.7
Donkeys
as Brian Colburn
2010
6.0
Garrow's Law
as Robert Boycott
2009
7.4
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
as Couthon
2009
6.5
A Risk Worth Taking
as Maxwell Borthwick
2008
3.5
Lassie
as O'Donnell
2005
6.4
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Harry How
2005
6.1
To the Ends of the Earth
as Wheeler
2005
6.0
The Rocket Post
as Reverend Shand
2004
5.1
One Last Chance
as Macgregor
2004
5.0
Hustle
as Tip Jones
2004
7.7
New Tricks
as Archie Milgrow
2004
7.4
The Key
2003
0.0
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Poole
2003
5.4
🎬
Snoddy
as Professor Baxter
2002
0.0
Conspiracy
as Alfred Meyer
2001
7.3
The House of Mirth
as Mr. Bry
2000
6.1
Monarch of the Glen
as Eric Morton
2000
7.3
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
as the executioner / the torturer of the trial
1999
6.4
Life Support
as Gordon Travers
1999
0.0
Vigo
as Fatman
1998
4.1
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
as Parson Supple
1997
7.0
The James Gang
as Spanner
1997
5.0
Loch Ness
as Repairman
1996
5.7
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Ventriloquist
1995
7.1
Eleven Men Against Eleven
as Cliff Tutley
1995
6.3
Hamish Macbeth
as Rory Campbell
1995
7.5
🎬
In Dreams
as Journalist/Dave
1992
7.0
Is That All There Is?
as Self
1992
7.0
Heartbeat
as Andrew McIntyre
1992
7.1
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
as Kirby-Green
1988
5.2
Lucky Sunil
as Cyril
1988
0.0
Little Dorrit
as Clarence Barnacle
1987
6.5
City Lights
as Alisdair
1986
6.8
Heavenly Pursuits
as Father Cobb
1986
7.2
Lovejoy
as Willy Kinross
1986
7.3
Gulag
as Vlasov
1985
5.3
A Christmas Carol
as Ben
1984
7.5
Amadeus
as Hospital Attendant
1984
8.0
Cloud Howe
as Dite Peat
1982
0.0
Britannia Hospital
as Biles
1982
6.2
Return of the Saint
as Bartender
1978
7.0
Clayhanger
as Stifford
1976
5.0
Get Some In!
as Bruce Leckie
1975
6.2
Last of the Summer Wine
as The Best Man
1973
7.1
🎬
Just Your Luck
as Youth at Wedding
1972
0.0
Play for Today
as Boy in Grounds
1970
6.3
🎬
Warm Feet, Warm Heart
as Nigel Purvis
1970
0.0
🎬
Is That Your Body, Boy
as Spratt
1970
0.0
Let There Be Light
as Pupil Teacher
1970
0.0
The Right Prospectus
as Boy in Grounds
1970
0.0
if....
as Biles
1968
7.1
🎬
This Man Craig
1966
0.0