Brian Pettifer
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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Movies (48)
Revuelto
2024 · Village Man
The Last Bus
2021 · Billy (Drunk)
Go Home
2021 · Mike
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
2019 · Self
Boyz in the Wood
2019 · PC Dougie
The Flu That Killed 50 Million
2018 · Victor Vaughan
Las horas más oscuras
2017 · Lord Kingsley Wood
Whisky Galore
2016 · Angus
The Legend of Barney Thomson
2015 · Charlie
Hattie
2011 · Ron
Donkeys
2010 · Brian Colburn
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
2009 · Couthon
A Risk Worth Taking
2008 · Maxwell Borthwick
Lassie
2005 · O'Donnell
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005 · Harry How
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004 · Self
Vanity Fair
2004 · Mr. Raggles
The Rocket Post
2004 · Reverend Shand
One Last Chance
2004 · Macgregor
The Key
2003
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2003 · Poole
Conspiración
2001 · Alfred Meyer
The House of Mirth
2000 · Mr. Bry
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999 · the executioner / the torturer of the trial
Vigo
1998 · Fatman
The James Gang
1997 · Spanner
Loch Ness
1996 · Repairman
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995 · Ventriloquist
Eleven Men Against Eleven
1995 · Cliff Tutley
In Dreams
1992 · Journalist/Dave
Is That All There Is?
1992 · Self
Rab C. Nesbitt: Seasonal Greet
1988 · Andra
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
1988 · Kirby-Green
Lucky Sunil
1988 · Cyril
Little Dorrit
1987 · Clarence Barnacle
Happy the Man
1986 · Andy
Heavenly Pursuits
1986 · Father Cobb
Gulag
1985 · Vlasov
A Christmas Carol
1984 · Ben
Amadeus
1984 · Hospital Attendant
Britannia Hospital
1982 · Biles
Just Your Luck
1972 · Youth at Wedding
Peer Gynt
1972 · Additional cast
Warm Feet, Warm Heart
1970 · Nigel Purvis
Is That Your Body, Boy
1970 · Spratt
Let There Be Light
1970 · Pupil Teacher
The Right Prospectus
1970 · Boy in Grounds
if....
1968 · Biles
TV shows (35)
Grace
2021 · Hector Hegarty
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2015 · Honeyfoot
Outlander
2014 · Old Charlie
Endeavour: El joven Morse
2013 · Jephthah Claypole
Black Mirror
2011 · William Grange, Dentist
The Field of Blood
2011 · Father Richards
Garrow's Law
2009 · Robert Boycott
To the Ends of the Earth
2005 · Wheeler
Hustle
2004 · Tip Jones
New Tricks
2004 · Archie Milgrow
Snoddy
2002 · Professor Baxter
Rockface
2002 · Brother Thomas
Monarch of the Glen
2000 · Eric Morton
Life Support
1999 · Gordon Travers
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997 · Parson Supple
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Mortimer
The Ghostbusters of East Finchley
1995 · Howard Heights
Hamish Macbeth
1995 · Rory Campbell
Heartbeat
1992 · Andrew McIntyre
City Lights
1986 · Alisdair
Farrington of the F.O.
1986 · Billy Murdoch
Lovejoy
1986 · Willy Kinross
Cloud Howe
1982 · Dite Peat
Turning Year Tales
1979 · Boy
Return of the Saint
1978 · Bartender
Clayhanger
1976 · Stifford
Get Some In!
1975 · Bruce Leckie
Bedtime Stories
1974 · Alan
Last of the Summer Wine
1973 · The Best Man
Villains
1972 · Youth
Play for Today
1970 · Boy in Grounds
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Adam Armour
This Man Craig
1966
The Vital Spark
1965
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Nigel Purvis