Brian Pettifer
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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.
As Actor/Actress
Outlander
Old Charlie
Black Mirror
William Grange, Dentist
Endeavour: El joven Morse
Jephthah Claypole
Play for Today
Boy in Grounds
Heartbeat
Andrew McIntyre
Last of the Summer Wine
The Best Man
Hustle
Tip Jones
New Tricks
Archie Milgrow
Grace
Hector Hegarty
Lovejoy
Willy Kinross
Monarch of the Glen
Eric Morton
Amadeus
Hospital Attendant
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Adam Armour
Hamish Macbeth
Rory Campbell
El Regreso del Santo
Bartender
Juana de Arco
the executioner / the torturer of the trial
Las horas más oscuras
Lord Kingsley Wood
Garrow's Law
Robert Boycott
To the Ends of the Earth
Wheeler
Conspiración
Alfred Meyer
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Honeyfoot
Clayhanger
Stifford
Revuelto
Village Man
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
Parson Supple
City Lights
Alisdair
Life Support
Gordon Travers
Lassie
O'Donnell
Vanidad
Mr. Raggles
Get Some In!
Bruce Leckie
In the Bleak Midwinter
Ventriloquist