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Brian Pettifer

Brian Pettifer

Known For Acting
Birthday Jan 01, 1953 (72)
Birthplace Durban, Natal, South Africa
Popularity 0.2 (history)
Updated Aug 09, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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 B ... BC'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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Damaged

Damaged

2024

as Village Man

The Last Bus

The Last Bus

2021

as Billy (Drunk)

Get Duked!

Get Duked!

2019

as PC Dougie

The Flu That Killed 50 Million

The Flu That Killed 50 Million

2018

as Victor Vaughan

Darkest Hour

Darkest Hour

2017

as Lord Kingsley Wood

Whisky Galore

Whisky Galore

2016

as Angus

Hattie

Hattie

2011

as Ron

Donkeys

Donkeys

2010

as Brian Colburn

A Risk Worth Taking

A Risk Worth Taking

2008

as Maxwell Borthwick

Lassie

Lassie

2005

as O'Donnell

One Last Chance

One Last Chance

2004

as Macgregor

The Rocket Post

The Rocket Post

2004

as Reverend Shand

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

2003

as Poole

Conspiracy

Conspiracy

2001

as Alfred Meyer

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

2000

as Mr. Bry

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

1999

as the executioner / the torturer of the trial

Vigo

Vigo

1998

as Fatman

The James Gang

The James Gang

1997

as Spanner

Loch Ness

Loch Ness

1996

as Repairman

Eleven Men Against Eleven

Eleven Men Against Eleven

1995

as Cliff Tutley

In the Bleak Midwinter

In the Bleak Midwinter

1995

as Ventriloquist

In Dreams

In Dreams

1992

as Journalist/Dave

Lucky Sunil

Lucky Sunil

1988

as Cyril

Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

1987

as Clarence Barnacle

Heavenly Pursuits

Heavenly Pursuits

1986

as Father Cobb

Gulag

Gulag

1985

as Vlasov

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

1984

as Ben

Amadeus

Amadeus

1984

as Hospital Attendant

Britannia Hospital

Britannia Hospital

1982

as Biles

Just Your Luck

Just Your Luck

1972

as Youth at Wedding

Warm Feet, Warm Heart

Warm Feet, Warm Heart

1970

as Nigel Purvis

The Right Prospectus

The Right Prospectus

1970

as Boy in Grounds

if....

if....

1968

as Biles

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Television Credits

Hamish Macbeth

as Rory Campbell

Episodes: 19

First Aired: Mar 26, 1995

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

as Honeyfoot

Episodes: 7

First Aired: May 17, 2015

Snoddy

as Professor Baxter

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Mar 13, 2002

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

as Parson Supple

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Nov 09, 1997

To the Ends of the Earth

as Wheeler

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Jul 06, 2005

The Field of Blood

as Father Richards

Episodes: 2

First Aired: May 08, 2011

Grace

as Hector Hegarty

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 14, 2021

Lovejoy

as Willy Kinross

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 10, 1986

Hustle

as Tip Jones

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 24, 2004

Last of the Summer Wine

as The Best Man

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 04, 1973

Garrow's Law

as Robert Boycott

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 01, 2009

New Tricks

as Archie Milgrow

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 2004

City Lights

as Alisdair

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 14, 1986

Return of the Saint

as Bartender

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 10, 1978

Outlander

as Old Charlie

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 09, 2014

Black Mirror

as William Grange, Dentist

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 04, 2011

Heartbeat

as Andrew McIntyre

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 10, 1992

Play for Today

as Boy in Grounds

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 15, 1970

Endeavour

as Jephthah Claypole

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 14, 2013

This Man Craig

Episodes: 52

First Aired: Jan 01, 1966

Get Some In!

Episodes: 33

First Aired: Oct 16, 1975

Hamish Macbeth

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 26, 1995

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