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 BBCs This Man Craig and Dr Finlays 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 Andersons film if.... (1968). He also appeared in Andersons 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. Finlays 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.
Clarence Barnacle
Film 1987
Poole
Film 2003
Brian Colburn
Film 2010
Cyril
Film 1988
Reverend Shand
Film 2004
Couthon
Film 2009
Billy (Drunk)
Film 2021
Village Man
Film 2024
Nigel Purvis
Film 1970
Spratt
Film 1970
Film 2003
Angus
Film 2016
Journalist/Dave
Film 1992
Macgregor
Film 2004
Cliff Tutley
Film 1995
Father Cobb
Film 1986
Lord Kingsley Wood
Film 2017
Ron
Film 2011
Fatman
Film 1998
Youth at Wedding
Film 1972
Self
Film 1992
Victor Vaughan
Film 2018
Himself
Film 2019
Boy in Grounds
Film 1970
Pupil Teacher
Film 1970
Mike
Film 2021
Tv 1975
Rory Campbell
Tv 1995
Hector Hegarty
Tv 2021
Tv 1966
Willy Kinross
Tv 1986
Tip Jones
Tv 2004
The Best Man
Tv 1973
Robert Boycott
Tv 2009
Archie Milgrow
Tv 2004
Alisdair
Tv 1986
Professor Baxter
Tv 2002
Bartender
Tv 1978
Old Charlie
Tv 2014
Father Richards
Tv 2011
William Grange, Dentist
Tv 2011
Andrew McIntyre
Tv 1992
Boy in Grounds
Tv 1970
Jephthah Claypole
Tv 2013
Self
Tv 1995