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 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 BBCHBO 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 FairyQueen 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 costar Robert Carlyle In 2019 he appeared in an episode of Holby City playing patient Laurie Stocks