Victor McGuire
Born (1964-03-17) 17 March 1964
NationalityEnglish
OccupationActor
Years active1983–present

Victor McGuire (born 17 March 1964) is an English actor perhaps best known for playing Jack Boswell in series 1–3, 5-7 of Carla Lane's Bread, Ron Wheatcroft in every series of Goodnight Sweetheart and its 2016 one-off episode, and Sean Hughes' neighbour Tony in Sean's Show ("the kind of guy you can ask to build you a shed").

Life and career

McGuire appeared as Gary, one of the pair of thieves in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and as Deputy Chief Constable Nadin in Mike Leigh's Peterloo.

He has also appeared in a number of TV programmes, including Dalziel and Pascoe, Casualty and 2point4 Children. He played the character of Amos Hart in the West End musical Chicago and was Lazar Wolf in the West End production of Fiddler on the Roof at the Savoy Theatre. He later reprised the role of Amos Hart in the theatrical production of Chicago, in the Cambridge Theatre, London. In 2012 he appeared in two episodes of historical drama World Without End as peasant Mark Webber. In 2005 he appeared in "A Fresh Start" and "Miller's Tale" - the first and the third episodes of the fifteenth series of Heartbeat as Brian Parker.

From 2012 to 2017 he appeared as security guard Ian in the Sky1 sitcom Trollied. His last appearance was in the Christmas special episode in December 2017.

In February 2019 McGuire appeared in Coronation Street as a character called Big Garth. In May 2019 McGuire played Garanin in the Sky / HBO Mini-Series Chernobyl.

In 2020 he appeared as a policeman in an advertisement for Haribo Starmix. McGuire is a supporter of Everton F.C. In 2020 he starred in ITV sitcom Kate & Koji as a customer named Mr. Mulholland, a pessimistic hypochondriac. In March 2021 he appeared in a safety advertisement for Highways England having the song "Go Left" a parody version of Go West by The Pet Shop Boys sung to him by two flies on his windscreen.

In 2022, he reprised his role as Mr. Mulholland in series two of Kate & Koji.

Filmography

Film

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
2019The Personal History of David CopperfieldCreakle
2018PeterlooDeputy Chief Constable Nadin
2015Star Wars: The Force AwakensBar Patron
2013Spike IslandSecurity Guard
2012The Woman in BlackGerald Hardy
2011The TaskBig Daddy
2007Midsummer MadnessMike
2007Dangerous ParkingHarry
2006The Black DahliaSgt. Bill Koenig
2005Hellraiser: HellworldPolice Officer No. 1
2004The Phantom of the OperaPiangi
2004Suzie GoldBreakfast TV Editor
2003A Changed Man
2002ThunderpantsMr Smash
2001Redemption RoadRonald
1998Lock, Stock and Two Smoking BarrelsGary
1995Sorry About Last NightMichael

Television

TV
Year TitleRoleNotes
2022 The Responder Trevor
2020, 2022 Kate & Koji Mr Mullholland 8 episodes
2019 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Phil Sirkin 1 episode
2019 Doctors Dave Weaver 1 episode
2019 Chernobyl Garanin 1 episode
2019 Coronation Street Big Garth[1]
2015 The Last KingdomOswald
2014 DoctorsSteve Miles
2012-2017 TrolliedIan38 episodes
2007 New TricksPeter BakerS4.E4 "Nine Lives"
2002 Being AprilRichardMain
2001-2002 Peak PracticeShaun Carter
2001 Comic Relief: Say Pants to PovertyHimself
2000 A Many Splintered ThingLuis BanksMain
1993-1999, 2016 Goodnight SweetheartRon Wheatcroft
1993-1995 Health and EfficiencyPhil Brooke
1992-1993 Sean's ShowTony Benetti
1986-1991 BreadJack Boswell61 episodes
1983-1984 BrooksideMike
2023 A Small LightWillem GrootendorstTV Miniseries

Video games

Video games
YearTitleRoleNotes
2015Everybody's Gone to the RaptureCharlie TateVoice role

References

  1. "Where have you seen Coronation Street market trader 'Big Garth' before? All you need to know about actor Victor Maguire". Radio Times. Retrieved 4 February 2019.


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