Victor McGuire

{{Short description|English actor (born 1964)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Victor McGuire

| image = File:Victor Maguire November 2023.jpg

| caption = Victor McGuire in 2023

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1964|3|17}}

| birth_place = Tuebrook, Liverpool, England

| nationality = English

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1983–present

}}

Victor McGuire (born 17 March 1964){{citation needed|date=April 2018}} is an English actor 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=

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! colspan=4 style="background:#A9A9F5;" | Film

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

=Television=

1983 One summer kid 2

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! colspan=4 style="background:#A9A9F5;" | Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1983-1984

|Brookside

|Mike

|

1986-1991

|Bread

|Jack Boswell

|61 episodes

1992-1993

|Sean's Show

|Tony Benetti

|

1993-1999, 2016

|Goodnight Sweetheart

|Ron Wheatcroft

|

1993-1995

|Health and Efficiency

|Phil Brooke

|

2000

|A Many Splintered Thing

|Luis Banks

|Main

2001-2002

|Peak Practice

|Shaun Carter

|

2001

|Comic Relief: Say Pants to Poverty

|Himself

|

2002

|Being April

|Richard

|Main

2007

|New Tricks

|Peter Baker

|S4.E4 "Nine Lives"

2012-2017

|Trollied

|Ian

|38 episodes

2014

|Doctors

|Steve Miles

|

2015

|The Last Kingdom

|Oswald

|

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

|

2020, 2022

|Kate & Koji

|Mr Mullholland

|8 episodes

2022

|The Responder

|Trevor

|

2023

|A Small Light

|Willem Grootendorst

|TV Miniseries

=Video games=

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! colspan=4 style="background:#A9A9F5;" | Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2015Everybody's Gone to the RaptureCharlie TateVoice role

References

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