Victor McGuire (born 17 March 1964) is an English actor best known for playing Jack Boswell in series 1–3 and 5–7 of Carla Lane's Bread, Ron Wheatcroft in every series of Goodnight Sweetheart and its 2016 one-off episode, and Sean Hughes's 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 Year Title Role Notes1995 Sorry About Last Night Michael 1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Gary 2001 Redemption Road Ronald 2002 Thunderpants Mr Smash 2003 A Changed Man 2004 Suzie Gold Breakfast TV Editor The Phantom of the Opera Piangi 2005 Hellraiser: Hellworld Police Officer No. 1 2006 The Black Dahlia Sgt. Bill Koenig 2007 Dangerous Parking Harry Midsummer Madness Mike 2011 The Task Big Daddy 2012 The Woman in Black Gerald Hardy 2013 Spike Island Security Guard 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Bar Patron 2018 Peterloo Deputy Chief Constable Nadin 2019 The Personal History of David Copperfield Creakle
Television Year Title Role Notes1983–1984BrooksideMike1986–1991BreadJack Boswell61 episodes19922Point4 ChildrenDoctor BrookeS2 E71992–1993Sean's ShowTony Benetti1993–1999, 2016Goodnight SweetheartRon Wheatcroft1993–1995Health and EfficiencyPhil Brooke 1998The BillJake MorganS14 "Bad Chemistry"2000A Many Splintered ThingLuis BanksMain2001–2002Peak PracticeShaun Carter2001Comic Relief: Say Pants to PovertyHimself2002Being AprilRichardMain2007New TricksPeter BakerS4.E4 "Nine Lives"2012–2017TrolliedIan38 episodes2014DoctorsSteve Miles2015The Last KingdomOswald 2019Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private InvestigatorsPhil Sirkin1 episodeDoctorsDave Weaver1 episodeChernobylGaranin1 episodeCoronation StreetBig Garth2020–2022Kate & KojiMr Mullholland8 episodes2022The ResponderTrevor2023A Small LightWillem GrootendorstTV Miniseries
Video games Year Title Role Notes2015 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture Charlie Tate Voice role
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