Victor McGuire

Victor McGuire
Born	(1964-03-17) 17 March 1964 Tuebrook, Liverpool, England
Nationality	English
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1983–present

Victor McGuire (born 17 March 1964 in Tuebrook, Liverpool) 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 1-6 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").

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
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2019	The Personal History of David Copperfield	Creakle
2018	Peterloo	Deputy Chief Constable Nadin
2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Bar Patron
2013	Spike Island	Security Guard
2012	The Woman in Black	Gerald Hardy
2011	The Task	Big Daddy
2007	Midsummer Madness	Mike
2007	Dangerous Parking	Harry
2006	The Black Dahlia	Sgt. Bill Koenig
2005	Hellraiser: Hellworld	Police Officer No. 1
2004	The Phantom of the Opera	Piangi
2004	Suzie Gold	Breakfast TV Editor
2003	A Changed Man
2002	Thunderpants	Mr Smash
2001	Redemption Road	Ronald
1998	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Gary
1995	Sorry About Last Night	Michael

Television

	TV
	Year		Title	Role	Notes
	2022		The Responder	Trevor
	2020, 2022		Kate & Koji	Mr Mullholland	8 episodes
	2019		Doctors	Dave Weaver	1 episode
	2019		Chernobyl	Garanin	1 episode
	2019		Coronation Street	Big Garth
	2015		The Last Kingdom	Oswald
	2014		Doctors	Steve Miles
	2012-2017		Trollied	Ian	38 episodes
	2007		New Tricks	Peter Baker	S4.E4 "Nine Lives"
	2002		Being April	Richard	Main
	2001-2002		Peak Practice	Shaun Carter
	2001		Comic Relief: Say Pants to Poverty	Himself
	2000		A Many Splintered Thing	Luis Banks	Main
	1993-1999, 2016		Goodnight Sweetheart	Ron Wheatcroft
	1993-1995		Health and Efficiency	Phil Brooke
	1992-1993		Sean's Show	Tony Benetti
	1986-1991		Bread	Jack Boswell	61 episodes
	1983-1984		Brookside	Mike

Video games

Video games
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Everybody's Gone to the Rapture	Charlie Tate	Voice role

External links

• Victor McGuire at IMDb