Victor McGuire

Victor McGuire
Victor McGuire in 2023
Born	(1964-03-17) 17 March 1964 Tuebrook, Liverpool, England
Nationality	English
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1983–present

Victor McGuire (born 17 March 1964) 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

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	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
2004	The Phantom of the Opera	Piangi
2005	Hellraiser: Hellworld	Police Officer No. 1
2006	The Black Dahlia	Sgt. Bill Koenig
2007	Dangerous Parking	Harry
2007	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

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
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

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

External links

• Victor McGuire at IMDb