Peter Wight

ActorWriter Jan 1 (age 76) Worthing, Sussex, England, UK 1959–2025 (66 year career)

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Biography

Peter Wight is a British character actor of stage, film and TV who is perhaps best known for his work with Mike Leigh on films such as Meantime, Naked, Vera Drake, Another Year and Mr Turner. Wight regularly plays a police officer - most notably in the BBC sitcom Early Doors and in the mid 90s BBC drama Out of the Blue, as well as films like Shiner, Atonement and The Look of Love - and has had numerous period roles in dramas such as Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and Our Mutual Fri…

Known For

Film

Pride & Prejudice

Mr. Gardiner

Film

Hot Fuzz

Roy Porter

Film

Atonement

Police Inspector

Film

Babel

Tom

Film

The Conjuring: Last Rites

Grandpa Smurl

Film

Secrets & Lies

Father in Family Group

Film

My Week with Marilyn

Lucy's Father

Film

Naked

Brian

Filmography

Acting (122)

Movies (70)

The Conjuring: Last Rites

2025

as Grandpa Smurl

6.9

National Theatre Live: London Tide

2024

as Noddy Boffin

Cyrano

as Ragueneau

Early Doors - Live

as Nige

Uncle Vanya

as Telegin

Only You

as Andrew

Hamlet

as Polonius

Early Days

as Kate’s Dad

Another Mother's Son

as Rene

Brakes

as Alan

The Sense of an Ending

2017

as Colin Simpson

6.4

Ethel & Ernest

2016

as Detective Sergeant Burnley (voice)

Trespass Against Us

as Dog Owner

The Program

as Sunday Times Editor

Mr. Turner

as Joseph Gillot

The Look of Love

as Police Inspector

The Security Men

as Kenneth

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

2012

as Tory Grandee - Angus Butler

6.4

Kon-Tiki

2012

as Spinden

6.9

The Casebook of Eddie Brewer

as Ray Riddle

Best Laid Plans

as Roger

Hard Boiled Sweets

as Jimmy 'The Gent'

My Week with Marilyn

as Lucy's Father

Ghosted

Womb

as Ralph

Another Year

as Ken

Cass

as Cecil

Slapper

as Stuart

A Bunch of Amateurs

as Mike Bell

Atonement

as Police Inspector

Hot Fuzz

as Roy Porter

Flood

as Johnson - Transport Chief

5.3

Persuasion

2007

as Admiral Croft

7.2

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

as Self

Babel

as Tom

Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

as Charlie Williams

Pride & Prejudice

as Mr. Gardiner

Lassie

as Dr. Jarrett

Heidi

as Pastor

Uncle Adolf

as Heinrich Hoffman

Vera Drake

as Det. Inspector Webster

Three Blind Mice

as Tomlinson

The Gathering

as Dave Elford

The Statement

as Inspector Cholet

The Brides in the Bath

2003

as Charles Burnham

5.4

The Project

2002

as Neville

The Fourth Angel

as M.P.

Lucky Break

as George Barratt

Shiner

as Det. Insp. Grant

Care

as Francis Chambers

The Passion

as Ron

FairyTale: A True Story

as Newspaper Editor

Jane Eyre

as Clergyman

Secrets & Lies

as Father in Family Group

7.6

Speaking In Tongues

1994

as Ben's Father

Meat

as Frank

Naked

as Brian

Scanners III: The Takeover

1992

as Mark Dragon

4.4

Sleepers

1991

as Village Policeman

Codename: Kyril

1988

as Evans

Will You Love Me Tomorrow

as John

Personal Services

as Detective Gibson

Meantime

as Estate Manager

Murphy's Stroke

as Betting Office Clerk

The Bitch

as Ricky

Where the Heart Is

as Jack

The One and Only Phyllis Dixey

1978

as Reporter

Sunshine City

1973

Journey to the Center of the Earth

1959

as Laird Of Glendarick

6.9

Shakespeare’s Wart

as Director 1

Television (52)

The Reckoning

2023

as Peter Jaconelli

7.2

Sister Boniface Mysteries

as Arthur Millington

His Dark Materials

as Boatman

A Confession

as Charlie Edwards

This Time with Alan Partridge

as John Baskell

The Crown

as Newspaper Editor

Brief Encounters

as Brian

I Want My Wife Back

as Don (Bex's father)

4.7

Our Zoo

2014

as Albert Mottershead

The Mimic

as Mr Hurdle

The Paradise

as Edmund Lovett

Titanic

as Joseph Rushton

Room at the Top

as Mr. Hoylake

Hit & Miss

as Eddie

Public Enemies

as Ken Whiteley

Silk

as Alan Carruthers

Case Sensitive

as Robbie Proust

The Reckoning

as Frederick Taylor

Accused

as Alan Maxfield

Money

as Vince People

Monday Monday

Boy Meets Girl

as Bill

Lark Rise to Candleford

Sunshine

as Philip

Sunshine

Party Animals

as George Morgan

Life on Mars

as Frank Miller

Hotel Babylon

New Tricks

as Colin Beck

Murder Prevention

Charles II: The Power and The Passion

as Ormonde

Early Doors

as Nige

Fortysomething

as Nobby

The Second Coming

as Chief Supt. Len Chadwick

Ultimate Force

Waking the Dead

as Donald Hunt

Murphy's Law

as Alex Armstrong

Our Mutual Friend

as Reginald Wilfer

Midsomer Murders

as Ludlow

Silent Witness

as Lucas Garner

Dalziel & Pascoe

Hamish Macbeth

as Sydney Braithwaite

7.5

Out of the Blue

1995

as D.C. Ron Ludlow

Devil's Advocate

1995

as Inspector Costello

Anna Lee

as Bernie Schiller

A Touch of Frost

as Cyril Pearce

Heartbeat

as Len Peters

Sleepers

as Village Policeman

Casualty

as Trevor

Shine on Harvey Moon

as Geoff Woodcock

Secret Army

as Squadron Leader Kennedy

7.5

The Sweeney

1975

as Jimmy Park

7.9

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Jane Eyre

1997

Screenplay

7.1