Peter Wight
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 Friend. His other films include Hot Fuzz, Babel, Cass, and The Sense of an Ending.
121 acting credits
Acting · 121
Midsomer Murders
1997
The Crown
2016
The Conjuring: Last Rites
2025
Casualty
1986
Silent Witness
1996
A Touch of Frost
1992
Heartbeat
1992
Waking the Dead
2001
New Tricks
2004
His Dark Materials
2019
The Sweeney
1975
Pride & Prejudice
2005
ITV Playhouse
1967
Silk
2011
Secret Army
1977
Sister Boniface Mysteries
2022
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
Atonement
2007
Life on Mars
2006
Murphy's Law
2001
Hotel Babylon
2006
Hot Fuzz
2007
Accused
2010
Hamish Macbeth
1995
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
Ultimate Force
2002
Early Doors
2003
The Paradise
2012
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003
Titanic
2012
Babel
2006
Out of the Blue
1995
This Time with Alan Partridge
2019
A Confession
2019
Naked
1993
Our Mutual Friend
1998
Secrets & Lies
1996
Party Animals
2007
Hit & Miss
2012
Journey to the Center of the Earth
1959
Sunshine
2008
Case Sensitive
2011
Womb
2010
Anna Lee
1994
The Reckoning
2023
My Week with Marilyn
2011
Mr. Turner
2014
The Mimic
2013
Monday Monday
2009
Cyrano
2021
Room at the Top
2012
Sleepers
1991
Our Zoo
2014
Flood
2007
Persuasion
2007
Public Enemies
2012
Brief Encounters
2016
Vera Drake
2004
Fortysomething
2003
Kon-Tiki
2012
Murder Prevention
2004
Trespass Against Us
2016
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
Money
2010
The Second Coming
2003
Boy Meets Girl
2009
Another Year
2010
Lassie
2005
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
2007
The Look of Love
2013
Heidi
2005
The Sense of an Ending
2017
The Program
2015
Personal Services
1987
Cass
2008
Shiner
2000
The Reckoning
2011
I Want My Wife Back
2016
Meantime
1983
Devil's Advocate
1995
Only You
2019
The Fourth Angel
2001
The Statement
2003
Ethel & Ernest
2016
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
2012
Jane Eyre
1997
The Gathering
2003
Hamlet
2018
Scanners III: The Takeover
1992
Three Blind Mice
2003
Lucky Break
2001
Ghosted
2011
The Bitch
1979
Care
2000
Uncle Vanya
2020
Brakes
2017
Another Mother's Son
2017
Slapper
2008
Best Laid Plans
2012
Hard Boiled Sweets
2012
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
2006
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
1987
Sleepers
1991
The Project
2002
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
1978
Codename: Kyril
1988
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008
The Passion
1999
Murphy's Stroke
1980
National Theatre Live: London Tide
2024
Meat
1994
Uncle Adolf
2005
Early Days
2018
The Security Men
2013
Speaking In Tongues
1994
The Brides in the Bath
2003
Early Doors - Live
2021
The Casebook of Eddie Brewer
2012
Shakespeare’s Wart
2012
Sunshine City
1973
Where the Heart Is
1979