Peter Wight
Birthday: 1950-01-01
Place of Birth: Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
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 Friend. His other films include Hot Fuzz, Babel, Cass, and The Sense of an Ending.
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Babel
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlockin...
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Early Doors - Live
Early Doors was a TV hit when the sitcom was originally aired on the BBC in 2003 and gained cult sta...
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Vera Drake
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...
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Naked
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odys...
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Slapper
A young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather tha...
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Scanners III: The Takeover
A young scanner with extraordinary telepathic powers transforms into a lethal killing machine after ...
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Lucky Break
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lu...
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Another Year
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less h...
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Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a life ...
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Cyrano
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal jous...
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Meantime
A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under ...
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Womb
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manho...
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The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper....
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The Look of Love
Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man i...
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Shakespeare’s Wart
A desperate for work actor auditions for Shakespeare's Henry IV part 2 & is forced to perform more &...
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The Project
The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of un...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic ...
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Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Inspired by the true story of Mary Bell; Freedom fascinates and frightens Jackie, encountering the r...
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The Gathering
Itinerant traveler Cassie Grant comes out of a car accident in Glastonbury, England, with partial me...
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Kon-Tiki
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a bal...
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The Passion
During a rural representation of The Passion of Christ, a young actor and a married costume designer...
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Where the Heart Is
Dissatisfied with life with Jack, Penny offers a home to baby Zero and his homeless mother....
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Speaking In Tongues
Tony Marchant's eloquent and painful play about the changes to how people are employed, and what tha...
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Meat
Brilliant, brutal and shocking drama starring Jonny Lee Miller and John Simm, following an ex-convic...
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Hot Fuzz
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the slee...
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Atonement
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives whe...
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Sleepers
Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under dee...
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The Brides in the Bath
Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of ...
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The Casebook of Eddie Brewer
Eddie Brewer is an old-school paranormal investigator, being followed as part of a documentary....
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Ghosted
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his hea...
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The Program
An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de ...
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Care
A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a p...
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A Bunch of Amateurs
Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star, is desperate to revive his flagging career. When...
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Ethel & Ernest
This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an int...
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Best Laid Plans
David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice...
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Uncle Adolf
A young girl becomes the great love of the Nazi leader's life. It spans the years between 1929 and 1...
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Persuasion
Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with ...
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Mr. Turner
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes inv...
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Secrets & Lies
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother...
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Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...
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The Bitch
The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is ...
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Cass
The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and b...
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Another Mother's Son
The true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey, who takes in a Russian priso...
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Lassie
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away fro...
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Trespass Against Us
Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countrysid...
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The Sense of an Ending
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-th...
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Personal Services
Fed up with working hard just to scrape by, Christine Painter comes up with a bold plan to become th...
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FairyTale: A True Story
In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific e...
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The Fourth Angel
Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is h...
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Three Blind Mice
Thomas is a talented computer programmer living in a vibrant, urban metropolis. Lonely and unsure ab...
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The Statement
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War I...
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Heidi
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, wh...
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Flood
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high s...
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sp...
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My Week with Marilyn
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his ...
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Hard Boiled Sweets
Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie ha...
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Brakes
Brakes is a dark, improv-based ensemble comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the s...
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Only You
A madly-in-love young couple's relationship begins to suffer when they struggle to conceive a child....
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Hamlet
Hamlet captures the Almeida Theatre's 2017 acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's great play,...
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The Security Men
A group of night security guards working at the fictional Whittington shopping centre in Greater Man...
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Murphy's Stroke
The horse Gay Future is at the centre of an Irish betting syndicate in 1974 which saw trainer Antony...
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Sunshine City
SUNSHINE CITY is Albie Thom’s sprawling, protoplasmic experimental portrait of his hometown of Sydne...
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Early Days
In the days following her return from hospital, new mother Kate is rocked by finding her world alter...
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Codename: Kyril
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reporte...
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Pride & Prejudice
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a ge...
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Uncle Vanya
During a hot summer, Sonya and her uncle Vanya spend their days idle in a dilapidated farmhouse deep...
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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach th...
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The Conjuring: Last Rites
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysteriou...
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National Theatre Live: London Tide
A storm rages and, in the darkest part of the night, a body is pulled from the swirling river. Acros...
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