Pearce Quigley

Acting

Pearce Quigley is a Salford born actor known for his work on films such as Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Danny Boyle's Millions, The House of Mirth and The Way Back. He is also a familiar face on TV, specifically in comedy having appeared in That Peter Kay Thing, Peter Kay's Car Share, Happiness, Rovers, and the detectorists, as well as dramas such as Three Girls, In The Dark, Cutting It, Prime Suspect 3 and Our Friends in the North. He is also a celebrated stage actor, performing at the National Theatre and the Globe.

Filmography

• 2026Fish & Chips
• Small Prophets — Michael Sleep
• Art Detectives — Charlie Filton
• 2025Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger — David Henshaw
• 2024The Critic — Mr. Morrisey
• The Gentlemen — Gospel John
• Showtrial — Philip Holmes KC
• 2021Talk Radio — Barry
• The Wheel of Time — Master Hightower
• 2021We Wish You a Mandy Christmas — Ghost Of Christmas Present
• Mandy — Lee
• McDonald & Dodds — Hector Ingham
• Down from London — Alan
• 2019The Merry Wives of Windsor - Live at Shakespeare's Globe — Sir John Falstaff
• 2018Hamlet - Live at Shakespeare's Globe — Rosencrantz
• Home from Home — Ben Thistlethwaite
• 2018Peterloo — Joshua
• In the Dark — Trevor Hare
• Three Girls — Peter Boyd
• 2016Breaking the Bank — Oscar
• Rovers — Willy
• 2015National Theatre Live: The Beaux' Stratagem — Scrub
• Together — Mark Tetherford
• 2014A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe — Bottom
• Detectorists — Russell
• Lovesick — Simon
• 2013Taming of the Shrew — Grumio
• 2012Doctor Faustus - Live at Shakespeare's Globe — Robin/Alexander
• Death in Paradise — Ivan McQuillan
• 2010The Way Back — The Professor
• 2010You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger — Poker Friend
• Being Human — Catholic Priest
• 2009Within the Whirlwind — Yelvov
• 2007Grow Your Own — Eddie
• 2006Born Equal — Beggar 1
• 2005Big Dippers — Perry
• 2005Millions — Community Policeman
• The Thick of It — Doug Hayes
• 15 Storeys High — Jonathan
• Cutting It — Eugene Eubank
• Pay and Display — Adolf
• 2000The House of Mirth — Percy Gryce
• Hippies — Policeman Eric
• Queer as Folk — Graham Beck
• Midsomer Murders — Colin Yule
• 1997Two Minutes — Brian
• Our Friends in the North — Detective
• Pie in the Sky — Alistair, Lord Pilbury
• Growing Rich — Woodie
• Heartbeat — Red Broadbent
• Prime Suspect — Red
• 1989Killing Dad — Luggage Attendant
• Inspector Morse — Mick McGovern
• The Woods — Ira Silverfield