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.

Filmography

• 2026Tender Loving Care — Dr. Wells
• 2025The Conjuring: Last Rites — Grandpa Smurl
• 2024National Theatre Live: London Tide — Noddy Boffin
• The Reckoning — Peter Jaconelli
• Sister Boniface Mysteries — Arthur Millington
• 2021Cyrano — Ragueneau
• 2021Early Doors - Live — Nige
• 2020Uncle Vanya — Telegin
• A Confession — Charlie Edwards
• His Dark Materials — Boatman
• 2019Only You — Andrew
• This Time with Alan Partridge — John Baskell
• 2018Early Days — Kate’s Dad
• 2018Hamlet — Polonius
• 2017Another Mother's Son — Rene
• 2017Brakes — Alan
• 2017The Sense of an Ending — Colin Simpson
• Brief Encounters — Brian
• 2016Ethel & Ernest — Detective Sergeant Burnley (voice)
• I Want My Wife Back — Don
• The Crown — Newspaper Editor
• 2016Trespass Against Us — Dog Owner
• 2015The Program — Sunday Times Editor
• 2014Mr. Turner — Joseph Gillot
• Our Zoo — Albert Mottershead
• 2013The Look of Love — Police Inspector
• The Mimic — Mr Hurdle
• 2013The Security Men — Kenneth
• 2012Best Laid Plans — Roger
• 2012Hard Boiled Sweets — Jimmy 'The Gent'
• Hit & Miss — Eddie
• 2012Kon-Tiki — Spinden
• Public Enemies — Ken Whiteley
• Room at the Top — Mr. Hoylake
• 2012Salmon Fishing in the Yemen — Tory Grandee - Angus Butler
• 2012Shakespeare’s Wart — Director 1
• 2012The Casebook of Eddie Brewer — Ray Riddle
• The Paradise — Edmund Lovett
• Titanic — Joseph Rushton
• Case Sensitive — Robbie Proust
• 2011Ghosted
• 2011My Week with Marilyn — Lucy's Father
• Silk — Alan Carruthers
• The Reckoning — Frederick Taylor
• Accused — Alan Maxfield
• 2010Another Year — Ken
• Money — Vince People
• 2010Womb — Ralph
• Boy Meets Girl — Bill
• Monday Monday
• 2008A Bunch of Amateurs — Mike Bell
• 2008Cass — Cecil
• Lark Rise to Candleford
• 2008Slapper — Stuart
• Sunshine — Philip
• 2007Atonement — Police Inspector
• 2007Flood — Johnson
• 2007Hot Fuzz — Roy Porter
• Party Animals — George Morgan
• 2007Persuasion — Admiral Croft
• 2006Babel — Tom
• Hotel Babylon
• 2006Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! — Charlie Williams
• Life on Mars — Frank Miller
• 2005Heidi — Pastor
• 2005Lassie — Dr. Jarrett
• 2005Pride & Prejudice — Mr. Gardiner
• 2005Uncle Adolf — Heinrich Hoffman
• Murder Prevention — Cmdr. Donald Wicker
• New Tricks — Colin Beck
• 2004Vera Drake — Det. Inspector Webster
• Charles II: The Power and The Passion — Ormonde
• Early Doors — Nige
• Fortysomething — Nobby
• 2003The Brides in the Bath — Charles Burnham
• 2003The Gathering — Dave Elford
• The Second Coming — Chief Supt. Len Chadwick
• 2003The Statement — Inspector Cholet
• 2003Three Blind Mice — Tomlinson
• 2002The Project — Neville
• Ultimate Force
• 2001Lucky Break — George Barratt
• Murphy's Law — Alex Armstrong
• 2001The Fourth Angel — M.P.
• Waking the Dead — Donald Hunt
• 2000Care — Francis Chambers
• 2000Shiner — Det. Insp. Grant
• 1999The Passion — Ron
• Our Mutual Friend — Reginald Wilfer
• 1997FairyTale: A True Story — Newspaper Editor
• 1997Jane Eyre — Clergyman, Screenplay
• Midsomer Murders — Ludlow
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Charles Johnson
• 1996Secrets & Lies — Father in Family Group
• Silent Witness — Lucas Garner
• Devil's Advocate — Inspector Costello
• Hamish Macbeth — Sydney Braithwaite
• Out of the Blue — DC Ron Ludlow
• Anna Lee — Bernie Schiller
• 1994Meat — Frank
• 1994Speaking In Tongues — Ben's Father
• 1993Naked — Brian
• Naked — Brian
• A Touch of Frost — Cyril Pearce
• Heartbeat — Len Peters, Bill Budge
• 1992Scanners III: The Takeover — Mark Dragon
• 1991Sleepers — Village Policeman
• Sleepers — Village Policeman
• 1987Personal Services — Detective Gibson
• 1987Will You Love Me Tomorrow — John
• Casualty — Trevor
• 1983Meantime — Estate Manager
• Shine on Harvey Moon — Geoff Woodcock
• 1980Murphy's Stroke — Betting Office Clerk, 1st Clerk Betting Office
• Minder — Alan (uncredited)
• 1979The Bitch — Ricky
• 1979Where the Heart Is — Jack
• 1978The One and Only Phyllis Dixey — Reporter
• Secret Army — Squadron Leader Kennedy
• The Sweeney — Jimmy Park
• 1973Sunshine City
• ITV Playhouse — Jack
• 1959Journey to the Center of the Earth — Laird Of Glendarick

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2007Common Ground: Under Construction Notes — Self