Steven Roberts, better known as Steve Speirs, is a Welsh actor. Since graduating from university, Speirs has played Sloan in Eragon, Andy Fellows in Making Waves and the "pathetic loser" Dullard alongside Ricky Gervais in Extras, as well as having small parts in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Captain Tarpals) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. He appears in Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, a comedy fantasy series in which he plays Loquasto, an oafish servant, "who belongs to a race of pig-like creatures known as Grobble". Speirs often goes by the name of "Dullard" in honour of his role in Extras, as he considers the character a mirror of himself. Speirs also appeared in the Gervais and Stephen Merchant film Cemetery Junction, released in 2010, a part which was written particularly for Speirs. Speirs also starred as the bouncer at Mother McOakley's Tavern in Burke and Hare, a British black comedy directed by John Landis and released (in the United Kingdom) in October 2010. Other roles which Spiers is known for include his portrayal of Bernard Bresslaw in Cor, Blimey!, Big Alan Williams in Stellaand Colour Sergeant Wormwood in Sharpe's Peril. Speirs played depressed geography teacher and caretaker Mr Gareth Barber in the BBC One sitcom Big School for two series in 2013 and 2014. In 2013, Steve played PC McClintock in the Christmas TV film Gangsta Granny, an adaptation of the book written by David Walliams. He played the role of Dad in the 2014 TV film The Boy in the Dress, also written by Walliams.

Filmography

• 2026Madfabulous — Morris Price
• 2026ViQueens — King Erik (voice)
• 2023One Night Only — Morian
• 2022Gangsta Granny Strikes Again — PC McClintock
• 2020Concrete Plans — Bob
• The Tuckers
• 2019Denmark — Harry the Horse
• 2018Love Therapy — Director
• On the Edge — Steve
• Decline and Fall — Davis
• Rovers — Tel
• Upstart Crow — Burbage
• 2015The Bad Education Movie — Don
• Inside No. 9 — Mitch
• 2014Set Fire to the Stars
• 2014The Boy in the Dress — Peter Sims
• Big School — Mr Barber
• 2013Gangsta Granny — PC McClintock
• A Young Doctor's Notebook — Syphilitic Mikhail
• Cuckoo — Barman
• 2011Hunky Dory — Mr. Cafferty
• 2010Burke & Hare — McMartin's Doorman
• 2010Cemetery Junction — Sgt. Wyn Davies
• 2009A Child's Christmases in Wales — Uncle Huw
• Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
• 2009The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler — Piotr
• 2008Caught in the Act — Eric Jenkins, Producer, Writer
• 2008Inkheart — Flatnose
• 2008Sharpe's Peril — Wormwood
• 2007Dolphins — Social worker
• 2007The Baker — Bryn
• 2006Eragon — Sloan
• Not Going Out — Johnny Lucas
• 2006Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest — Quartermaster / Edinburgh
• 2006The Last Drop — Gustav Hansfeld
• Doctor Who — Commissioner Strickland / Sip Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen
• Extras — Dullard
• 2005Icon — Viktor Akopov (as Steven Speirs)
• 2004Benefit to Mankind — Caradoc
• Making Waves — CCMEA Andy Fellows
• 2004The Baby Juice Express — Mystery Man
• 2003The Planman — Darren Westcoate
• 2001The Musketeer — Porthos
• 2000Cor, Blimey! — Bernard Bresslaw
• 2000Rancid Aluminium — BMW Man (as Steven Speirs)
• 1999Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace — Captain Tarpals
• 1999Topsy-Turvy — Mr Kent
• 1999Tube Tales — Tweed Suit (segment "Rosebud")
• 1998A Knight in Camelot — Chief Armorer
• 1998The Very Thought of You — Taxi Driver
• 1997House of America — The Head
• Jonathan Creek — Herbie Bryant
• Keeping Mum — Leonard
• Midsomer Murders — Keith Carter
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Arthur Evans
• Goodnight Sweetheart — Phil
• Sharpe — Wormwood
• 1993Tender Loving Care — Porter
• The Detectives — Bruce
• 1992The Old Devils — Gareth's Fan in Pub
• Murder Most Horrid — DI Hooper
• Better Later — Clive
• Go Away!
• Over the Rainbow — Tik-Tok (voice)

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2023How to Fix a Railway — Self - Narrator (voice)