Peter Guinness

Biography

Peter Guinness (born 14 August 1950) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. He has appeared in over fifty television productions and over ten films. Guinness has also appeared onstage in an adaptation of The Pianist.

Known For

Natural World

Narrator

Heartbeat

Stevie Walsh

Merlin

Ari

Highlander: The Series

Col. Everett Bellian

Seconds From Disaster

Narrator (voice)

Casualty

Paul Becket

Tales from the Crypt

Mr. Starr

Bugs

Mackenzie

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2023	The Boys in the Boat	George Pocock
2021	Zack Snyder's Justice League	DeSaad (voice)
2019	The Last Boy	Priest
2019	Official Secrets	TinTin
2017	King Arthur: Legend of the Sword	Baron 1
2017	Secrets of the Forbidden City	Narrator
2011	Viking Apocalypse	Narrator
2010	Centurion	General Cassius
2009	Polar Bears & Grizzlies: Bears on Top of the World	Narrator
2007	Hogfather	Medium Dave
2004	Secret Passage	Alfonso Salvador
2004	The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance	Galileo
2004	Out of time	Doctor
2001	Greenfingers	Dudley
1999	Sleepy Hollow	Lord Crane
1999	Esther	Admatha
1997	The Saint	Frankie's Curator
1997	Hostile Waters	Vladimirov
1993	Spender : The French Collection	Detective Chief Superintendent Gillespie
1992	Alien³	Gregor
1992	The Cloning of Joanna May	Philip
1992	Christopher Columbus: The Discovery	Fra Perez
1990	The Widowmaker	DS Wills
1990	Old Flames	Parkes
1989	The Woman in Black	Stall Holder
1988	American Roulette	Policeman
1983	The Keep	Wehrmacht Soldier
1980	Keep Smiling	Police constable

Year	TV Show	Role
2024	Red Eye	George Chapman
2019	Chernobyl	Major Burov
2019	Catch-22	Gen. Dreedle
2019	Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler	General Malcolm
2018	Watership Down	Silverweed (voice)
2018	Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan	Petr Kovac
2016	The Girlfriend Experience	Leif
2013	Jo
2013	Da Vinci's Demons
2011	Zen	Tito Spadola
2011	Hidden	Jason Styles
2009	Doctor Who: Dreamland	Mister Dread (voice)
2008	Merlin	Ari
2006	Hogfather	Medium Dave
2005	Seconds From Disaster	Narrator (voice)
2004	Sea of Souls	Dr. Phillip Duncan
2003	Days That Shook the World	Narrator (voice)
2001	Murphy's Law
2001	Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story	Hall Cryer
2000	Arabian Nights	Chief Executioner
1997	Lexx	Joseph Van Helsing
1997	Ivanhoe	Montfitchit
1996	Rhodes	Colonel Kekewich
1995	Bugs	Mackenzie
1994	Cadfael	Father Ailnoth
1994	Smokescreen	Albert Gold
1992	Heartbeat	Stevie Walsh
1992	Highlander: The Series	Col. Everett Bellian
1992	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales	Antonio (voice)
1991	Paul Merton: The Series
1991	Spender	DCS Gillespie
1989	Tales from the Crypt	Mr. Starr
1989	Stay Lucky
1989	Blackeyes	Photographer
1987	Rockliffe's Babies
1986	Casualty	Paul Becket
1984	Sherlock Holmes	Wilcox
1983	Natural World	Narrator
1983	By the Sword Divided
1982	Smiley's People
1979	The Legend of King Arthur	Girflet
1972	Van der Valk	Nick Koop