Peter Wight
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 23.063 |
| Birthday | 1950-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Worthing, Sussex, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Peter Wright, |
2006
Babel
7.184/3650
In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the w...
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Babel
2004
Vera Drake
7.174/344
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
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Vera Drake
1993
Naked
7.347/527
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
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Naked
1992
Scanners III: The Takeover
4.426/95
A young scanner with extraordinary telepathic powers transforms into a lethal killing machine after taking one of her father's experimental drugs.
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Scanners III: The Takeover
2001
Lucky Break
6.2/31
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which...
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Lucky Break
2010
Another Year
7.004/377
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
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Another Year
1983
Meantime
6.6/87
A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. On...
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Meantime
2010
Womb
6/343
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her...
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Womb
1987
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
1/1
Inspired by the true story of Mary Bell; Freedom fascinates and frightens Jackie, encountering the real world for the first time in years, She clings...
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Will You Love Me Tomorrow
2003
The Gathering
5.38/163
Cassie Grant (Christina Ricci) is a young girl from the United States who is wandering through England on foot. On her way to Ashby Wake Cassie is hit...
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The Gathering
2012
Kon-Tiki
6.92/728
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was...
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Kon-Tiki
2013
The Look of Love
5.6/107
Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, De...
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The Look of Love
1994
Speaking In Tongues
0/0
Tony Marchant's eloquent and painful play about the changes to how people are employed, and what that does to their sense of self.
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Speaking In Tongues
1994
Meat
1/1
Brilliant, brutal and shocking drama starring Jonny Lee Miller and John Simm, following an ex-convict who falls for a prostitute, but makes a dangerou...
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Meat
1991
Sleepers
0/0
Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and...
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Sleepers
2007
Hot Fuzz
7.559/7352
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he m...
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Hot Fuzz
2007
Atonement
7.647/4095
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime...
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Atonement
2003
The Brides in the Bath
5.9/6
Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by...
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The Brides in the Bath
2012
The Casebook of Eddie Brewer
4.5/4
Eddie Brewer is an old-school paranormal investigator, being followed as part of a documentary.
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The Casebook of Eddie Brewer
2011
Ghosted
5.333/21
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms...
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Ghosted
2015
The Program
6.4/481
An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances....
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The Program
2000
Care
5/4
A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading...
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Care
2006
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
5.9/23
Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a life full of mental torture as he tried to overcome his...
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Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
2008
A Bunch of Amateurs
5.4/18
Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star, is desperate to revive his flagging career. When his sleazy agent signs him up for what he believe...
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A Bunch of Amateurs
2012
Best Laid Plans
5.6/27
David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves ar...
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Best Laid Plans
2016
Ethel & Ernest
7.3/106
This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and t...
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Ethel & Ernest
2005
Uncle Adolf
6/3
A young girl becomes the great love of the Nazi leader's life. It spans the years between 1929 and 1945, and focuses on Hitler's obsessive relationshi...
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Uncle Adolf
1996
Secrets & Lies
7.552/625
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a w...
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Secrets & Lies
2007
Persuasion
7.3/265
Royal Navy Captain Wentworth was haughtily turned down eight years ago as suitor of pompous baronet Sir Walter Elliot's daughter Anne, despite true lo...
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Persuasion
2014
Mr. Turner
6.543/505
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful...
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Mr. Turner
1997
Jane Eyre
7.128/43
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love...
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Jane Eyre
1979
The Bitch
4.8/21
The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.
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The Bitch
2008
Cass
5.9/62
The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became o...
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Cass
2005
Lassie
6.4/130
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on...
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Lassie
2017
Another Mother's Son
6.7/31
The true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey, who takes in a Russian prisoner of war.
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Another Mother's Son
2017
The Sense of an Ending
6.4/196
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
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The Sense of an Ending
2016
Trespass Against Us
5.786/316
Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countryside – hunting hares, ram-raiding stately homes, and...
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Trespass Against Us
2007
Flood
5.293/138
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which tra...
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Flood
2012
Hard Boiled Sweets
3.9/18
Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie has one million is dirty cash stashed at his home, j...
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Hard Boiled Sweets
2012
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
6.422/856
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an...
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
2000
Shiner
5.6/21
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
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Shiner
1987
Personal Services
6/39
The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne. The story follows C...
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Personal Services
2003
The Statement
5.62/71
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effective...
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The Statement
2011
My Week with Marilyn
6.683/1259
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince an...
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My Week with Marilyn
2001
The Fourth Angel
5.1/61
Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terroris...
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The Fourth Angel
2003
Three Blind Mice
4/19
Thomas is a talented computer programmer living in a vibrant, urban metropolis. Lonely and unsure about life, he finds solitude in the world of intern...
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Three Blind Mice
2017
Brakes
6.7/11
Brakes is a dark, improv-based ensemble comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the story of each couple's relationship in reverse, sta...
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Brakes
1997
FairyTale: A True Story
6.373/106
Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story
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FairyTale: A True Story
2005
Heidi
7.413/103
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charg...
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Heidi
2019
Only You
6.75/116
A madly-in-love young couple's relationship begins to suffer when they struggle to conceive a child.
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Only You
2013
The Security Men
0/0
A group of night security guards working at the fictional Whittington shopping centre in Greater Manchester must create an elaborate scheme to hide a...
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The Security Men
2018
Hamlet
6.4/7
Hamlet captures the Almeida Theatre's 2017 acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's great play, recorded as-live in its West End transfer on the...
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Hamlet
1980
Murphy's Stroke
6.5/2
The horse Gay Future is at the centre of an Irish betting syndicate in 1974 which saw trainer Antony Collins present a poor performing horse at his st...
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Murphy's Stroke
1973
Sunshine City
0/0
SUNSHINE CITY is Albie Thom’s sprawling, protoplasmic experimental portrait of his hometown of Sydney. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australi...
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Sunshine City
2018
Early Days
0/0
In the days following her return from hospital, new mother Kate is rocked by finding her world altered beyond recognition.
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Early Days
1988
Codename: Kyril
0/0
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark...
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Codename: Kyril
2005
Pride & Prejudice
8.078/7866
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbeari...
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Pride & Prejudice
2020
Uncle Vanya
7.313/9
An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic play about human frailty, in which secret loves and long-held resentments threaten to tear a family apart. Th...
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Uncle Vanya
2021
Early Doors - Live
0/0
Early Doors was a TV hit when the sitcom was originally aired on the BBC in 2003 and gained cult status over its twelve-episode run. The cast took the...
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Early Doors - Live
2008
Slapper
3.5/2
A young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather than boxing, this is an adult, brutal version of ‘Sla...
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Slapper
2021
Cyrano
6.405/280
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, conv...
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Cyrano
2002
The Project
0/0
The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of university to Westminster's corridors of power. Thei...
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The Project
1959
Journey to the Center of the Earth
7/447
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
1999
The Passion
0/0
During a rural representation of The Passion of Christ, a young actor and a married costume designer start a romance.
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The Passion
1978
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
0/0
Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper.
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The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
Shakespeare’s Wart
0/0
A desperate for work actor auditions for Shakespeare's Henry IV part 2 & is forced to perform more & more ridiculous characters by two good cop bad co...
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Shakespeare’s Wart
1979
Where the Heart Is
0/0
Dissatisfied with life with Jack, Penny offers a home to baby Zero and his homeless mother.
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