Peter Wight
Known for: Acting
Born: January 1, 1950
Place of birth: Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
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.
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Filmography
69 movies · 53 TV shows, newest first
6.9
The Conjuring: Last Rites
2025
NR
National Theatre Live: London Tide
2024
7.2
The Reckoning
2023
6.5
Sister Boniface Mysteries
2022
6.3
Cyrano
2021
6.0
Early Doors - Live
2021
7.3
Uncle Vanya
2020
7.8
His Dark Materials
2019
7.1
A Confession
2019
6.6
Only You
2019
7.8
This Time with Alan Partridge
2019
1.0
Early Days
2018
6.4
Hamlet
2018
5.7
Brakes
2017
6.7
Another Mother's Son
2017
6.3
The Sense of an Ending
2017
8.2
The Crown
2016
7.5
Ethel & Ernest
2016
5.8
Trespass Against Us
2016
6.7
Brief Encounters
2016
4.7
I Want My Wife Back
2016
6.4
The Program
2015
6.5
Mr. Turner
2014
8.0
Our Zoo
2014
5.6
The Look of Love
2013
NR
The Security Men
2013
5.7
The Mimic
2013
6.9
Room at the Top
2012
7.3
The Paradise
2012
6.9
Kon-Tiki
2012
6.9
Hit & Miss
2012
5.9
Titanic
2012
4.5
The Casebook of Eddie Brewer
2012
6.4
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
2012
4.3
Hard Boiled Sweets
2012
5.5
Best Laid Plans
2012
6.6
Public Enemies
2012
NR
Shakespeare’s Wart
2012
6.7
My Week with Marilyn
2011
5.2
Ghosted
2011
6.9
Case Sensitive
2011
7.5
Silk
2011
4.8
The Reckoning
2011
8.2
Accused
2010
7.0
Another Year
2010
6.1
Womb
2010
4.5
Money
2010
10.0
Monday Monday
2009
5.5
Boy Meets Girl
2009
5.7
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008
7.8
Sunshine
2008
3.5
Slapper
2008
8.4
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
5.9
Cass
2008
10.0
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
2007
5.3
Flood
2007
7.2
Persuasion
2007
7.6
Atonement
2007
7.6
Hot Fuzz
2007
6.9
Party Animals
2007
7.2
Babel
2006
6.3
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
2006
7.3
Hotel Babylon
2006
7.8
Life on Mars
2006
6.4
Lassie
2005
8.1
Pride & Prejudice
2005
7.7
Heidi
2005
6.6
Uncle Adolf
20056.7
Murder Prevention
2004
7.2
Vera Drake
2004
7.3
New Tricks
2004
5.7
The Brides in the Bath
2003
5.7
The Statement
2003
6.3
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003
4.1
Three Blind Mice
2003
7.5
Fortysomething
2003
7.8
Early Doors
2003
5.6
The Gathering
2003
7.0
The Second Coming
2003NR
The Project
2002
6.6
Ultimate Force
2002
7.6
Murphy's Law
2001
6.3
Lucky Break
2001
5.3
The Fourth Angel
2001
7.2
Waking the Dead
2001
5.3
Care
2000
5.4
Shiner
2000
NR
The Passion
1999
7.8
Our Mutual Friend
1998
6.4
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
7.1
Jane Eyre
1997
7.6
Secrets & Lies
1996
6.4
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
7.6
Silent Witness
1996
8.0
Out of the Blue
1995
7.7
Hamish Macbeth
19953.3
Devil's Advocate
1995
4.5
Meat
1994
NR
Speaking In Tongues
1994
6.9
Anna Lee
1994
7.3
Naked
1993
7.5
A Touch of Frost
1992
7.2
Heartbeat
1992
4.4
Scanners III: The Takeover
1992
NR
Sleepers
19917.3
Sleepers
1991
6.0
Personal Services
1987
3.7
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
1987
6.2
Casualty
1986
6.7
Meantime
1983
7.7
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
5.8
Murphy's Stroke
1980
7.1
Minder
1979
4.4
The Bitch
1979NR
Where the Heart Is
1979
NR
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
1978
7.8
Secret Army
1977
8.1
The Sweeney
1975
NR
Sunshine City
1973
7.0
ITV Playhouse
1967
6.9
Journey to the Center of the Earth
1959