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
Complete Filmography
The Boys in the Boat
2023
as George Pocock
The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the world by competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
as DeSaad (voice)
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahu...
Official Secrets
2019
as TinTin
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint U...
The Last Boy
2019
as Priest
The world at an end, a dying mother sends her young son on a quest to find the place that grants wishes.
Secrets of the Forbidden City
2017
as Narrator
The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the power center of imperial Chin...
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
2017
as Baron 1
When the child Arthur’s father is murdered, Vortigern, Arthur’s uncle, seizes the crown. Robbed of his birthright and with no idea who he truly is, Ar...
Viking Apocalypse
2011
as Narrator
Viking Apocalypse is a examines the Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit in Weymouth, UK, a site of a suspected mass execution long ago.[1] As they begin d...
Centurion
2010
as General Cassius
Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Leg...
Polar Bears & Grizzlies: Bears on Top of the World
2009
as Narrator
Polar - and grizzly bears are rather similar, opportunist omnivore mammals and the largest land carnivores. However the polar bear gave up hibernating...
Hogfather
2007
as Medium Dave
It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The belov...
Out of time
2004
as Doctor
Charlie's in trouble. He's woken up to discover there's something horribly wrong with him. We follow his race to find a cure, get to the meeting and p...
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
2004
as Galileo
From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, dupl...
Secret Passage
2004
as Alfonso Salvador
Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into exile...
Greenfingers
2001
as Dudley
Clive Owen stars as a prison inmate who goes into an experimental "open" prison where the inmates walk around freely and get job training for their im...
Sleepy Hollow
1999
as Lord Crane
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitat...
Esther
1999
as Admatha
Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.
Hostile Waters
1997
as Vladimirov
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total...
The Saint
1997
as Frankie's Curator
Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on t...
Spender : The French Collection
1993
as Detective Chief Superintendent Gillespie
Spender Christmas Special: Spender is sent to France to escort Tommy Thornton who has been extradited to the UK.
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
1992
as Fra Perez
Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies, by traveling west instead of east, across the un...
Alien³
1992
as Gregor
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfo...
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992
as Philip
Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught...
The Widowmaker
1990
as DS Wills
The Widowmaker is a 1990 made for television film starring Annabelle Apsion, Alun Armstrong, David Morrissey and Kenneth Welsh. The film deals with a ...
Old Flames
1990
as Parkes
Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and ...
The Woman in Black
1989
as Stall Holder
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the town...
American Roulette
1988
as Policeman
Carlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the h...
The Keep
1983
as Wehrmacht Soldier
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks i...
Keep Smiling
1980
as Police constable
Family picnics should not be like this; bugging devices, men with X-ray eyes. Mary doesn't understand what terrifies Simon, nor the bizarre events of ...