Peter Guinness is a British

British people

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 film

Film

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, television

Television

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 and theatre

Theatre

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 actor

Actor

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.

Career

He has appeared in over fifty television productions and over ten films. Guinness has also appeared onstage in an adaptation of The Pianist.

Film and television work

• Zorro
  Zorro (1990 TV series)
  Zorro, also known as The New Zorro, New World Zorro, and Zorro 1990, is an American action-adventure drama series featuring Duncan Regehr as the character of Zorro. Regehr portrayed the fearless Latino hero and fencer on The Family Channel from 1990 to 1993...
  
  , TV (1990)
• Alien 3, Film (1992)
• Highlander: The Series
  Highlander: The Series
  Highlander: The Series is a fantasy-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the Highlander. It was an offshoot and another alternate sequel of the 1986 feature film with a twist: Connor MacLeod did not win the prize and Immortals still exist post-1985...
  
   (1993), TV, episode "Nowhere To Run"
• Cadfael
  Cadfael
  Brother Cadfael is the fictional main character in a series of historical murder mysteries written between 1977 and 1994 by the linguist-scholar Edith Pargeter under the name "Ellis Peters". The character of Cadfael himself is a Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey, in western England,...
  
  , TV, series 3 episode 3 "The Raven in the Foregate" (1997)
• Sleepy Hollow
  Sleepy Hollow (film)
  Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American period horror film directed by Tim Burton. It is a film adaptation loosely inspired by the 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving and stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Marc Pickering, Michael Gambon, Jeffrey Jones,...
  
   (1999), Film
• Bleak House (2005), TV
• Rudyard Kipling: A Remembrance Tale
  Rudyard Kipling: A Remembrance Tale
  Rudyard Kipling: A Remembrance Tale was a 1-hour 2006 BBC documentary on the life of Rudyard Kipling, particularly as relating to his loss of his son during the First World War. It was presented by Griff Rhys Jones and starred Peter Guinness as Kipling...
  
   (2006), TV documentary
• Seconds From Disaster
  Seconds From Disaster
  -By original broadcast date:National Geographic Channel has broadcast many episodes under multiple titles. The title currently or most recently listed on the NGC Calendar is shown first...
  
   (2007) Narrator Series 3, TV documentary
• The Bill
  The Bill
  The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
  
  , TV
• Casualty
  Casualty (TV series)
  Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
  
  , TV
• Dreamland
  Dreamland (Doctor Who)
  Dreamland is the second animated Doctor Who serial to air on television...
  
  , TV (voice)
• Red Cap
  Red Cap (TV series)
  Red Cap is a British television series produced by Stormy Pictures for the BBC and broadcast on BBC One. Two series of 6 episodes each were produced following a feature length pilot. It featured the investigations of an SIB unit of the British Army based in Germany...
  
  , TV
• Freaks
  Freaks (Live song)
  "Freaks" is a song by alternative rock group Live, which was released as the second single from their 1997 album, Secret Samadhi.The song was not released as a single in the US, but still reached #5 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #13 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart...
  
  , Music video
• Centurion
  Centurion (film)
  Centurion is a 2010 British action thriller film directed by Neil Marshall, loosely based on the supposed disappearance of the Roman Ninth Legion in Caledonia in the second century CE. The film stars Michael Fassbender, Olga Kurylenko and Dominic West....
  
  ,(2010), film

Personal life

He is married to Roberta Taylor

Roberta Taylor

Roberta Taylor is an English actress and author. She is probably best known for her roles of Irene Raymond in EastEnders , and Inspector Gina Gold in The Bill .-Career:...

, an actress and writer

Writer

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. In 2010 he came out in support politically for the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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, after appearing in one of their election broadcasts.

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