Lloyd McGuire

Biography

Lloyd McGuire is an English actor who has appeared in film and TV for over 35 years. Born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, McGuire attended Bournville Grammar-Technical School for Boys. He began work as a Commercial Apprentice at the Austin Motor Company in Birmingham in 1964 and toyed with developing a career as a footballer (even playing in King Norton's League and for Alvechurch second team). He became disillusioned with both football and life at "the Austin" and, after watching a Michael Caine film, declared he was going to be an actor. He was encouraged by his apprentice supervisor and gained entry to drama school. While training to be a British Leyland salesman, McGuire made the move to become an actor. Introduced to the Alvechurch Amateur Dramatic Society, he did some work at Crescent Theatre before being trained at the Birmingham College of Speech and Drama His most popular role was that of Bob in the Channel 4 TV series Teachers but he has also appeared in many TV programmes over the last few decades such as Coronation Street, Juliet Bravo, Midsomer Murders and so on. He has often played policemen, including the role of Sgt. Calder on the second series of Prime Suspect, recurring appearances as DS Bernie Duckworth in Juliet Bravo, and multiple characters in The Bill. Other TV show appearances include Bergerac, Boon, Birds of a Feather, Casualty, Doctors, Heartbeat, Holby City, Inspector Morse, Jonathan Creek, Lovejoy and Agatha Christie's Poirot. In 2010, he played the Master of Ceremonies in Chris Shepherd's award winning film Bad Night for the Blues. In 2013, he appeared as Valco boss Martin Shell in the third series of Sky One's Trollied. On stage, McGuire appeared and performed in Scotland and at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company with appearances at Aldwych Theatre and Stratford-upon-Avon, as well as Richard II in New York

Most Known For

Midsomer Murders

as Bob

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Museum Guard

EastEnders

as PC Williams

EastEnders

as Policeman

Doctor Who

as Lugo

Minder

as Juror

Minder

as Kramer's Man

Space: 1999

as First Engineer

Heartbeat

as Les Parnaby

Heartbeat

as Proctor

BBC Play of the Month

as Archie Cannibal

The Bill

The Professionals

as Sergeant

Bergerac

as Airport Officer

Bergerac

as Court Official

Jonathan Creek

as D.S. Owen Davey

Dempsey and Makepeace

as Norman

Birds of a Feather

as Policeman

Birds of a Feather

as Letting Agent

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

as Reg