Alistair Petrie

Alistair Petrie

Born: September 30, 1970
in Catterick, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Alistair Petrie (born September 30, 1970) is an English actor. He has starred in The Bank Job (2010), Cloud Atlas (2012), Rush (2013) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). Petrie has also starred in the Channel 4 television series Utopia, the BBC One television series' The Night Manager, Sherlock, and Undercover and as Mr. Groff in the Netflix original comedy-drama series Sex Education.

Movies for Alistair Petrie...

Magpie
Title: Magpie
Character: Richard
Released: March 9, 2024
Type: Movie
A couple's lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star.
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Title: The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies
Character: Dr. Rob Chance
Released: August 29, 2023
Type: TV
Two very different women, Alice a formidable PA and Cheryl a best-selling fantasy author, become trapped in a triangle of epic proportions with Rob an eccentric and celebrated 'ecopreneur' who may or may not be trying to destroy them both.
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Title: Funny Woman
Character: Ted Sargent
Released: February 9, 2023
Type: TV
A young woman from Blackpool finds her voice in the male dominated world of the 1960s comedy, and in doing so takes London by storm.
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Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Title: Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Character: General Draven (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor.
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Title: Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Character: Rev Richard Jones
Released: April 12, 2022
Type: TV
A dying man's enigmatic last words send vicar's son, Bobby Jones, and his socialite friend, Lady Frankie Derwent, on a crime-solving adventure.
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Silent Hours
Title: Silent Hours
Character: Lieutenant Charles 'Chuck' Carter
Released: September 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered.
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The Cursed
Title: The Cursed
Character: Seamus Laurent
Released: July 28, 2021
Type: Movie
In the late 19th century, a brutal land baron slaughters a Roma clan, unleashing a curse on his family and village. In the days that follow, the townspeople are plagued by nightmares, the baron's son goes missing, and a boy is found murdered. The locals suspect a wild animal, but a visiting pathologist warns of a more sinister presence lurking in the woods.
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Agatha and the Midnight Murders
Title: Agatha and the Midnight Murders
Character: Sir Malcolm Campbell
Released: October 7, 2020
Type: Movie
As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.
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Sulphur & White
Title: Sulphur & White
Character: Jeff
Released: February 28, 2020
Type: Movie
David is a successful city trader in London who is relentlessly focused on work. Beneath the confident facade, he is trapped by memories of the past and hostile to anyone who dares to help. Flashbacks reveal a childhood in South Africa at the mercy of an inadequate bully of a father Donald and an ineffectual mother Joanne. The physical and sexual abuse he suffered threatens any chance of happiness he might have now.
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A Battle In Waterloo
Title: A Battle In Waterloo
Character: Kildare
Released: August 12, 2019
Type: Movie
During the Battle of Waterloo, a soldier's wife searches for her missing husband in the nearby forest and must resort to extraordinary measures to survive.
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Title: Year of the Rabbit
Character: Mr Larkham
Released: June 10, 2019
Type: TV
Set in the dark heart of Victorian London, Detective Inspector Rabbit is a hardened booze-hound who's seen it all. Rabbit's been chasing bad guys for as long as he can remember, but these days his heart keeps stopping at inopportune moments.
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Hellboy
Title: Hellboy
Character: Lord Adam Glaren
Released: April 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.
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Title: Sex Education
Character: Michael Groff
Released: January 11, 2019
Type: TV
Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
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God's Kingdom
Title: God's Kingdom
Character: Alexander
Released: October 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Jack and Ella travel alone, taking the path less trodden. Disheveled and dirty they keep away from people, towns, and cities, off the grid. They are hiding, on the run, but from what and why? It’s unclear who Alexander works for but what’s apparent is that violence is his forte, he is driven by a darker force to find the pair. It’s a game of cat and mouse, the hunter chases the hunted.
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Deep State
Title: Deep State
Character: George White
Released: April 5, 2018
Type: Movie
Retired MI6 spy Max Easton reluctantly returns to the field for a final job and finds himself drawn into a global conspiracy and covert intelligence war.
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Hampstead
Title: Hampstead
Character: Steve Crowley
Released: June 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.
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Title: Genius
Character: Heinrich Weber
Released: April 25, 2017
Type: TV
The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Title: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Character: General Draven
Released: December 14, 2016
Type: Movie
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
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Title: Undercover
Character: Robert Greenlaw
Released: April 3, 2016
Type: TV
Undercover follows Maya, the first black Director Of Public Prosecutions. Just as she is about to take up the post and her life comes under intense public scrutiny, she learns that that her husband Nick has been lying to her for years. Twenty years ago Nick was a fearless and dedicated undercover officer, infiltrating organisations considered a danger to society because of their political beliefs. Nick built himself a fake past and now with his wife unsuspecting and his conscience killing him – his secret identity may compromise the new Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Title: The Night Manager
Character: Sandy Langbourne
Released: February 21, 2016
Type: TV
Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, Pine must himself become a criminal.
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Victor Frankenstein
Title: Victor Frankenstein
Character: Chief Inspector
Released: November 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
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Kicking Off
Title: Kicking Off
Character: Anthony
Released: September 30, 2015
Type: Movie
Kicking Off starts with the most important game of the season. Loyal fans Wigsy and Cliff watch in trepidation as their football team score the goal that will save them from relegation. Victory is bliss as a chorus of supporters chant and cry with elation. However, this frenzy of happiness quickly turns ugly as the referee disallows the deciding goal. With their hearts and fists pumping, adrenalin running and fury racing through their bloodstream, the fans take matters into their own hands and Cliff makes the fatal mistake of planning while intoxicated. Wigsy, a confirmed idiot, follows through with the said plan and in the darkest hours of the night he commits a crime that will cause chaos and catastrophe for him and his best mate Cliff. Kicking Off is cleverly filmed with split screen shots and slow motion montages. The characters are lovable thugs who will leave you laughing and grimacing at their lack of common sense. The beautiful game just got ugly.
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A Little Chaos
Title: A Little Chaos
Character: De Ville
Released: March 26, 2015
Type: Movie
A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, they find themselves drawn to each other and are thrown into rivalries within the court of King Louis XIV.
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Title: The Game
Character: Andrew
Released: November 5, 2014
Type: TV
"The Game" is a 1970s Cold War spy thriller set in the world of espionage. It tells the story of the invisible war fought by MI5 as it battles to protect the nation from the threats of the Cold War.
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The Face of an Angel
Title: The Face of an Angel
Character: Steve
Released: September 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
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Title: Lucan
Character: Jimmy Goldsmith
Released: December 11, 2013
Type: TV
Belgravia, London, November 7th, 1974. Sandra Rivett, nanny of the aristocratic Lucan family, is found beaten to death. Shortly thereafter, the prime suspect, John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, mysteriously disappears. When the manhunt begins, the subsequent scandal shakes the foundations of the British ruling class like never before.
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Lucan
Title: Lucan
Character: Jimmy Goldsmith
Released: December 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Drama about infamous aristocrat Lord Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974 after being accused of murdering his children's nanny.
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Vendetta
Title: Vendetta
Character: Spencer Holland
Released: November 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents while at the same time avoiding being tracked down by his old unit and the cops. With police closing in and his old unit on his trail, he has to evade capture long enough to complete his gruesome crusade.
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Title: The Escape Artist
Character: Julian Fowkes QC
Released: October 29, 2013
Type: TV
A chilling and bloody legal thriller that explores the line between law and justice. Will Burton, a talented junior barrister of peerless intellect and winning charm, specialises in spiriting people out of tight legal corners. He is in high demand as he has never lost a case. But when his talents acquit the notorious prime suspect in an horrific murder trial, that brilliance comes back to bite him with unexpected and chilling results, not to mention a shocking twist.
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Rush
Title: Rush
Character: Stirling Moss
Released: September 2, 2013
Type: Movie
In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.
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The Murder in Angel Lane
Title: The Murder in Angel Lane
Character: Dr. Casement
Released: May 12, 2013
Type: Movie
When Mr. Whicher, a retired policeman, helps a country lady to find her niece, he is drawn into a disturbing case of murder which brings him up against wealthy and powerful figures and throws him into conflict with his former police colleagues.
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Title: Utopia
Character: Geoff Lawson
Released: January 15, 2013
Type: TV
The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.
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Cloud Atlas
Title: Cloud Atlas
Character: Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest / Musician / Felix Finch / Lascivious Businessman
Released: October 26, 2012
Type: Movie
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
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Ashes
Title: Ashes
Character: Dr. Burrows
Released: September 6, 2012
Type: Movie
One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer's, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in hospital he realises the extra stress Frank is put under and decides to break him out in the hope of returning him to his family. As the two travel across the country, beginning to bond along the way, it soon transpires that both Frank and Jamie are at odds with their past.
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Metamorphosis
Title: Metamorphosis
Released: August 31, 2012
Type: Movie
Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up in his bed to find himself transformed into a large insect. After the metamorphosis, he becomes confined to his room and neglected by his family.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Gordon Foster
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Title: Vera
Character: Stuart Bayliss
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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Devil's Playground
Title: Devil's Playground
Character: Andy Billing
Released: August 21, 2010
Type: Movie
As the world succumbs to a zombie apocalypse, Cole - a hardened mercenary - is chasing the one person who can provide a cure. Not only to the plague but to Cole's own incumbent destiny.
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Title: Sherlock
Character: James Sholto
Released: July 25, 2010
Type: TV
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
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Gracie!
Title: Gracie!
Character: Basil Dean
Released: November 23, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1939 Gracie Fields, the 'Queen of Hearts', is at the height of her success as a singer and actress and the whole nation seems to wish her a speedy recovery from cervical cancer. When World War Two breaks out, Gracie sings for the troops despite poor health, to the dismay of her fussy husband, film director Monty Banks, an Italian, born Mario Bianchi. With Italy's entry into the war Monty is in danger of being interned so Gracie consents to his moving to America whilst she tours Canada, fund-raising for the war effort. She is accused of deserting the country which made her famous and booed offstage, though she later tours battlefields as a singer. With the war over she regains popularity, performing 'Take Me To Your Heart Again' at the London Palladium. Banks dies in 1950 and, though still a successful singer, Gracie never regains her pre-war iconic status.
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A Bunch of Amateurs
Title: A Bunch of Amateurs
Character: Rupert Twist
Released: November 17, 2008
Type: Movie
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 believes is a high-profile Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear at Stratford upon Avon, Steel thinks he has finally landed the plum role he has been waiting for. However, he soon discovers that he has been tricked into joining an amateur dramatics group for a charity production.
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The Duchess
Title: The Duchess
Character: Heaton
Released: September 5, 2008
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
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The Bank Job
Title: The Bank Job
Character: Phillip Lisle
Released: February 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime. As the resourceful band of thieves burrows its way into a safe-deposit vault at a Lloyds Bank, they quickly realise that, besides millions in riches, the boxes also contain secrets that implicate everyone from London's most notorious underworld gangsters to powerful government figures, and even the Royal Family. Although the heist makes headlines throughout Britain for several days, a government gag order eventually brings all reporting of the case to an immediate halt.
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Title: Cranford
Character: Major Gordon
Released: November 18, 2007
Type: TV
A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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The Mark of Cain
Title: The Mark of Cain
Character: Major Rod Gilchrist
Released: October 18, 2007
Type: Movie
After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detainees. Back home, the press gets the story and the pair achieves instant infamy.
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Round About Five
Title: Round About Five
Character: Other Man
Released: August 28, 2005
Type: Movie
Desperate to get across London to meet his girlfriend off the Eurostar, a man persuades a pretty bicycle courier to take him on the back of her bike, creating a dilemma he wasn't expecting.
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Man to Man
Title: Man to Man
Character: Beckinsale
Released: April 13, 2005
Type: Movie
An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.
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State of Mind
Title: State of Mind
Character: Nick Grainger
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Reeling from the discovery of her husband's adultery, Grace moves back to her family home with her son. Amidst all this emotional turmoil, forensic psychologist Grace is asked by police to determine the guilt or innocence a man who killed his wife.
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Title: The Forsyte Saga
Released: April 7, 2002
Type: TV
Epic series spanning three generations of the upwardly mobile Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century.
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The Stretch
Title: The Stretch
Character: Jonathon Nichols
Released: November 13, 2000
Type: Movie
When Terry (Grantham) is sentenced to a twenty-year stretch for a murder he did not commit, his wife Sam (Dobson) discovers that his apparently respectable business life has in fact been a cover for a vast criminal empire - drugs, protection, armed robbery, he was involved in it all. After the initial shock of the discovery has passed, Sam finds herself faced with a clear problem: should she leave it all behind, forget Terry and start her life afresh, or should she take charge of the business in her husband's absence?
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Mrs. Dalloway
Title: Mrs. Dalloway
Character: Herbert
Released: September 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.
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Title: Jonathan Creek
Character: Duncan Proctor
Released: May 9, 1997
Type: TV
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Clifford Bunting
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Robert Martin
Released: October 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend, Harriet, and so causes her to come to grief. Through the sharp words of Mr. Knightley, and the example of the opinionated Mrs. Elton, someone not unlike herself, Emma's attitudes begin to soften.
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Title: Dalziel & Pascoe
Released: March 16, 1996
Type: TV
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.
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Title: Game On
Character: Charles
Released: March 27, 1995
Type: TV
Following the lives of three 20-somethings sharing a flat in Battersea. They're young, bright and sexy - so why aren't they having a good time ? Join Matthew (the agoraphobic, self-obsessed, macho man); Martin (the wimpish, sex-starved underdog) and Mandy (the gorgeous blonde, who always ends up with the wrong men), in this outrageously funny flat-share comedy that is anything but politically correct.
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Title: (All Quiet on the) Preston Front
Character: Big Matt
Released: January 4, 1994
Type: TV
All Quiet on the Preston Front (or the shortened Preston Front as it became known for series two and three) was a BBC comedy drama about a group of friends in the fictional Lancashire town of Roker Bridge, and their links to the local Territorial Army infantry platoon. It was created by Tim Firth and ran from 1994 to 1997.
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Title: Scarlet and Black
Character: Hussar
Released: October 31, 1993
Type: TV
An ambitious young man seduces women of high social standing in order to improve his prospects.
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Merman
Title: Merman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Haunted by what she has seen while carrying out humanitarian work with refugees in the Mediterranean and traumatised by her experiences, Mari returns to her parents’ coastal home in rural Suffolk. There, through an unlikely acquaintance, she discovers the medieval legend of the Merman. The truth behind this seemingly innocent myth is darker than Mari could imagine. Merman explores themes of prejudice and isolation against the breath-taking backdrop of the Suffolk coastal landscape. Mari finds herself questioning whether humanity will ever be accepting of outsiders or are they destined to suffer as the Merman did hundreds of years ago.