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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1965-02-22 (60 years old)

Place of Birth

Troedyrhiw, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Steve Speirs

Biography:

Steven Roberts, better known as Steve Speirs, is a Welsh actor.

Since graduating from university, Speirs has played Sloan in Eragon, Andy Fellows in Making Waves and the "pathetic loser" Dullard alongside Ricky Gervais in Extras, as well as having small parts in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Captain Tarpals) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

He appears in Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, a comedy fantasy series in which he plays Loquasto, an oafish servant, "who belongs to a race of pig-like creatures known as Grobble".

Speirs often goes by the name of "Dullard" in honour of his role in Extras, as he considers the character a mirror of himself.

Speirs also appeared in the Gervais and Stephen Merchant film Cemetery Junction, released in 2010, a part which was written particularly for Speirs. Speirs also starred as the bouncer at Mother McOakley's Tavern in Burke and Hare, a British black comedy directed by John Landis and released (in the United Kingdom) in October 2010.

Other roles which Spiers is known for include his portrayal of Bernard Bresslaw in Cor, Blimey!, Big Alan Williams in Stellaand Colour Sergeant Wormwood in Sharpe's Peril. Speirs played depressed geography teacher and caretaker Mr Gareth Barber in the BBC One sitcom Big School for two series in 2013 and 2014.

In 2013, Steve played PC McClintock in the Christmas TV film Gangsta Granny, an adaptation of the book written by David Walliams.

He played the role of Dad in the 2014 TV film The Boy in the Dress, also written by Walliams.

Known For

Acting

2023

How to Fix a Railway as Self - Narrator (voice)
One Night Only as Morian

2022

2020

2019

Denmark as Harry the Horse

2018

On the Edge as Steve

2017

2016

Upstart Crow as Burbage
Rovers as Tel

2015

2014

2013

Gangsta Granny as PC McClintock
Big School as Mr Barber

2012

Cuckoo as Barman
A Young Doctor's Notebook as Syphilitic Mikhail

2010

Cemetery Junction as Sgt. Wyn Davies
Burke & Hare as McMartin's Doorman

2009

2008

Inkheart as Flatnose
Sharpe's Peril as Wormwood
Caught in the Act as Eric Jenkins

2007

The Baker as Bryn
Dolphins as Social worker

2006

Eragon as Sloan
The Last Drop as Gustav Hansfeld
Not Going Out as Johnny Lucas

2005

Icon as Viktor Akopov (as Steven Speirs)
Extras as Dullard
Doctor Who as Commissioner Strickland / Sip Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen

2004

2003

The Planman as Darren Westcoate

2001

The Musketeer as Porthos

2000

Rancid Aluminium as BMW Man (as Steven Speirs)
Cor, Blimey! as Bernard Bresslaw

1999

Tube Tales as Tweed Suit (segment "Rosebud")
Topsy-Turvy as Mr Kent

1998

A Knight in Camelot as Chief Armorer

1997

House of America as The Head
Jonathan Creek as Herbie Bryant
Keeping Mum as Leonard
Midsomer Murders as Keith Carter

1996

Dalziel & Pascoe as Arthur Evans

1993

1992

The Old Devils as Gareth's Fan in Pub

1991

Murder Most Horrid as DI Hooper

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Directing

2018

Love Therapy as Director

Production

2008

Caught in the Act as Producer