McGuire appeared as Gary, one of the pair of thieves in
Guy Ritchie's
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and as Deputy Chief Constable Nadin in
Mike Leigh's
Peterloo. He has also appeared in a number of TV programmes, including
Dalziel and Pascoe,
Casualty and
2point4 Children. He played the character of Amos Hart in the West End musical
Chicago and was Lazar Wolf in the West End production of
Fiddler on the Roof at the
Savoy Theatre. He later reprised the role of Amos Hart in the theatrical production of
Chicago, in the
Cambridge Theatre, London. In 2012 he appeared in two episodes of historical drama World Without End as peasant Mark Webber. In 2005 he appeared in "A Fresh Start" and "Miller's Tale" - the first and the third episodes of the fifteenth series of
Heartbeat as Brian Parker. From 2012 to 2017 he appeared as security guard Ian in the Sky1 sitcom
Trollied. His last appearance was in the Christmas special episode in December 2017. In February 2019 McGuire appeared in
Coronation Street as a character called Big Garth. In May 2019 McGuire played Garanin in the Sky / HBO Mini-Series Chernobyl. In 2020 he appeared as a policeman in an advertisement for Haribo Starmix. McGuire is a supporter of
Everton F.C. In 2020 he starred in ITV sitcom
Kate & Koji as a customer named Mr. Mulholland, a pessimistic hypochondriac. In March 2021 he appeared in a safety advertisement for Highways England having the song "Go Left" a parody version of Go West by The Pet Shop Boys sung to him by two flies on his windscreen. In 2022, he reprised his role as Mr. Mulholland in series two of
Kate & Koji. ==Filmography==