Michael Garner English actor (born 1954)
Michael Garner
Born Michael Gordon Garner
(1954-10-15 ) 15 October 1954 (age 72) Occupation Actor Years active 1977–present
Michael Gordon Garner (born 15 October 1954) is an English theatre and television actor who is best known for playing Leading Firefighter/Sub Officer Geoffrey "Poison" Pearce in London's Burning
Theatre
A Tale of Two Cities Nell Gwynn Apollo Theatre West End )Told Look Younger Jermyn St Theatre )The Three Sisters Southwark Playhouse )The Merry Wives of Windsor Shakespeare's Globe )Michael Frayn 's Alphabetical Order at Hampstead Theatre A Small Family Business Watford Palace Theatre )Art An Evening with Gary Lineker Roots National Theatre )Sleeping Nightie (Royal Court Theatre )The Caucasian Chalk Circle Young Vic )Educating Rita Hamlet Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Cider with Rosie Unsuitable for Adults , W.C.P.C. (Liverpool Playhouse )Abigail’s Party Accidental Death of an Anarchist Ram Alley (Contact Theatre, Manchester)Absent Friends (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich)The Merchant of Venice Night and Day , Not Quite Jerusalem (Leeds Playhouse)Gothic Horrors (Shared Experience)Also seasons at the Library Theatre, Manchester and the Crucible Theatre , Sheffield . Television
London's Burning Other series include Vital Signs Thin Air , EastEnders Playing for Real , Spender Thacker . Also Doc Martin Holby City Doctors Down to Earth Heartbeat The Nation’s Health , Casualty Brookside Barriers Struggle , Coronation Street Minder The Bill Baby Talk The Chief Van der Valk Earth Warp Goodnight Sweetheart Film
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1983 Shore Patrol Leading Cook Fenner
1999 Rogue Trader Alec Sims
2011 The Merry Wives of Windsor Master Page
2013 Legend 17 Kanadskiy zhurnalist
Personal life
Garner lives in London with his partner Paula Hamilton and their two children.
He has run the London Marathon six times for the Leukemia Research charity.