
Graham McTavish
Known for Acting · 105 credits
- Born
- 1961-01-04 (age 65)
- Place of birth
- Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
- Also known as
- Грэм Мактавиш · گراهام مکتاویش
Biography
Graham McTavish (born 1961) is a Scottish television actor. He has played the character Warden Ackerman in Red Dwarf in five episodes of series 8. McTavish has also had many supporting roles in British dramas and films such as Casualty, Jekyll, The Bill, Taggart and Sisterhood. He also played the ill-tempered Mercenary Commander Lewis in Rambo, had a role as Desmond's drill sergeant in the fourth season of Lost, starred in Ali G Indahouse as a Customs Officer and played a Russian pirate in NCIS. He played Ferguson in 4 episodes of season 4 of Prison Break. He has also starred in the film Green Street 2 which was released on 23rd March 2009. McTavish provided the voice and motion capture work for the evil psychopath war criminal Zoran Lazarevic in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the voice of the main protagonist Dante Alighieri in Dante's Inferno, Restoration leader Commander Lucius in the Shadow Complex video game, and the Decepticon Thundercracker in Transformers: War for Cybertron. He played Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Novakovich in the eighth season of 24, and did voice work as the Marvel Comics villain Loki in Hulk Vs. Thor and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
McTavish has also been cast in upcoming film The Wicker Tree, Robin Hardy's much anticipated sequel to 1973's The Wicker Man, and as Dwalin in the much anticipated The Hobbit.
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Known For
TV Shows (42)

NCIS
2003
as Aleksei

Prison Break
2005
as Ferguson

CSI: Miami
2002
as Mitch Davis

Outlander
2014
as Buck MacKenzie / Dougal MacKenzie

Lucifer
2016
as Father Kinley

Lost
2004
as Sergeant

24
2001
as Mikhail Novakovich

House of the Dragon
2022
as Ser Harrold Westerling

Ghost Whisperer
2005
as Gordon Brady

The Witcher
2019
as Sigismund Dijkstra

Casualty
1986
as Gerry Talbot / George Naseby

Spartacus: House of Ashur
2025
as Korris

Devil May Cry
2025
as Arius (voice)

Numb3rs
2005
as John Corcoran

Heartbeat
1992
as Derek Flowers

Love, Death & Robots
2019
as Bishop Cleary

Doctors
2000
as Paul Brookes

Colony
2016
as Andrew MacGregor

DuckTales
2017
as Fergus McDuck / Murdoch McDuck (voice) / Fergus McDuck (voice)

Red Dwarf
1988
as Ackerman

Preacher
2016
as Saint of Killers

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
2010
as Loki (voice)

Pushing Daisies
2007
as Hansel Von Getz

Castlevania
2017
as Vlad Dracula Tepes (voice)

Transformers: Robots In Disguise
2015
as Titus / Vernon (voice)

The Mighty Nein
2025
as King Dwendal / Husband (voice) / King Dwendal (voice)

The Good Guys
2010
as Dolph

Lily's Driftwood Bay
2014
as Narrator (voice)

Murphy's Law
2001
as Al Leyton

Cane
2007
as Neville

Rosemary & Thyme
2003
as D.I. Taylor

Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003
as Captain

Empire
2005
as General Rapax

Wolverine and the X-Men
2009
as Sebastian Shaw (voice)

Jekyll
2007
as Gavin Hardcastle

Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham
2021
as Self

Dead Talk Live
2020
as Self - Guest

Icons Unearthed: Lord of The Rings
2024
as Self - Narrator

The Royal
2003
as Anthony Poole

World's Deadliest Snakes
2020
as Narrator (voice)

Epic Oceans
2021
as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Zulu Wars
2002
as Narrator
Movies (63)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as Dwalin

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
as Dwalin

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
as Dwalin

Rambo
2008
as Lewis

Creed
2015
as Tommy Holiday

Aquaman
2018
as King Atlan

Colombiana
2011
as Head Marshall Warren

King Arthur
2004
as Roman Officer

Secretariat
2010
as Earl Jansen

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003
as Submarine Captain

Ali G Indahouse
2002
as Duke

Blood Red Sky
2021
as Col. Alan Drummond

The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
2021
as Deglan (voice)

The Finest Hours
2016
as Frank Fauteux

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
2010
as Dante (voice)

Middle Men
2009
as Ivan Sokoloff

Plastic
2014
as Steve Dawson

Erik the Viking
1989
as Thangbrand/Citizen/Dog Soldier

Hulk vs. Thor
2009
as Loki (voice)

Hulk Vs.
2009
as Loki (voice) (archive footage)

Green Street Hooligans 2
2009
as Big Marc Turner

The Wind in the Willows
1996
as Drunken Weasel

Dot the I
2003
as Detective 1

Dead Space: Aftermath
2011
as Captain Campbell (voice)

For Queen & Country
1988
as Lieutenant

Penance
2009
as Geeves

The Roots of Monty Python
2005
as Presenter

The Stolen
2017
as Bully

D-Day 6.6.1944
2004
as Group Capt. James Stagg

The Sixth Gun
2013
as Silas Hedgepeth

Pandemic
2009
as Captain Riley

The Vicar's Wife
as McCracken

The Wicker Tree
2011
as Sir Lachlan Morrison

Queen Mimi
2016
as Self

Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring
2003
as Self - Presenter

Good Girl, Bad Girl
2006
as Gromek

Dirty Boy
2025

Stakeout
2019
as Ibrahim Kozlov

Macbeth
1997
as Banquo

The Stretch
2000
as Andy McKinley

Merlin
1998
as Rengal

Somewhere in Montana
2025
as John Alexander

Genesis: Total Rock Review
2006
as Self - Presenter

Julius Caesar: Emperor of Rome
1998
as Narrator

Chasing Nightmares
as Bill

Perfidious
as President Senac

Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Return of the King
2003
as Self - Presenter

Crocodiles Revealed
2022
as Narrator (voice)

The Beatles In America
2007
as Self

Pink Floyd: Inside Pink Floyd: A Critical Review 1975-1996
2004
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Gunn

Rock Milestones: Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
2007
as Self

Oliver Cromwell: Traitor or Liberator?
1998
as Narrator

REALITi
2014
as Mandrake

Cheetah – Speed Trap
as Narrator

The Wastelander: Sector 23
2024
as The ring voz

The Jam: Punk Icons
2006
as Presenter

Genius: Charles Darwin
2003
as Narrator
A Dog's Show
2026

Serengeti Speed Queen
2020
as Narrator (voice)

Shadow Cats
2022
as Narrator (voice)

Bloodletting

ABBA - The Gold Singles
2006
as Self - Host/Narrator
About Graham McTavish
Graham McTavish (born 1961) is a Scottish television actor. He has played the character Warden Ackerman in Red Dwarf in five episodes of series 8. McTavish has also had many supporting roles in British dramas and films such as Casualty, Jekyll, The Bill, Taggart and Sisterhood. He also played the ill-tempered Mercenary Commander Lewis in Rambo, had a role as Desmond's drill sergeant in the fourth season of Lost, starred in Ali G Indahouse as a Customs Officer and played a Russian pirate in NCIS. He played Ferguson in 4 episodes of season 4 of… With 105 credits spanning from 1986 to 2026, Graham McTavish has appeared in 63 films and 42 TV shows.
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- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) — as Dwalin
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) — as Dwalin
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) — as Dwalin
- Rambo (2008) — as Lewis
- Creed (2015) — as Tommy Holiday
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