Nicholas McGaughey
Nicholas McGaughey is a Welsh television actor and voice actor best known for playing the character of Brandon Monk in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm. He has appeared on a number of top British television programmes such as Casualty in 1998. He also appeared as Praetorian Officer in the 2000 Hollywood blockbuster, Gladiator, among actors such as Russell Crowe and Oliver Reed.
Also recorded as Nic McGaughey
Nicholas McGaughey
- Name
- Nicholas McGaughey
- Birthplace
- Portsmouth, England Nicholas McGaughey is a Welsh television actor and voice actor best known for playing the character of Brandon Monk in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- actor · poet
- Languages
- English · Welsh
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Nicholas McGaughey is a Welsh television actor and voice actor best known for playing the character of Brandon Monk in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm. He has appeared on a number of top British television programmes such as Casualty in 1998. He also appeared as Praetorian Officer in the 2000 Hollywood blockbuster, Gladiator, among actors such as Russell Crowe and Oliver Reed.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Nicholas McGaughey. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
identity unresolved · checked 25 September 2026
- Identity
- unresolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
wikidata · Q7025869 · wikipedia · Nicholas McGaughey
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
He also appeared in Sharpe's Gold in 1995 from the TV series Sharpe starring Sean Bean. He appeared in various TV Series including War and Peace (2016) as Self Important Major, Da Vinci’s Demons (2014) as Captain Sindona and also the same year in Musketeers "Friends and Enemies" as Innkeeper. He also appeared in Agatha Christie’s Poirot "The Labours of Hercules" in 2013 as Inspector Lementeuil. Also in 2013 he appeared in Atlantis "Twist if Fate" as Biton, Whitechapel as Derek Redman and New Tricks as Coxy. He appeared on the Welsh television series Pobol y Cwm in the role of Brandon Monk from 2002 to 2011. His character was killed off on 23 September 2011 after suffering a heart attack in hospital following the fire in the flat above the chip shop (Y Sosban Chips.) McGaughey is also a published writer of poetry and short fiction. His poem "Magic Hour" was performed at Holyhead, Wales, at dusk as part of the 21 December 2017 Solstice Shorts Festival and published in the 2018 anthology Dusk from Arachne Press.
• Name — Nicholas McGaughey • Birthplace — Portsmouth, England Nicholas McGaughey is a Welsh television actor and voice actor best known for playing the character of Brandon Monk in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm. He has appeared on a number of top British television programmes such as Casualty in 1998. He also appeared as Praetorian Officer in the 2000 Hollywood blockbuster, Gladiator, among actors such as Russell Crowe and Oliver Reed. He also appeared in Sharpe's Gold in 1995 from the TV series Sharpe starring Sean Bean. He appeared in various TV Series including War and Peace (2016) as Self Important Major, Da Vinci’s Demons (2014) as Captain Sindona and also the same year in Musketeers "Friends and Enemies" as Innkeeper. He also appeared in Agatha Christie’s Poirot "The Labours of Hercules" in 2013 as Inspector Lementeuil. Also in 2013 he appeared in Atlantis "Twist if Fate" as Biton, Whitechapel as Derek Redman and New Tricks as Coxy. He appeared on the Welsh television series Pobol y Cwm in the role of Brandon Monk from 2002 to 2011. His character was killed off on 23 September 2011 after suffering a heart attack in hospital following the fire in the flat above the chip shop (Y Sosban Chips.) McGaughey is also a published writer of poetry and short fiction. His poem "Magic Hour" was performed at Holyhead, Wales, at dusk as part of the 21 December 2017 Solstice Shorts Festival and published in the 2018 anthology Dusk from Arachne Press.
Filmography
Filmography
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1994 — Wild Justice — David Griffith • 1995 — The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain — Narrator — Voice • 1996 — The Proposition — Ellis • 1997 — Twin Town — Chunky • 1997 — Trial and Retribution — Terry Smith • 1999 — Beautiful People — Welshman • 2000 — Gladiator — Praetorian Officer • 2001 — From Hell — Officer Bolt • 2004 — A Way of Life — Terry Williams • 2013 — Lewis — Johnny Jay — Season 7, Episode: "The Ramblin' Boy" • 2016 — Crow — Maws • 2016 — Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children — 40's Bartender • 2016 — Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them — Australian Wizard
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Partially resolvedreference work
Partially resolved
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 26 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
38,377 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Nicholas I of MontenegroAuthor
- Nicholas IIAuthor
- Nicholas KalliklesAuthor
- Nicholas KristofAuthor
- Nicholas MesaritesAuthor
- Nicholas MichellAuthor
- Nicholas MonsarratAuthor
- Nicholas MooreAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Nicholas McGaughey?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.