Ian David McShane (born 29 September 1942) is an English actor. Although he has appeared in numerous films, it is by his television roles that he is generally known, starting with the BBC’s Lovejoy (1986–94) and particularly in the HBO Western drama Deadwood (2004–06). He starred as King Silas Benjamin in NBC series Kings and as Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
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Ian McShane Biography / Wiki
| Name | Ian McShane |
| Also Know | ИÑн МакШейн, Ian David McShane, Ίαν ΜακΣÎιν, 伊æ©Â·éº¥å…‹å¤æ©, 伊æ©Â·éº¦æŸ¯è‚–æ©, ì´ì•ˆ 맥ì‰ì¸ |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | September 29, 1942 |
| Age(as in 2023) | 80 |
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Ian McShane Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | Charlie Cartwright | 1969-04-24 | A group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days…. |
| Freelance | Mitch | 1970-01-01 | A street-smart witness (Ian McShane) to a gangland slaying tries to beat the hit man at his own game…. |
| Terror in Moscow | Narrator | 2003-05-12 | In October 2002, 41 Chechen terrorists took more than 700 people hostage in a Moscow theater, demanding an end to Russia’s war against their homeland…. |
| Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You | Fred C. Dobbs | 1970-03-25 | An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage…. |
| The Great Riviera Bank Robbery | The Brain (Bert) | 1980-05-13 | A group of fervent right wing French nationalists plan to finance a government coup and smash communists by pulling off a daring bank robbery…. |
| Wuthering Heights | Heathcliff | 1967-10-28 | Adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë…. |
| Disraeli | Benjamin Disraeli | 1978-09-05 | Disraeli is a British four part serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli…. |
| Yesterday’s Hero | Rod Turner | 1979-04-24 | Successful soccer player Rod Turner spirals into drunken self-pity until he develops a friendship with an inspirational orphan and a beautiful singer…. |
| Soul Survivors | Otis Cooke | 1995-09-10 | Otis Cooke is a DJ with a late-night American soul music programme in Liverpool. His favorite band, The Tallahassees, disbanded years ago, but their b… |
| High Tide | 1980-03-11 | Ian McShane stars as Peter Curtis, who has just been released from prison after serving four years for manslaughter. His victim’s mysterious last word… | |
| White Goods | Ian Deegan | 1994-01-01 | Ian Deegan and Charlie Collins are best friends who team up to appear on TV in a popular snooker based game show. But, when they hit their jackpot, th… |
| Age of Sail | William Avery (voice) | 2018-08-29 | An old, down on his luck sailor rescues a young girl at sea after she fell off a passenger ship…. |
| Dick Francis: Twice Shy | David Cleveland | 1989-12-14 | A fool-proof formula for picking winning horses on a computer disc is the Maguffin sought by Cleveland and others…. |
| How We Used to Live | Narrator | 2013-10-11 | Documentarian Paul Kelly returns to the festival with his latest collaboration with the band Saint Etienne, following the loose trilogy of London film… |
| The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising | Merriman Lyon | 2007-10-05 | A boy’s life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the f… |
| Villain | Wolfe Lissner | 1971-05-26 | In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament…. |
| The Pleasure Girls | Keith Dexter | 1965-05-01 | When Sally moves to London to pursue a modelling career, she moves in with Angela and Dee and discovers the world of the carefree bachelor girl in Swi… |
| Nemesis Game | Jeff Novak | 2003-09-16 | Sara Novak is an introverted college student with a few skeletons in her closet. Shying away from classmates, she prefers to spend time with Vern, an … |
| Ransom | Ray Petrie | 1974-12-06 | Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain’s ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in hi… |
| The Ballad of Tam Lin | Tom Lynn | 1970-12-01 | Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wand… |
| Sky West and Crooked | Roibin | 1965-08-31 | A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend 10 ye… |
| Hercules | Amphiarus | 2014-07-23 | Fourteen hundred years ago, a tormented soul walked the earth that was neither man nor god. Hercules was the powerful son of the god king Zeus, for th… |
| The Hollow Point | Leland | 2016-12-16 | Los Reyes County, Arizona. Leland, a retired lawman, works with Wallace, the new sheriff who replaces him, when a vicious hit man, sent by a Mexican d… |
| Jawbone | Joe Padgett | 2017-05-12 | A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his … |
| Deadwood: The Movie | Al Swearengen | 2019-05-31 | Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota’s statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wo… |
| Ballerina | Winston | A young female assassin seeks revenge against the people who killed her family…. | |
| Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story | Narrator | 2021-11-29 | Robbo is a remarkable feature film that tells the story of one of England and Manchester United’s greatest ever midfielders. From a working class ki… |
| Death Race | Coach | 2008-08-22 | Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyla… |
| Sexy Beast | Teddy Bass | 2000-09-13 | Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shat… |
| Case 39 | Detective Mike Barron | 2009-08-13 | In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl’s cruel parents. Emi… |
| 44 Inch Chest | Meredith | 2009-10-08 | Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife’s lover so he can have his revenge…. |
| Sitting Target | Birdy Williams | 1972-05-01 | Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beauti… |
| Man and Boy | Marty Mann | 2002-03-30 | When television executive Harry has a one-night-stand, his wife Gina walks out on him, leaving Harry to look after the couple’s young son…. |
| The Wild and the Willing | Harry Brown | 1962-10-16 | Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn’t play ‘… |
| John Wick | Winston | 2014-10-22 | Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him…. |
| Bilal: A New Breed of Hero | Umayya (voice) | 2016-09-08 | A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into… |
| Torchlight | Sidney | 1985-02-01 | A happy marriage turns sour when the husband becomes addicted to cocaine…. |
| John Wick: Chapter 2 | Winston | 2017-02-08 | John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood o… |
| Hellboy | Trevor “Broom” Bruttenholm | 2019-04-10 | Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin’s consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a … |
| A Wizard’s Tale | The Grump (voice) | 2018-03-01 | Balloon kingdoms, dopey police dragons and happy wizards are exactly how Terry remembered his Grandmother’s whacky fairy tales. Except they are real a… |
| Bolden | Judge Perry | 2019-05-03 | A mythical account of the life of Buddy Bolden, the first Cornet King of New Orleans…. |
| John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum | Winston | 2019-05-15 | Super-assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member o… |
| John Wick: Chapter 4 | Winston | 2023-03-22 | With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face … |
| Scoop | Joe Strombel | 2006-07-27 | An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls…. |
| Too Scared to Scream | Vincent Hardwick | 1984-09-28 | A killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City…. |
| Exposed | Greg Miller | 1983-04-22 | Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for he… |
| Journey into Fear | Banat | 1975-08-08 | U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab business people…. |
| The Letter | Geoff | 1982-05-03 | The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful…. |
| The Pirate | Rashid | 1978-11-21 | An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, is put in charge of his country’s vast oil fortunes. He comes into conflict with a fanatical te… |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Captain Edward “Blackbeard” Teach | 2011-05-14 | Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he’s not sure if it’s love — or if she’s a ruthless con artist who’s using him to … |
| Bollywood Queen | Frank | 2002-01-01 | A cross cultural romance set in London’s East End about a young girl of Indian heritage…. |
| The Fifth Musketeer | Fouquet | 1979-04-06 | King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king … |
| We Are Marshall | Paul Griffen | 2006-12-12 | When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team’s new coach and his surviving p… |
| Battle of Britain | Sgt. Pilot Andy | 1969-09-15 | In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the N… |
| Coraline | Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky (voice) | 2009-02-05 | A young girl discovers an idealized parallel universe behind a secret door in her new home, unaware that it contains a sinister secret…. |
| Jack the Giant Slayer | King Brahmwell | 2013-02-27 | The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unlea… |
| Snow White and the Huntsman | Beith | 2012-05-30 | After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almos… |
| Ordeal by Innocence | Philip Durant | 1984-06-22 | Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed … |
| Grace Kelly | Prince Rainier of Monaco | 1983-02-21 | The fairy tale story of the actress who became a princess is told in this biography that traces her rise from Philadelphia socialite to Hollywood movi… |
| Tales of the Wild Hunt: Hellboy Reborn | Himself | 2019-07-23 | Documentary on the making of the 2019 movie…. |
| Rocket to the Moon | Willy Wax | 1986-05-05 | In 1938 New York City, a dentist finds his business and marriage failing as he embarks on a love affair with a young dental assistant…. |
| Babylon 5: The River of Souls | Robert Bryson | 1998-12-20 | A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them…. |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Prefet de police | 1986-12-07 | A detective comes out of retirement to help his daughter’s fiance prove that he did not commit a series of murders…. |
| The Last of Sheila | Anthony | 1973-06-14 | A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scaveng… |
| Code Name: Diamond Head | Sean Donovan / Father Horton / Colonel Millard Butler | 1977-05-03 | A failed Quinn Martin pilot for a series starring a Hawaii-based government counter intelligence agency run by the indomitable Aunt Mary. In this, his… |
| D.R.E.A.M. Team | Oliver Maxwell | 1999-09-25 | J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team of terrorists, led by the murderous Oliver Maxwell, pl… |
| Cuban Fury | Ron Parfitt | 2014-02-14 | Beneath Bruce Garrett’s under-confident, overweight exterior, the passionate heart of a salsa king lies dormant. Now, one woman is about to reignite h… |
| The Great Escape II: The Untold Story | Roger Bushell | 1988-11-05 | Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis…. |
| Pottersville | Bart | 2017-11-10 | Maynard, a beloved local businessman is mistaken for the legendary Bigfoot during an inebriated romp through town in a makeshift gorilla costume. The … |
| Hot Rod | Frank Powell | 2007-08-03 | For Rod Kimball, performing stunts is a way of life, even though he is rather accident-prone. Poor Rod cannot even get any respect from his stepfather… |
| Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception | Andre Marchand | 1990-03-11 | Perry Mason ventures to Paris to defend a U.S. Marine Corps Captain accused of murdering a man suspected of being a Nazi SS Officer…. |
| Miami Vice: Freefall | Gen. Manuel Borbon | 1989-05-21 | Crockett and Tubbs are recruited by the government to help a dictator escape from his war-torn country – with double-crosses at every turn. This is th… |
| Kung Fu Panda | Tai Lung (voice) | 2008-06-04 | When the Valley of Peace is threatened, lazy Po the panda discovers his destiny as the “chosen one” and trains to become a kung fu hero, but transform… |
| The Lives of Jenny Dolan | Saunders | 1975-10-27 | A newspaper reporter’s life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination…. |
| The Golden Compass | Ragnar Sturlusson (voice) | 2007-12-04 | After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherwor… |
| Agent Cody Banks | Brinkman | 2003-03-14 | Recruited by the U.S. government to be a special agent, nerdy teenager Cody Banks must get closer to cute classmate Natalie in order to learn about an… |
| Grimsby | MI6 Spy Boss (uncredited) | 2016-02-24 | Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plo… |
| El Niño | Inglés | 2014-08-29 | Two youths, Niño and Compi, enter the world of drug smuggling in the Strait of Gibraltar; while two police officers, Jesús and Eva, try to eradicate… |
| Master of Dark Shadows | Narrator | 2019-04-16 | Revealing the fascinating impact of the ground-breaking Gothic drama Dark Shadows with a compelling blend of rare footage and behind-the-scenes storie… |
| Nine Lives | Larry | 2005-09-02 | Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life…. |
| Shrek the Third | Captain Hook (voice) | 2007-05-17 | The King of Far Far Away has died and Shrek and Fiona are to become King & Queen. However, Shrek wants to return to his cozy swamp and live in peace a… |
| Cheaper to Keep Her | Dr. Alfred Sunshine | 1981-01-01 | A newly divorced swinger on the prowl goes to work as a detective for a neurotic feminist attorney…. |
| My Father’s Dragon | Saiwa (voice) | 2022-11-04 | Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elme… |
| Performance | Noel (Voice) (Uncredited) | 1970-08-03 | Young gangster Chas Devlin seeks refuge from the mob in a basement belonging to a reclusive, fading rock star Turner…. |
| The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU | (archive footage) | 2020-01-02 | Go back to the beginning of television’s longest-running primetime drama with behind-the-scenes footage, memorable scenes and exclusive interviews wit… |
| The Sorcerer’s Apprentice | Narrator (voice) | 2010-07-13 | Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can’t do it alo… |
Ian McShane Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Director | The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “di… | ||
Ian McShane Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Deadwood: The Movie | Executive Producer | 2019-05-31 | Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota’s statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wo… |
| Production Executive | An ex-con becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. … | ||
| Producer | After spending eight years in prison for a crime he did not commit – the murder of his wife – John Madson has been released and wants revenge on the p… | ||
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