Ian McShane
Biography
Ian David McShane (born 29 September 1942) is a Scottish-English actor. His television performances include the title role in the BBC series Lovejoy (1986–1994), Al Swearengen in Deadwood (2004–2006) and its 2019 film continuation, and Mr. Wednesday in American Gods (2017–2021). For the original series of Deadwood, McShane won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. As a producer of the film, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.
His film roles include Harry Brown in The Wild and the Willing (1962), Charlie Cartwright in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), Wolfe Lissner in Villain (1971), Teddy Bass in Sexy Beast(2000), Frank Powell in Hot Rod (2007), Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), and Winston Scott in the John Wick franchise (2014–present).
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Full filmography
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Toby Moore
- Game of Thrones (2011) as Brother Ray
- The Simpsons (1989) as Artemis (voice)
- Dallas (1978) as Don Lockwood
- The Daily Show (1996) as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self
- Real Time with Bill Maher (2003) as Self
- Columbo (1971) as Leland St. John
- American Horror Story (2011) as Leigh Emerson
- The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019) as Self
- The West Wing (1999) as Nikolai Ivanovich
- Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970) as Fred C. Dobbs
- Miami Vice (1984) as Esteban Montoya
- Miami Vice (1984) as General Manuel Borbon
- ONE PIECE (2023) as Narrator (voice)
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Presenter
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Nominee
- Magnum, P.I. (1980) as David Norman
- Magnum, P.I. (1980) as Edwin Clutterbuck
- Coraline (2009) as Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky (voice)
- Natural World (1983) as Narrator
- Minder (1979) as Jack Last
- Deadwood (2004) as Al Swearengen
- Ray Donovan (2013) as Malcolm Finney