Ian McShane

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian McShane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK, 1942-09-29

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	The Wild and the Willing	Harry Brown	58
2	1965	The Pleasure Girls	Keith Dexter	53
3	1966	Sky West and Crooked	Roibin	54
4	1967	Wuthering Heights	Heathcliff	60
5	1968	Funeral Games	Caulfield	0
6	1969	If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium	Charlie Cartwright	58
7	1969	Battle of Britain	Sgt. Pilot Andy	69
8	1970	Freelance	Mitch	38
9	1970	Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You	Fred C. Dobbs	47
10	1970	Performance	Noel - Black Musician (voice) (uncredited)	67
11	1970	A Sound from the Sea	Tom	0
12	1970	The Ballad of Tam Lin	Tom Lynn	51
13	1971	Villain	Wolfe Lissner	63
14	1972	Sitting Target	Birdy Williams	61
15	1973	The Last of Sheila	Anthony	70
16	1974	What Would You Do?	Derek	0
17	1974	Ransom	Ray Petrie	55
18	1975	Journey into Fear	Banat	56
19	1975	The Lives of Jenny Dolan	Saunders	0
20	1977	The Fantastic Journey	Sir James Camden	60
21	1977	Code Name: Diamond Head	Sean Donovan / Father Horton / Colonel Millard Butler	30
22	1978	Disraeli	Benjamin Disraeli	0
23	1978	The Pirate	Rashid	46
24	1979	The Fifth Musketeer	Fouquet	50
25	1979	Yesterday's Hero	Rod Turner	38
26	1980	High Tide	Curtis	80
27	1980	The Great Riviera Bank Robbery	The Brain (Bert)	60
28	1981	Cheaper to Keep Her	Dr. Alfred Sunshine	25
29	1982	The Letter	Geoff	35
30	1983	Grace Kelly	Prince Rainier of Monaco	63
31	1983	Exposed	Greg Miller	45
32	1984	Ordeal by Innocence	Philip Durant	49
33	1984	Too Scared to Scream	Vincent Hardwick	51
34	1985	Torchlight	Sidney	27
35	1985	Braker	Alan Roswell	10
36	1986	Rocket to the Moon	Willy Wax	0
37	1986	The Murders in the Rue Morgue	Prefet de police	59
38	1987	Grand Larceny	Flanagan	10
39	1988	The Great Escape II: The Untold Story	Roger Bushell	47
40	1989	Miami Vice: Freefall	Gen. Manuel Borbon	90
41	1989	Chain Letter	The Messenger of Death	10
42	1989	Dick Francis: Twice Shy	David Cleveland	30
43	1990	Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception	Andre Marchand	68
44	1994	White Goods	Ian Deegan	55
45	1995	Soul Survivors	Otis Cooke	0
46	1997	Traders of the Lost Scrolls	Narrator	0
47	1998	Babylon 5: The River of Souls	Robert Bryson	64
48	1999	D.R.E.A.M. Team	Oliver Maxwell	50
49	2000	Sexy Beast	Teddy Bass	70
50	2001	The Making of Sexy Beast	Self	0
51	2002	Man and Boy	Marty Mann	45
52	2002	Bollywood Queen	Frank	48
53	2003	Agent Cody Banks	Brinkman	55
54	2003	Terror in Moscow	Narrator	69
55	2003	Nemesis Game	Jeff Novak	50
56	2005	Nine Lives	Larry	60
57	2006	Scoop	Joe Strombel	66
58	2006	We Are Marshall	Paul Griffen	69
59	2007	Shrek the Third	Captain Hook (voice)	63
60	2007	Hot Rod	Frank Powell	64
61	2007	The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising	Merriman Lyon	54
62	2007	The Golden Compass	Ragnar Sturlusson (voice)	61
63	2008	Kung Fu Panda	Tai Lung (voice)	73
64	2008	Death Race	Coach	63
65	2009	Coraline	Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky (voice)	79
66	2009	Trevor Horn and Friends - Slaves to the Rhythm	Self (archive footage)	0
67	2009	Case 39	Detective Mike Barron	63
68	2009	44 Inch Chest	Meredith	55
69	2010	The Sorcerer's Apprentice	Narrator (voice)	61
70	2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Edward "Blackbeard" Teach	66
71	2012	Snow White and the Huntsman	Beith	60
72	2013	Jack the Giant Slayer	King Brahmwell	59
73	2013	How We Used to Live	Narrator	0
74	2014	Cuban Fury	Ron Parfitt	61
75	2014	Hercules	Amphiarus	58
76	2014	The Kid	Inglés	64
77	2014	John Wick	Winston	74
78	2016	Grimsby	MI6 Spy Boss (uncredited)	60
79	2016	Bilal: A New Breed of Hero	Umayya (voice)	68
80	2016	The Hollow Point	Leland	57
81	2017	John Wick: Chapter 2	Winston	73
82	2017	Jawbone	Joe Padgett	61
83	2017	Pottersville	Bart	49
84	2018	A Wizard's Tale	The Grump (voice)	57
85	2018	Age of Sail	William Avery (voice)	72
86	2019	Hellboy	Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm	56
87	2019	Master of Dark Shadows	Narrator	91
88	2019	Bolden	Judge Perry	43
89	2019	John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum	Winston	74
90	2019	Deadwood: The Movie	Al Swearengen	67
91	2019	Tales of the Wild Hunt: Hellboy Reborn	Self	58
92	2020	The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU	(archive footage)	97
93	2021	Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story	Narrator	65
94	2022	My Father's Dragon	Saiwa (voice)	71
95	2023	John Wick: Chapter 4	Winston	77
96	2024	American Star	Wilson	56
97	2024	Kung Fu Panda 4	Tai Lung (voice)	71
98	2025	Wick Is Pain	Self	75
99	2025	Ballerina	Winston	70
100	2025	Deep Cover	Metcalfe	67

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	72
3	1956	Armchair Theatre	Geoffrey	58
4	1964	The Wednesday Play		45
5	1964	Redcap	Sapper Russell	60
6	1966	You Can't Win	Joe Lunn	0
7	1967	Wuthering Heights	Heathcliff	0
8	1971	Columbo	Leland St. John	81
9	1974	Police Woman		63
10	1975	Space: 1999	Anton Zoref	71
11	1975	Matt Helm	Paul	74
12	1977	Roots	Sir Eric Russell	74
13	1977	The Fantastic Journey	Sir James Camden	58
14	1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Judas Iscariot	78
15	1978	Armchair Thriller	Curtis	42
16	1978	Dallas	Don Lockwood	69
17	1978	Life of Shakespeare	Christopher Marlowe	0
18	1978	Disraeli	Benjamin Disraeli	73
19	1979	Minder	Jack Last	68
20	1980	Magnum, P.I.	David Norman	73
21	1980	Magnum, P.I.	Edwin Clutterbuck	73
22	1982	American Playhouse	Willy Wax	63
23	1982	Wogan	Self	45
24	1982	Marco Polo	Alì Ben Youssuf	68
25	1983	Bare Essence	Niko Theophilus	50
26	1983	Natural World	Narrator	71
27	1984	Miami Vice	Esteban Montoya	75
28	1984	Miami Vice	General Manuel Borbon	75
29	1985	Evergreen	Paul Lerner	45
30	1985	A.D.	Sejanus	51
31	1986	Lovejoy	Lovejoy	73
32	1987	CBS Summer Playhouse	Marbury	63
33	1987	Going Live!	Self	60
34	1988	The Great Escape II: The Untold Story	Roger Bushell	55
35	1988	War and Remembrance	Philip Rule	79
36	1989	Young Charlie Chaplin	Charles Chaplin Snr	0
37	1989	The Simpsons	Artemis (voice)	80
38	1990	Chillers	Steven Castle	62
39	1993	GMTV	Self	56
40	1995	The Naked Truth	Leland Banks	64
41	1996	Madson	John Madson	65
42	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
43	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Toby Moore	79
44	1999	The West Wing	Nikolai Ivanovich	83
45	2001	In Deep	Jamie Lamb	100
46	2001	Friday Night with Jonathan Ross	Self	58
47	2002	The Twilight Zone	Chandler	72
48	2003	Trust	Alan Cooper-Fozard	50
49	2003	Real Time with Bill Maher	Self	60
50	2004	Deadwood	Al Swearengen	81
51	2006	The One Show	Self	45
52	2007	The Dame Edna Treatment		53
53	2009	Kings	King Silas Benjamin	75
54	2010	The Pillars of the Earth	Waleran Bigod	77
55	2011	Game of Thrones	Brother Ray	85
56	2011	American Horror Story	Leigh Emerson	81
57	2013	Ray Donovan	Malcolm Finney	75
58	2013	Ray Donovan	Andrew Finney	75
59	2014	Off Camera with Sam Jones	Self	40
60	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
61	2016	Doctor Thorne	Sir Roger Scatcherd	72
62	2017	American Gods	Mr. Wednesday / God Odin	71
63	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show	Self	65
64	2023	ONE PIECE	Narrator (voice)	82

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