Actor
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Ian McShane
Born 1942-09-29
📍 Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
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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Filmography 168
Deep Cover
as Metcalfe
2025
Ballerina
as Winston
2025
Wick Is Pain
as Self
2025
Kung Fu Panda 4
as Tai Lung (voice)
2024
American Star
as Wilson
2024
ONE PIECE
as Narrator (voice)
2023
John Wick: Chapter 4
as Winston
2023
My Father's Dragon
as Saiwa (voice)
2022
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
as Narrator
2021
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
as (archive footage)
2020
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
Tales of the Wild Hunt: Hellboy Reborn
as Self
2019
Deadwood: The Movie
as Al Swearengen
2019
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
as Winston
2019
Bolden
as Judge Perry
2019
Master of Dark Shadows
as Narrator
2019
Hellboy
as Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm
2019
Age of Sail
as William Avery (voice)
2018
A Wizard's Tale
as The Grump (voice)
2018
Pottersville
as Bart
2017
Jawbone
as Joe Padgett
2017
American Gods
as Mr. Wednesday / God Odin
2017
John Wick: Chapter 2
as Winston Scott
2017
The Hollow Point
as Leland
2016
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
as Umayya (voice)
2016
Doctor Thorne
as Sir Roger Scatcherd
2016
Grimsby
as MI6 Spy Boss (uncredited)
2016
John Wick
as Winston
2014
The Kid
as Inglés
2014
Hercules
as Amphiarus
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
Cuban Fury
as Ron Parfitt
2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2014
Ray Donovan
as Malcolm Finney
2013
Ray Donovan
as Andrew Finney
2013
Jack the Giant Slayer
as King Brahmwell
2013
Snow White and the Huntsman
as Beith
2012
American Horror Story
as Leigh Emerson
2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as Edward "Blackbeard" Teach
2011
Game of Thrones
as Brother Ray
2011
The Pillars of the Earth
as Waleran Bigod
2010
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
as Narrator (voice)
2010
44 Inch Chest
as Meredith
2009
Case 39
as Detective Mike Barron
2009
Trevor Horn and Friends - Slaves to the Rhythm
as Self (archive footage)
2009
Kings
as King Silas Benjamin
2009
Coraline
as Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky (voice)
2009
Death Race
as Coach
2008
Kung Fu Panda
as Tai Lung (voice)
2008
The Golden Compass
as Ragnar Sturlusson (voice)
2007
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
as Merriman Lyon
2007
Hot Rod
as Frank Powell
2007
Shrek the Third
as Captain Hook (voice)
2007
The Dame Edna Treatment
2007
We Are Marshall
as Paul Griffen
2006
The One Show
as Self
2006
Scoop
as Joe Strombel
2006
Nine Lives
as Larry
2005
Deadwood
as Al Swearengen
2004
Nemesis Game
as Jeff Novak
2003
Terror in Moscow
as Narrator
2003
Agent Cody Banks
as Brinkman
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
Trust
as Alan Cooper-Fozard
2003
Bollywood Queen
as Frank
2002
The Twilight Zone
as Chandler
2002
Man and Boy
as Marty Mann
2002
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
2001
The Making of Sexy Beast
as Self
2001
In Deep
as Jamie Lamb
2001
Sexy Beast
as Teddy Bass
2001
D.R.E.A.M. Team
as Oliver Maxwell
1999
The West Wing
as Nikolai Ivanovich
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Toby Moore
1999
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
as Robert Bryson
1998
Traders of the Lost Scrolls
as Narrator
1997
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
Madson
as John Madson
1996
The Naked Truth
as Leland Banks
1995
Soul Survivors
as Otis Cooke
1995
White Goods
as Ian Deegan
1994
GMTV
as Self
1993
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
as Andre Marchand
1990
Chillers
as Steven Castle
1990
The Simpsons
as Artemis (voice)
1989
Dick Francis: Twice Shy
as David Cleveland
1989
Dick Francis: In the Frame
as David Cleveland
1989
Dick Francis: Blood Sport
1989
Chain Letter
as The Messenger of Death
1989
Miami Vice: Freefall
as Gen. Manuel Borbon
1989
Young Charlie Chaplin
as Charles Chaplin Snr
1989
War and Remembrance
as Philip Rule
1988
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
as Roger Bushell
1988
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
as Roger Bushell
1988
Going Live!
as Self
1987
CBS Summer Playhouse
as Marbury
1987
Grand Larceny
as Flanagan
1987
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
as Prefet de police
1986
Rocket to the Moon
as Willy Wax
1986
Lovejoy
as Lovejoy
1986
Braker
as Alan Roswell
1985
A.D.
as Sejanus
1985
Evergreen
as Paul Lerner
1985
Too Scared to Scream
as Vincent Hardwick
1984
Miami Vice
as Esteban Montoya
1984
Miami Vice
as General Manuel Borbon
1984
Ordeal by Innocence
as Philip Durant
1984
Torchlight
as Sidney
1984
Natural World
as Narrator
1983
Exposed
as Greg Miller
1983
Bare Essence
as Niko Theophilus
1983
Grace Kelly
as Prince Rainier of Monaco
1983
Marco Polo
as Alì Ben Youssuf
1982
Wogan
as Self
1982
The Letter
as Geoff
1982
American Playhouse
as Willy Wax
1982
Cheaper to Keep Her
as Dr. Alfred Sunshine
1981
Magnum, P.I.
as David Norman
1980
Magnum, P.I.
as Edwin Clutterbuck
1980
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery
as The Brain (Bert)
1980
High Tide
as Curtis
1980
Minder
as Jack Last
1979
Yesterday's Hero
as Rod Turner
1979
The Fifth Musketeer
as Fouquet
1979
The Pirate
as Rashid
1978
Disraeli
as Benjamin Disraeli
1978
Disraeli
as Benjamin Disraeli
1978
Life of Shakespeare
as Christopher Marlowe
1978
Dallas
as Don Lockwood
1978
Armchair Thriller
as Curtis
1978
The Pirate
as Rashid
1977
Code Name: Diamond Head
as Sean Donovan / Father Horton / Colonel Millard Butler
1977
Jesus of Nazareth
as Judas Iscariot
1977
The Fantastic Journey
as Sir James Camden
1977
The Fantastic Journey
as Sir James Camden
1977
Roots
as Sir Eric Russell
1977
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
as Saunders
1975
Matt Helm
as Paul
1975
Space: 1999
as Anton Zoref
1975
Journey into Fear
as Banat
1975
Ransom
as Ray Petrie
1974
Police Woman
1974
The Last of Sheila
as Anthony Wood
1973
Sitting Target
as Birdy Williams
1972
Columbo
as Leland St. John
1971
Villain
as Wolfe Lissner
1971
The Ballad of Tam Lin
as Tom Lynn
1970
Performance
as Noel (voice) (uncredited)
1970
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
as Fred C. Dobbs
1970
Freelance
as Mitch
1970
Battle of Britain
as Sgt. Pilot Andy
1969
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
as Charlie Cartwright
1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
as David Garrick
1969
Wuthering Heights
as Heathcliff
1967
Wuthering Heights
as Heathcliff
1967
ITV Playhouse
as Caulfield
1967
ITV Playhouse
as Tom
1967
ITV Playhouse
as Derek
1967
You Can't Win
as Joe Lunn
1966
Sky West and Crooked
as Roibin
1966
The Pleasure Girls
as Keith Dexter
1965
Redcap
as Sapper Russell
1964
The Wednesday Play
1964
The Wild and the Willing
as Harry Brown
1962
Armchair Theatre
as Geoffrey
1956
Armchair Theatre
as Roddy Cain
1956
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944