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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 29, 1942
Place of Birth
Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Ian David McShane
- 이안 맥쉐인
- Іен Макшейн
- 伊恩·麦克沙恩
- ایان مک شین
- Єн МакШейн
- ایان مکشین
Ian McShane
4.3 Popularity
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian McShane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
7.5
Winston
Ballerina
2025
10.0
Metcalfe
Deep Cover
2025
7.4
Self
Wick Is Pain
2025
7.1
Tai Lung (voice)
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024
5.6
Wilson
American Star
2024
8.2
Narrator (voice)
ONE PIECE
2023
7.7
Winston
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023
7.1
Saiwa (voice)
My Father's Dragon
2022
6.5
Narrator
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
2021
9.7
(archive footage)
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
2020
Credits
Ballerina
as Winston
2025
7.5
Deep Cover
as Metcalfe
2025
10.0
Wick Is Pain
as Self
2025
7.4
Kung Fu Panda 4
as Tai Lung (voice)
2024
7.1
American Star
as Wilson
2024
5.6
ONE PIECE
as Narrator (voice)
2023
8.2
John Wick: Chapter 4
as Winston
2023
7.7
My Father's Dragon
as Saiwa (voice)
2022
7.1
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
as Narrator
2021
6.5
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
as (archive footage)
2020
9.7
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
6.4
Tales of the Wild Hunt: Hellboy Reborn
as Self
2019
5.8
Deadwood: The Movie
as Al Swearengen
2019
6.8
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
as Winston
2019
7.4
Bolden
as Judge Perry
2019
4.3
Master of Dark Shadows
as Narrator
2019
9.1
Hellboy
as Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm
2019
5.6
Age of Sail
as William Avery (voice)
2018
7.2
A Wizard's Tale
as The Grump (voice)
2018
5.7
Pottersville
as Bart
2017
4.9
Jawbone
as Joe Padgett
2017
6.1
American Gods
as Mr. Wednesday / God Odin
2017
7.1
John Wick: Chapter 2
as Winston
2017
7.3
The Hollow Point
as Leland
2016
5.7
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
as Umayya (voice)
2016
6.8
Doctor Thorne
as Sir Roger Scatcherd
2016
7.2
Grimsby
as MI6 Spy Boss (uncredited)
2016
6.0
John Wick
as Winston
2014
7.4
The Kid
as Inglés
2014
6.5
Hercules
as Amphiarus
2014
5.8
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
Cuban Fury
as Ron Parfitt
2014
6.1
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2014
4.0
🎬
How We Used to Live
as Narrator
2013
0.0
Ray Donovan
as Malcolm Finney
2013
7.5
Ray Donovan
as Andrew Finney
2013
7.5
Jack the Giant Slayer
as King Brahmwell
2013
5.9
Snow White and the Huntsman
as Beith
2012
6.0
American Horror Story
as Leigh Emerson
2011
8.1
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach
2011
6.6
Game of Thrones
as Brother Ray
2011
8.5
The Pillars of the Earth
as Waleran Bigod
2010
7.7
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
as Narrator (voice)
2010
6.1
44 Inch Chest
as Meredith
2009
5.5
Case 39
as Detective Mike Barron
2009
6.3
Trevor Horn and Friends - Slaves to the Rhythm
as Self (archive footage)
2009
0.0
Kings
as King Silas Benjamin
2009
7.5
Coraline
as Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky (voice)
2009
7.9
Death Race
as Coach
2008
6.3
Kung Fu Panda
as Tai Lung (voice)
2008
7.3
The Golden Compass
as Ragnar Sturlusson (voice)
2007
6.1
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
as Merriman Lyon
2007
5.4
Hot Rod
as Frank Powell
2007
6.4
Shrek the Third
as Captain Hook (voice)
2007
6.3
The Dame Edna Treatment
2007
5.3
We Are Marshall
as Paul Griffen
2006
6.9
The One Show
as Self
2006
4.5
Scoop
as Joe Strombel
2006
6.6
Nine Lives
as Larry
2005
6.0
Deadwood
as Al Swearengen
2004
8.1
Nemesis Game
as Jeff Novak
2003
5.0
Terror in Moscow
as Narrator
2003
6.9
Agent Cody Banks
as Brinkman
2003
5.5
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
6.0
Trust
as Alan Cooper-Fozard
2003
5.0
Bollywood Queen
as Frank
2002
4.8
The Twilight Zone
as Chandler
2002
7.2
Man and Boy
as Marty Mann
2002
4.5
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
2001
5.8
The Making of Sexy Beast
as Self
2001
0.0
In Deep
as Jamie Lamb
2001
10.0
Sexy Beast
as Teddy Bass
2000
7.0
D.R.E.A.M. Team
as Oliver Maxwell
1999
5.0
The West Wing
as Nikolai Ivanovich
1999
8.3
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Toby Moore
1999
7.9
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
as Robert Bryson
1998
6.4
Traders of the Lost Scrolls
as Narrator
1997
0.0
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Madson
as John Madson
1996
6.5
The Naked Truth
as Leland Banks
1995
6.4
Soul Survivors
as Otis Cooke
1995
0.0
White Goods
as Ian Deegan
1994
5.5
GMTV
as Self
1993
5.6
Chillers
as Steven Castle
1990
6.2
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
as Andre Marchand
1990
6.8
The Simpsons
as Artemis (voice)
1989
8.0
Dick Francis: Twice Shy
as David Cleveland
1989
3.0
Chain Letter
as The Messenger of Death
1989
1.0
Miami Vice: Freefall
as Gen. Manuel Borbon
1989
9.0
Young Charlie Chaplin
as Charles Chaplin Snr
1989
0.0
War and Remembrance
as Philip Rule
1988
7.9
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
as Roger Bushell
1988
5.5
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
as Roger Bushell
1988
4.7
Going Live!
as Self
1987
6.0
CBS Summer Playhouse
as Marbury
1987
6.3
Grand Larceny
as Flanagan
1987
1.0
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
as Prefet de police
1986
5.9
Rocket to the Moon
as Willy Wax
1986
0.0
Lovejoy
as Lovejoy
1986
7.3
Braker
as Alan Roswell
1985
1.0
A.D.
as Sejanus
1985
5.1
Evergreen
as Paul Lerner
1985
4.5
Torchlight
as Sidney
1985
2.7
Too Scared to Scream
as Vincent Hardwick
1984
5.1
Miami Vice
as Esteban Montoya
1984
7.5
Miami Vice
as General Manuel Borbon
1984
7.5
Ordeal by Innocence
as Philip Durant
1984
4.9
Natural World
as Narrator
1983
7.1
Exposed
as Greg Miller
1983
4.5
Bare Essence
as Niko Theophilus
1983
5.0
Grace Kelly
as Prince Rainier of Monaco
1983
6.3
Marco Polo
as Alì Ben Youssuf
1982
6.8
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
The Letter
as Geoff
1982
3.5
American Playhouse
as Willy Wax
1982
6.3
Cheaper to Keep Her
as Dr. Alfred Sunshine
1981
2.5
Magnum, P.I.
as David Norman
1980
7.3
Magnum, P.I.
as Edwin Clutterbuck
1980
7.3
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery
as The Brain (Bert)
1980
6.0
High Tide
as Curtis
1980
8.0
Minder
as Jack Last
1979
6.8
Yesterday's Hero
as Rod Turner
1979
3.8
The Fifth Musketeer
as Fouquet
1979
5.0
The Pirate
as Rashid
1978
4.6
Disraeli
as Benjamin Disraeli
1978
7.5
Disraeli
as Benjamin Disraeli
1978
0.0
Life of Shakespeare
as Christopher Marlowe
1978
0.0
Dallas
as Don Lockwood
1978
6.8
Armchair Thriller
as Curtis
1978
4.2
Code Name: Diamond Head
as Sean Donovan / Father Horton / Colonel Millard Butler
1977
3.0
Jesus of Nazareth
as Judas Iscariot
1977
7.8
The Fantastic Journey
as Sir James Camden
1977
5.8
The Fantastic Journey
as Sir James Camden
1977
6.0
Roots
as Sir Eric Russell
1977
7.4
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
as Saunders
1975
0.0
Matt Helm
as Paul
1975
7.4
Space: 1999
as Anton Zoref
1975
7.1
Journey into Fear
as Banat
1975
5.6
Ransom
as Ray Petrie
1974
5.5
Police Woman
1974
6.2
🎬
What Would You Do?
as Derek
1974
0.0
The Last of Sheila
as Anthony
1973
7.0
Sitting Target
as Birdy Williams
1972
6.1
Columbo
as Leland St. John
1971
8.1
Villain
as Wolfe Lissner
1971
6.3
The Ballad of Tam Lin
as Tom Lynn
1970
5.1
🎬
A Sound from the Sea
as Tom
1970
0.0
Performance
as Noel - Black Musician (voice) (uncredited)
1970
6.7
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
as Fred C. Dobbs
1970
4.7
Freelance
as Mitch
1970
3.8
Battle of Britain
as Sgt. Pilot Andy
1969
6.9
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
as Charlie Cartwright
1969
5.8
🎬
Funeral Games
as Caulfield
1968
0.0
Wuthering Heights
as Heathcliff
1967
0.0
Wuthering Heights
as Heathcliff
1967
6.0
You Can't Win
as Joe Lunn
1966
0.0
Sky West and Crooked
as Roibin
1966
5.4
The Pleasure Girls
as Keith Dexter
1965
5.3
Redcap
as Sapper Russell
1964
6.0
The Wednesday Play
1964
4.5
The Wild and the Willing
as Harry Brown
1962
5.8
Armchair Theatre
as Geoffrey
1956
5.8
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
1944
7.0