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Ian McShane
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Biography

Award-winning character actor Ian McShane was born on September 29, 1942, in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, the son of professional footballer (soccer player) Harry McShane, who played for Manchester United, and wife Irene. Ian attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and made his motion picture debut in The Wild and the Willing (1962). Although primarily known for his appearances on film and television, McShane has a long stage career, appearing in London in the original staging of Joe Orton's "Loot" and supporting Judi Dench and Ian McKellen in Aleksei Arbuzov's "The Promise," which transferred to Broadway in 1967.

McShane has long excelled at playing menacing heavies, from his turn as Richard Burton's criminal underboss in Villain (1971) to his small but very memorable role as the shadowy crime boss "Teddy Bass" in Sexy Beast (2000). His assays in villainy reached their apogee with his characterization of the dastardly bordello impresario Al Swearengen in the HBO western series "Deadwood" (2004), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a TV Drama in 2005 (he was also nominated for an Emmy that year as Best Lead Actor in a TV Series). It was the topper to a career spanning five decades.

He formed McShane Productions in the 1980s to produce the popular BBC series "Lovejoy" (1986), which he not only starred in but directed. He has also appeared on stage, making his musical debut in 2000 in London's West End in the male lead of Cameron Mackintosh's "The Witches of Eastwick."

Ian McShane stared in:

Title Year Saw with/at: Scene On Rating
Agent Cody Banks 2003 w/ Family on DVD 2003-08-22 ** 1/2
Scoop 2006 Family on DVD 2007-10-27 ** 1/2
Kung Fu Panda 2008 Kendra, Hanna & Lauren at Destina Middletown 2008-07-14 ** 1/2
Coraline 2009 Suzy and Hann 2009-06-26 ***
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011 Hanna 2011-08-27 * 1/2
Jack the Giant Slayer 2013 Hanna 2013-06-07 **
Cuban Fury 2014 Cuban Fury 2019-06-01 ***
John Wick 2014 Suzy 2019-09-02 **
John Wick: Chapter 2 2017 2023-02-16 **
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum 2019 2022-01-22 ** 1/2
John Wick: Chapter 4 2023 2023-06-09 *