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Ian McShane
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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.
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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
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The One Show
The Simpsons
Miami Vice
The Kelly Clarkson Show
GMTV
The Daily Show
Dallas
Golden Globe Awards
Real Time with Bill Maher
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
CBS Summer Playhouse
Space: 1999
American Horror Story
Police Woman
Wogan
The Naked Truth
Columbo
Game of Thrones
The Fantastic Journey
The Twilight Zone
Going Live!
The Wednesday Play
Magnum, P.I.
In Deep
Ray Donovan
ONE PIECE
Grimsby
A.D.
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
Marco Polo
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Wick Is Pain
Shrek the Third
John Wick
War and Remembrance
Master of Dark Shadows
The Golden Compass
Agent Cody Banks
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Coraline
Kung Fu Panda 4
Ballerina
Hot Rod
Jesus of Nazareth
Deep Cover
Madson
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
The West Wing
Snow White and the Huntsman
We Are Marshall
Jack the Giant Slayer
Battle of Britain
The Pillars of the Earth
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
John Wick: Chapter 4
Trust
Kung Fu Panda
Sexy Beast
John Wick: Chapter 2
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Case 39
Hellboy
Death Race
Kings
Traders of the Lost Scrolls
Hercules
Deadwood
The Hollow Point
American Gods
Lovejoy
Bare Essence
Wuthering Heights
American Star
Production Credits
Lovejoy
American Gods
American Star
Madson
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