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).

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Filmography (163 Appearances)

Deep Cover

2025

Ballerina

2025

Wick Is Pain

2025

Kung Fu Panda 4

2024

American Star

2024

ONE PIECE

2023

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

My Father's Dragon

2022

Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story

2021

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU

2020

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019

Tales of the Wild Hunt: Hellboy Reborn

2019

Deadwood: The Movie

2019

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

2019

Bolden

2019

Master of Dark Shadows

2019

Hellboy

2019

Age of Sail

2018

A Wizard's Tale

2018

Pottersville

2017

Jawbone

2017

American Gods

2017

John Wick: Chapter 2

2017

The Hollow Point

2016

Bilal: A New Breed of Hero

2016

Doctor Thorne

2016

Grimsby

2016

John Wick

2014

The Kid

2014

Hercules

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

Cuban Fury

2014

Off Camera with Sam Jones

2014

How We Used to Live

2013

Ray Donovan

2013

Jack the Giant Slayer

2013

Snow White and the Huntsman

2012

American Horror Story

2011

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

2011

Game of Thrones

2011

The Pillars of the Earth

2010

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

2010

44 Inch Chest

2009

Case 39

2009

Trevor Horn and Friends - Slaves to the Rhythm

2009

Kings

2009

Coraline

2009

Death Race

2008

Kung Fu Panda

2008

The Golden Compass

2007

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising

2007

Hot Rod

2007

Shrek the Third

2007

The Dame Edna Treatment

2007

We Are Marshall

2006

The One Show

2006

Scoop

2006

Nine Lives

2005

Deadwood

2004

Nemesis Game

2003

Terror in Moscow

2003

Agent Cody Banks

2003

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003

Trust

2003

Bollywood Queen

2002

The Twilight Zone

2002

Man and Boy

2002

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

2001

The Making of Sexy Beast

2001

In Deep

2001

Sexy Beast

2001

D.R.E.A.M. Team

1999

The West Wing

1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

Babylon 5: The River of Souls

1998

Traders of the Lost Scrolls

1997

The Daily Show

1996

Madson

1996

The Naked Truth

1995

Soul Survivors

1995

White Goods

1994

GMTV

1993

Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception

1990

Chillers

1990

The Simpsons

1989

Dick Francis: Twice Shy

1989

Dick Francis: In the Frame

1989

Dick Francis: Blood Sport

1989

Chain Letter

1989

Young Charlie Chaplin

1989

War and Remembrance

1988

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

1988

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

1988

Going Live!

1987

CBS Summer Playhouse

1987

Grand Larceny

1987

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

1986

Rocket to the Moon

1986

Lovejoy

1986

Braker

1985

A.D.

1985

Evergreen

1985

Too Scared to Scream

1984

Miami Vice

1984

Ordeal by Innocence

1984

Torchlight

1984

Natural World

1983

Exposed

1983

Bare Essence

1983

Grace Kelly

1983

Marco Polo

1982

Wogan

1982

The Letter

1982

American Playhouse

1982

Cheaper to Keep Her

1981

Magnum, P.I.

1980

The Great Riviera Bank Robbery

1980

High Tide

1980

Minder

1979

Yesterday's Hero

1979

The Fifth Musketeer

1979

The Pirate

1978

Disraeli

1978

Disraeli

1978

Life of Shakespeare

1978

Dallas

1978

Armchair Thriller

1978

The Pirate

1977

Code Name: Diamond Head

1977

Jesus of Nazareth

1977

The Fantastic Journey

1977

The Fantastic Journey

1977

Roots

1977

The Lives of Jenny Dolan

1975

Matt Helm

1975

Space: 1999

1975

Journey into Fear

1975

Ransom

1974

Police Woman

1974

What Would You Do?

1974

The Last of Sheila

1973

Sitting Target

1972

Columbo

1971

Villain

1971

The Ballad of Tam Lin

1970

A Sound from the Sea

1970

Performance

1970

Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You

1970

Freelance

1970

Battle of Britain

1969

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

1969

Funeral Games

1968

Wuthering Heights

1967

Wuthering Heights

1967

ITV Playhouse

1967

You Can't Win

1966

Sky West and Crooked

1966

The Pleasure Girls

1965

Redcap

1964

The Wednesday Play

1964

The Wild and the Willing

1962 Debut

Armchair Theatre

1956

Golden Globe Awards

1944
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