About
Ian McShane
Overview
Ian David McShane (born September 29, 1942) is an English actor. Although he has appeared in numerous films, it is by his television roles that he is generally known, starting with the BBC's Lovejoy (1986–94) and particularly in the HBO Western drama Deadwood (2004–06). He starred as King Silas Benjamin in NBC series Kings and as Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Known for
Acting |
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| 2025 | From the World of John Wick: Ballerina | Actor | Winston | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Kung Fu Panda 4 | Actor | Tai Lung (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2024 | American Star | Actor | Wilson | 58 Average |
| 2023 | John Wick: Chapter 4 | Actor | Winston | 75 Good |
| 2022 | My Father's Dragon | Actor | Saiwa (voice) | 61 Fair |
| 2021 | Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2020 | The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU | Actor | (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Tales of the Wild Hunt: Hellboy Reborn | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Deadwood: The Movie | Actor | Al Swearengen | 62 Fair |
| 2019 | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Actor | Winston | 73 Good |
| 2019 | Bolden | Actor | Judge Perry | 58 Average |
| 2019 | Master of Dark Shadows | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Hellboy | Actor | Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm | 56 Average |
| 2018 | Age of Sail | Actor | William Avery (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2018 | A Wizard's Tale | Actor | The Grump (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2017 | Pottersville | Actor | Bart | 57 Average |
| 2017 | Jawbone | Actor | Joe Padgett | 59 Average |
| 2017 | American Gods | Actor | Mr. Wednesday / God Odin | 70 Good |
| 2017 | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Actor | Winston | 72 Good |
| 2016 | The Hollow Point | Actor | Leland | 58 Average |
| 2016 | Bilal: A New Breed of Hero | Actor | Umayya (voice) | 61 Fair |
| 2016 | Doctor Thorne | Actor | Sir Roger Scatcherd | 70 Good |
| 2016 | Grimsby | Actor | MI6 Spy Boss (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 2014 | John Wick | Actor | Winston | 74 Good |
| 2014 | El nino | Actor | Inglés | 60 Fair |
| 2014 | Hercules | Actor | Amphiarus | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Cuban Fury | Actor | Ron Parfitt | 59 Average |
| 2013 | How We Used to Live | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2013 | Jack the Giant Slayer | Actor | King Brahmwell | 58 Average |
| 2012 | Snow White and the Huntsman | Actor | Beith | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Actor | Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach | 65 Fair |
| 2010 | The Pillars of the Earth | Actor | Waleran Bigod | 75 Good |
| 2010 | The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 60 Fair |
| 2009 | 44 Inch Chest | Actor | Meredith | 58 Average |
| 2009 | Case 39 | Actor | Detective Mike Barron | 62 Fair |
| 2009 | Kings | Actor | King Silas Benjamin | 72 Good |
| 2009 | Coraline | Actor | Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky (voice) | 77 Good |
| 2008 | Death Race | Actor | Coach | 62 Fair |
| 2008 | Kung Fu Panda | Actor | Tai Lung (voice) | 72 Good |
| 2007 | The Golden Compass | Actor | Ragnar Sturlusson (voice) | 60 Fair |
| 2007 | The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising | Actor | Merriman Lyon | 57 Average |
| 2007 | Hot Rod | Actor | Frank Powell | 62 Fair |
| 2007 | Shrek the Third | Actor | Captain Hook (voice) | 62 Fair |
| 2006 | We Are Marshall | Actor | Paul Griffen | 64 Fair |
| 2006 | Scoop | Actor | Joe Strombel | 64 Fair |
| 2005 | Nine Lives | Actor | Larry | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Deadwood | Actor | Al Swearengen | 80 Very good |
| 2003 | Nemesis Game | Actor | Jeff Novak | 58 Average |
| 2003 | Terror in Moscow | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Agent Cody Banks | Actor | Brinkman | 56 Average |
| 2003 | Trust | Actor | Alan Cooper-Fozard | 69 Fair |
| 2002 | Bollywood Queen | Actor | Frank | 58 Average |
| 2002 | Man and Boy | Actor | Marty Mann | 58 Average |
| 2001 | The Making of Sexy Beast | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2001 | Sexy Beast | Actor | Teddy Bass | 65 Fair |
| 1999 | D.R.E.A.M. Team | Actor | Oliver Maxwell | 59 Average |
| 1998 | Babylon 5: The River of Souls | Actor | Robert Bryson | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Traders of the Lost Scrolls | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 1996 | Madson | Actor | John Madson | 69 Fair |
| 1995 | Soul Survivors | Actor | Otis Cooke | N/A N/A |
| 1994 | White Goods | Actor | Ian Deegan | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception | Actor | Andre Marchand | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Dick Francis: Twice Shy | Actor | David Cleveland | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Chain Letter | Actor | The Messenger of Death | N/A N/A |
| 1989 | Miami Vice: Freefall | Actor | Gen. Manuel Borbon | N/A N/A |
| 1989 | Young Charlie Chaplin | Actor | Charles Chaplin Snr | N/A N/A |
| 1988 | War and Remembrance | Actor | Philip Rule | 72 Good |
| 1988 | The Great Escape II: The Untold Story | Actor | Roger Bushell | 69 Fair |
| 1988 | The Great Escape II: The Untold Story | Actor | Roger Bushell | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Grand Larceny | Actor | Flanagan | N/A N/A |
| 1986 | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Actor | Prefet de police | 59 Average |
| 1986 | Rocket to the Moon | Actor | Willy Wax | N/A N/A |
| 1986 | Lovejoy | Actor | Lovejoy | 71 Good |
| 1985 | Braker | Actor | Alan Roswell | N/A N/A |
| 1985 | A.D. | Actor | Sejanus | 67 Fair |
| 1985 | Evergreen | Actor | Paul Lerner | 68 Fair |
| 1985 | Torchlight | Actor | Sidney | 58 Average |
| 1984 | Too Scared to Scream | Actor | Vincent Hardwick | 58 Average |
| 1984 | Ordeal by Innocence | Actor | Philip Durant | 58 Average |
| 1983 | Exposed | Actor | Greg Miller | 58 Average |
| 1983 | Bare Essence | Actor | Niko Theophilus | 69 Fair |
| 1983 | Grace Kelly | Actor | Prince Rainier of Monaco | 59 Average |
| 1982 | The Letter | Actor | Geoff | 58 Average |
| 1981 | Cheaper to Keep Her | Actor | Dr. Alfred Sunshine | 58 Average |
| 1980 | The Great Riviera Bank Robbery | Actor | The Brain (Bert) | 59 Average |
| 1980 | High Tide | Actor | Curtis | 59 Average |
| 1979 | Yesterday's Hero | Actor | Rod Turner | 58 Average |
| 1979 | The Fifth Musketeer | Actor | Fouquet | 58 Average |
| 1978 | The Pirate | Actor | Rashid | 58 Average |
| 1978 | Disraeli | Actor | Benjamin Disraeli | N/A N/A |
| 1978 | Disraeli | Actor | Benjamin Disraeli | 70 Good |
| 1978 | Life of Shakespeare | Actor | Christopher Marlowe | N/A N/A |
| 1977 | Code Name: Diamond Head | Actor | Sean Donovan / Father Horton / Colonel Millard Butler | 58 Average |
| 1977 | Jesus Of Nazareth | Actor | Judas Iscariot | N/A N/A |
| 1977 | Jesus of Nazareth | Actor | Judas Iscariot | 76 Good |
| 1975 | The Lives of Jenny Dolan | Actor | Saunders | N/A N/A |
| 1975 | Journey into Fear | Actor | Banat | 59 Average |
| 1974 | Ransom | Actor | Ray Petrie | 58 Average |
| 1974 | What Would You Do? | Actor | Derek | N/A N/A |
| 1973 | The Last of Sheila | Actor | Anthony | 61 Fair |
| 1972 | Sitting Target | Actor | Birdy Williams | 59 Average |
| 1971 | Villain | Actor | Wolfe Lissner | 59 Average |
| 1970 | The Ballad of Tam Lin | Actor | Tom Lynn | 58 Average |
| 1970 | A Sound from the Sea | Actor | Tom | N/A N/A |
| 1970 | Performance | Actor | Noel - Black Musician (voice) (uncredited) | 61 Fair |
| 1970 | Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You | Actor | Fred C. Dobbs | 58 Average |
| 1970 | Freelance | Actor | Mitch | 58 Average |
| 1969 | Battle of Britain | Actor | Sgt. Pilot Andy | 62 Fair |
| 1969 | If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | Actor | Charlie Cartwright | 58 Average |
| 1968 | Funeral Games | Actor | Caulfield | N/A N/A |
| 1967 | Wuthering Heights | Actor | Heathcliff | 58 Average |
| 1967 | Wuthering Heights | Actor | Heathcliff | N/A N/A |
| 1966 | You Can't Win | Actor | Joe Lunn | N/A N/A |
| 1965 | Sky West and Crooked | Actor | Roibin | 58 Average |
| 1965 | The Pleasure Girls | Actor | Keith Dexter | 58 Average |
| 1964 | Redcap | Actor | Sapper Russell | 68 Fair |
| 1962 | The Wild and the Willing | Actor | Harry Brown | 59 Average |
| Deep Cover | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Production |
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| 2024 | American Star | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
| 2019 | Deadwood: The Movie | Production | Executive Producer | 62 Fair |
| 1996 | Madson | Production | Producer | 69 Fair |