
Ian McShane
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).
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Deep Cover as Metcalfe
2025Ballerina as Winston
2025Wick Is Pain as Self
2024Kung Fu Panda 4 as Tai Lung (voice)
2024American Star as Wilson
2023ONE PIECE as Narrator (voice)
2023John Wick: Chapter 4 as Winston
2022My Father's Dragon as Saiwa (voice)
2021Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story as Narrator
2020The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU as (archive footage)
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019Tales of the Wild Hunt: Hellboy Reborn as Self
2019Deadwood: The Movie as Al Swearengen
2019John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum as Winston
2019Bolden as Judge Perry
2019Master of Dark Shadows as Narrator
2019Hellboy as Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm
2018Age of Sail as William Avery (voice)
2018A Wizard's Tale as The Grump (voice)
2017Pottersville as Bart
2017Jawbone as Joe Padgett
2017American Gods as Mr. Wednesday / God Odin
2017John Wick: Chapter 2 as Winston Scott
2016The Hollow Point as Leland
2016Bilal: A New Breed of Hero as Umayya (voice)
2016Doctor Thorne as Sir Roger Scatcherd
2016Grimsby as MI6 Spy Boss (uncredited)
2014John Wick as Winston
2014The Kid as Inglés
2014Hercules as Amphiarus
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014Cuban Fury as Ron Parfitt
2014Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
2013How We Used to Live as Narrator
2013Ray Donovan as Malcolm Finney
2013Ray Donovan as Andrew Finney
2013Jack the Giant Slayer as King Brahmwell
2012Snow White and the Huntsman as Beith
2011American Horror Story as Leigh Emerson
2011Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as Edward "Blackbeard" Teach
2011Game of Thrones as Brother Ray
2010The Pillars of the Earth as Waleran Bigod
2010The Sorcerer's Apprentice as Narrator (voice)
200944 Inch Chest as Meredith
2009Case 39 as Detective Mike Barron
2009Trevor Horn and Friends - Slaves to the Rhythm as Self (archive footage)
2009Kings as King Silas Benjamin
2009Coraline as Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky (voice)
2008Death Race as Coach
2008Kung Fu Panda as Tai Lung (voice)
2007The Golden Compass as Ragnar Sturlusson (voice)
2007The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising as Merriman Lyon
2007Hot Rod as Frank Powell
2007Shrek the Third as Captain Hook (voice)
2007The Dame Edna Treatment
2006We Are Marshall as Paul Griffen
2006The One Show as Self
2006Scoop as Joe Strombel
2005Nine Lives as Larry
2004Deadwood as Al Swearengen
2003Nemesis Game as Jeff Novak
2003Terror in Moscow as Narrator
2003Agent Cody Banks as Brinkman
2003Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
2003Trust as Alan Cooper-Fozard
2002Bollywood Queen as Frank
2002The Twilight Zone as Chandler
2002Man and Boy as Marty Mann
2001Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
2001The Making of Sexy Beast as Self
2001In Deep as Jamie Lamb
2001Sexy Beast as Teddy Bass
1999D.R.E.A.M. Team as Oliver Maxwell
1999The West Wing as Nikolai Ivanovich
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Toby Moore
1998Babylon 5: The River of Souls as Robert Bryson
1997Traders of the Lost Scrolls as Narrator
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996Madson as John Madson
1995The Naked Truth as Leland Banks
1995Soul Survivors as Otis Cooke
1994White Goods as Ian Deegan
1993GMTV as Self
1992Chillers as Steven Castle
1990Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception as Andre Marchand
1989The Simpsons as Artemis (voice)
1989Dick Francis: Twice Shy as David Cleveland
1989Dick Francis: Blood Sport
1989Chain Letter as The Messenger of Death
1989Young Charlie Chaplin as Charles Chaplin Snr
1988War and Remembrance as Philip Rule
1988The Great Escape II: The Untold Story as Roger Bushell
1988The Great Escape II: The Untold Story as Roger Bushell
1987Going Live! as Self
1987CBS Summer Playhouse as Marbury
1987Grand Larceny as Flanagan
1986The Murders in the Rue Morgue as Prefet de police
1986Rocket to the Moon as Willy Wax
1986Lovejoy as Lovejoy
1985Braker as Alan Roswell
1985A.D. as Sejanus
1985Evergreen as Paul Lerner
1984Too Scared to Scream as Vincent Hardwick
1984Miami Vice as Esteban Montoya
1984Miami Vice as General Manuel Borbon
1984Ordeal by Innocence as Philip Durant
1984Torchlight as Sidney
1983Natural World as Narrator
1983Exposed as Greg Miller
1983Bare Essence as Niko Theophilus
1983Grace Kelly as Prince Rainier of Monaco
1982Marco Polo as Alì Ben Youssuf
1982Wogan as Self
1982The Letter as Geoff
1982American Playhouse as Willy Wax
1981Cheaper to Keep Her as Dr. Alfred Sunshine
1980Magnum, P.I. as David Norman
1980Magnum, P.I. as Edwin Clutterbuck
1980The Great Riviera Bank Robbery as The Brain (Bert)
1980High Tide as Curtis
1979Minder as Jack Last
1979Yesterday's Hero as Rod Turner
1979The Fifth Musketeer as Fouquet
1978The Pirate as Rashid
1978Disraeli as Benjamin Disraeli
1978Disraeli as Benjamin Disraeli
1978Life of Shakespeare as Christopher Marlowe
1978Dallas as Don Lockwood
1978Armchair Thriller as Curtis
1977Code Name: Diamond Head as Sean Donovan / Father Horton / Colonel Millard Butler
1977Jesus of Nazareth as Judas Iscariot
1977The Fantastic Journey as Sir James Camden
1977The Fantastic Journey as Sir James Camden
1977Roots as Sir Eric Russell
1975The Lives of Jenny Dolan as Saunders
1975Matt Helm as Paul
1975Space: 1999 as Anton Zoref
1975Journey into Fear as Banat
1974Ransom as Ray Petrie
1974Police Woman
1974What Would You Do? as Derek
1973The Last of Sheila as Anthony Wood
1972Sitting Target as Birdy Williams
1971Columbo as Leland St. John
1971Villain as Wolfe Lissner
1970The Ballad of Tam Lin as Tom Lynn
1970A Sound from the Sea as Tom
1970Performance as Noel (voice) (uncredited)
1970Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You as Fred C. Dobbs
1970Freelance as Mitch
1969Battle of Britain as Sgt. Pilot Andy
1969If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium as Charlie Cartwright
1968Funeral Games as Caulfield
1967Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff
1967Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff
1966You Can't Win as Joe Lunn
1966Sky West and Crooked as Roibin
1965The Pleasure Girls as Keith Dexter
1964Redcap as Sapper Russell
1964The Wednesday Play
1962The Wild and the Willing as Harry Brown
1956Armchair Theatre as Geoffrey
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee









