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Ian McShane

Ian McShane

Actor·b. 1942·Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK

8 horror credits

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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Actor8 films

Hellboy

Hellboy

Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm

2019 2.5
Case 39

Case 39

Detective Mike Barron

2009
Coraline

Coraline

Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky / Other Bobinsky (voice)

2009 4.2
Chain Letter

Chain Letter

The Messenger of Death

1989
The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Prefet de police

1986
Too Scared to Scream

Too Scared to Scream

Vincent Hardwick

1984
The Ballad of Tam Lin

The Ballad of Tam Lin

Tom Lynn

1970
Performance

Performance

Noel (voice) (uncredited)

1970