Ian McShane Filmography

Death Race

Actors: Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Joan Allen, Natalie Martinez

Synopsis: The Transporter star Jason Statham takes the wheel in director Paul W.S. Anderson's remake of the Roger Corman classic about a hyper-violent cross-country race that breaks all of the traditional rules of the road. The time is the not-so-distant future, and as America's prisons begin overflowing Read More

Kung Fu Panda

Actors: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Seth Rogen

Synopsis: A clumsy panda bear becomes an unlikely kung fu hero when a treacherous enemy spreads chaos throughout the countryside in this animated martial arts adventure featuring the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, and Jackie Chan. On the surface, Po (voice of Black) may look like just Read More

Coraline

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Ian McShane, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: A young girl walks through a secret door and discovers a parallel reality that is eerily similar to the life she already knows in director Henry Selick's animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's international bestseller. Upon first glance, Coraline (voice of Dakota Fanning) begins to believe that the Read More

The Golden Compass

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green

Synopsis: A young girl embarks on a perilous journey to rescue her best friend and fight the forces of darkness in director Chris Weitz's adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's best-selling fantasy trilogy. Screen newcomer Dakota Blue Richards stars as young heroine Lyra Belacqua, Casino Royale Read More

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising

Actors: Alexander Ludwig, Christopher Eccleston, Frances Conroy, Ian McShane, Wendy Crewson

Synopsis: Producer Marc E. Platt brings author Susan Cooper's popular series of children's fantasy books to the big screen with this tale of a young boy (Alexander Ludwig) who discovers that he is the latest in a long line of immortal warriors. When the forces of darkness, led by the villainous Rider (Christopher Eccleston Read More

Hot Rod

Actors: Andy Samberg, Isla Fisher, Jorma Taccone, Bill Hader, Danny R. McBride, Ian McShane, Sissy Spacek

Synopsis: The comedy trio known as Lonely Island attempt their first feature-length comedy with Hot Rod. Andy Samberg stars as Rod Kimble, an inept would-be stuntman who believes his dad worked for daredevil Evel Knievel. His stepfather abuses him at every opportunity, but Rod keeps attempting tricks on his Read More

Shrek the Third

Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews

Synopsis: Shrek and Fiona's (Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz, respectively) fairy-tale wedding has gone off without a hitch, yet just as the beaming newlyweds prepare to enjoy their blissful "happily ever after," the sudden death of King Harold (John Cleese) finds everyone's favorite ornery ogre being Read More

We Are Marshall

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Anthony Mackie, David Strathairn, Ian McShane

Synopsis: A true story of tragedy, hope, and resilience comes to the screen in this sports drama. Huntington, WV, is home to Marshall University, a school where college football is a way of life. Huntington is also a town that learned to deal with tragedy in the fall of 1970 when Marshall's "Thundering Read More

Scoop

Actors: Woody Allen, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane, Charles Dance

Synopsis: Both laughs and thrills are on the masthead in this comedy drama about a would-be reporter written and directed by Woody Allen. Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson) is an American journalism student who travels to England to visit friends. While in London, she attends a magic show where magician Read More

Deadwood: Season 03

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif, John Hawkes, Paula Malcomson, Leon Rippy, William Sanderson, Robin Weigert, W. Earl Brown, Dayton Callie, Powers Boothe, Jeffrey Jones

Nine Lives

Actors: Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Elpidia Carrillo, Glenn Close, Stephen Dillane

Synopsis: Filmmaker Rodrigo García takes an unusual look into the lives of nine different women in this episodic drama. Each of the film's nine sequences has been staged as a single shot, using the Steadicam system to allow the camera to follow the action fluidly and without cuts. In these short episodes Read More

Deadwood: Season 02

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, John Hawkes, Robin Weigert

Deadwood: Season 01

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif, John Hawkes, Paula Malcomson, Leon Rippy, William Sanderson, Robin Weigert, W. Earl Brown, Dayton Callie, Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Ray McKinnon, Larry Cedar, Jeffrey Jones

Synopsis: "Welcome to Deadwood...a hell of a place to make your fortune." These are the words that serve as greeting for saddle-weary former lawman Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) as he rides into the illegal Dakota Territory settlement of Deadwood, a scant few weeks after Custer's defeat at the Little Big Read More

Deadwood [TV Series]

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker

Synopsis: Forget Gunsmoke and Bonanza. The HBO series Deadwood was as close to the "real thing" as any Western fan was ever going to see on television -- and in its pursuit of reality, the series was not afraid of smashing icons or skewering sacred cows. Could anything less be expected of executive producer David Milch Read More

Agent Cody Banks

Actors: Frankie Muniz, Hilary Duff, Keith David, Cynthia Stevenson

Synopsis: A teen learns that all the gadgets in the world can't help him overcome his awkwardness around the opposite sex in this big-budget family entertainment. In Agent Cody Banks, Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz plays a young man plucked from suburban obscurity to be trained as a CIA Read More

Terror in Moscow

Actors: Ian McShane

Nemesis Game

Synopsis: College student Sara Novak (Carly Pope) becomes involved in a mysterious game involving riddles and elaborate mind games. As she roams the city seeking -- and finding -- answers to each question, she finds herself deeper in a conspiracy that leads to the murder of a classmate (Jay Baruchel). Read More

Bollywood Queen

Actors: Preeya Kalidas, James McAvoy, Ciarán McMenamin, Kat Bhathena, Ray Panthaki

Synopsis: A half-parody and half-loving tribute to the over-the-top style of Indian musicals, this song-and-dance-filled musical comedy-drama concerns Geena (Preeya Kalidas), a pretty and virtuous young women who has been raised by a loving but strictly traditional Indian family. One day, Geena happens to Read More

Sexy Beast

Actors: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, Cavan Kendall

Synopsis: Gary (Ray Winstone) is a former gangster who has made a modest amount of money from his criminal career. Happy to put his life of crime behind him, he has retired with his wife Deedee (Amanda Redman) to the sunny bliss of rural Spain, where he lives an idyllic life with his family and a few close Read More

D.R.E.A.M. Team

Synopsis: Three female undercover agents fight evil and look good doing it in this made-for-TV action-adventure drama. While Puerto Rico may be a playground for the rich and famous in the eyes of the world, United Nations intelligence agent J.W. Garrison (Martin Sheen) and his CIA colleague Zack Hamilton (Jeff Kaake Read More

Babylon 5: The River of Souls

Actors: Tracy Scoggins, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Richard Biggs, Jeff Conway

Synopsis: The weekly Babylon 5 series still had three episodes to go when TNT presented the two-hour "spinoff" movie Babylon 5: The River of Souls. Departing a bit from the established fifth-season chronology, the film finds Garibaldi returning to B5 after an 18-month tenure as CEO of Edgars Enterprise. The Read More

Monty Roberts: A Real Horse Whisperer

Synopsis: Monty Roberts, the famed "horse whisperer" and personality who is indirectly responsible for the book and movie of the same name, is featured in this documentary. His life story and innovative horse training procedures are the primary focus. ~ Ryan Shriver, All Movie Guide Read More

Soul Survivors

Actors: Ian McShane, Margi Clarke, Isaac Hayes, Antonio Fargas, Derrick O'Connor

Synopsis: The two-part British miniseries Soul Survivors was all about second chances. Ian McShane was cast against type as Otis Cooke, a disc jockey on a Liverpool soul music station. After the cancellation of his radio program , Otis whimsically headed to America in hopes of reuniting his favorite soul Read More

Lovejoy: Series 06

Actors: Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Caroline Langrishe, Diane Parish, Malcolm Tierney

Lovejoy: The Ring

Actors: Ian McShane

Lovejoy: Series 04

Actors: Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Caroline Langrishe, Diane Parish, Malcolm Tierney

Lovejoy: Series 05

Actors: Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Caroline Langrishe, Diane Parish, Malcolm Tierney

Con Man

Synopsis: In London's crooked underground, a two-bit thief (Robin Mitchell) witnesses a killing and must flee from the goons who want to see him dead. After eluding capture, he puts all his money on the long shot that might just make him rich. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Lovejoy: Scotch on the Rocks

Actors: Ian McShane

Lovejoy: Friends in High Places

Actors: Ian McShane

Lovejoy: Series 03

Actors: Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Chris Jury, Phyllis Logan, Malcolm Tierney

Lovejoy: Love Knots

Actors: Ian McShane

Lovejoy: Series 02

Actors: Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Chris Jury, Phyllis Logan, Malcolm Tierney

Turgenev's Month in the Country

Synopsis: This video production is from the earliest drama of this Russian playwright. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason represents a Marine Officer who is accused of killing a Nazi war criminal. He is the prime suspect because the Nazi had treated his mother terribly at a concentration camp. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Columbo: Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo

Actors: Peter Falk, Helen Shaver, Ian McShane, Roscoe Lee Browne, Edward Winter

Synopsis: This was one of the highest-rated of the Columbo 2-hour TV movies of the 1990s. The story begins as Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) solemnly attends his wife's funeral. Mrs. C. was poisoned, and the murderer is guest star Helen Shaver. When her husband died in prison, Shaver swore revenge on the three Read More

Blood Sport

Actors: Ian McShane, Kenneth Welsh

Synopsis: Blood Sport premiered as a 2-hour installment of the syndicated TV anthology "Mystery Wheel of Adventure." It was one of three Irish/Canadian productions based on the works of mystery writer Dick Francis. As in the other Francis mysteries, Ian McShane stars as British Jockey Club investigator Read More

Young Charlie Chaplin

Actors: Twiggy, Lee Whitlock

Synopsis: Aimed at the ten- to 15-year-old demographic, this six-episode British series offered an entertaining if not entirely accurate overview of celebrated comedian Charlie Chaplin's formative years. Though fairly explicit in detailing the alcoholism of Chaplin's music hall headliner father Charles Read More

Twice Shy

Actors: Ian McShane

Synopsis: Twice Shy was originally telecast on the syndicated anthology "Mystery Wheel of Adventure." It was one of three dramas based on the works of novelist Dick Francis. Ian McShane stars as David Cleveland, investigator for the British Jockey Club. Cleveland uncovers an illegal computer betting Read More

In the Frame

Synopsis: In the Frame was first shown as a 2-hour entry in the syndicated TV anthology The Mystery Wheel of Adventure. The film was one of three mysteries based on the works of author Dick Francis. Ian McShane stars as Francis' most popular character, British Jockey Club investigator David Read More

War & Remembrance: The Final Chapter

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick, Sami Frey, Topol

War & Remembrance

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, John Gielgud, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Michael Jeffrey Woods, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

Synopsis: Originally shown on television in two parts, the second of which takes place after WWII. Surviving escapee Major John Dodge (Christopher Reeve) is sent back to Germany by Winston Churchill to capture the Gestapo officer who ordered the machine-gunning of 50 of the captured escapees, in direct Read More

Grand Larceny

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, the daughter of a notorious French burglar must follow in her father's illustrious footsteps after he is suddenly killed. She soon finds herself nearly in over her head as she is required to perform a variety of death-defying stunts in order to ply her trade. ~ Sandra Read More

High Tide

Actors: Ian McShane, Kika Markham, Terence Rigby

Synopsis: A dog is run over by a car; the owner investigates and finds himself faced with a dying man who utters a cryptic phrase and leaves the dog owner in great danger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lovejoy: Series 01

Actors: Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Chris Jury, Phyllis Logan, Malcolm Tierney

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Actors: George C. Scott

Synopsis: Edgar Allan Poe's classic 1841 detective story Murders in the Rue Morgue was adapted for television by David Epstein. Two women--a mother and a daughter--are brutally killed in their tiny Paris apartment. There are no eyewitnesses, and the earwitnesses are wildly contradictory. The evidence points Read More

Rocket to the Moon

Synopsis: A middle-aged dentist who is frustrated and bored with his commonplace life looks for greater adventure. This appeared on the PBS "American Playhouse." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Braker

Synopsis: This TV pilot film stars Carl Weathers as Harry Braker, an ex-Marine who is his city's only African American police lieutenant. Tough but tender, Braker bends the rules to help the helpless. Braker's team of co-workers is the usual cop-show manifest: The gonzo (Randall "Tex" Cobb), the green Read More

Too Scared to Scream

Actors: Michael Connors, Anne Archer, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ian McShane, Ruth Ford

Synopsis: This uneasy mix between a slasher film and a police story focuses on a series of murders in a luxury Manhattan apartment building and the main suspect in the case, an eccentric doorman (Ian McShane). The chief detective sent to unravel the crimes, Lt. Dinardo (Mike Connors) is involved with Kate (Anne Archer Read More

A.D.

Actors: Anthony Andrews, Colleen Dewhurst, Ava Gardner, David Hedison, John Houseman

Synopsis: Filmed in Tunisia on a budget of 30 million dollars, the five-part, 12-hour miniseries A.D. was the final installment in a historical trilogy which included Moses the Lawgiver and Jesus of Nazareth. Covering the years 30 to 69 A.D., the teleplay, co-written by Anthony Burgess, chronicled the Read More

Evergreen

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Belva Plain, the three-part NBC miniseries Evergreen covered a time span from 1909 to 1959. The story begins in New York's Lower East Side with the arrival of Polish-Jewish immigrant Anna (Lesley Ann Warren). At first employed as a humble seamstress, Anna is whisked into a Read More

Torchlight

Actors: Pamela Sue Martin, Steve Railsback, Ian McShane, Al Corley, Rita Taggart, Arnie Moore

Synopsis: Not quite reaching as far as its storyline would permit, this film on the addiction and downfall of an otherwise successful married man is not always successful itself. Lillian (Pamela Sue Martin) is commissioned to do a painting for Jake Gregory (Steve Railsback), who owns a Los Angeles Read More

Ordeal by Innocence

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Christopher Plummer, Ian McShane, Sarah Miles, Diana Quick

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and set in the late 1950s, this unevenly told film starts when Dr. Arthur Calgary (Donald Sutherland) comes back to England after two years on an Antarctic expedition and discovers that the man he is searching for has been executed for murder. At the beginning Read More

Bare Essence: The Final Chapter

Synopsis: Bare Essence, based on a novel by Meredith Rich, began as a two-part TV movie, premiering October 4 and 5, 1982. General Hospital alumnus Genie Francis stars as Tyger Hayes, the daughter of a powerful movie mogul. When Tyger's father dies, her much-married mother Lady Bobbi Rowan (Linda Evans) Read More

Exposed

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey Keitel, Ian McShane, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: Exposed is the film in which concert violinist Rudolf Nureyev grabs his bow and "plays" the lissome body of Nastassja Kinski. This may well stand as the silliest bit of erotica in screen history, but in the context of the film it's a model of restraint. We're asked to believe that Kinski is Read More

Grace Kelly

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Ian McShane

Synopsis: Grace Kelly, the high-society beauty who became an Oscar-winning actress and then a European princess, is the subject of this TV biopic. Cheryl Ladd has the looks and poise of the original Grace, though she isn't quite as charismatic. The early portion of the film retraces the stormy relationship Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Black On White

Synopsis: A rare virus known as African Hemorrhagic Fever has quarantined Magnum and Higgins at Robin's Nest. Their enforced stay coincides with the arrival of Higgins' former comrade-in-arms Edwin Clutterbuck (Ian McShane), with whom he served in Africa during the bloody Mau Mau uprising of 1955. Now, it Read More

Marco Polo

Actors: Ken Marshall, Denholm Elliott, Tony Vogel, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Thirteen months and ten million dollars were lavished upon this ten-hour, four-part TV miniseries about legendary globetrotter Marco Polo. Newcomer Ken Marshall played the title character, a 14th century Venetian explorer who, among other accomplishments, firmly established the "silk route" Read More

The Letter

Synopsis: In this drama, adapted from a W. Somerset Maugham novel, a philandering wife is accused of killing her lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Skin Deep

Synopsis: Beautiful film star Erin Wolfe (Cathie Shirriff) apparently kills herself in a manner resembling the script of her latest film, "Paradise Found". Erin's producer--and ex-lover--J.J. Stein (Ron Masak) hires Magnum to find out if her death indeed a suicide, or murder. Driven by a feeling of guilt Read More

Cheaper to Keep Her

Actors: Mac Davis, Tovah Feldshuh, Art Metrano, Ian McShane, Priscilla Lopez

Synopsis: Marred by prejudice and derogatory stereoptypes of gays and Hispanics, this subpar drama by Ken Annakin does not treat women or men well either. Bill (Mac Davis) is a detective who has just been hired by a tough lawyer, K.D. Locke (Tovah Feldshuh) to check up on some deadbeat ex-spouses who are Read More

Yesterday's Hero

Actors: Ian McShane, Suzanne Somers, Adam Faith, Paul Nicholas, Sam Kydd

Synopsis: Jackie Collins screenplay falters in this so-so melodrama about a soccer player and his road to fame and fortune. Rod Turner (Ian McShane) is a has-been soccer whiz who one day gets a second chance to reach for the brass ring. He joins a team owned by a playboy rock star (Paul Nicholas) and Read More

The Great Riviera Bank Robbery

Synopsis: Why is it that some of the most outlandish movie plotlines are grounded in reality? The Great Riviera Bank Robbery is based on an actual occurrence in 1976. A fascist terrorist group, known as "The Chain", joins forces with a gang of professional criminals to pull off a heist. The target: a bank Read More

Will Shakespeare [TV Series]

Actors: Tim Curry, Ian McShane, Meg Wynn Owen, Simon McCorkindale, Nicholas Clay

Synopsis: Written by the prolific John Mortimer, the British drama series Will Shakespeare focused on the Bard of Avon's formative years. Deftly mixing fact with fancy, the story concentrates on such elements as the marriage of young Will (played by Tim Curry, no less) to the older and more affluent Anne Read More

Disraeli

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