Martin ShawFilmography

Born:: Birmingham, England
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: British lead actor, onscreen from the '70s. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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George Gently: Series 01

Actors: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Phil Davis, Richard Armitage

2007
Death in Holy Orders

Actors: Martin Shaw

Synopsis: This mystery centers around an isolated British town in which a death at a theological college, previously ruled as accidental, is reopened for an extended investigation by Scotland Yard. Commander Dalgliesh, a former student at the college, conducts the necessary research at first simply as a Read More

2004
The Murder Room

Actors: Kerry Fox, Samantha Bond, Martin Shaw

Synopsis: The heir to London's Dupayne Museum has died in a suspicious fire and it's up to Commander Dalgliesh (Martin Shaw) to crack the case in this mystery based on the best-selling novel by author P.D. James. It seems that the infernal crime bears a striking resemblance to a notorious case from the Read More

2004
The Scarlet Pimpernel

Actors: Richard E. Grant, Elizabeth McGovern, Martin Shaw

Synopsis: Baroness Orczy's frequently filmed adventure novel The Scarlet Pimpernel has been the subject of two different British TV series, the second of which aired nearly half a century after the first. Debuting on BBC1 on January 24, 1999, the "new" Scarlet Pimpernel was, like its predecessor, set during Read More

1999
Rhodes

Actors: Russell Baker, Martin Shaw, Frances Barber, Joe Shaw, Patrick Shai

Synopsis: Filmed in South Africa, this lengthy biographical drama details events in the life of 19th-century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes (Martin Shaw) through an extensive series of overlapping flashbacks. The BBC original ran for eight hours, but for telecasting in the United States, the BBC edited Read More

1998
Timewatch: The Life and Loves of Oscar Wilde

1995
Black and Blue

1992
Who Bombed Birmingham?

Actors: John Hurt

Synopsis: Director Mike Beckham draws on the facts in the case of two 1974 bomb attacks in Birmingham that left twenty-one dead, and six innocent men wrongly convicted. When terrorists bomb two Birmingham pubs, the authorities race to catch the culprits responsible for killing twenty-one unsuspecting Read More

1990
Intrigue

Synopsis: This made-for-TV thriller stars Robert Loggia as a onetime CIA agent who defected to the Soviet Union to join the KGB. Discovering he has just months to live, the agent wants to return home to America; Scott Glenn plays the U.S. agent assigned to retrieve him. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Cassidy

1989
Intrigue

Synopsis: A spy is tracked down in this made-for-television espionage thriller. When a secret agent goes in search of his former mentor -- who has since defected -- he finds that the man wants come back to the United States. They go on the lam and try to escape the KGB and CIA, who aren't through with the Read More

1988
Ladder of Swords

Actors: Martin Shaw

Synopsis: Down on their luck, stranded out on the moors of England, the "Three D's" are a trio of circus performers (a bear trainer and his wife plus the bear) who have attracted the unwelcome attention of a policeman, to whom they appear to be altogether shady characters. Not only that, but after a Read More

1988
The Most Dangerous Man in the World

1988
Professionals, Part 2

1985
The Hound of the Baskervilles

Actors: Ian Richardson, Martin Shaw, Nicholas Clay, Denholm Elliott

Synopsis: In this classic mystery story, Sherlock Holmes (Ian Richardson) is requested to investigate deaths around the Baskerville mansion because Henry (Martin Shaw), the last direct heir to the Baskerville fortune is worried that he may die by their unique curse; a ghost hound has eliminated his Read More

1983
Richard III

Actors: Martin Shaw, Brian Protheroe

Synopsis: Shakespeare's tale of the hunchbacked, ambitious Richard III's ascent to the Throne of England was produced for British television. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
The New Avengers: Obsession

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Martin Shaw, Mark Kingston

Synopsis: Larry Doomer (Martin Shaw), ex-fiancee of New Avenger Purdey (Joanna Lumley), is determined to get even for the death of his father. To this end, Doomer has targetted an Arab diplomat for assassination. Unfortunately, Doomer's misguided missile will not only wipe out the diplomat, but all of the Read More

1977
Professionals

Synopsis: In this British actioner, the professional thieves find that they have become bored with smuggling cocaine. For a new challenge, they decide to steal some plutonium. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Operation Daybreak

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Karel Curda, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett, Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: Also titled The Price of Freedom, Operation Daybreak is a retelling of the terrible consequences attending the assassination of Nazi-occupation leader Richard Heydrich. When Heydrich puts all of Czechoslovakia under his thumb, a group of Czech expatriates parachute into their homeland to kill the Read More

1976
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

Actors: David Garfield, John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker, Douglas Wilmer, Martin Shaw

Synopsis: The second of special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen's three Sinbad epics, this film finds the titular hero played by John Philip Law, while the principal villain, Koura, is portrayed by future Dr. Who Tom Baker. The plot sends Sinbad and his crew on a quest for a valuable and magical golden Read More

1973
Villains [TV Series]

Actors: Martin Shaw, Bob Hoskins, Bryan Marshall, Hilary Dwyer, David Daker

Synopsis: Like the earlier BBC anthology The Villains, the similarly titled Villains dramatized the lives of criminals both famous and obscure. Unlike the earlier series, which focused on England's North Country, the later program detailed stories about crooks and scoundrels from all parts of the British Read More

1972
Macbeth

Actors: Terence Bayler, Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Nicholas Selby, John Stride, Vic Abbott, Stephen Chase

Synopsis: Perhaps William Shakespeare meant to have Lady Macbeth perform her sleepwalking scene in the nude -- it was this X-rated scene and the film's much-publicized spurts of violence, rather than the brilliant performances of Jon Finch as Macbeth and Francesca Annis as his Lady, that lured crowds to Roman Polanski Read More

1971