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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian McShane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (16)

• 2025Wick Is Pain — Self
• 2019Tales of the Wild Hunt: Hellboy Reborn — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• Off Camera with Sam Jones — Self
• 2009Trevor Horn and Friends - Slaves to the Rhythm — Self (archive footage)
• The One Show — Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self
• 2001The Making of Sexy Beast — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• GMTV — Self
• Going Live! — Self
• Wogan — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee