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Ian McShane

Ian McShane


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Ian McShane - what members say


  • Sexy Beast
  • Sexy Beast review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4.0 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 31 August 2005
    ...nner. Mention should also be made of the excellent supporting cast, not least Ian McShane who puts in the kind of out-there-where-the-trains-don't-go performance that wi...   Read customer review
  • Lovejoy - Complete Series 3
  • Lovejoy - Complete Series 3 review by A customer from Manchester,Uk
    Rated - 5.0 stars WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT 13 March 2006
    ...ect, but the closeness and rapour of the perminent cast-members is infectious. Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Phyliss Logan and Chris Jury all give affectionate and almost l...   Read customer review
  • Deadwood - Season 1
  • Deadwood - Season 1 review by from UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars Deadwood - a must see 10 May 2005
    ...US to (sometimes appaling) life. Fantastic performances - you would not believe Ian McShane could do it, language so fruity you could start a greengrocers, and some very s...   Read customer review

Ian McShane - filmography


  • Jack the Giant Killer (2012)
    Starring: Nicholas Hoult,  Ewan McGregor,  Bill Nighy
    Director: Bryan Singer
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A modern day fairy tale in which the long-standing peace between men and giants is threatened, as a young farmer leads an expedition into the giants' kingdom in hopes of rescuing a kidnapped princess.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 6 members
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  • 44 Inch Chest on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Ian McShane,  John Hurt,  Ray Winstone
    Director: Malcolm Venville
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    British hardman Ray Winstone (THE DEPARTED, SCUM) reunites with SEXY BEAST screenwriters Louise Mellis and David Scinto for this intriguing gangland thriller in which a scorned husband enlists his friends in a plan to kidnap the lover of his adulteress wife.
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 13,976 members
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  • 44 Inch Chest - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Ian McShane,  John Hurt,  Ray Winstone
    Director: Malcolm Venville
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ray Winstone (NIL BY MOUTH), Ian McShane (TVÂ’s DEADWOOD), John Hurt (THE ELEPHANT MAN), Tom Wilkinson (MICHAEL CLAYTON), Stephen Dillane (WELCOME TO SARYJEVO), and Joanne Whalley (SCANDAL) star in first-time feature filmmaker Malcolm Venville's darkly comic tale of a man who rallies his friends in ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 5,079 members
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  • Death Race on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jason Statham,  Tyrese Gibson,  Natalie Martinez
    Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Terminal Island: The very near future. The world's hunger for extreme sports and reality competitions has grown into reality TV bloodlust. Now, the most extreme racing competition has emerged and its contestants are murderous prisoners. Tricked-out cars, caged thugs and smoking-hot navigators ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 30,472 members
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  • Kung Fu Panda on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jack Black,  Angelina Jolie,  Jackie Chan
    Director: Mark Osborne,  John Stevenson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Valley Of Peace and it's inhabitants are under threat from a malevolent snow leopard, Tai Lung (Ian McShane). With everyone fearing for their very existences, the role of protector falls into the lap of the lazy, irreverent Po, (Jack Black) a panda more used to slacking off than facing great ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 60,527 members
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  • Hot Rod - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Isla Fisher,  Bill Hader,  Danny McBride
    Director: Akiva Schaffer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE star Andy Samberg is a stuntman with a mission in this comedy from producer Lorne Michaels. Rod Kimble must jump over 15 buses on his bike to raise money for an operation for his less-than-lovable stepdad (DEADWOOD's Ian McShane).
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,005 member
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  • Hot Rod on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Andy Samberg,  Jorma Taccone,  Bill Hader
    Director: Akiva Schaffer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE star Andy Samberg is a stuntman with a mission in this comedy from producer Lorne Michaels. Rod Kimble must jump over 15 buses on his bike to raise money for an operation for his less-than-lovable stepdad (DEADWOOD's Ian McShane).
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 6,945 members
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  • Scoop (2006)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Scarlett Johansson,  Charles Dance
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An American journalism student (Scarlett Johansson) visiting London gets a hot tip on a notorious serial murder case after a ghostly encounter inside the disappearing cabinet of a neurotic vaudevillian (writer/director/co-star Woody Allen). But when she falls for the dashing aristocrat (Hugh ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 407 members
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  • We Are Marshall on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Matthew McConaughey,  Matthew Fox,  Anthony Mackie
    Director: McG
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    "We Are Marshall" tells an inspiring true story set in Huntingdon, West Virginia, a small town steeped in the rich tradition of college football. For decades, players, coaches, fans and families have come together to cheer on Marshall University's "Thunder Herd." For this team and this community, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 7,677 members
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  • Deadwood - Season 2 (4 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Timothy Olyphant,  Ian McShane,  Molly Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    1877. A new day is dawning in the Black Hills outlaw camp of Deadwood. For better or worse, times are changing and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. Unsavoury new arrivals - looking to cash in on the lucrative anarchy - and a government of outsiders usher in an era of hard ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 6,660 members
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  • Deadwood - Season 1 (4 discs) on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Ian McShane,  Timothy Olyphant,  Keith Carradine
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Features the complete episodes from the first season of the popular television drama. Set in the weeks immediately following the Custer Massacre, the lives of Wild Bill Hickok, Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen collide, ensuing a bitter power struggle.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 11,297 members
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  • Bollywood Queen on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Preeya Kalidas,  James McAvoy,  Ciaran McMenamin
    Director: Jeremy Wooding
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    West Side Story goes East in this heart-warming homage to Bollywood musicals about two star-crossed lovers crossing cultures, families and the law. Nineteen year old Geena has everything going for her: a Business Studies course, a weekend job and a good-looking boyfriend. But, she longs for life to ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 687 members
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  • Agent Cody Banks on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Frankie Muniz,  Cynthia Stevenson,  Hilary Duff
    Director: Harald Zwart
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    To his family and friends, Cody Banks is a typical teen--he loves to skateboard, hates math, and feels like a complete idiot around girls. But Cody's got a secret--he's actually part of a secret teen CIA program. Cody's living every boy's dream life--he can drive like a stuntman, has an incredible ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 6,494 members
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  • In Deep - Series 2 (2 discs) on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Colette Brown,  Fiona Allen,  Lisa Maxwell
    Director: Colin Bucksey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Nick Berry and Stephen Tompkinson return for a second series of the intense BBC crime drama, In Deep. Liam (Berry) and Garth (Tompkinson) continue to go undercover to capture murderers and criminals including a drug dealer, played brilliantly by Lovejoy's Ian McShane. Garth is left fighting for his ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 21 members
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  • Man And Boy on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Ioan Gruffudd,  Elizabeth Mitchell,  Natasha Little
    Director: Simon Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this made for TV adaptation of Tony Parsons' best-selling novel, Ioan Gruffud plays high-flying executive Harry Silver who has to learn the hard way what fatherhood is all about. When the unsettled Harry has a one-night stand with a colleague, his wife leaves him to care for their five year-old ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 54% from 449 members
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  • Sexy Beast on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Ben Kingsley,  Ian McShane
    Director: Jonathan Glazer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Jonathan Glazer, the award-winning director of advertisements and music videos, presents his feature film debut with this lushly photographed, expertly written, and brilliantly performed convention-defying gangster film. SEXY BEAST jettisons the slickness of the LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 14,399 members
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  • Sexy Beast - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Ben Kingsley,  Ian McShane
    Director: Jonathan Glazer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Jonathan Glazer, the award-winning director of advertisements and music videos, presents his feature film debut with this lushly photographed, expertly written, and brilliantly performed convention-defying gangster film. SEXY BEAST jettisons the slickness of the LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,521 member
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  • Sexy Beast - HD (2000)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Ben Kingsley,  Ian McShane
    Director: Jonathan Glazer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Jonathan Glazer, the award-winning director of advertisements and music videos, presents his feature film debut with this lushly photographed, expertly written, and brilliantly performed convention-defying gangster film. SEXY BEAST jettisons the slickness of the LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 247 members
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  • Dallas - Season 12 (3 discs) on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Linda Gray,  Ian McShane,  Larry Hagman
    Director: Michael Preece,  Russ Mayberry
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Having avoided getting shot by his frustrated wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), at the end of DALLAS' 11th series, ruthless oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) decides to relax a bit as series 12 gets under way. Embarking on a hunting trip to Arkansas, serial philanderer J.R. has brief tryst with ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 82 members
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  • Lovejoy - Complete Series 1 (3 discs) on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Ian McShane,  Dudley Sutton,  Phyllis Logan
    Director: Baz Taylor
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The entire first series of LOVEJOY starring Ian McShane as the charming, trouble-prone antique dealer. Originally broadcast in 1986, this series also stars Dudley Sutton and Chris Jury as Lovejoy's idiosyncratic colleagues Tinker and Catchpole and Phyllis Logan as the luscious local Lady of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,338 member
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  • Torchlight on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Pamela Sue Martin,  Steve Railsback,  Ian McShane
    Director: Thomas J. Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A "yuppie" couple find their lives almost completely destroyed when the husband becomes hopelessly addicted to cocaine. Whilst the wife battles to save her husband and her marriage, his drug dealer lures him to the dark side with the glamour of the cocaine lifestyle. Soon he must chose which path ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 64 members
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  • Ordeal By Innocence on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Donald Sutherland,  Faye Dunaway,  Christopher Plummer
    Director: Desmond Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on an Agatha Christie story, the plot revolves around a murder case where a man was hanged for his mother's murder even though he maintained he was innocent. Two years after, his missing alibi turns up, starting an investigation into who really did commit the crime.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 46 members
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  • Marco Polo (4 discs) on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Ken Marshall,  Denholm Elliott,  Tony Vogel
    Director: Giuliano Montaldo
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    First broadcast in 1982, this Emmy award winning epic adventure cost a staggering ten million dollars and featured an all-star, Oscar winning cast. Filmed on location in Italy, Morocco, Nepal and China this lavish mini-series was the first Western production to film in China after WWII and took ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 64 members
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  • Armchair Thriller - High Tide on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Terence Rigby,  Ian McShane,  Wendy Morgan
    Director: Colin Bucksey
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Peter Curtis (Ian McShane) has just been released from prison after serving four years for manslaughter. His victim's mysterious last words were "High Tide's at 9.52" - and now Peter wants to find out why. Heading south in search of answers, he books into a hotel - and discovers the only other ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 53 members
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  • Ransom on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Ian McShane,  Isabel Dean
    Director: Casper Wrede
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An adventure thriller filmed in Norway with good photography by Sven Nykvist. When international terrorists seize a passenger plane in Oslo, diplomacy is held hostage. Their demands: the release of jailed cohorts in England. Their bait: the British ambassador held captive in the jet. Only one man ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 230 members
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  • Sky West And Crooked (1966)
    Starring: Hayley Mills,  Ian McShane,  Annette Crosbie
    Director: John Mills
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A girl with learning difficulties is traumatised at a young age after witnessing an accidental death of a child. Essentially abandoned by her alcoholic mother and misunderstood and ostracized by the 1960s English rural community she lives in, suspicious of the circumstances of the accident, she ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 42 members
    Not available for rental
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  • Pleasure Girls - Blu-ray (1966)
    Starring: Klaus Kinski,  Ian McShane,  Francesca Annis
    Director: Gerry O'Hara
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this drama, the difficulties of being a young woman during the 1960s are examined. The story centres on a country girl who comes to London to pursue a modelling career and ends up living with three girls and a young man--who is one of the others' brother. While waiting for her big break, the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 53 members
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Ian McShane facts

5 most recent films

Jack the Giant Killer - Blu-ray - 1.0 stars
Jack the Giant Killer - 3.0 stars
Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Snow White and the Huntsman - Blu-ray - 1.0 stars
Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides - 3D Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Deadwood - Season 3 - 4.5 stars
Deadwood - Season 2 - 4.0 stars
Dallas - Season 13 - 4.0 stars
Kung Fu Panda - 3D Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Dallas - Season 12 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Snow White and the Huntsman - Blu-ray - 1.0 stars
Jack the Giant Killer - Blu-ray - 1.0 stars
Sewers Of Gold - 2.0 stars
Young Charlie Chaplin - 2.0 stars
Will Shakespeare - The Complete Series - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Timothy Olyphant - 15 times - show films
Brad Dourif - 15 times - show films
Keith Carradine - 10 times - show films
Robin Weigert - 10 times - show films
Powers Boothe - 10 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Baz Taylor - 24 times - show films
John Crome - 20 times - show films
Francis Megahy - 11 times - show films
Geoffr - 10 times - show films
Walter Hill - 10 times - show films