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Acting

Martin Shaw

Career: Active from 1967 to 2021, busiest in 1990 with 3 main titles.

Leading roles: 32
top three billing

Average score: 69/100

Highest rated: Inspector George Gently
80/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 28 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Martin Shaw Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Coming of Age
1.1, average 3.0
Cringe Humor
0.6, average 2.2
Pop Culture
0.7, average 2.2
Situational Comedy
1.4, average 2.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 3
Period Piece 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Crime Drama 2
Psychological Mystery 2
Atmospheric 2
Suspenseful 2
Historical Drama 2
Political Intrigue 2
Character Study 2
Gritty Realism 2
Detective Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

63

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

Commando

TV show · as Narrator

2020s

1 title · average score 58

The Long Call

58

TV show · as Dennis Stephenson

2010s

4 titles · average score 64

Strike

74

TV show · as Tony Landry

6 Days

55

as John Dellow

Playhouse Presents

63

TV show · as Piers Hunt

Operation Jericho

as Presenter

2000s

10 titles · average score 69

Inspector George Gently

80

TV show · as George Gently

Apparitions

50

TV show · as Father Jacob

Cranford

72

TV show · as Peter Jenkyns

TV show

TV show

The Murder Room

70

TV show · as Adam Dalgliesh

The Murder Room

68

as Adam Dalgliesh

Death in Holy Orders

70

TV show · as Commander Adam Dalgliesh

100 Years of Powered Flight

as Narrator

Judge John Deed

72

TV show · as Judge John Deed

1990s

9 titles · average score 75

The Scarlet Pimpernel

75

TV show · as Citizen Chauvelin

Always and Everyone

TV show · as Robert Kingsford

Rhodes

TV show · as Cecil John Rhodes

The Life and Loves of Oscar Wilde

as Oscar Wilde (voice)

as Chief Supt. Mike Barclay

For the Greater Good

TV show · as Peter Balliol MP

The Chief

TV show · as Chief Constable Alan Cade

Who Bombed Birmingham?

as Ian McBride

Ladder of Swords

as Don DeMarco

1980s

10 titles · average score 72

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Sir Charles Cartwright

Screen One

TV show · as Chief Supt. Mike Barclay

The Most Dangerous Man in the World

as Suleiman

Intrigue

as Roskov

The Last Place on Earth

77

TV show · as Captain R. F. Scott

Facelift

as Zax

TV show · as Burke

The Hound of the Baskervilles

60

as Sir Henry Baskerville

East Lynne

as Archibald Carlyle

Cream in My Coffee

67

as Jack Butcher

1970s

17 titles · average score 73

The Professionals

78

TV show · as Doyle

as Paul

Beasts: Buddyboy

as Dave

The New Avengers

72

TV show · as Larry

The Duchess of Duke Street

81

TV show · as Arthur Leyton

Beasts

68

TV show · as Dave

Operation: Daybreak

72

as Karel Curda

Love's Labour's Lost

as King Ferdinand

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

70

as Rachid

Achilles Heel

as Dave Irwin

Macbeth

75

as Banquo

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Brian

1960s

10 titles · average score 67

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as Norm

Doctor in the House

62

TV show

Strange Report

78

TV show · as Savi

Two Feet Off the Ground

as Norm

Travelling Light

as Arnold Champion

TV show · as Andy Blake

Son of the City

as George Leese

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Orestes / King Ferdinand of Navarre

Public Eye

83

TV show

Coronation Street

54

TV show · as Robert Croft

1950s

1 title · average score 84

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Horatio