Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw recently starred as Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London and on tour.

One of the UK’s most beloved stage and screen actors, Martin Shaw is known to millions for his acclaimed television roles in Judge John Deed, Inspector George Gently, and The Professionals. His recent West End credits include Hobson’s Choice, The Best Man, and Twelve Angry Men.

TV credits

Martin Shaw is known to millions for his television roles in Inspector George Gently, The Professionals and Judge John Deed. He has featured in over 100 TV roles in his long and varied career starting with Love on the Dole in 1967.

Television credits include The Long Call, Strike: The Cuckoo’s Calling, Inspector George Gently, City Hall, Poirot: Masterpiece Mystery, Cranford, Apparitions, Judge John Deed, The Murder Room, Death in Holy Orders, Always & Everyone, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Rhodes, The Chief, Black and Blue, For the Greater Good, Who Bombed Birmingham?, Cassidy, Intrigue, The Last Place on Earth, The Explorers, The Hound of the Baskervilles, East Lynne, Cream in My Coffee, Jubilee: Our Kid, Z Cars, The Duchess of Duke Street, Exiles, The New Avengers, The Professionals, Sutherland’s Law, Beasts, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Electra, Achilles Heel, Helen: A Woman of Troy, The Villains, The Pigeon Fancier, The Mating Machine, Hamlet, Two Feet off the Ground, Fraud Squad, Doctor in the House, Strange Report, Coronation Street, Public Eye, Sanctuary, and Sexton Blake.

Film credits

Film credits include Off the Rails, Six Days, The Most Dangerous Man in the World, Ladder of Swords, Facelift, Operation Daybreak, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and Macbeth.

Theatre credits

In the West End, his stage credits include The Best Man (Playhouse Theatre), Hobson’s Choice (Vaudeville Theatre), Twelve Angry Men (Garrick Theatre), An Ideal Husband, Love Letters & A Man for All Seasons, all at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Phoenix Theatre), The Country Girl (Apollo Theatre), and A Streetcar Named Desire (Piccadilly Theatre).

Theatre credits include Alone Together (tour), The Cherry Orchard (tour), Love Letters (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Gaslight (Theatre Royal Windsor), The Best Man (tour & West End), Hobson’s Choice (Bath Theatre Royal & West End), Twelve Angry Men (tour & West End), The Country Girl (tour & West End), A Man for All Seasons (tour & West End), Vertigo (Theatre Royal Windsor), An Ideal Husband (Barrymore Theatre, Broadway), Rough Justice (tour & Apollo Theatre), Sienna Red (Liverpool Playhouse & tour), An Ideal Husband (Theatre Royal Windsor, Theatre Royal Haymarket & Globe Theatre), Betrayal (Almeida Theatre), The Big Knife (Albery Theatre), Are You Lonesome Tonight (Phoenix Theatre & Australian tour), Miss Julie (Greenwich Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire (Piccadilly Theatre & Lyric Theatre), The Bacchae (National Theatre), The Contractor (Royal Court Theatre), The Battle of Shrivings (Lyric Theatre), Cancer (Royal Court Theatre), Look Back in Anger (Royal Court & Criterion), Hobson’s Choice (Watford Palace Theatre), The Indian from the Bronx (Watford Palace Theatre), Loot (Watford Palace Theatre), Message from the Glassroots (Bristol Old Vic), Celebration (Bristol Old Vic), The Government Inspector (Bristol Old Vic), Julius Caesar (Harrogate), The Duchess of Malfi (Wyndham’s Theatre), and A Streetcar Named Desire (Lyric Theatre).