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Martin Shaw

Current Location:: Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Birmingham, Warwickshire, England ?, Warwickshire, England, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Son of Frank Shaw and Josephine E. Shaw
Ex-husband of Private; Private and Private
Partner of Private
Father of Luke Shaw; Joe Shaw and Sophie Shaw
Brother of Private

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About Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw - noted for his versatility as an actor.

He has starred in over 100 TV roles

TV career

  • 1967 with ITV Play of the Week: Love on the Dole
  • 1977 The Professionals

His theatrical career

  • 1967 West End with the first revival of "Look Back in Anger"
  • Broadway as Lord Goring in "An Ideal Husband" which won him a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk award for Best Actor.

The Professionals was an international hit, and brought him offers of similar roles.

He works almost exclusively in England, where he lives in a beautiful Quaker house in Norfolk, once owned by an ancestor of Abraham Lincoln.

He is a pilot, and owns and flies a vintage biplane, a Boeing Stearman.

Reticent about his private life, he dislikes interviews, and has little respect for the press.

Recent projects are a hospital drama, Always and Everyone (1999) from Granada, in which he plays consultant Robert Kingsford, and as Adam Dalgliesh in the BBC adaptations of P.D. James's novels Death in Holy Orders (2003) and The Murder Room (2004).

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Martin Shaw's Timeline

1945
January 21, 1945
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England ?, Warwickshire, England, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
1969
1969
1972
1972
London, England (United Kingdom)
1974
1974