Ian McShane

Ian McShane

Actor (b. 1942)
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The ThumbScore for Ian McShane (72.0%) is the average audience approval rating across 27 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Ian's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

27
Movies
72.0%
Avg ThumbScore
Action
Top Genre

Audiences rate Ian McShane’s films higher than 54% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

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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.

Born 1942-09-29 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK.

On ThumbScore, Ian McShane appears in 27 films with an average audience score of 72.0%, most frequently in the Action genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Ian McShane movie, ranked by audience score

Coraline
Coraline
2009
👍 91%
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019
👍 87%
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
👍 86%
John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023
👍 85%
Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda
2008
👍 83%
Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain
1969
👍 82%
Kung Fu Panda 4
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024
👍 77%
The Kid
The Kid
2014
👍 75%
The Last of Sheila
The Last of Sheila
1973
👍 75%
Ballerina
Ballerina
2025
👍 73%
Snow White and the Huntsman
Snow White and the Huntsman
2012
👍 72%
The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass
2007
👍 72%
Hot Rod
Hot Rod
2007
👍 72%
Case 39
Case 39
2009
👍 70%
Sexy Beast
Sexy Beast
2001
👍 70%
Hellboy
Hellboy
2019
👍 68%
We Are Marshall
We Are Marshall
2006
👍 67%
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
1998
👍 67%
Hercules
Hercules
2014
👍 66%
Scoop
Scoop
2006
👍 66%
Cuban Fury
Cuban Fury
2014
👍 66%
Death Race
Death Race
2008
👍 65%
Jack the Giant Slayer
Jack the Giant Slayer
2013
👍 65%
Agent Cody Banks
Agent Cody Banks
2003
👍 65%
Deadwood: The Movie
Deadwood: The Movie
2019
👍 65%
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
2007
👍 61%
Deep Cover
Deep Cover
2025
👍 54%