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Martin Shaw

Born January 21, 1945 (1945-01-21) (age 63)
Birmingham, England

Martin Shaw (born January 21, 1945 in Birmingham, England) is an English actor. Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (1875–1958 was an English composer known mostly for his contribution to church music Martin Shaw (born at Driffield, Yorkshire, on June 30, 1947) has been professor of International relations and Politics Events 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Events 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works

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Background

Shaw is the son of an engineer and a champion ballroom dancer. Ballroom dance refers collectively to a set of Partner dances which originated in Germany and are now enjoyed both socially and competitively around the At school, he enjoyed English literature and drama lessons. The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. Before moving to London to attend LAMDA (The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), he worked in the sales office of a chemical company.

He made his first stage appearance, alongside his parents, at the age of three. Following education at Great Barr School (where musician Steve Winwood was a classmate), Shaw graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Great Barr School is a co-educational Secondary school on Aldridge Road in Great Barr, Birmingham, England for children aged 11 to 19 Stephen Lawrence "Steve" or "Stevie" Winwood (born 12 May 1948 in Handsworth, Birmingham) is an English Singer-songwriter The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ( LAMDA) founded 1861, is a leading British Drama school in west London. He served his apprenticeship in repertory at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch and the Bristol Old Vic, and began television work in 1967, making his TV debut as hippy student, Robert Croft, in Coronation Street. The Queen's Theatre Hornchurch is a modern 500-seat theatre located in Hornchurch in the London Borough of Havering, East London. The Bristol Old Vic is a Theatre complex and theatrical company in the centre of Bristol, England. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The Hippie Subculture was originally a Youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world Coronation Street (commonly known as 'Corrie' is an award-winning Soap opera created by Tony Warren [1] Afterwards he took key roles in the first revival of Look Back in Anger (Royal Court/Criterion, 1968) and in A Streetcar Named Desire (Piccadilly Theatre, 1974). Look Back in Anger (1956 is a John Osborne play and 1958 movie about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man (Jimmy Porter A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize The Piccadilly Theatre is a West End theatre located at 16 Denman Street behind Piccadilly Circus and adjacent to the Regents Palace Hotel in the City Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar.

Despite an extensive body of theatre and television work, he is best known for his role as undercover detective Ray Doyle in the British television series The Professionals alongside Lewis Collins and Gordon Jackson. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U The Professionals was a British crime-action Television drama series that aired on the ITV network from 1977 to 1983 filmed between 1977 Lewis Collins (born 27 May, 1946 in Bidston, Birkenhead, Cheshire) is an English Actor. Gordon Cameron Jackson, OBE (19 December 1923 &ndash 15 January 1990 was a Scottish Emmy Award -winning Actor best remembered for his roles Despite the fame it brought him, Shaw claimed a dislike for the violent police series and his role in it.

He appeared with Lewis Collins in an episode of The New Avengers before they were cast in The Professionals. The New Avengers was a British Secret agent fantasy adventure television series produced during 1976 and 1977. They played a pair of terrorists. [2]

Shaw also appeared as a Welsh medical student, Huw Evans, in the television comedy series Doctor in the House — Martin Shaw's character of Huw Evans later returned in a subsequent "Doctor" series as a very nervous expectant father for the Doctor at Large episode Mother and Father Doing Well. Doctor in the House is a British television comedy series based on a set of books and a movie of the same name by Richard Gordon about the misadventures

His best known film role of the 1970s was as Banquo in Roman Polanski's 1971 film of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Banquo is a character in William Shakespeare 's 1606 play Macbeth. Macbeth is a 1971 film directed by Roman Polanski, based on William Shakespeare 's The Tragedy of Macbeth, about the Scots Lord William Shakespeare ( baptised Macbeth is among the best-known of William Shakespeare 's plays, and is his shortest tragedy, believed to have been written some time between

In the 1980s, Shaw spent most of his working time in the theatre. His roles include Elvis Presley in the critically-acclaimed Are You Lonesome Tonight? written by Alan Bleasdale. Alan Bleasdale (born 23 March 1946 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, brought up in Huyton He also starred in a 1987 TV advert for the Vauxhall Cavalier. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) The Vauxhall Cavalier is a Large family car sold primarily in the UK by Vauxhall Motors, the British subsidiary of General Motors (GM [1]

He returned to TV in the 1990s, taking leading roles in Rhodes and the police series The Chief. In 2001, he took on the title role of BBC drama Judge John Deed. Judge John Deed is a British Legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. He also played detective Adam Dalgliesh, starring in P.D. James' Death in Holy Orders in 2003 and The Murder Room in 2005. Adam Dalgliesh is a Fictional character who has been the protagonist of fourteen mystery novels by P Phyllis Dorothy James Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August, 1920) is an English Crime writer Death in Holy Orders is a 2001 Detective novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series by P The Murder Room is a 2003 Detective novel and the 12th in the Adam Dalgliesh series by P Another notable role was his portrayal of British South Pole explorer Robert Falcon Scott in The Last Place On Earth. The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth.

His first film role was as an Irish communist in Love on the Dole (1966). The Irish people ( Irish: Muintir na hÉireann, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaeil) are a Western European Ethnic group who originate Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based Love on the Dole is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about Working class Poverty in 1930s Northern England. Operation Daybreak, Facelift, Cassidy and Ladder of Swords. Operation Daybreak is a 1975 World War II film based on the true story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague (see

He has narrated many audiobooks including Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, Gulliver's Travels and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. The Hobbit or There and Back Again is an award-winning fantasy The Silmarillion is a collection of J R R Tolkien 's mythopoeic works edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in Gulliver's Travels (1726 amended 1735 officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts Emily Jane Brontë (ˈbrɒnti ( July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848) was a British Novelist and Poet, now best Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë 's only Novel. It was first published in 1847 under the Pseudonym Ellis Bell and a posthumous second

In 2006 he narrated and appeared in a DVD chronicling the 'Merlins over Malta' project, which featured the return of a World War Two Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane from Britain to Malta for the first time in 50 years. A narrator (or the extremely rarely used female equivalent narratress) is within any story (literary work movie play verbal account etc World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

In December 2006, he presented and appeared in the Discovery Channel Real Time TV series Martin Shaw: Aviators, produced by Twofour which followed the two-year restoration of his Boeing Stearman bi-plane after it had crashed in front of his eyes at Old Buckenham airfield in Norfolk. Discovery Channel is an American Satellite and Cable TV channel (also delivered via IPTV, Terrestrial television and Martin Shaw Aviators is a six-episode television programme produced by Twofour broadcast on Discovery Real Time in 2006/7 Twofour was founded 1988 and has grown to become one of the largest independent media groups in the UK employing over 330 people WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout A biplane is a Fixed-wing aircraft with two main Wings The first powered heavier-than-air Aircraft, the Wright brothers' Wright Flyer He fulfilled his lifetime's ambition in the six-part series by getting to take the controls of a Spitfire owned by Maurice Bayliss; and he screamed down the runway at Cranfield in a English Electric Lightning owned by Russell Carpenter. Cranfield is a village in north-west Bedfordshire, England, between Bedford and Milton Keynes. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout It wasn't allowed to take off, but did reach 150mph in three seconds. Martin Shaw also compared notes with Wing Cdr Ken Wallis, the nonagenarian builder and developer of the modern autogyro. Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis MBE, DEng (hc CEng, FRAeS, FSETP, PhD (hc RAF (Ret'd Configuration An autogyro is characterised by a free-spinning rotor that turns due to passage of air upwards through the rotor

Personal life

Shaw was the victim of a vicious mugging and his cheekbone had to be replaced by a plastic plate, around this time he gave up alcohol and became a strict vegetarian. Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes Meat (including game and slaughter by-products Fish (including Shellfish and other sea He is a follower of Sant Mat. Sant Mat was a loosely associated group of teachers that became prominent in the northern part of the Indian sub-continent from about the 13th century [3] He is currently the Patron for Hillside Animal Sanctuary in Norfolk, a charity organisation that provides a safe home for neglected and abused animals. Hillside Animal Sanctuary, based in Frettenham Norwich, is the United Kingdom 's largest home for animals removed from their owners by the Direct action Norfolk (ˈnɔrfək is a low-lying county in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom. The definition of charitable organization, and of charity varies according to the country and in some instances the region of the country in which the charitable organization operates [4] Shaw has a private pilot's license and owns a Boeing Stearman, a vintage bi-plane. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout

Shaw has been married three times and divorced twice. He has three children by his first wife, actress Jill Allen whom he married in 1968, including son Joe Shaw who played a younger version of Martin's eponymous character in Rhodes. Joe Shaw (born 15 November, 1972 in London) is an English actor His other children Luke and Sophie are also actors. His second wife was former nurse turned alternative therapist Maggie Mansfield. Shaw was married to TV presenter, Vicky Kimm, who shared his love of flying. Shaw lived in a Quaker House in Norfolk, once owned by an ancestor of Abraham Lincoln. Norfolk (ˈnɔrfək is a low-lying county in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom. Abraham Lincoln (February 12 1809 &ndash April 15 1865 the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal He also owns a crofter's cottage in Scotland. A croft is a fenced or enclosed area of land usually small and arable with a crofter's Dwelling thereon Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Shaw has been linked with Karen Da Silva, a 44-year-old yoga teacher and neighbour in his Norfolk village. [5]

Awards and nominations

In 1996, Martin Shaw won two awards, as well as receiving a nomination, for his performance as Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband on Broadway. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around Blackmail and political corruption and touches on the themes Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located The awards and nomination are:

Television appearances

Theatre appearances

Film appearances

References

  1. ^ Martin Shaw BBC, accessed 13/11/07
  2. ^ Martin Shaw BBC, accessed 13/11/07
  3. ^ BBC Interview
  4. ^ Hillside Animal Sanctuary accessed, 12/11/07
  5. ^ Daily Mail Article

External links

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