1. Martin Shaw was born on 21 January 1945 and is an English actor.
31 Facts About Martin Shaw
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Martin Shaw came to national recognition in the role of Ray Doyle in ITV crime-action television drama series The Professionals.
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Martin Shaw has acted on stage and in film, and has narrated numerous audiobooks and presented various television series.
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Martin Shaw's childhood was spent in Alleyne Grove in Erdington and Sutton Coldfield.
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At age eighteen, Martin Shaw moved to London to study acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
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Martin Shaw served his apprenticeship in repertory as an assistant stage manager at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch and the Bristol Old Vic.
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Martin Shaw took key roles in the first revival of Look Back in Anger ; in the National Theatre's Saturday, Sunday, Monday opposite Laurence Olivier ; and in A Streetcar Named Desire presented by the Piccadilly Theatre in 1974.
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Martin Shaw later acknowledged the role of Stanley Kowalski in 'Streetcar' as a point of breakthrough in his career.
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In 2013, in a new production of the classic play Twelve Angry Men at the Garrick Theatre London, Martin Shaw played the part of the dissenting juror.
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In 2016 Martin Shaw toured and returned to the West End again with a production of Hobson's Choice at the Vaudeville.
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Martin Shaw played the part of William Russell, former US Secretary of State.
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Martin Shaw later guest-starred, playing the same role, in the follow-up series Doctor at Large, now a nervous expectant father in the episode "Mother and Father Doing Well".
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Martin Shaw appeared with future co-star Lewis Collins in an episode of The New Avengers.
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Martin Shaw portrayed Ray Doyle in the British television series The Professionals, opposite Collins.
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Martin Shaw played another law-enforcement role in the 1990s ITV production The Chief.
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In 1983, Martin Shaw played Robert Falcon Scott in The Last Place on Earth.
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In interview at the time, Martin Shaw commented that he generally responded well to the testing physical conditions, particularly when they enhanced the reality of the scene.
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Martin Shaw acted opposite Ian Richardson's Sherlock Holmes and Donald Churchill's Dr Watson.
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Martin Shaw played Cecil Rhodes in Rhodes, an eight-part serial that aired in 1996 and was filmed on location in South Africa.
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On 9 May 2015 Martin Shaw recited "For the Fallen" at VE Day 70: A Party to Remember in Horse Guards Parade, London which was broadcast on BBC 1.
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Martin Shaw has been seen as an undercover Second World War operative in the 1975 production Operation Daybreak; a singing and dancing futuristic magician "Zax" in Facelift; the role of Rachid in the 1973 film The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and a wanted villain leading a life on the run in a circus troupe in Ladder of Swords.
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Martin Shaw has narrated many audiobooks, including Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Silmarillion; Swift's Gulliver's Travels; and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
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In 2006, Martin Shaw narrated and appeared in a DVD chronicling the "Merlins over Malta" project.
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In December 2006, Shaw presented the six-part Discovery Channel Real Time TV series Martin Shaw: Aviators, produced by Twofour, which followed the two-year restoration of his Boeing Stearman biplane after it was crashed by another pilot at Old Buckenham airfield in Norfolk.
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Martin Shaw compared notes with the builder and developer of the modern autogyro, Wing Cdr Ken Wallis.
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In 1971, Martin Shaw became a follower of Charan Singh, of the Sant Mat religion.
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On 18 August 2010, Martin Shaw collapsed during the first act of the matinee showing of A Country Girl at Shrewsbury's Theatre Severn.
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Martin Shaw has a prominent scar on his right cheek, the result of a physical attack during a mugging, after which he became a teetotaller.
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Martin Shaw is a celebrity activist for animal rights and animal welfare.
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Martin Shaw is the patron of the Hillside Animal Sanctuary in Frettenham in Norfolk, a charity organisation which provides a safe home for neglected and abused animals.
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Martin Shaw won two awards for his performance as Lord Goring in the 1996 Broadway production of An Ideal Husband and was nominated for a third:.