Incomplete IAN MCSHANE Poll

i've never seen lovejoy, and he was fine in sexy beast, but c'mon. al cocksucker swearengen.

Lovejoy for miles.

I've never seen Lovejoy, but I recall him in J of Naz. Can't imagine it can compare with what, 40 episodes of Swearengen?

Not really, no

http://www.bbcprograms.com/pbs/catalog/lovejoy/images/0107love.jpg

sexy beast is classic but come on obv swearengen completely 100% pwns this shit

does deadwood have eric, tinker, and lady jane? no? case closed.

heh, don't even remember him in Sexy Beast! Kingsley swallowed it.

Goddamn, the Swearengen character, and his portrayal of it, is one of the greatest in TV history. No contest.

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he was awesome in sexy beast

cocksuckers

yeah i'm watching deadwood season 1 atm and he is so cocksucking classic in it. but this was a wonderful meeting of minds too: http://reporter.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/22/82028656.jpg http://www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Releases/mpa/images/Rock_Explosion/slaveto.jpg

Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man...and give some back.

^^ swearengen otm

Lovejoy

I don’t look fuckin' backwards - I do what I have to do and go on... whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... who...? What, you got a stagecoach to catch or somethin', huh? Slow the fuck up!

^^^^my 2nd favorite Swearengenism

It's gotta be Al.

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I'm sure he's best in Deadwood. Lovejoy was a quaint show but he was a total leather jacket and jeans nob in it. Totally WTF awesome in Sexy Beast tho.

This thread made me download first season of Lovejoy, not likely is it better than Deadwood

is it ever repeated? will i ever see that Hothouse Flowers episode again?

still havent watched the third season 8[

Villain deserved a mention here (not better than Deadwood)

"In life, you have to do a lot of things you don't fuckin' want to do. Many times, that's what the fuck life is, one vile fucking task after another."

Judas robbed.

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What was the name of the film where he played a playboy footballer loosely based on George Best?

OK, found it on Wiki:

Yesterday's Hero was a 1979 film starring Ian McShane, Suzanne Somers, Adam Faith and Paul Nicholas.

The story of an alcoholic ex-soccer player it was based on a novel by Jackie Collins. Although it bore a passing resemblance to the life of the former player George Best, the book and film were not based upon his life.

The film also featured early performances by Glynis Barber, Emma Samms and Cary Elwes in his first film performance.

Ha ha, from Time Out:

"

Not content with getting Leicester City relegated during his brief foray into management, 'football adviser' Frank McLintock compounds the sin by having Ian McShane's decadent Roy of the Rovers make his cup final comeback with two winning goals against the insultingly dubbed 'Leicester Forest'. Jackie Collins' script is a paste job of scandal-sheet sports page headlines (boozing striker, hard-line manager, rock star chairman), while US sports photographer Leifer works backwards from footage of the Southampton-Nottingham Forest League Cup Final to give a hilarious sense of skewed felicity to the comic strip giant-killing progress of The Saints and their repentant super-sub sinner. John Motson commentates. Irresistibly bad."

Just chatting about stuff:

As McShane sips a cappuccino at a beachside hotel, it's hard not to picture him slamming back a shot glass of whiskey on a Gold Rush bar. The actor is considerably more worldly than the barkeeper he portrayed or the bearded, long-haired Hawaiian-shirt-wearing beach bum he's playing today.

McShane has opinions about everything — George Martin's role in the Beatles, his own fondness for the electronica band Air, his respect for the crime novels of James Crumley and the uncompromising career of director Jean-Luc Godard.

Though he's generally down to earth and a good listener, a few subjects bring him to derision and anger, among them what he sees as the idiocy — his own term is less polite — of American politicians cutting off aid to the unemployed: He winds up into the kind of rant Swearengen was known for, eyeballs bulging.

Playing Blackbeard in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie it sez.

fuck yes!

He does seem like a natural for the part.

<3 him

air

67 eh

air are really likable tho

have any of yall north americans seen 'lovejoy'? it was a classic, just wondering tho, if it 'goes over'.

Lovejoy was A&E basic cable big for the time over here. First I'd ever heard of McShane.

yeah funny, i knew lovejoy in passing, kind of slotted it into other pbs-ready brit tv even tho it was on cable. interesting that it was a mystery show based around theft and fraud rather than murder (right?)

there was an ep of the show making fun of "antiques roadshow"-style tv before that concept was even imported from the bbc to pbs, kind of funny in retrospect (if i have the timing right?)

air are really likable tho

― an0n (Lamp), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 1:02 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

i love air

i remember lovejoy from a&e too.. 'lovejoy an a&e original'

If you haven't seen him in this bizarro failed American TV pilot Code Name: Diamond Head from the mid-1970s you really should -- it was filmed in Hawaii in what was an obvious Hawaii Five-O knockoff setup (even had one of the actors from the early years of that series), McShane plays a random international criminal/terrorist/whatever, and the whole thing is duly generically ridiculous. MST3K trashed it in their sixth season and it's all on YouTube -- this clip below features him in the start of the movie at about six minutes in after a B/W short, and the Lovejoy jokes start early...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLmbyPfMuFI

McShane on said period of his life/career:

"I started out pretty good — then I took about a 15-year drugs-and-drink holiday, in the '70s through the mid-80s," he says, clearly not much regretting it.

hahaha

Amazing.

Ian McShane on how he came to be narrator on Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm:
‘I was in a chip shop with Gwen, my wife, and Trevor Horn came in, who I’d known forever. He said ‘Ian, what are you doing after supper?’
‘Why?’
‘Well, I need a voice & Orson Welles is dead.’

— Tom Reagan’s Hat (@andymannion77) June 4, 2019

every aspect of that story is incredible in every sense

I don't know if I've told this story before but my sister's ex-wife had a strange obsession with Ian McShane, which he (admittedly) played up because he knew it perplexed and irritated her. One of the things he used to do was, in the car, play cassettes of Ian McShane's narrations of Henry Miller, which, long before Deadwood, gave him ample opportunity to get his vowels round all sorts of obscenities.

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This... makes sense?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKOy3D58Mdo

Always wanted to see him in the television adaptation of Whose Life is it Anyway that predates the Richard Dreyfuss/John Badham film

oh man this rules

well really it just sounds like the original but the concept of it is enough for me