Editing Martin Shaw (section)

==Life and career==
===Early years===
Shaw was born in [[Birmingham]]. His childhood was spent in Alleyne Grove in [[Erdington]] and [[Sutton Coldfield]].<ref name="drama">{{cite web|url= https://drama.uktv.co.uk/inspector-george-gently/article/martin-shaw-profile/ |title=Martin Shaw profile|publisher= drama.uktv.co.uk|date= 2012}}</ref> Shaw attended [[Great Barr School]], where he excelled in [[English literature]] and drama lessons.<ref name="barr">{{cite web|url= https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/professionals-star-martin-shaw-taking-12130090|title=Will The Professionals star Martin Shaw be taking Doyle's skills into Peaky Blinders?| publisher= birminghammail.co.uk|date= 2016}}</ref> At sixteen, he was offered a scholarship to a Birmingham drama school but declined.<ref name="sch">{{cite web|url= https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/gallery/30-celebrities-you-didnt-know-6770569 |title=30 Celebrities you didn't know from Birmingham| publisher= birminghammail.co.uk|date= 2015}}</ref> 

In his youth, Shaw was involved in a drunken brawl with a friend, suffering broken teeth, injuries to his face and a fractured skull, and needed cheekbone surgery.<ref name=DID-MS>{{cite episode |title=Desert Island Discs |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l2zg6 |series=Desert Island Discs | series-link=Desert Island Discs |network=BBC |station=[[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]] |airdate=21 June 2009}}</ref> 

At age eighteen, Shaw moved to London to study acting at the [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]] (LAMDA).<ref name="lamda">{{cite web|url= https://www.lamda.ac.uk/students-alumni/acting-alumni |title= Meet our LAMDA Acting Alumni |website= lamda.ac.uk |access-date= 6 June 2023 }}</ref> He served his apprenticeship in [[repertory]] as an [[assistant stage manager]] at the [[Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch]] and the [[Bristol Old Vic]].<ref name="london">{{cite web|url= https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/actor-profile/martin-shaw |title=Martin Shaw On Stage – Theatre Credits, Bio and Tickets| publisher= londontheatre.co.uk|date= 2020}}</ref>

===Stage===
Shaw took key roles in the first revival of ''[[Look Back in Anger]]'' (Royal Court/Criterion, 1968); in the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]'s ''Saturday, Sunday, Monday'' opposite [[Laurence Olivier]] (1973); and in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' presented by the [[Piccadilly Theatre]] in 1974. He later acknowledged the role of [[Stanley Kowalski]] in 'Streetcar' as a point of breakthrough in his career.<ref name="london" />

In 1985, Shaw played [[Elvis Presley]] in [[Alan Bleasdale]]'s ''Are You Lonesome Tonight?''. It told the story of Presley's last few hours. After a long run in London, the production visited [[Sydney]], [[Melbourne]] and [[Adelaide]] in Australia. <ref name="elvis">{{cite web|url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-martin-shaw-actor-playing-part-of-elvis-presley-in-alan-bleasdales-20063731.html |title=Martin Shaw Actor playing part of Elvis Presley in Alan Bleasdales Writer stage musical Are you Lonesome tonight January 1985 | publisher= Aalmy|date= 1985}}</ref><ref name="Martin Shaw" /> 

Shaw's portrayal of Lord Goring in ''[[An Ideal Husband]]'' on Broadway earned him a [[Tony Award]] nomination and a Drama Desk award. <ref name="london" />

After filming finished on the TV series ''[[Judge John Deed]]'', Shaw took the role of [[Thomas More]] in [[Robert Bolt]]'s play ''[[A Man for All Seasons (play)|A Man for All Seasons]]''. Shaw's daughter, Sophie, played opposite him as More's daughter, Margaret. The production toured Britain's cities before a run in London at the [[Theatre Royal Haymarket]].<ref name="london" />

In 2013, in a new production of the classic play ''[[Twelve Angry Men]]'' at the [[Garrick Theatre]] London, Shaw played the part of the dissenting juror (identified as juror number 8).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/twelve-angry-men-garrick-theatre--review-8934249.html|title=Twelve Angry Men, Garrick Theatre – review|first=Fiona |last=Mountford|newspaper=[[London Evening Standard]]|date=12 November 2013|access-date=24 January 2014}}</ref>

In 2016 Shaw toured and returned to the West End again with a production of ''[[Hobson's Choice (play)|Hobson's Choice]]'' at the [[Vaudeville Theatre|Vaudeville]]. After completing filming the final episode of [[George Gently]], Shaw again toured in 2017 with the U.K. premiere of [[Gore Vidal]]'s 1960 political piece, ''[[The Best Man (play)|The Best Man]]''. Shaw played the part of William Russell, former US Secretary of State.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bathecho.co.uk/news/whatson/martin-shaw-lead-stellar-cast-best-man-baths-theatre-royal-75353/|title=Martin Shaw to lead stellar cast in The Best Man at Bath's Theatre Royal |date=4 October 2017|work=Bath Echo}}</ref>

===Television===
Shaw began television work in 1967.<ref name="Martin Shaw" /> Parts in one-off plays for [[Granada Television]] led to his playing hippy student Robert Croft, Lucile Hewitt's boyfriend, in ''[[Coronation Street]]''.<ref name="Martin Shaw">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/people/martin_shaw_person_page.shtml |title=Martin Shaw |publisher= BBC|year=2017}}</ref> Another early role was booze and football-loving Welsh medical student Huw Evans in the television comedy series ''[[Doctor in the House (TV series)|Doctor in the House]]''. He later guest-starred, playing the same role, in the follow-up series ''[[Doctor at Large (TV series)|Doctor at Large]]'', now a nervous expectant father in the episode "Mother and Father Doing Well".<ref name="doctor">{{cite news|url=https://www.ranker.com/list/full-cast-of-doctor-in-the-house-cast-list-for-the-show-doctor-in-the-house/reference |title=Doctor in the House cast List |publisher= ranker.com|year=2019}}</ref> The actor had been introduced to international audiences via his portrayal of Horatio in the 1970 ''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]'' presentation of ''[[Hamlet]]'', starring [[Richard Chamberlain]].

Shaw appeared with future co-star [[Lewis Collins]] in an episode of ''[[The New Avengers (TV series)|The New Avengers]]''. Both played the roles of terrorists.<ref name="Martin Shaw"/> Shaw portrayed Ray Doyle ("Agent 4–5") in the British television series ''[[The Professionals (TV series)|The Professionals]]'' (1977–1983), opposite Collins. Shaw played another law-enforcement role in the 1990s ITV production ''[[The Chief (TV series)|The Chief]]''.<ref name="Martin Shaw" />

In 1983, Shaw played [[Robert Falcon Scott]] in ''[[The Last Place on Earth]]''. The series was filmed at [[Frobisher Bay]] near the city of [[Iqaluit]] on [[Baffin Island]], Canada. In interview at the time, Shaw commented that he generally responded well to the testing physical conditions, particularly when they enhanced the reality of the scene. In the same year he played Sir Henry Baskerville in ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 film)|The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'', an adaptation of the novel by [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]. He acted opposite [[Ian Richardson]]'s [[Sherlock Holmes]] and Donald Churchill's [[Dr. Watson]].

He played [[Cecil Rhodes]] in ''[[Rhodes (TV series)|Rhodes]]'', an eight-part serial that aired in 1996 and was filmed on location in [[South Africa]]. Shaw's younger son, [[Joe Shaw (actor)|Joe]], took early leave of his drama school course to play the part of the youthful Rhodes. <ref name="fame">{{cite news|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dad's+fame+spoiled+my+childhood+but+being+an+actor+was+all+I+ever...-a062135390 |title=Dad's fame spoiled my childhood but being an actor was all I ever wanted to do|publisher= thefreelibrary.com|year=2000}}</ref> 

Another television acting credit includes the role of Mr (later Prof) Robert Kingsford in ''[[Always and Everyone]]'' (1999–2002), a British accident and emergency medical series, played alongside [[Niamh Cusack]]. <ref name="tom">{{cite news|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/martin_shaw |title=Martin shaw|publisher= rottentomatoes.com|year=2020}}</ref> 

In 2001, he took the title role in the [[BBC]] drama ''[[Judge John Deed]]''.<ref name="Martin Shaw"/> The character gave an editorial voice to the television writer and producer [[G.F. Newman]]'s ideas about lifestyle choices such as vegetarianism and alternative medicine as well as issues of social justice. One episode about the safety of the MMR vaccine was banned.<ref>{{cite news |last=Furness |first=Hannah |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10866398/BBC-too-anxious-about-offending-says-Judge-John-Deed-producer.html |title=BBC 'too anxious about offending', says Judge John Deed producer |work=The Daily Telegraph |date= 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Leigh |last=Holmwood |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jun/18/broadcasting.television1 |title=BBC shows that broke the impartiality rules |work=The Guardian |year=2016}}</ref>

Between seasons of ''Judge John Deed'', Shaw took the role of poetic bespectacled forensic detective [[Adam Dalgliesh]] in [[P.D. James]]'s ''[[Death in Holy Orders]]'' in 2003 and ''[[The Murder Room]]'' in 2005. After the sixth season of ''Judge John Deed'' had been filmed, Shaw appeared in the series ''[[Apparitions (TV series)|Apparitions]]'', broadcast by the BBC in 2008. This was Shaw's first project as executive director.<ref name="tom" />

From 2007 until 2017 he played the title role in the BBC TV series ''[[Inspector George Gently]]''. 
On 9 May 2015 Shaw recited "[[For the Fallen]]" at [[VE Day 70: A Party to Remember]] in [[Horse Guards Parade]], London which was broadcast on BBC 1.<ref name="tom" />

In 2021 he played the role of Dennis Stephenson, leader of a fictitious religious cult called the Barum Brethren, in the [[BritBox]] original series ''[[The Long Call]]''. The series premiered in autumn 2021, and is based on the [[Ann Cleeves]] bestselling novel.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/the-long-call-release-date-itv/|title=The Long Call on ITV: Release date, cast, trailer and latest news|journal=RadioTimes|first=Joe|last=Julians|date=26 October 2021|accessdate=13 May 2022}}</ref>

===Film===
Shaw's first film role was as an Irish communist in a 1967 television adaptation of the novel, ''[[Love on the Dole]]''. Better known is his 1971 role of [[Banquo]] in [[Roman Polanski]]'s ''[[Macbeth (1971 film)|Macbeth]]''. He has also 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'' (1989).<ref name="tom" />

===Narration and documentaries===
Shaw has narrated many [[audiobook]]s, including [[Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Silmarillion]]''; [[Jonathan Swift|Swift]]'s ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''; and [[Emily Brontë]]'s ''[[Wuthering Heights]]''. In 2006, Shaw narrated and appeared in a DVD chronicling the "[[Rolls-Royce Merlin|Merlin]]s over [[Malta]]" project. This featured the return of a Second World War [[Supermarine Spitfire]] and [[Hawker Hurricane]] from Britain to [[Malta]] for the first time in fifty years.<ref name="tom" />

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]]. Shaw fulfilled a lifetime ambition to take the controls of a Spitfire and, though take-off was not permitted, he also powered an [[English Electric Lightning]] to 150&nbsp;mph in three seconds along the runway at [[Cranfield Airport]]. Shaw also compared notes with the builder and developer of the modern [[autogyro]], [[Wing Cdr]] [[Ken Wallis]].<ref name="tom" />

In 2010 he presented a documentary for the [[BBC]] titled ''Dambusters Declassified'' in which he investigated and debunked some of the myths of the dambusters raid known as [[Operation Chastise]] story which had been portrayed in the books ''Enemy Coast Ahead'' and ''The Dambusters'', and the film ''[[The Dam Busters (film)|The Dam Busters]]''.<ref name="tom" />

===Advertisements===
Among several voiceovers and appearances, in 1974, Shaw starred in a three-minute advertisement for the Mk II [[Ford Capri]]<ref>{{YouTube|y-ZCj4T_064|Martin Shaw – Capri Advert}}</ref> and in 1987, a TV advert for the [[Vauxhall Cavalier]].<ref>{{YouTube|RlzPllnKFuI}}.</ref>