Martin Shaw — Actor (8)
For the Greater Good (1991) [TV] TMDB
For the Greater Good
actor: Joanne Pearce / Martin Shaw
While three politicians try to reform Britain’s brutal prison system, the tabloid press publish exposés of their scandalous private lives, leaving their careers in peril.
Inspector George Gently (2008) [TV] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Inspector George Gently
director: Peter Flannery actor: Martin Shaw / Lee Ingleby
other title: George Gently - Der Unbestechliche / Inspecteur Gently
Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.
Love's Labour's Lost (1975) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb
Love's Labour's Lost
director: Basil Coleman actor: Jeremy Brett / Martin C Thurley
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
Macbeth (1971) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Macbeth
director: Roman Polanski actor: Jon Finch / Francesca Annis
other title: Macbeth: un hombre frente al rey
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
director: Gordon Hessler actor: John Phillip Law / Caroline Munro
other title: Il viaggio fantastico di Sinbad / Sinbads gyldne rejse
Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile, Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.
Cream in My Coffee (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Cream in My Coffee
director: Gavin Millar actor: Peggy Ashcroft / Lionel Jeffries
Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit reveal the origins of both their pleasures and problems. Somewhere between the past and the present, Dennis Potter attempted to find "the shape of a life, of two lives..."
Facelift (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Facelift
director: Tony Bicât actor: Martin Shaw / Clarke Peters
In a dystopian future, the population is divided between the elite "numbers" and the destitute "names" who escape the hardships of the their lives at a magic cabaret run by Zax. When Zax falls for a slumming-it "number" he builds a robot replica of her.
Achilles Heel (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Achilles Heel
director: Alan Clarke actor: Martin Shaw / Charlotte Howard
A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.