Martin Shaw returns as Inspector George Gently - Telegraph Lifestyle Martin Shaw returns as Inspector George Gently As actor Martin Shaw prepares for a new series as the charismatic Inspector George Gently, he tells Elizabeth Grice why he needs his fix of solitude – be it in remote Scotland or at the controls of his vintage plane . Martin Shaw in his Piper L4 Cub, which saw action on D-Day Photo: MARTIN POPE Martin Shaw as Ray Doyle in The Professionals (1978) ... Photo: ITV/Rex Features Martin Shaw with his daughter, Sophie (2006) Photo: Chris Capstick/Rex Features By Elizabeth Grice 7:00AM BST 20 Aug 2011 The solitary impulse is a powerful thing. It drives some men into the wilderness and others into the sky. Martin Shaw needs both. His terrestrial refuge is a remote crofter’s cottage at the end of a rough track in south-west Galloway where he can spot an intruder 20 minutes away. At other times, he satisfies his longing for space and mastery by flying a Piper Cub Second World War artillery spotter aeroplane. “I feel a wonderful mixture of achievement, satisfaction and peace up there. It is absolutely elating.

I still experience a sense of wonderment. There is that inner child thinking: 'Is this me? I’m a pilot.’” The actor’s 17th century Quaker house in rural Norfolk isn’t sequestered enough for him these days. He finds the frenzy of new building, with its ability to double the population of a village within months, alarming. Incomers abound. “Suddenly you can’t park in a sleepy little village because people won’t walk 100 yards to the one local shop.” For “proper wilderness”, he says, give him Scotland. “I’m sensitive to electromagnetic interference and mental noise. It’s why I can’t cope with the city. I need stillness. Not just physical quietness, but atmospheric quietness, spiritual quietness. Less mental noise. It hit me when I was still in my twenties. I noticed that every time I went into the deep countryside I would get out of the car and immediately my breathing was different, my outlook was different and I felt different. I wanted to do it more and more.” Shaw is famously contemplative, a man who once said he is interested in his mind as a laboratory. What does he think about when he’s flying solo?

“Not crashing,” he booms. “You are constantly checking: Where is the wind at the moment? It’s a bit like sailing because there are very few instruments. My watch is more complicated than the dashboard of the Piper Cub. It’s very elemental. You’re listening to the engine note. Every 10 minutes you have to remember to put some hot air through the carburettor so it doesn’t freeze and stop the engine. You’re constantly looking at the ground and at your map to make sure that the wind’s not drifting you to places you don’t know. The compass is virtually useless on these old aeroplanes.” His first flying machine was a two-seater Boeing Stearman, a wartime biplane that he had read about in Aircraft of the Fighting Powers as a boy. Piloting it was like playing Liszt – complex and requiring continuous practice – a luxury his acting schedule didn’t allow. “It was a thing of beauty but also of historical importance. Sitting there in the hangar it was like a stuffed animal.

It seemed immoral for me to own it and not use it more.” With the Piper L4 Cub, which saw service in France on D-Day, it isn’t so difficult to be up, up and away. Related Articles My Day on a Plate: Poppy King 21 Aug 2011 Attractively grizzled and baggy-eyed, Shaw looks like a weary professor. He is dressed in a casual black suit and T-shirt. His manner is courteously quizzical and alert, as though he is conducting a surreptitious examination. Next month, he will appear a new series of the television police drama Inspector George Gently, a part that draws all the brownness out of his slow, sepulchral voice and perfectly suits his analytical tendency. Insp Gently favours lordly overcoats and Burberrys — impressive for standing over dead bodies in — and a deeply furrowed expression. Both suit Shaw very well. For longer than seems possible, Shaw, 66, has been television drama’s face of authority – the detective, the surgeon, the priest, the judge.

The phenomenally popular television detective series The Professionals (in which he played Ray Doyle between 1977 and 1983) made his name, perhaps at the expense of a career in films, but he hated the fame and even now bristles at the subject. Until then, he had been a serious stage actor. Peter Hall cast him in the West End play The Battle of Shrivings alongside John Gielgud. Roman Polanski, noticing him at the Royal Court, made him Banquo in his 1971 film of Macbeth. He gave highly praised performances in A Streetcar Named Desire and the first revival of Look Back in Anger. “He was the actor I wanted to be,” says the producer Bill Kenwright. “I wanted to sound like him, look like him, act like him. I wanted to have his career. He was terrific.” The great roles of his maturity have been Sir Thomas More in the stage version of A Man for All Seasons (his daughter, Sophie, played More’s daughter Margaret) and Lord Goring in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. “I can’t do Wilde,” he protested to Kenwright.

“I’m from Birmingham.” Kenwright replied: “You can do anything.” He won two awards. “I don’t really care what the subject matter is,” he says. “If somebody gave me a good script about a paedophile, I’d do it. Or Hitler, I’d do it. Or the Archangel Gabriel. The alpha and omega, for me, is how well it is written.” G F Newman’s controversial Judge John Deed was tailor-made for Shaw’s exacting standards and he is miffed that, despite its popularity, the BBC decided to discontinue the series. Shaw has the respect of his peers but he can’t be easy to handle. He questions scripts, challenges meaning and is long past caring whether he rubs up producers and television bosses the wrong way. The obligatory storyline recap (for the “hard of understanding”, he sneers) is a pet hate. “There is too much infantilising going on in television and it’s becoming systemic,” he says. “Have you noticed that just about everything that’s worth doing is run by people who don’t know anything about it? The health service, the police, the entertainment industry.

Take anybody from a job that is really worth doing and they will say that if they were left alone they could do it much better.” It’s no surprise that Shaw’s bolshie nonconformity goes back a long way. At school, he refused to work unless he thought a teacher merited his attention. “I had a precocious ability to spot psychological weaknesses in my teachers and in their personalities – but with no adult perspective at all, no forgiveness. My hubris led to a lot of strife and anguish. I would make snap judgments – you are doing this wrong, you are an idiot, I don’t like you — so I’m not going to work.” He made exceptions for his English and drama teachers. “I understood grammar and punctuation instinctively and Shakespeare was like a mirror to me. I couldn’t understand why other people in the class couldn’t grasp it.” At 16, he was offered a scholarship to a Birmingham drama school but his parents made him wait. “I left school anyway. I hated it with a passion. After a hard day’s work, why should I have to go home and work again? Where was my life?” His younger brother, Jem, a marketing consultant, was not so truculent.

“He was a lot more light-hearted about things,” says Shaw. “And he remains a light-hearted and very funny person.” To kill time, Martin Shaw got a job in the sales office of an electroplating firm and within a month had been put in charge of its direct-mail advertising campaign. But joining a group called the Pied Piper Players revived his passion to be an actor. “Like most lights shone into dark places, it was frightening and then exhilarating,” he says of his time at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. “I suddenly realised – it sounds blindingly obvious now – that acting is not so much about what you say; it’s about what you hear. If you’re listening properly, what you say automatically comes out right.” These were the days when young male actors were expected to raise hell. Shaw did not disappoint. By the age of 24, with a newborn son, he realised drink was destroying him. He stopped abruptly.

“I don’t want to sound tight-a‑‑‑‑” he explained last year, “but it has to do with an extreme relationship with the truth: once I see something is true, no matter how uncomfortable the journey, I have to follow it.” He gave up alcohol and embraced the teachings of the Indian mystic Charan Singh. The Hindu sect prescribes strict vegetarianism and meditation. Overnight, he emptied his kitchen of all meat. Shortly after, his mother and father followed him. “My father [Frank, an engineer] was always questioning. He was a deeply spiritual man, but as a seeker rather than somebody who has arrived. Good-natured but heretical discussions would go on between him and the local minister. I would watch it like a tennis match. It was just an accident of chronology that I found the spiritual path I wanted to follow before he did. He had already made me receptive and as soon as I explained it, he said he had been looking for it all his life.” Shaw has been married three times and has three grown-up children – Luke, Joe and Sophie, all of them actors – by his first marriage to Jill Allen.

His second wife was Maggie Mansfield, an alternative therapist, and his third Vicky Kimm, a television presenter. He says he is still scarred by leaving his family when the children were young and suspects that, though they are too loving and polite to say so, they must now find his lovelife “faintly comical”. “If I knew why my marriages failed, I would still be married,” he says. “I’m not naïve enough to dismiss it as bad luck, and not judgmental enough to say I did nothing wrong. I approached it [matrimony] with absolute sincerity always, and with what I think was integrity, but they just didn’t work. It doesn’t hurt any more but the experience leaves you unable to walk straight. You walk with a limp.” His current long-time partner is Karen da Silva, a yoga teacher. Kenwright guffaws at the notion that his friend might have a misanthropic streak. “He is a very deep thinker. He delves. Being a spiritual man takes him to a place I sometimes don’t understand. But he loves life. I laugh at him and with him.

We’ve been friends through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, and a few divorces.” Borderline introspective, then? Shaw deals with that one himself. “Introspection can be confused with brooding or self-obsession,” he observes. “If you take away the negative connotations, then introspection is ideal because none of us really know ourselves. The same with 'brainwashing’: think about it, what could be better than washing your brain?” He writes a summary of each day’s events on a calendar — “so I don’t forget my life” – and if he’s unhappy or depressed he will flick forward two or three months and write down his worries at the bottom of the page. Nine times out of 10, when he gets to that place, he sees that the fears were never realised or were worthless. When Inspector George Gently ends, he’ll wonder if he’ll ever work again. And in due course the calendar will show that he needn’t have worried. Inspector George Gently returns next month on BBC One Actor Martin Shaw Biography | Martin Shaw Selected Filmography & Theatre Appearances Martin Shaw was born on January 21st, 1945 in Birmingham, England.

Background Shaw attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, from which he graduated. He subsequently went on to play major roles in Look Back in Anger and A Streetcar Named Desire. Playing cop Ray Doyle in The Professionals, in the 1970s, was the TV series that made Shaw a star. The series also made a star of Lewis Collins, Shaw's colleague in the series. Shaw himself doesn't look back on the series fondly, because of the violence featured in it. Martin Shaw as Ray Doyle in The Professionals Martin Shaw's first appearance on TV came in soap opera treasure Coronation Street in 1967, when he played hippy student Robert Croft. Martin Shaw has been a supporter of animal rights for a long time, and he used to keep chickens as pets. In a Viva! interview he expounded on his philosophy regarding cruelty to animals. Martin Shaw in Apparitions [DVD] [2008] Shaw later appeared as a Welsh medical student, Huw Evans, in TV comedy series Doctor in the House. He reprised the Huw Evans character in a later 'Doctor' series.

Though mainly known for his TV and theatre work, Martin Shaw played Banquo in Roman Polanski's Macbeth, which was released in 1971. Shaw first appeared in a movie in 1966, in 'Love on the Dole', when he played an Irish communist. The theatre was Shaw's main focus in the 1980s. He impressed playing Elvis Presley in Are You Lonesome Tonight?, which was written by Alan Bleasdale. Shaw returned to television roles in the 1990s. He played the lead role in Rhodes and the police series The Chief. 2001, saw Shaw play one of the most popular characters of his career in Judge John Deed, which was made by the BBC. Shaw played the P.D. James creation, detective Adam Dalgliesh, in 2003 and 2005. He also played British South Pole explorer Robert Falcon Scott in The Last Place On Earth. In 2007, Martin Shaw began his role as George Gently, the '60 cop with a conscience, which was aired on BBC TV.

Martin Shaw has narrated audiobooks including The Hobbit, Gulliver's Travels, and Wuthering Heights. Awards and nominations Martin Shaw won two awards in 1996, the Drama Desk Critic's Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play and the Theatre World Special Award for Ensemble Performance. Shaw was also nominated for a Best Actor Tony for his performance as Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband, which was shown on Broadway. Trivia Shaw was three when he made his first stage appearance, which was alongside his parents. Martin Shaw is the the son of an engineer and a ballroom dancer. He loved English literature and drama lessons at school, though he generally disliked school. Before acting, Shaw worked in the sales office of a chemical company. 1984 saw Shaw release a single as he tried his hand at a music career. Martin Shaw is a vegetarian and a champion of animal welfare issues. The scar on Shaw's right cheek was the result of a mugging. His injuries required plastic surgery. It was Shaw who suggested the afro hairstyle for his character Ray Doyle in The Professionals. Shaw has been an active individual away from acting, and he has a private pilot's licence and a motorbike licence.

He also has a love for horse riding, rock climbing, playing football, and yoga. Personal details Shaw has been married three times and he has three children by his first wife, the actress Jill Allen whom he married in 1968. Sons Joe and Luke and daughter Sophie are all actors. Shaw's second wife was alternative therapist Maggie Mansfield. Shaw is currently married to Vicky Kimm, who is a TV presenter. Television appearances Coronation Street as Robert Croft Doctor at Large (1971) as Huw Evans Helen: A Woman of Today (1973) as Jack Tully The Professionals (1977–1981) as Ray Doyle Cream in My Coffee (by Dennis Potter) (1980) as "Jack Butcher". East Lynne (1982) as "Archibald Carlyle". The Last Place on Earth (1985) as "Robert Falcon Scott". The Chief (1993–1995) as "Chief Constable Alan Cade". Rhodes (1996) as "Cecil Rhodes". The Scarlet Pimpernel as "Chauvelin".

A&E (1997–2002) as "Robert Kingsford". P.D. James's Death in Holy Orders (2003) as "Adam Dalgliesh". Judge John Deed (2001–2007) as "Judge John Deed". Martin Shaw: Aviators. Cranford (2007) as "Peter Jenkyns". Inspector George Gently (2007–2010) as "George Gently". Lemur Street (2007-) Apparitions (2008) as "Father Jacob". Agatha Christie's Poirot (2010) as "Charles Cartwright". The Professionals (1977-1981) (as Ray Doyle) The Chief Rhodes (1997) (as Cecil Rhodes) The Scarlet Pimpernel (as Chauvelin) A&E 1997-2002 (as Robert Kingsford) P.D.

James's Death in Holy Orders (2003) (as Adam Dalgleish) Judge John Deed (as Judge John Deed) George Gently (as George Gently) Theatre appearances A Streetcar Named Desire (1974) (as Stanley Kowalski) Are You Lonesome Tonight? (as Elvis) An Ideal Husband (as Sir Robert Chiltern) A Man For All Seasons (2005/6) Martin Shaw - IMDb IMDb Actor | Producer One of England's most popular actors for more than two decades, Martin is noted for his versatility. He has starred in over 100 TV roles, his long TV career beginning in 1967 with ITV Play of the Week: Love on the Dole (1967). Prior to The Professionals (1977), he had always been careful to be very different in each of his roles to avoid being ... See full bio » Born: Famous Directors: From Sundance to Prominence From Christopher Nolan to Quentin Tarantino and every Coen brother in between, many of today's most popular directors got their start at the Sundance Film Festival .

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3:23 PM PDT 8/4/2011 by Ray Bennett COMMENTS (Updated): Previous U.K. imports from Company Pictures include "Skins" and "Shameless." LONDON – British period TV police drama George Gently will air for the first time on U.S. television early next year. It stars Martin Shaw, from the cult 1970s action series The Professionals, as a 1960s Scotland Yard detective relocated to the north of England. Broadcast rights to the show, produced by Company Pictures for the BBC, will be managed in the U.S. by Acorn Media, which has released the first three series on DVD in North America. George Gently will air on public television across the country at various times, depending on the market and station. The deal with Company’s parent company All3Media follows Acorn’s success on DVD and TV in the U.S. with the long-running English crime series Midsomer Murders. Company originated the TV shows Skins and Shameless, and with George Gently, Acorn Media US Programming VP Don Klees said the production firm “has delivered perfect content for U.S.

audiences, offering strong character-based drama and gripping storylines set in an iconic era.” All3Media International Sales VP Peter Grant said, “The series has been in high demand around the world and a premiere in the U.S. is a fantastic landmark in the George Gently story.” Based on a series of crime novels by Alan Hunter and scripted by Peter Flannery (Funny Bones, The Devil’s Whore), George Gently tells of crimes investigated by a tough London police officer in Northumberland, near the Scottish border. Shaw won international success as the mop-topped CI5 agent Doyle in the long-running 1970s action series The Professionals costarring Lewis Collins and Gordon Jackson and he had the title role from 2001-2007 in the TV legal series, Judge John Deed. An acclaimed stage actor, Shaw was nominated for a best actor Tony Award and won the Drama Desk Award for outstanding featured actor in a play for his 1996 Broadway appearance in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. Lee Ingleby, who played Hollum, the Jonah in Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, plays his young detective sergeant.

Inspector George Gently star Martin Shaw: the BBC try to please everyone Andrew Duncan 4:30 PM, 06 February 2014 How pleasant to meet an actor who agrees he’s opinionated and stubborn and who talks in a mild voice unencumbered by PR speak. Martin Shaw, 69, lives deep in Norfolk in a low-ceilinged 17th-century cottage built by Quakers, and we talk in the Meeting Room. The next day he’s off to his even more remote croft in Galloway, “my real wilderness”, where there are no neighbours, or television reception, and minimal telephone access. He’s not a hermit, he insists. “I can give a metaphysical answer why I like it: there’s a lack of mental noise, and a profound sense of emptiness. I love people, but like to turn off their noise.” This may be why he’s been married three times and his partner of the past few years, a yoga teacher, Karen da Silva, lives 200 yards down the road. “We share both houses. Marry again?

I never say ‘never’.” His first wife, at 23, was an actress, Jill Allen, mother of his three grown-up children (Luke, Joe and Sophie), followed by an alternative therapist, Maggie Mansfield, and then TV presenter Vicky Kimm. He’s obviously not good husband material. “That’s one thing I can’t answer. If I could, I’d probably still be married. My children are close to their mother, as am I. The other two wives? A healthy completion. There’s no animosity, but no need to keep in touch. Finished, done.” He’s had therapy, “a useful tool for self knowledge”. For more than 40 years he’s been a television stalwart, his sturdy gravitas making him ideal for a detective (Adam Dalgleish in the dramatisation of PD James’s Death in Holy Orders, and Ray Doyle in The Professionals), surgeon (Always and Everyone), judge (Judge John Deed), statesman (Rhodes) and priest (Apparitions).

This week sees the start of the seventh series of Inspector George Gently, set in the 60s, in which he plays a widowed policeman, assisted by a combative sergeant, John Bacchus (Lee Ingleby). “If I say I’m surprised it’s continued so long, I’d be dissing the programme,” he says. “I take it as it comes because television is so capricious. There’s no formula for success, but the formula for failure is to try to please everyone and that’s what’s happening at the BBC. Bless ’em, it’s not their fault. They have to compete with ITV to justify the unpopular licence fee, which is incredibly cheap. Viewers think nothing of paying £20 a month for Sky. “We don’t know if there will be an eighth series. They’ll wait to see our ratings and then if they do recommission, it will be too late. The pressure is on to write four films quickly, and once they’re finished, it’s passed up the food chain. The first set of administrators make changes and send it back to the writers who say, ‘You’ve taken out our favourite bits.’ They’ll rewrite and it goes to the next level.

By the time it’s gone through everyone, the writers are tearing their hair out or walking off in a huff. “When we actors get the script, we’re often already committed to other work and have to make last-minute adjustments. “Gently can continue so long as the scripts are good. A bad one is like telling a lie. It doesn’t sit comfortably in the heart, mind or mouth. They all require work on set and one never knows if it’s the fault of the writers, or later adjustments.” I mention I detected a few infelicities in this week’s first part, Gently between the Lines. “I’m damn sure you did,” he says ruefully, smiling. There are several scenes of rioters protesting a slum clearance that are comical in their lack of an authentic crowd. “I agree, but that’s all they would pay for. In America when a show is successful, the budget is increased, but here they take money away. It p***es me off, but as a human being you need a target and I don’t know where BBC decisions come from. You ask, ‘Why are 100 protestors played by six extras?’ and everyone says, ‘I know.

Isn’t it a nightmare?’ Somewhere a god decrees it. Lee and I are trusted with our creative input and I flatter myself that’s important. Having been in this job for 50 years, I adjust parts of the script because, being arrogant, I know I’m right. I’m stubborn about the rhythm and content. “I’m told I become the person I’m playing. I love Gently but hope I’m not like him – a curmudgeon, moody, straight-laced and self-important, an old-time copper who’s fought in the Second World War. Like me, he’s not one for political correctness – it’s stupid – or health and safety, an unforeseen by-product of lawyers able to take work on contingency. Everyone is terrified of being sued. Anything worth doing is run by people who know nothing – the BBC, NHS, government, police. I don’t know how it will change. Creativity and administration are innately exclusive. And here’s another idiocy – only young people can be on TV. It’s bloody obvious older people stay home to watch. The young go out.

“I’m bound to say there are too many cop series because I’d like mine to be the only one, but it’s a shame there isn’t more variety. I was excited by Apparitions [BBC1 in 2008], my idea, about a Roman Catholic priest who carries out exorcisms. I believe in magic, which is where Prince Charles and I are in the same category. The BBC hierarchy sent notes saying it was the most exciting thing they’d seen in years. But after the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross debacle they pulled the plug because it was controversial. I was bitterly disappointed.” There’s another view: The Guardian described it as a ludicrous piece of old hokum. The first episode had an audience of 4.6 million, but this diminished to 2.8 million for the second. The son of an engineer and a champion ballroom dancer, Shaw was born in Birmingham where, at 16, he was offered a scholarship to a local drama school, which he turned down for various jobs including work in a brass foundry. Two years later he went to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, serving an apprenticeship as assistant stage manager in Hornchurch, Essex.

One of his first TV appearances was in Coronation Street in 1967, as hippy student Robert Croft. “It was social drama reflecting life in the north in those days, and we rehearsed for a week. I can’t watch soaps now, because they’re so bad. It’s just people yelling at each other, although I don’t think I’ve seen more than 12 seconds of EastEnders. It’s hard to answer why they’re so popular without sounding grand. If wall-to-wall pornography and public executions were on television, they’d get massive ratings, too. We need challenging programmes, but viewers don’t want that, or to listen. It sounds as if I take a dim view of humanity, but I don’t.” A bit of a snob then? He laughs. “Yes, when it comes to drama.” For the first ten years of his career he worked on the West End stage, at the National Theatre (Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in 1968 enabled him to buy a small house in East Barnet) and with Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.

The latter’s greeting when they first met, he recalls, mimicking the actor’s sibilant voice, was, “How do you do? You’re frightfully handsome. I suppose you’re married.’” Gielgud added an anatomical expletive. His relatively calm theatrical success was broken in 1977 when he was cast as C15 agent Ray Doyle in ITV’s hugely popular drama The Professionals, which had audiences of up to 18 million – although he complained he was playing a one-dimensional character in a one- dimensional series. “I hated fame and was unprepared. Celebrity is not my motivation. My tag line for years was ‘TV tough guy Martin Shaw’. The British industry puts us in boxes.” He and co-star Lewis Collins, who played fellow agent Bodie, had a healthy rivalry. “We were very different, which contributed in part to the success.” Collins was furious when Shaw refused to accept repeat fees that were offered. He says the production company refused to negotiate. “But I should have remained dignified and kept my trap shut. I became precious, although I was sensible enough not to say, ‘I am an actor.’ It harmed me. I didn’t work for a couple of years.

Morally, you should say what you think, but that’s not the way it works.” Collins moved to California but was unable to emulate his previous acting success. He died last November. “Ironically I heard just after receiving a Christmas card showing him and his family smiling in the sunshine. We weren’t in touch for 20 years until he and his wife came to dinner and we reminisced. It was a good way to end after the trials and tribulations of the series.” For Shaw, alcohol became another problem. “I drank prodigious amounts – half a bottle of Scotch, two bottles of wine, and odds and sods every day. I shudder to think how stupid I was. I didn’t even like it. I wanted to be one of the crowd – Richard Harris, Oliver Reed, Peter O’Toole – and alcohol was the working-class actor’s way of becoming an amusing, outspoken hellraiser.” In 1967 he was severely beaten up in a brawl – he shows me a moveable plastic cheek bone on the right side of his face – in the Cromwell Road, west London. He remembers nothing about it.

“I have traumatic amnesia.” He’s been teetotal and vegetarian for 42 years, as well as a follower of an Indian mystic, Charan Singh, who died in 1990. He once thought of retiring from acting to practise an alternative therapy called polarity, based on Indian Ayurvedic medicine. “It’s related to acupuncture, but you use your hands, and it involves elements of psychotherapy. I found it creative and something I wanted to do. I use it on myself and it helps me listen to my body and understand my mind. But I decided I couldn’t make an adequate living for those I needed to support at the time.” All his children are actors – Sophie played his daughter in A Man for All Seasons, Joe was the young Rhodes in Rhodes, and Luke is foreman of the jury in the much-praised Twelve Angry Men at the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End. Shaw is Juror 8, the lead character played by Henry Fonda in the film, who convinces the others that a 16-year-old black boy, facing the electric chair for killing his father, is innocent. “It’s lovely working with Luke. We have the same ethos, and there’s no seniority.

He gives me observations and notes, which are helpful. I explained the difficulties of acting to all my children, but they haven’t seen me experience them because I’ve been incredibly blessed since I left Hornchurch Rep after 18 months making tea and shovelling s**t. My upward curve was very steep. You can’t suggest to your children they might not be so lucky.” Unsurprisingly his hobby is also solitary. He flies a Second World War Piper L4 Cub spotter plane. “My interest is history rather than a means of transport. These planes are hard to fly and I worry about crashing. Every time I take off I know where I’ll put down if the engine fails, and once I’m flying I look every few minutes for a place to land. I’m not scared of dying, but frightened of the process – spiralling down, waiting to hit the ground. The actual moment – no. My father, God bless him, one of the greatest men who ever lived and I miss him every day, died watching TV, aged 86, with a box of caramels in one hand and herb tea in the other.” His eyes moisten.

He’s fastidious, spiritual, compulsive and admits, “All actors have a neurosis.” He doesn’t read about himself, he says, and for a while refused to give interviews. The police told him his phone was tapped by journalists. “I haven’t made up my mind what to do about that. Who hasn’t had problems with the press? What I’m quoted on is slanted, and mostly in a negative way – everyone enjoys a bit of schadenfreude. Ordinary, boring people doing a job are not interesting. But that’s exactly what I am.” Martin Shaw: 'I found being a sex symbol ANNOYING' - Mirror Online TV Martin Shaw: 'I found being a sex symbol ANNOYING' As Martin Shaw returns with a new series of Inspector George Gently, he tells us why he’s finally enjoying his 1970s heart-throb status, but is happiest staying out of the spotlight… Share As Inspector George Gently (Photo: BBC) Share Get celebs updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing!

Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email "It’s a shame it’s wet today, I was planning to take you up in my plane," says Martin Shaw , casually, as he strolls into the airfield where he happens to keep his vintage World War II airplane. We’re both impressed and disappointed – imagine zooming around the skies with one of the small screen’s most hardened action heroes, The Professionals’ Doyle, at the controls… Martin reveals he dreamed of being able to fly since he was five years old and finally got his pilot’s licence in 1993. "The proudest day of my life," he confesses. Kitted out in an Arran jumper, khaki trousers and a leather bomber jacket, and looking in peak physical condition, Martin doesn’t strike us as your average 70-year-old. A toned 5ft 8, his skin is barely creased, but he does make a pretty good silver fox, with a full head of steel-grey hair. It may have something to do with his unbelievably healthy lifestyle; for 43 years he’s been a teetotal vegetarian and a follower of a spiritual Indian faith, Sant Mat, which advocates meditation and yoga.

"I don’t feel 70 at all!" he laughs, his face lighting up. "In my head I’m more like mid-40s. Sometimes, on set, whenever I start thinking, 'Am I getting old?' I console myself by noticing actors half my age nodding off during a break!" Back in the 1970s, Martin earned ‘sex symbol’ status thanks to his Professionals role, in which he sported a luscious mop of curly hair and risqué open-necked shirts. Martin as reluctant 1970s pin-up Doyle in The Professionals (Photo: Rex) "At the time I found being a sex symbol simultaneously confusing and annoying," he admits. "There was something in my psychology that truly didn’t get it. But funnily enough, with the perspective of 40 years, I can look back at old photos and go, 'Wow, they were right, check this guy out!'" It may seem odd that someone so well known for the characters he’s portrayed – from Doyle to Judge John Deed and George Gently – steers away from the limelight.

But Martin prefers to be alone (he’s even planning a trip to Scotland to be completely isolated for a few days) and admits he can be a bit of a hermit. "I like people too much to call myself a complete recluse, but I like being reclusive, if necessary’ he says. ‘I start to feel crazy when I’m in the city for any length of time – you have all these irritating noises around you." Martin takes his need for space pretty seriously. For 20 years he lived by himself, but 18 months ago he moved into a 17th-century cottage with his long-term girlfriend, 53-year-old yoga teacher Karen Da Silva. "It’s working out really well because she likes silence and space even more than I do!" he says. "But I enjoy doing yoga with her – only once or twice a week, though, not every day like she does." Divorced three times, he doesn’t even want to hint as to whether they’ll marry. "Let’s move on," is his response. "I don’t talk about family for lots of reasons...

it has got me into trouble." With long-term partner Karen (Photo: Getty) Back in 2008, Martin and Karen had to issue a restraining order against a female stalker, so it’s no wonder he’s hush-hush on personal matters. But when it comes to talking about his children, Luke, 46, Joe, 42, and Sophie, 41, from first wife Jill Allen, and four grandchildren, he’s more open, as he’s incredibly proud of them. All three adult kids have followed their father into acting and often visit Martin at home; the other day he organised a treasure hunt for the Grandkids. "It’s something I did for my kids when they were young, and now they’re grown up I still want to do it for their children," he says. "I write these cryptic clues, some slightly easier for the three-year-old. It’s the best feeling to have my family together and to be able to share the good fortune that I’ve had with them." Martin has indeed been lucky; growing up with his mum and dad in his grandparents’ small council house in Birmingham, he moved to London aged 18 to attend the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

He got his TV break in 1967 as hippy student Robert Croft in Coronation Street , before landing his first lead role as CI5 agent Ray Doyle in The Professionals ten years later. Since then, Martin’s rarely been off our screens and now he’s back with an eighth series of BBC1’s Inspector George Gently, where he plays the formidable inspector. The drama, set in the 1960s, brings back fond memories for Martin, who says it was his favourite era. Inspector George Gently (Photo: BBC) "It was a wonderful wave to ride on," he remembers. "We were embracing American values. It was very exciting. I had skintight, crushed velvet bell-bottoms, a kaftan and a moustache!" But unlike the 60s, filming wasn’t all funky clothes and free love – Martin’s days were a gruelling 15 hours long. "It takes years off your life, literally," he reveals. "When I come home at 9pm and have to learn scripts for the next day, often I have to choose between eating and working.

It’s embarrassing because sometimes I have to arrive on set and say, “I don’t know this very well”." Rumours in the past suggest Martin’s toyed with the idea of retiring, but this is far from the case. "Absolutely not, no," he says. "I’ll keep going until I drop, or until they stop employing me – I don’t know which will come first. 'People still talk about Judge John Deed and I’m told there are numerous online petitions to bring it back," he says. "Not The Professionals though; I didn’t enjoy much about that. I liked shooting guns and driving cars, but that was it. And, no, I didn’t keep any of Doyle’s jumpers!" Martin flashes us a cheeky smile, and doesn’t let us leave before heading over to the hangar where he keeps his beloved airplane. Jumping up into the seat, which is a few feet up from the ground, with no steps, Martin makes it look easy. He may be without his curly brown locks, but Martin’s definitely still got it... How do you spend your Sunday? Early alarm or a lazy lie-in? I don’t have either. I get up when I get up.

Takeaway or home-cooked roast? Again, no set plan. We just eat when we’re hungry and decide what we want on the day. Sunday is just another day really, but that’s different for actors. Reading the newspapers or watching the TV? Watch the TV news – I never read newspapers. Running errands or time to yourself? I’ll be doing something in the outdoors definitely, and if the weather’s nice I’ll be flying. Shopping or walk in the park? Oh, I’ll be walking, but I also enjoy shopping! I like strolling around the aisles and picking things off the shelves in Waitrose. Catch Martin in Inspector George Gently, Wednesday, BBC1, 8pm. Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent Inspector George Gently: the mystery of the missing detective | Radio Times Inspector George Gently: the mystery of the missing detective Jacqueline Wheeler is glad to see the return of the crime drama - but where is George? Comments Written By 11:30 AM, 05 September 2011 Morse, Frost, Poirot, Scott and Bailey, Cagney and Lacey, Kojak: fictional detectives tend to get their name in the title.

It puts them in the frame as the driving force of the drama. They can be suave (Inspector Lynley) or salt-of-the-earth (Taggart), but what they all definitely have in common are memorable personalities and a knack for getting their man. So what to expect of Inspector George Gently? Well, having beaten a retreat from the horrors of last night’s Fred West drama, Appropriate Adult, I was up for a bit of comfy armchair sleuthing. I recalled not-so-gentle George from series one - a charismatic old-school copper trying to fight crime the just way back in the corrupt years of 1960s policing. And here we were again, this time searching for the killer of a teenage schoolgirl on the terraced streets of Durham, where children still played out and women knew their place. It was 1966 and London was swinging to sexual revolution but up north a wife could still expect a smack round the face for speaking out of turn and it was always the girl’s fault if she got into “trouble”. Was it really this bad? Here were men so uniformly dreadful, leering over impressionable teenage girls, it was no wonder they all ended up as suspects.

The impressionable teenage girls weren’t much better. Naive, powerless, not without brains but utterly directionless, career aspirations were so easily cast aside once a bloke came sniffing around. It was utterly grim and absorbing in a dour, vintage Ken Loach kind of way, and just as I was wondering which sexist creep had bumped off the girl, I realised something was missing. Where was George Gently? DS Bacchus was having all the ideas. As the volatile sidekick, he was itching to fit the suspects up. He was borderline nasty but at least he wasn’t in peripheral vision. George sort of drifted along on the margins, frowning disapprovingly at his colleague and occasionally resting a sympathetic hand on a victim’s shoulder. He did a lot of thoughtful smoking but I was solving the crime, and if he hadn’t appeared at all, no one would have noticed. This is solid, well-crafted, Sunday-night crime drama but the all-important eponymous hero barely got a look-in. George is played by top TV law enforcer Martin Shaw, aka Judge John Deed, Adam Dalgliesh and, of course, Ray Doyle of The Professionals. You’d expect a heavyweight performance but he hardly said a word.

I’m not saying don’t watch. This is a moody, atmospheric period piece and I didn’t guess who did it until close to the end. But now the series has returned, let’s bring back the detective. Like this? Share it. Judge John Deed (TV Series 2001– ) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Sir John Deed, a High Court judge, tries to seek real justice in the cases before him. Creator: James Brooklands is charged with the death of a woman and her two children whom he struck with his car. Brooklands was using his mobile phone at the time and didn't have a valid driver's license. His... 8.7 Although Jo Mills has been absolved of any accusations of misconduct, Sir Ian Rochester and some of Deed's fellow judges now decide to marginalize both of them. Mills finds herself being taken off ... 8.7 The powers that be continue in their efforts to have Judge Deed removed from the bench.

All the more so now that he has suggested an inquiry into allegations made at his previous trial that the Home ... 8.5 a list of 47 titles created 11 May 2011 a list of 35 titles created 10 Nov 2013 a list of 9 titles created 14 Apr 2014 a list of 2127 titles created 15 May 2014 a list of 22 titles created 15 Aug 2015 Title: Judge John Deed (2001– ) 7.6/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Inspector George Gently (TV Series 2007) Crime | Drama | Mystery With the help of DS John Bacchus, Inspector George Gently spends his days bringing to justice members of the criminal underworld who are unfortunate enough to have the intrepid investigator assigned to their cases. Stars: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Simon Hubbard Dalziel and Pascoe (TV Series 1996) Crime | Mystery | Drama Supt.

Dalziel and partner DI Pascoe investigate murders, and find a bond forming between them despite their blatantly differing personalities. Stars: Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan, David Royle This series chronicled the lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism ... See full summary » Stars: Gordon Jackson, Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins Waking the Dead (TV Series 2000) Crime | Drama | Mystery Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd is the leader of a police team which investigates unsolved murders using modern technology. Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson Set in Edinburgh, the mercurial Detective Inspector John Rebus's investigations lead him through the city's ancient beauty and into its more sinister quarters. Stars: Ken Stott, Claire Price, Jennifer Black The Murder Room (TV Mini-Series 2004) Crime | Drama | Mystery Adam Dalgliesh looks into the connection between the grisly exhibits at the Dupayne family museum and the murder of adopted son Neville.

Stars: Martin Shaw, Janie Dee, Samantha Bond Glasgow 1982, a young girl investigates mysterious murders in a world of men. Stars: Matt Costello, Jayd Johnson, Bronagh Gallagher DI Crabbe retires from the police force after being shot and sets up his own restaurant. However, his ex-boss, Chief Constable Fisher constantly calls Crabbe back on duty. Stars: Richard Griffiths, Maggie Steed, Malcolm Sinclair Father Jacob Myers, a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, played by Martin Shaw, examines evidence of miracles to be used in canonisation but also performs exorcisms. As he learns, Jacob's... See full summary » Stars: Martin Shaw, Rick Warden, Siobhan Finneran Detective Tennison investigates a seemingly straightforward drug murder that she believes is linked to a smugly smooth crime boss. Stars: Helen Mirren, Ray Emmet Brown, John Brobbey Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison's investigation of the murder of a Bosnian refugee leads her to one, or possibly two, Serbian war criminals determined to silence the last witness to a massacre a decade before.

Stars: Helen Mirren, Liam Cunningham, Oleg Menshikov Prime Suspect (TV Mini-Series 1991) Crime | Drama | Mystery A female police detective investigates a series of serial murders while dealing with sexist hostility from her male comrades. Stars: Helen Mirren, John Benfield, Tom Bell Edit Storyline Despite the red robe and wig, Judge John Deed is no average high court judge. Good-looking, fit and fifty-something, he has a rakish charm that belies his sharp intellect. His passion for justice and his maverick approach set him at odds with the Lord Chancellor's department. This judge's individual approach too often flies in the face of convention for his own good as he determinedly avoids the traditionalism the system tries to force upon him. Written by Bai 9 January 2001 (UK) See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Quotes Judge John Deed : [sentencing the producer of a TV game show after a contestant has died] Celebrity. The pursuit of the talentless, by the mindless. It's become a disease of the twenty-first century. It pollutes our society, and it diminishes all who seek it, and all who worship it.

And you must bear some of the responsibility for foisting this empty nonsense onto a gullible public. (Netanya, Israel) – See all my reviews I have definite rules for all television series. Do they hold my attention? Are they well written? Are they well acted? In the case of this series, the answers are yes, yes and yes. Starting with the writer, nobody seems to mention him. The stories are well crafted, the different strands of each episode are seamless. I assume that Newman either has some knowledge of the law or access to those that do as the words of John Deed make sense to the viewer. The cast is attractive with a large number of regulars who have stuck with it for some years, always a good sign of their belief in the project. Martin Shaw is always good value for money. The beautiful Jenny Seagrove, (what did she see in Michael Winner), Sir Donald Sinden doing his Donald Sinden act, Christopher Cazenove et als, all turn in quality performances. Some have seen fit to compare this unfavourably with Rumpole of the Bailey, I cannot see the comparison. This is not played for laughs though there is humour a-plenty.

This does not have the "clever" endings. This is a good attempt to portray English justice. At 90 minutes an episode, true things have to be tidied a little. A sub-plot is added and we see the human side of the characters' private lives. Each episode I have watched has held my attention, wholly and completely, to the credit titles at the end. A better comparison than Rumpole is probably the late, great John Thaw in Kavanagh QC. This, I know, was based on a real character, latterly elevated to the bench before his untimely death, the real Kavanagh was a friend of mine. I do not know if Deed is based on a real judge, or judges, but I would guess at "probably". I have seen some of the episodes more than once and they do not suffer from repetition. Yes I am a fan, long may Judge John Deed sit on the bench. And at only a handful of episodes a year, this viewer always yearns for his return. 19 of 24 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

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Question: Who played Ray Doyle, John Deed and George Gently on TV?
Answer: Martin Shaw