Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw is an English actor who began television work in 1967 and became widely known as Ray Doyle in the crime drama The Professionals from 1977 to 1983. Born in Birmingham, he trained at LAMDA after declining a scholarship at sixteen, then served an apprenticeship in repertory. His stage breakthrough came as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire in 1974, and he later played Elvis Presley in Are You Lonesome Tonight? in 1985. On screen he appeared in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), Operation: Daybreak (1975), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983) and 6 Days (2017). His television title roles include The Chief, Judge John Deed and Inspector George Gently. His Broadway turn in An Ideal Husband brought a Drama Desk Award, a Theatre World Special Award and a Tony nomination.