Martin Shaw - The Biography

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Stafford Hildred. Martin Shaw - The Biography

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CONTENTS

WHEELS OF FORTUNE

CHILDHOOD

LAMDA

CORONATION STREET

MACBETH

TRANSFORMATION

HELEN: A WOMAN OF TODAY

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

THE PROFESSIONALS

CAPTAIN SCOTT

ELVIS PRESLEY

THE GOLDEN DECADE

THE CHIEF

RHODES

PIMPERNEL

A & E

JUDGE JOHN DEED

DALGLIESH

MARTIN SHAW – A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

EPILOGUE

INDEX

Copyright

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Tim Ewbank

To my mother Joy for her wonderful love, support and encouragement.

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It must be said that in his late teens Martin Shaw was not at all the clean-living, non-drinking, non-smoking picture of health that theatre and television audiences have come to know and love over the years. He says: ‘I started drinking halves of bitter when I was 14. I always had quite a weak frame as a younger boy, but at 15 I started to fill out and when I was 18 or 19 I got really bulky, thanks partly to the beer I suppose. As soon as I got my freedom to go to places on my own I started to frequent jazz clubs and for a while I became a beatnik. I also started to drink even more heavily which is probably why I kept putting on weight.’

In Roman, his remarkable book about his life, Polanski recounted the problems he faced while filming Macbeth in Wales: ‘Portmeirion was almost flooded that fall. It was another case of “Never seen anything like it in twenty years!”

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