Mike McShane | |
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Born |
Michael McShane 1955/1956 (age 60–61) |
Occupation | Actor, singer, comedian |
Years active | 1986–present |
Michael "Mike" McShane (born 1955/1956) is an actor, singer, and improvisational comedian. He appeared in the early 1990s on the original British television show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He voiced Marlon, Caracticus P. Doom and various other characters in Cosgrove Hall's Avenger Penguins and Quozmir in Dave The Barbarian.
McShane gained exposure in the early 1990s from semi-regular appearances on the British show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He later appeared with fellow Whose Line players Tony Slattery in the comedy sketch show S&M and Sandi Toksvig in the sitcom The Big One.
Other TV roles include a guest appearance on Seinfeld as Kramer's nemesis Franklin Delano Romanowski (FDR). McShane played Friar Tuck in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves in 1991, had a small role as a doomed hypnotherapist in the 1999 film Office Space, and played the friendly scientist, Professor Keenbean, in the 1994 movie Ri¢hie Ri¢h. In 1998 he appeared in an episode of Frasier as Frank, the manager of the Shangri-La apartments. He also co-starred with Sir John Gielgud, Emily Watson and Rosemary Harris in "A Summer's Day Dream" for BBC "Performance" series.
In 1995, McShane starred as Harley in the BBC Screen Two TV Movie Crazy For A Kiss, about a young boy who is sent to a mental institution for teenagers in McShane's home state of Kansas. McShane appeared in Tom and Huck as Muff Potter and on Brotherly Love as the experienced but wisecracking mechanic, Lloyd.