Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

Birth : 1943-01-24, Chicago, Illinois, USA

History

Michael Shannon was born on January 24, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Dark Shadows (2012), Little Shop of Horrors (1986) and Superman II (1980).

Profile

Michael Shannon

Movies

National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney. On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gather at their cotton plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and Maggie dance round the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. With the future of the family at stake, which version of the truth is real – and which will win out?
Cops and Robin
John Haven
A veteran street cop and his partner, a robot programmed to be the perfect policeman, are assigned to protect the five-year-old daughter of the widow who witnessed the killing of her police officer husband and now is stalked by the gangster who murdered him.
Möbius
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Dark Shadows
Board Member #2
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
The Raven
Dr. Morgan
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
You've Got a Friend
Brayton Jennings
A recently-orphaned 12 year old boy moves to a new town to live with his aunt and uncle, and finds an unlikely mentor in the town loner, who helps him build the soap box racer he dreamed of crafting with his dad.
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
President's Aide (archive footage)
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
American Gun
Jerry
Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.
30 Years to Life
Graham
In a futuristic dystopia, a teenager is medically aged 30 years to punish him for a crime he didn't commit.
The Affair
Capt. Ford
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
Night Watch
Martin Schraeder
UN agents Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt's painting, "The Night Watch". The trail takes them from Amsterdam to Hong Kong and involves them in not only art theft and forgery, but the high-tech schemes of Martin Schraeder and his Korean cohort Mao Yixin
Fatherland
US Ambassador
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
Prime Suspect 3
Jake Hunter
Assigned to a Vice squad, Detective Jane Tennison investigates a child murder and discovers a sinister link to the police.
Merlin Of The Crystal Cave
Blackbeard
A star-studded TV production of the classic tale by Mary Stewart which follows Merlin down through history to the days of King Arthur.
Pride and Extreme Prejudice
Chapinski
The CIA and the KGB both pursue a former operative (Dennehy) who seemingly has become unstable.
Murder on the Moon
Ivanov
After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and Soviet investigators are forced to work on the case together.
Out of the Shadows
Frank Osbourne
A U.S. Embassy worker is helped by an Interpol agent to prove herself innocent of a murder in the Greek isles.
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
Senator John Tunney
A profile in courage, the film examines the trauma and effort that Senator Edward Kennedy's son went through after losing his leg to a rare form of cancer and with the rehabilitation that was required.
Death of an Angel
Bishop Holmes
Grace, a priest, tracks her missing daughter to a religious community where the strange father Angel is keeping a wooden Jesus figure that sheds actual blood. When the cross is stolen, Grace decides to help out to get her daughter back.
Sheena
Phillip Ames
Sheena's parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an African tribe. When her foster mother is framed for the murder of a political leader, Sheena and a newsman, Vic Casey, are forced to flee while pursued by the mercenaries hired by the real killer, who hopes to assume power. Sheena's ability to talk to the animals and knowledge of jungle lore give them a chance against the high tech weapons of the mercenaries.
Afterward
An American couple buy an English Manor House - complete with resident sypernatural forces...
Never Never Land
Peter
Zena has been abandoned by her parents and left in the care of her aunt Bee Melvin. She is treated poorly by two of her cousins, and taking the lead from the story Peter and Wendy, she runs away from home with her younger cousin.
Superman II
President's Aide
Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House and partner with Lex Luthor to destroy Superman and rule the world. But Superman, who attempts to make himself human in order to get closer to Lois, realizes he has a responsibility to save the planet.
The Best Place to Be
Patrick Callahan
A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much younger man -- and then a former suitor comes back into the picture.