A Real Pro: A MartinShaw Quiz

Question 1 of 10:

Performing must be in Martin 's blood, as his mother was a prize-winning...?

Opera singer

Violinist

Ballroom dancer

Gymnast

It was while he was still working in a chemicals company that Martin joined a troupe of street performers called...?

The Pied Pipers

The Troubadours

The Merry Pranksters

The Three Fools

Martin 's first TV role came in 1968, when he played a hippy student in which TV show?

Doctor Who

Coronation Street

Dixon of Dock Green

Danger Man

Martin starred in which director's notoriously bloody 1971 version of ‘Macbeth’?

Martin Scorsese

Roman Polanski

Francis Ford Coppola

Jean-Luc Godard

Martin was offered the star-making role of Doyle in ‘The Professionals’ after his appearance in what?

Starsky and Hutch

The New Avengers

The Saint

The Persuaders

Wanting to branch out after ‘The Professionals’, Martin rejected the big-money offer of the lead role in...?

Miami Vice

The Equalizer

Magnum PI

T.J. Hooker

Martin starred alongside his son Joe when they both played the lead role in an epic BBC series about the life of...?

David Lloyd George

Prince Albert

Cecil Rhodes

Francis Drake

Martin has had a plastic plate instead of a right cheek bone ever since a mugging he suffered in the 1970s.

True

False

In 2003 Martin tried his hand at playing which literary and TV detective?

Sherlock Holmes

Inspector Wexford

Adam Dalgliesh

Hercule Poirot

Martin lives in a Quaker house in Norfolk that once belonged to whose family?

Abraham Lincoln 's

Jane Austen 's

Isaac Newton 's

Claude Monet 's