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He has featured in over 100 TV roles, his long TV career beginning in 1967 with the television episode Love on the Dole (1967). He achieved genuine stardom with The Professionals (1977), generally seen, along with The Sweeney (1975), as one of the two classic British action series to be spawned from the 1970s.
Martin lives in a Quaker House in Norfolk, once owned by an ancestor of Abraham Lincoln. He also owns a crofter's cottage in Scotland. The scar on Martin's right cheek was the result of a vicious attack by muggers. His cheekbone had to be replaced by a plastic plate.
But he says he lives around 200 yards from his current partner, Karen Da Silva, a yoga teacher, and the pair “share both houses in Norfolk.
In 1985, Shaw played Elvis Presley in Alan Bleasdale's Are You Lonesome Tonight?.
I like most people have always loved animals. What deepened the feeling was becoming a vegetarian 50 years ago, and releasing myself from the process of killing, and so denying my natural place in the beautiful order of nature.