---
name: "Ian Kershaw"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ian-kershaw"
fi1m_id: "ian-kershaw"
imdb_id: "nm10393926"
tmdb_id: 500184
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "29 April 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T13:02:56.872962+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ian Kershaw

## Identity

Ian Kershaw

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ian-kershaw
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ian-kershaw
- **IMDb ID:** nm10393926
- **TMDB ID:** 500184
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10393926/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/500184

Writer. Born 29 April 1943 in Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 29 April 1943, Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
- **Active:** 1960–2004
- **Frequently works with:** [John Kerr](https://film.one/person/john-kerr.md), [Jonathan Harvey](https://film.one/person/jonathan-harvey.md), [Stephen Russell](https://film.one/person/stephen-russell.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 74 (1), 2000s 75 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10393926/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/500184

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Shameless*](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md) (75), [*Coronation Street*](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md) (74)

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## Biography

Ian Kershaw is an English writer and actor for stage, screen and radio. He grew up in Oldham, Lancashire, and trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama before beginning to write through a BBC North and Contact Theatre playwriting slam.

He has written episodes of *Shameless* (2009–2012), *Coronation Street* (including BAFTA-winning episodes), *Death in Paradise*, *Cold Feet*, *Holby City* and *Casualty*. He has also acted in television, including roles in *The Dumping Ground* and earlier appearances in *Coronation Street*.

*Sources: imdb.com, independenttalent.com, ilovemanchester.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Shameless* (2004), Fi1m 75, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)
- *Coronation Street* (1960), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Hitler's People: A Portrait of the Third Reich* (2015), Actor
- *Doomsday: World War I* (2012), series, as Selbst - Historiker
- *Death in Paradise* (2011), series, Writer
- *New Street Law* (2006), series, as Dr Barry Langford
- *Christmas Lights* (2004), as Buchanan
- *Shameless* (2004), series, Writer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)
- *Fat Friends* (2000), series, as Simon de Vier
- *The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds* (1998), as ASM
- *The Grand* (1997), series, as Tom Corbett
- *Hillsborough* (1996), as Additional Cast
- *Hetty Wainthropp Investigates* (1996), series, as Kev Haycroft
- *Coronation Street* (1960), series, Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md)

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