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Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw

Actor · 1927–1978 · Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK

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Biography

Robert Archibald Shaw (9 August 1927 – 28 August 1978) was an English stage and film actor and novelist, remembered for his performances in The Sting, From Russia with Love, A Man for All Seasons, the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Black Sunday (1977), The Deep (1977) and Jaws, where he played the shark hunter Quint.

Acted in 46

2010s

  1. 2011

    Discovering Hamlet

    Claudius (archive footage)

1970s

  1. 1979

    Avalanche Express

    General Markenkov

  2. The Horror Show

    (archive footage)

  3. 1978
  4. 1977
  5. Black Sunday

    Kabakov

  6. 1976

    Swashbuckler

    Ned Lynch

  7. 1975
  8. End of the Game

    Richard Gastmann

  9. 1974
  10. The Break

    Giles

  11. 1973
  12. The Hireling

    Steven Ledbetter

  13. 1972

    A Reflection of Fear

    Michael

  14. Young Winston

    Lord Randolph Churchill

  15. 1971
  16. 1970

    Figures in a Landscape

    MacConnachie

1960s

  1. 1969
  2. 1968

    The Birthday Party

    Stanley Webber

  3. Luther

    Martin Luther

  4. 1967
  5. 1966
  6. 1965
  7. 1964
  8. The Luck of Ginger Coffey

    Ginger Coffey

  9. Hamlet at Elsinore

    Claudius

  10. The Caretaker

    Aston

  11. 1963
  12. 1962

    The Valiant

    Lieutenant Field

  13. The Winter's Tale

    Leontes

  14. 1960

1950s

  1. 1959

    Libel

    First Photographer

  2. 1958
  3. Sea Fury

    Gorman

  4. 1956
  5. A Hill in Korea

    LCpl. Hodge

  6. Doublecross

    Ernest

  7. 1955
  8. The Dam Busters

    Flt / Sgt. J. Pulford, D.F.M.

  9. 1951

    The Lavender Hill Mob

    Chemist at Police Exhibition

  10. 1950

Wrote 4

1970s

  1. 1975
  2. 1970

    Figures in a Landscape

    Writer

1960s

  1. 1965

    Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious

    Novel

  2. 1960

    Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place

    Novel

Other crew 1

1950s

  1. 1956

    Doublecross

    Dialect Coach

Appearances8

1970s

  1. 1974

    The Making of Pelham One Two Three

    Self

  2. New England Our Way

    Self

1950s

  1. 1954

    The Peak District

    Self – Narrator (voice)