Robert Shaw
Born: 1927-08-09 in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Died: 1978-08-28
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage)
- Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story as Self
2021
- Godzilla Apex as "TAKE CLEAR OF THE LINE"
2011
- Discovering Hamlet as Claudius (archive footage)
1979
- Avalanche Express as General Markenkov
- The Horror Show as (archive footage)
1978
- Force 10 from Navarone as Mallory
- End of the Game as Richard Gastmann
1977
- The Deep as Romer Treece
- Black Sunday as Kabakov
1976
- Swashbuckler as Ned Lynch
- Robin and Marian as Sheriff of Nottingham
1975
- Jaws as Quint
- Diamonds as Charles / Earl Hodgson
- The Man in the Glass Booth ... (Theatre Play)
1974
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three as Blue
- The Break as Giles
- New England Our Way as Self
1973
- The Sting as Doyle Lonnegan
- The Hireling as Steven Ledbetter
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad as The Oracle of all knowledge
1972
- Young Winston as Lord Randolph Churchill
- A Reflection of Fear as Michael
1971
- A Town Called Bastard as The Priest
1970
- Figures in a Landscape as MacConnachie
1969
- Battle of Britain as Squadron Leader Skipper
- The Royal Hunt of the Sun as Francisco Pizarro
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Luther as Martin Luther
- The Birthday Party as Stanley Webber
1967
- Omnibus as Self
- Custer of the West as General George Armstrong Custer
1966
- A Man for All Seasons as King Henry VIII
1965
- Battle of the Bulge as Col Hessler
- Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious ... (Novel)
- The Incredible World of James Bond as Self (archive footage)
1964
- The Caretaker as Aston
- Carol for Another Christmas as Ghost of Christmas Future
- Hamlet at Elsinore as Claudius
- The Luck of Ginger Coffey as Ginger Coffey
1963
- From Russia with Love as Donald 'Red' Grant
- Festival as Simone
- Tomorrow at Ten as Marlowe
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Valiant as Lieutenant Field
- The Winter's Tale as Leontes
- North to the Dales as Narrator (voice)
1960
- Danger Man as Tony Costello
- The Hiding Place ... (Novel)
1959
- Libel as First Photographer
1958
- Sea Fury as Gorman
- The Adventures of William Tell as Peter von Breck
1957
- Holiday as Narrator (voice)
- Rupert of Hentzau as Rupert of Hentzau
- White Hunter
1956
- The Buccaneers as Capt. Dan Tempest
- A Hill in Korea as LCpl. Hodge
- Doublecross as Ernest
1955
- The Dam Busters as Flt / Sgt. J. Pulford, D.F.M.
- Yorkshire Sands as Narrator (voice)
- The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel as Lord Anthony Dewhurst
1954
- The Peak District as Self – Narrator (voice)
1951
- The Lavender Hill Mob as Chemist at Police Exhibition
1950
- Sunday Night Theatre as Herbert