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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1927-08-09 (97 years old)

Place of Birth

Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK

Robert Shaw

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.

Known For

Acting

2021

Godzilla Apex as "TAKE CLEAR OF THE LINE"

2011

Discovering Hamlet as Claudius (archive footage)

2002

Best Ever Bond as Red Grant (archive footage) (uncredited)

1979

Avalanche Express as General Markenkov
The Horror Show as (archive footage)

1978

End of the Game as Richard Gastmann

1977

The Deep as Romer Treece
Black Sunday as Kabakov

1976

Robin and Marian as Sheriff of Nottingham
Swashbuckler as Ned Lynch

1975

Jaws as Quint
Diamonds as Charles / Earl Hodgson

1974

The Break as Giles

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

1971

A Town Called Hell 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 Birthday Party as Stanley Webber
Luther as Martin Luther
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1967

Custer of the West as George Armstrong Custer
Omnibus as Self

1966

A Man for All Seasons as King Henry VIII

1965

Battle of the Bulge as Col Hessler
The Incredible World of James Bond as Self (archive footage)

1964

Carol for Another Christmas as Ghost of Christmas Future
The Caretaker as Aston
The Luck of Ginger Coffey as Ginger Coffey
Hamlet at Elsinore as Claudius

1963

From Russia with Love as Donald 'Red' Grant
Tomorrow at Ten as Marlowe

1962

North to the Dales as Narrator (voice)
The Valiant as Lieutenant Field

1960

Danger Man as Tony Costello

1959

Libel as First Photographer

1958

Sea Fury as Gorman

1957

Holiday as Narrator (voice)
Rupert of Hentzau as Rupert of Hentzau

1956

A Hill in Korea as LCpl. Hodge
Doublecross as Ernest
The Buccaneers as Capt. Dan Tempest

1955

The Dam Busters as Flt / Sgt. J. Pulford, D.F.M.
Yorkshire Sands as Narrator (voice)

1954

The Peak District as Self – Narrator (voice)

1951

The Lavender Hill Mob as Chemist at Police Exhibition

1950

Writing

1975