Robert Shaw

Born: 1927-08-09, Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK

Died: 1978-08-28

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

• Jaws (1975)
• Danger Man (1960)
• The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955)
• The Sting (1973)
• From Russia with Love (1963)
• Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
• Battle of the Bulge (1965)
• The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
• Battle of Britain (1969)
• Black Sunday (1977)
• Custer of the West (1967)
• The Dam Busters (1955)
• Young Winston (1972)
• Swashbuckler (1976)
• The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
• A Hill in Korea (1956)
• A Town Called Bastard (1971)
• The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
• Figures in a Landscape (1970)
• Libel (1959)
• Der Richter und sein Henker (1975)
• Sea Fury (1958)
• Tomorrow at Ten (1963)
• The Hireling (1973)
• Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
• A Reflection of Fear (1972)
• Discovering Hamlet (2011)
• Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
• The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964)