Robert Shaw

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1927-08-09 (51 years old)

Deathday

1978-08-28

Place of Birth

Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK

Robert Shaw

Biography

Robert Archibald Shaw 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.

Acting

1966

A Man for All Seasons

as King Henry VIII

1975

Jaws

as Quint

1979

Avalanche Express

as General Markenkov

1963

From Russia with Love

as Donald 'Red' Grant

1976

Robin and Marian

as Sheriff of Nottingham

1977

The Deep

as Romer Treece

1962

North to the Dales

as Narrator (voice)

1969

Battle of Britain

as Squadron Leader Skipper

1973

The Sting

as Doyle Lonnegan

1979

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

1965

Battle of the Bulge

as Col Hessler

1976

Swashbuckler

as Ned Lynch

2021

Godzilla Apex

as "TAKE CLEAR OF THE LINE"

1972

Young Winston

as Lord Randolph Churchill

1971

A Town Called Hell

as The Priest

1973

The Hireling

as Steven Ledbetter

1977

Black Sunday

as Kabakov

1967

Custer of the West

as George Armstrong Custer

1978

End of the Game

as Richard Gastmann

1964

Carol for Another Christmas

as Ghost of Christmas Future

1964

1968

The Birthday Party

as Stanley Webber

1973

1975

Diamonds

as Charles / Earl Hodgson

1970

Figures in a Landscape

as MacConnachie

1963

Tomorrow at Ten

as Marlowe

1964

1962

The Valiant

as Lieutenant Field

1969

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

as Francisco Pizarro

2011

Discovering Hamlet

as Claudius (archive footage)

1965

The Incredible World of James Bond

as Self (archive footage)

1964

1955

The Dam Busters

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

1958

Sea Fury

as Gorman

1974

The Break

as Giles

1962

2002

Best Ever Bond

as Red Grant (archive footage) (uncredited)

1956

A Hill in Korea

as LCpl. Hodge

1954

The Peak District

as Self – Narrator (voice)

1957

Holiday

as Narrator (voice)

1959

Libel

as First Photographer

1968

Luther

as Martin Luther

1955

Yorkshire Sands

as Narrator (voice)

1973

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

as The Oracle of all knowledge

1951

The Lavender Hill Mob

as Chemist at Police Exhibition

1956

Doublecross

as Ernest

1957

Rupert of Hentzau

as Rupert of Hentzau

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