
Robert Archibald Shaw (9 August 1927 – 28 August 1978) was an English actor and writer. Beginning his career in theatre, Shaw joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre after the Second World War and appeared in productions of Macbeth, Henry VIII, Cymbeline, and other Shakespeare plays. With the Old Vic company (1951–52), he continued primarily in Shakespearean roles. In 1959, he starred in a West End production of The Long and the Short and the Tall. Shaw was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his role as Henry VIII in the drama film A Man for All Seasons (1966). His other film roles included the mobster Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting (1973) and the shark hunter Quint in Jaws (1975). He also played roles in From Russia with Love (1963), Battle of Britain (1969), Young Winston (1972), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Robin and Marian (1976), and Black Sunday and Th...
Titles and credit roles
Avalanche Express
Force 10 from Navarone
The Deep
Black Sunday
Swashbuckler
Robin and Marian
Jaws
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Sting
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
The Hireling
Young Winston
A Town Called Bastard
Figures in a Landscape
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Battle of Britain
Custer of the West
A Man for All Seasons
Battle of the Bulge
Carol for Another Christmas
The Caretaker
From Russia with Love
Tomorrow at Ten
A Hill in Korea