Robert Shaw

ActorWriter Aug 9 (died age 51) Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK 1950–2025 (75 year career)

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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

Film

Jaws

Quint

Film

The Sting

Doyle Lonnegan

Film

From Russia with Love

Donald 'Red' Grant

Film

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Blue

Film

A Man for All Seasons

King Henry VIII

Film

The Lavender Hill Mob

Chemist at Police Exhibition

Film

Battle of Britain

Squadron Leader Skipper

Film

Battle of the Bulge

Col Hessler

Filmography

Acting (61)

Movies (51)

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

2025

as Self

7.4

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

2025

as Self - (archive footage)

Godzilla Apex

2021

as "TAKE CLEAR OF THE LINE"

9.2

Discovering Hamlet

2011

as Claudius (archive footage)

Avalanche Express

as General Markenkov

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

Force 10 from Navarone

as Mallory

End of the Game

as Richard Gastmann

The Deep

as Romer Treece

Black Sunday

as Kabakov

Swashbuckler

as Ned Lynch

Robin and Marian

as Sheriff of Nottingham

Jaws

as Quint

Diamonds

as Charles / Earl Hodgson

5.4

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

1974

as Blue

7.4

New England Our Way

1974

as Self

The Break

1974

as Giles

The Sting

1973

as Doyle Lonnegan

8.0

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

1973

as The Oracle of all knowledge

The Hireling

as Steven Ledbetter

A Reflection of Fear

as Michael

Young Winston

as Lord Randolph Churchill

6.2

A Town Called Bastard

1971

as The Priest

5.0

Figures in a Landscape

1970

as MacConnachie

6.0

Battle of Britain

1969

as Squadron Leader Skipper

6.9

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

1969

as Francisco Pizarro

5.9

Luther

1968

as Martin Luther

The Birthday Party

1968

as Stanley Webber

6.4

Custer of the West

1967

as General George Armstrong Custer

5.9

A Man for All Seasons

as King Henry VIII

Battle of the Bulge

as Col Hessler

The Incredible World of James Bond

1965

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Hamlet at Elsinore

1964

as Claudius

7.8

Carol for Another Christmas

1964

as Ghost of Christmas Future

5.8

The Luck of Ginger Coffey

as Ginger Coffey

The Caretaker

as Aston

From Russia with Love

1963

as Donald 'Red' Grant

Tomorrow at Ten

as Marlowe

The Winter's Tale

as Leontes

North to the Dales

as Narrator (voice)

The Valiant

1962

as Lieutenant Field

7.5

Libel

1959

as First Photographer

Sea Fury

as Gorman

Holiday

as Narrator (voice)

Rupert of Hentzau

as Rupert of Hentzau

A Hill in Korea

as LCpl. Hodge

Doublecross

as Ernest

The Dam Busters

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

6.9

Yorkshire Sands

1955

as Narrator (voice)

The Peak District

1954

as Self – Narrator (voice)

The Lavender Hill Mob

1951

as Chemist at Police Exhibition

7.2

Television (10)

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Omnibus

as Self

Festival

as Simone

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Danger Man

as Tony Costello

The Adventures of William Tell

as Peter von Breck

White Hunter

The Buccaneers

as Capt. Dan Tempest

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

1955

as Lord Anthony Dewhurst

7.6

Sunday Night Theatre

1950

as Herbert

3.5

Crew (4)

Movies (4)

The Man in the Glass Booth

1975

Theatre Play

6.1

Figures in a Landscape

1970

Writer

6.0

Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious

1965

Novel

6.9

The Hiding Place

1960

Novel