Robert Shaw
British actor and writer (1927–1978)
- Fame62.5
- Momentum11.6
- United Kingdom rank#242
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- Fame62.5
- Momentum11.6
- United Kingdom rank#242
- Actors rank#203
- Wikipedia75.1K
Lived 1927–1978, aged 51United Kingdom
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The shark hunter from Jaws who could also play Henry VIII. Shaw moved between Shakespeare and blockbusters with the same coiled intensity, whether facing down a great white or trading lines with Paul Newman in The Sting.
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Robert Archibald Shaw was born on 9 August 1927 and cut his teeth in postwar British theatre, joining the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and then the Old Vic in 1951, working through Macbeth, Henry VIII, Cymbeline. By 1959 he was headlining the West End. He shifted into film and earned an Academy Award nomination for playing Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons in 1966. The 1970s brought his most indelible screen work: the mobster Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting, the grizzled shark hunter Quint in Jaws, plus turns in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and Robin and Marian. He also wrote — his novel T…
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- Hawthornden Prize
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Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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