Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw

Born: September 15, 1915
Died: January 3, 2005
in Dallas, Texas, USA

Movies for Robert Shaw...

Adam
Title: Adam
Character: Father Mike Conboy
Released: October 10, 1983
Type: Movie
Based on the true story that shocked the nation and led to vast changes in how law enforcement handled missing children cases...John and Reve Walsh deal with their grief in front of the whole country when their son, Adam, is abducted and later found dead.
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The Big Brawl
Title: The Big Brawl
Character: Man on Beach
Released: August 18, 1980
Type: Movie
A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.
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Honeysuckle Rose
Title: Honeysuckle Rose
Character: Store Clerk
Released: July 18, 1980
Type: Movie
Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.
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Berlin Express
Title: Berlin Express
Character: ROT Sergeant
Released: May 1, 1948
Type: Movie
In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
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Captain from Castile
Title: Captain from Castile
Character: Spanish Army Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
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Son of the Guardsman
Title: Son of the Guardsman
Character: David Trent
Released: October 23, 1946
Type: Movie
David Trent is a nobleman who forms an outlaw group to combat his evil uncle Sir Edgar Bullard. The outlaws of Sherwood Forest are championing young Roger Mowbray, really Prince Richard, whose right to the throne is being usurped by an evil regent.
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The Caribbean Mystery
Title: The Caribbean Mystery
Character: Lt. Bowman Hall
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The Caribbean Mystery is a remake of Mr. Moto on Danger Island (1939)-which in turn was a remake of Murder in Trinidad. James Dunn stars as Mr. Smith, a Columbo-like Brooklyn detective who pops up on a tropical island to track down some missing geologists.
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Sex Hygiene
Title: Sex Hygiene
Character: Pool Player
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Several servicemen relax by playing pool, but one of them goes off to spend time with a prostitute. Later, he discovers he has contracted a venereal disease. A graphic and frank presentation of the types and treatment of venereal disease follows.
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Ride on Vaquero
Title: Ride on Vaquero
Character: Lieutenant Kirk
Released: April 18, 1941
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.
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Adam Had Four Sons
Title: Adam Had Four Sons
Character: Chris Stoddard
Released: March 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester. Written by Daniel Bubbeo
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Tobacco Road
Title: Tobacco Road
Released: February 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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Golden Hoofs
Title: Golden Hoofs
Character: Party Guest
Released: February 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Reporter
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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The Great Profile
Title: The Great Profile
Character: Reporter
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
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Young People
Title: Young People
Character: Usher (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Clerk (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Gas Station Attendant #1 in Needles (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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20,000 Men a Year
Title: 20,000 Men a Year
Character: Tommy Howell
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
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Here I Am a Stranger
Title: Here I Am a Stranger
Character: College Student
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
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Quick Millions
Title: Quick Millions
Character: National Park Ranger Barry Frazier
Released: August 25, 1939
Type: Movie
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
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Charlie Chan in Reno
Title: Charlie Chan in Reno
Character: College Student
Released: June 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Title: Young Mr. Lincoln
Character: Dancer in Ballroom Seen Dancing with Old Woman (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
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Boy Friend
Title: Boy Friend
Character: Cracker
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing there; otherwise, she's busy making love to a military cadet.
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.