Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw

Born: August 9, 1927
Died: August 28, 1978
in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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.

Movies for Robert Shaw...

Godzilla Apex
Title: Godzilla Apex
Character: "TAKE CLEAR OF THE LINE"
Released: November 5, 2021
Type: Movie
The dramatic conclusion to the Kaiju Century War Saga.
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Discovering Hamlet
Title: Discovering Hamlet
Character: Claudius (archive footage)
Released: November 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.
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Best Ever Bond
Title: Best Ever Bond
Character: Red Grant (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
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Avalanche Express
Title: Avalanche Express
Character: Markenkov
Released: September 27, 1979
Type: Movie
CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
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The Horror Show
Title: The Horror Show
Character: (archive footage)
Released: February 6, 1979
Type: Movie
A history of horror movies.
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Force 10 from Navarone
Title: Force 10 from Navarone
Character: Mallory
Released: August 16, 1978
Type: Movie
World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
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The Deep
Title: The Deep
Character: Romer Treece
Released: June 17, 1977
Type: Movie
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.
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Black Sunday
Title: Black Sunday
Character: Kabakov
Released: April 1, 1977
Type: Movie
An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl.
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Swashbuckler
Title: Swashbuckler
Character: Ned Lynch
Released: July 29, 1976
Type: Movie
A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
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Robin and Marian
Title: Robin and Marian
Character: Sheriff of Nottingham
Released: March 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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Diamonds
Title: Diamonds
Character: Charles / Earl Hodgson
Released: October 22, 1975
Type: Movie
Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl, a security expert who has built a supposedly impregnable vault in Tel Aviv, which holds a cache of diamonds. For the caper, Charles enlists Archie, a heist expert, and Sally. He also becomes acquainted with an American woman, Zelda Shapiro, who is in Israel looking for a new husband.
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End of the Game
Title: End of the Game
Character: Richard Gastmann
Released: September 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard Gastmann. Though Baerlach's partner meets his demise while investigating Gastmann, his replacement, Walter Tschanz, is undaunted. Meanwhile, the lovely Anna Crawley becomes involved in the case, which proceeds to take many twists and turns.
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Jaws
Title: Jaws
Character: Quint
Released: June 20, 1975
Type: Movie
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.
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New England Our Way
Title: New England Our Way
Character: Himself
Released: December 9, 1974
Type: Movie
The program is a fascinating look some at the key people involved with JAWS before it was released. It contains interviews with the “big three” of Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw, Steven Spielberg, and Martha’s Vineyard local Craig Kingsbury, who played Ben Gardner.
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Title: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Character: Blue
Released: October 2, 1974
Type: Movie
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
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The Break
Title: The Break
Character: Giles
Released: July 8, 1974
Type: Movie
Two strangers break into a man's house and subject him to a series of terrifying - and humiliating - mind games.
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The Sting
Title: The Sting
Character: Doyle Lonnegan
Released: December 25, 1973
Type: Movie
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Title: The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Character: The Oracle of all knowledge
Released: December 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.
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The Hireling
Title: The Hireling
Character: Steven Ledbetter
Released: June 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more than friends.
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A Reflection of Fear
Title: A Reflection of Fear
Character: Michael
Released: February 12, 1973
Type: Movie
A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance. Soon the girl finds herself in the midst of strange goings-on, which evolve into a web of crime and murder.
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Young Winston
Title: Young Winston
Character: Lord Randolph Churchill
Released: July 20, 1972
Type: Movie
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
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A Town Called Hell
Title: A Town Called Hell
Character: The Priest
Released: October 27, 1971
Type: Movie
A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.
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Figures in a Landscape
Title: Figures in a Landscape
Character: MacConnachie
Released: November 12, 1970
Type: Movie
Two escaped convicts are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black helicopter.
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Title: The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Character: Francisco Pizarro
Released: October 5, 1969
Type: Movie
The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor.
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Battle of Britain
Title: Battle of Britain
Character: Squadron Leader Skipper
Released: September 15, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
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The Birthday Party
Title: The Birthday Party
Character: Stanley Webber
Released: December 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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Luther
Title: Luther
Character: Martin Luther
Released: January 29, 1968
Type: Movie
An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.
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Custer of the West
Title: Custer of the West
Character: George Armstrong Custer
Released: November 9, 1967
Type: Movie
Biopic of General George Armstrong Custer from his rise to prominence in the Civil War through to his "last stand" at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
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A Man for All Seasons
Title: A Man for All Seasons
Character: King Henry VIII
Released: December 13, 1966
Type: Movie
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
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Battle of the Bulge
Title: Battle of the Bulge
Character: Col Hessler
Released: December 16, 1965
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
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The Incredible World of James Bond
Title: The Incredible World of James Bond
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 26, 1965
Type: Movie
This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965). Narrated by Alexander Scourby, the 48 minute documentary aired as a one hour special. It included footage of the filming at Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire and of the fight aboard the Disco Volante at Pinewood Studios; media coverage of Martine Beswick, Luciana Paluzzi and Claudine Auger; and archive footage of Ian Fleming at 'Goldeneye', Jamaica.
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Carol for Another Christmas
Title: Carol for Another Christmas
Character: Ghost of Christmas Future
Released: December 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.
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The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Title: The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Character: Ginger Coffey
Released: September 21, 1964
Type: Movie
An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability.
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Hamlet at Elsinore
Title: Hamlet at Elsinore
Character: Claudius
Released: April 15, 1964
Type: Movie
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.
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The Caretaker
Title: The Caretaker
Character: Aston
Released: January 21, 1964
Type: Movie
Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders...
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From Russia with Love
Title: From Russia with Love
Character: Donald 'Red' Grant
Released: October 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Tomorrow at Ten
Title: Tomorrow at Ten
Character: Marlowe
Released: September 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a kidnapper's (Robert Shaw) time bomb blows.
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The Valiant
Title: The Valiant
Character: Lieutenant Field
Released: June 13, 1962
Type: Movie
Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission!
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The Winter's Tale
Title: The Winter's Tale
Character: Leontes
Released: April 20, 1962
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Shakespeare play.
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North to the Dales
Title: North to the Dales
Character: Narrator
Released: January 2, 1962
Type: Movie
The Yorkshire Dales - 'from which no traveller wishes to return'. Sheltering under the Pennines, the Dales have escaped the human ravages of time. There is magic here; skysweeping hillsides and weirdly weathered rocks; Wensleydale cheese; ruined abbeys and castles and standing drystone walls; fellracing and potholing, photography, traditional songs and a commentary spoken by Robert Shaw.
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Title: Danger Man
Character: Tony Costello
Released: September 11, 1960
Type: TV
Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.
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Libel
Title: Libel
Character: First Photographer
Released: October 23, 1959
Type: Movie
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.
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Title: The Adventures of William Tell
Character: Peter von Breck
Released: September 15, 1958
Type: TV
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
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Sea Fury
Title: Sea Fury
Character: Gorman
Released: August 26, 1958
Type: Movie
The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the hope of getting his hands on the vessel. Meanwhile, a handsome English sailor, signs on to the boat and before long he and the girl fall for one another. Meanwhile a sinking freighter carrying explosive cargo has to be salvaged....
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Title: White Hunter
Released: October 12, 1957
Type: TV
British expatriate John A. Hunter leads safari tours in Africa.
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Holiday
Title: Holiday
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.
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Title: The Buccaneers
Character: Capt. Dan Tempest
Released: September 19, 1956
Type: TV
The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.
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A Hill in Korea
Title: A Hill in Korea
Character: LCpl. Hodge
Released: September 18, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.
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Doublecross
Title: Doublecross
Character: Ernest
Released: February 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.
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Title: The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Lord Anthony Dewhurst
Released: September 28, 1955
Type: TV
The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
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The Dam Busters
Title: The Dam Busters
Character: Flt / Sgt. J. Pulford, D.F.M.
Released: May 16, 1955
Type: Movie
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
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The Peak District
Title: The Peak District
Released: January 2, 1954
Type: Movie
The Peak District waits invitingly within a sixty-mile reach of half the population of England. To this green centre of a great industrial area, the first of the National Parks, holidaymakers come throughout the year to enjoy a wide variety of scenery and of pastimes. Some visitors come to glide, others to go 'caving' or climbing, boating or fishing. The lovely surroundings vary from the windy flat tops of heath with their rocky outcrops to the lush sheltered dales of the Manifiold, the Derwent and the Dove; from the simple stone cottages of the quiet villages to the historic architecture of Ashbourne, Bakewell and Buxton, and the great houses of the past like Chatsworth and Haddon Hall.
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The Lavender Hill Mob
Title: The Lavender Hill Mob
Character: Chemist at Police Exhibition
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.