Acting credits
53
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Robert Shaw
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.5
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Movies: 48Series: 8Crew credits: 4
TMDB ID: 8606
IMDb ID: nm0001727
Known for: Acting
Born: August 9, 1927
Died: August 28, 1978
Age: 51
Place of birth: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1950 - 2025
Years active: 76
Average TMDB rating: 6.55
Wikidata: Q313727
Also known as
Роберт Шоу • رابرت شاو • Robert Archibald Shaw
Other jobs
Novel (2)Theatre Play (1)Writer (1)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Robert Shaw.
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
as Self
2025 Movie
Discovering Hamlet
as Claudius (archive footage)
2011 Movie
Avalanche Express
as General Markenkov
1979 Movie
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
1979 Movie
Force 10 from Navarone
as Mallory
1978 Movie
The Deep
as Romer Treece
1977 Movie
Black Sunday
as Kabakov
1977 Movie
Swashbuckler
as Ned Lynch
1976 Movie
Robin and Marian
as Sheriff of Nottingham
1976 Movie
Diamonds
as Charles / Earl Hodgson
1975 Movie
Jaws
as Quint
1975 Movie
End of the Game
as Richard Gastmann
1975 Movie
The Man in the Glass Booth
Theatre Play
1975 Movie
New England Our Way
as Self
1974 Movie
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
as Blue
1974 Movie
The Break
as Giles
1974 Movie
The Sting
as Doyle Lonnegan
1973 Movie
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
as The Oracle of all knowledge
1973 Movie
The Hireling
as Steven Ledbetter
1973 Movie
A Reflection of Fear
as Michael
1972 Movie
Young Winston
as Lord Randolph Churchill
1972 Movie
A Town Called Bastard
as The Priest
1971 Movie
Figures in a Landscape
as MacConnachie
1970 Movie
The Making of Pelham One Two Three
Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Robert Shaw.
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest • 5 eps
1968 Series
Omnibus
as Self • 1 eps
1967 Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self • 3 eps
1962 Series
Danger Man
as Tony Costello • 1 eps
1960 Series
The Adventures of William Tell
as Peter von Breck • 1 eps
1958 Series
The Buccaneers
as Capt. Dan Tempest • 39 eps
1956 Series
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
as Lord Anthony Dewhurst • 1 eps
1955 Series
Sunday Night Theatre
as Herbert • 1 eps
1950 Series