Robert Shaw

Also known as Robert Archibald Shaw

British actor and writer (1927–1978)

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Acting · 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.

Known for

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story — Self2025
Godzilla Apex — "TAKE CLEAR OF THE LINE"2021
Jaws Toy Movie — Quint (voice)2020
Discovering Hamlet — Claudius (archive footage)2011
Avalanche Express — General Markenkov1979
The Horror Show — (archive footage)1979
Force 10 from Navarone — Mallory1978
End of the Game — Richard Gastmann1978
The Deep — Romer Treece1977
Black Sunday — Kabakov1977

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Robert Archibald Shaw (9 August 1927 – 28 August 1978) was an English actor and writer. Beginning his career in theatre, Shaw joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre after the Second World War and appeared in productions of Macbeth, Henry VIII, Cymbeline, and other Shakespeare plays. With the Old Vic company (1951–52), he continued primarily in Shakespearean roles. In 1959, he starred in a West End production of The Long and the Short and the Tall.

Shaw was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his role as Henry VIII in the drama film A Man for All Seasons (1966). His other film roles included the mobster Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting (1973) and the shark hunter Quint in Jaws (1975). He also played roles in From Russia with Love (1963), Battle of Britain (1969), Young Winston (1972), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Robin and Marian (1976), and Black Sunday and The Deep, both of which were released in 1977.