Robert Shaw (English actor)
| Robert Shaw | |
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Shaw c. 1971
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| Born |
9 August 1927 Westhoughton, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 28 August 1978 (aged 51) Toormakeady, County Mayo, Ireland |
| Occupation | Actor, novelist, playwright |
| Years active | 1947–1978 |
| Spouse(s) |
Jennifer Bourke (m. 1952; div. 1963) Mary Ure (m. 1963; d. 1975) Virginia Jansen (m. 1976) |
| Children | 10, including Ian Shaw |
| Relatives | Rob Kolar (grandson) |
Robert Archibald Shaw (9 August 1927 – 28 August 1978) was an English actor, novelist, and playwright.
In an extensive career over thirty years, usually in supporting character roles with an authoritative aspect, he appeared in almost fifty cinematic productions, including playing King Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (1966), for which he was nominated for the 1967 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Robert Archibald Shaw was born on 9 August 1927 in Westhoughton, Lancashire, the son of former nurse Doreen (née Avery), who was born in Piggs Peak, Swaziland, and doctor Thomas Shaw. He had three sisters named Elisabeth, Joanna, and Wendy, and one brother named Alexander. When he was seven years old, the family moved to Scotland, settling in Stromness, Orkney. When Shaw was 12, his alcoholic father killed himself. The family then moved to Cornwall, where Shaw attended the independent Truro School. For a brief period, he was a teacher at Glenhow Preparatory School in Saltburn-by-the-Sea in the North Riding of Yorkshire, before attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He also served in the Royal Air Force.
Shaw began his acting career in theatre, appearing in regional theatre throughout England. In 1952, he made his London debut in the West End at the Embassy Theatre, in Caro William.
Shaw starred in a British TV series which also appeared on American television as The Buccaneers (1956–57). Shaw's best-known film performances include assassin Donald Grant in the second James Bond film From Russia with Love (1963); the title role in The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964); the relentless panzer German Army officer Colonel Hessler in Battle of the Bulge (1965); a young Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (1966); Lord Randolph Churchill, in Young Winston (1972); General George Armstrong Custer in Custer of the West (1967); mobster Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting (1973); the subway-hijacker and hostage-taker "Mr. Blue" in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974); the shark-obsessed fisherman Quint in Jaws (1975), lighthouse keeper and treasure-hunter Romer Treece in The Deep (1977); and Israeli Mossad agent David Kabakov in Black Sunday (1977).
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