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Robert Shaw

1927–1978 · British actor and writer

Robert Archibald Shaw 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.

Robert Shaw, in order

  1. 1940 Star Dust: acted · directed by Walter Lang
  2. 1941 Adam Had Four Sons: acted · directed by Gregory Ratoff
  3. 1947 Captain from Castile: acted · directed by Henry King
  4. 1951 The Lavender Hill Mob: acted · directed by Charles Crichton
  5. 1955 The Dam Busters: acted · directed by Michael Anderson · critics 100%, audiences 85% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Hoopla
  6. 1956 A Hill in Korea: acted · directed by Julian Amyes
  7. 1956 The Buccaneers (TV series): acted
  8. 1959 Libel: acted · directed by Anthony Asquith
  9. 1962 The Valiant: acted · directed by Roy Ward Baker
  10. 1963 From Russia with Love: acted · directed by Terence Young
  11. 1963 The Caretaker: acted · directed by Clive Donner
  12. 1964 Hamlet at Elsinore (TV movie): acted · directed by Philip Saville
  13. 1964 The Luck of Ginger Coffey: acted · directed by Irvin Kershner
  14. 1964 Tomorrow at Ten: acted · directed by Lance Comfort
  15. 1965 Battle of the Bulge: acted · directed by Ken Annakin
  16. 1965 Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious: wrote · directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
  17. 1966 A Man for All Seasons: acted · directed by Fred Zinnemann · critics 89%, audiences 87% · streaming on Fawesome
  18. 1968 Custer of the West: acted · directed by Robert Siodmak
  19. 1968 Luther (TV movie): acted · directed by Stuart Burge
  20. 1968 The Birthday Party: acted · directed by William Friedkin
  21. 1969 Battle of Britain: acted · directed by Guy Hamilton
  22. 1969 The Royal Hunt of the Sun: acted · directed by Irving Lerner
  23. 1970 Figures in a Landscape: wrote, acted · directed by Joseph Losey
  24. 1971 A Town Called Bastard: acted · directed by Irving Lerner and Robert Parrish
  25. 1972 Young Winston: acted · directed by Richard Attenborough
  26. 1973 A Reflection of Fear: acted · directed by William A. Fraker
  27. 1973 The Golden Voyage of Sinbad: acted · directed by Gordon Hessler
  28. 1973 The Hireling: acted · directed by Alan Bridges
  29. 1973 The Sting: acted · directed by George Roy Hill · critics 93%, audiences 95% · streaming on Prime Video
  30. 1974 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three: acted · directed by Joseph Sargent
  31. 1975 Diamonds: acted · directed by Menahem Golan
  32. 1975 End of the Game: acted · directed by Maximilian Schell · critics 33%, audiences 35%
  33. 1975 Jaws: acted · directed by Steven Spielberg · critics 97%, audiences 98% · streaming on Netflix
  34. 1976 Robin and Marian: acted · directed by Richard Lester
  35. 1976 Swashbuckler: acted · directed by James Goldstone
  36. 1977 Black Sunday: acted · directed by John Frankenheimer · critics 77%, audiences 65% · streaming on MGM+
  37. 1977 The Deep: acted · directed by Peter Yates · critics 36%, audiences 39% · streaming on YouTube (free), Tubi
  38. 1978 Force 10 from Navarone: acted · directed by Guy Hamilton · critics 68%, audiences 56% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM+
  39. 1979 Avalanche Express: acted · directed by Mark Robson and Monte Hellman