Robert Shaw was born on August 9, 1927 in Westhoughton, Lancashire,
England. In addition to being an actor, he is also a novelist who wrote a trilogy of books related to the Holocost, including "The Man in the Glass Booth," later made into a movie, of which he had his name removed from the credits.
In the James Bond movie, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, [1963] he played an enemy secret agent. Then, in 1966, he portrayed Henry VIII in A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS and was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance. He played gangster Doyle Lonnegan, who is the object of the betting fraud operation that is the main business of the movie THE STING [1973], with Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
In 1974, Robert Shaw played a subway hijacker in the tense crime drama, THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE. In the next year, he played Quint, a fisherman turned super shark hunter in Stephen Spielberg's JAWS.
Robert Shaw played a lost treasure expert and diver in the thriller THE DEEP [1977]. In the same year he portrayed an anti-terrorist in the movie BLACK SUNDAY.
Robert Shaw's other notable credits include...
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