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Robert Shaw
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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.
Notable films
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Jaws
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Sting
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Birthday Party
Appears in a KinoChain journey
From Russia with Love
As Donald 'Red' Grant
The Deep
As Romer Treece
Battle of the Bulge
As Col Hessler
Robin and Marian
As Sheriff of Nottingham
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Long Con of the Cue Ball
Eight films about hustlers, pupils and the moment a performance of skill curdles into something crueller. The table is never just a table.
8 films
When Nature Turns
Exploring the deep to the desert, and the skies to the suburbs, animals have long been cinema's most primal villains. This chain traces the evolution of the cre...
8 films
The Stage on Screen: A Theatrical Journey
From the claustrophobic confines of a cabin to the sprawling sets of a Shakespearean epic, these eight films celebrate the art of theatre translated to cinema.
7 films
Criminal Alliances
A chain tracing the anti-hero ensemble film from its war-movie origins through heist, western, and genre mutations to the modern comic-book iteration, examining...
8 films
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The Deep
1977 · Romer Treece
Robin and Marian
1976 · Sheriff of Nottingham
Jaws
1975 · Quint
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1974 · Blue
The Sting
1973 · Doyle Lonnegan
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
1973 · The Oracle of all knowledge
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969 · Francisco Pizarro
The Birthday Party
1968 · Stanley Webber
Battle of the Bulge
1965 · Col Hessler
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964 · Claudius
From Russia with Love
1963 · Donald 'Red' Grant