Cast & creator
Robert Shaw
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Dick Cavett Show, Omnibus
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.
Also known as: Роберт Шоу, رابرت شاو, Robert Archibald Shaw
54
film credits
10
television credits
60
1950–2025 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (64)
Showing 64 of 64 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Omnibus
Self
1967
Sunday Night Theatre
Herbert
1950
Danger Man
Tony Costello
1960
Jaws
Quint
1975
From Russia with Love
Donald 'Red' Grant
1963
The Buccaneers
Capt. Dan Tempest
1956
The Sting
Doyle Lonnegan
1973
The Adventures of William Tell
Peter von Breck
1958Festival
Simone
1963
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Lord Anthony Dewhurst
1955
A Man for All Seasons
King Henry VIII
1966
The Deep
Romer Treece
1977
Battle of Britain
Squadron Leader Skipper
1969
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self
2025
Force 10 from Navarone
Mallory
1978
Battle of the Bulge
Col Hessler
1965
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Blue
1974
Robin and Marian
Sheriff of Nottingham
1976
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
The Oracle of all knowledge
1973
Custer of the West
General George Armstrong Custer
1967
The Dam Busters
Flt / Sgt. J. Pulford, D.F.M.
1955
A Town Called Bastard
The Priest
1971
Swashbuckler
Ned Lynch
1976
Black Sunday
Kabakov
1977
A Hill in Korea
LCpl. Hodge
1956
The Lavender Hill Mob
Chemist at Police Exhibition
1951
Avalanche Express
General Markenkov
1979
End of the Game
Richard Gastmann
1975
Young Winston
Lord Randolph Churchill
1972
The Incredible World of James Bond
Self (archive footage)
1965
Figures in a Landscape
MacConnachie
1970Figures in a Landscape
Writer
1970
A Reflection of Fear
Michael
1972
The Man in the Glass Booth
Theatre Play
1975
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Francisco Pizarro
1969
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
Novel
1960
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
Novel
1965White Hunter
1957
The Winter's Tale
Leontes
1962
Carol for Another Christmas
Ghost of Christmas Future
1964
New England Our Way
Self
1974
The Birthday Party
Stanley Webber
1968
Hamlet at Elsinore
Claudius
1964
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
1979
The Caretaker
Aston
1964
Tomorrow at Ten
Marlowe
1963
Discovering Hamlet
Claudius (archive footage)
2011
The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Ginger Coffey
1964
The Break
Giles
1974
Sea Fury
Gorman
1958
The Hireling
Steven Ledbetter
1973Doublecross
Ernest
1956
The Making of Pelham One Two Three
Libel
First Photographer
1959
The Valiant
Lieutenant Field
1962
Luther
Martin Luther
1968
The Peak District
Self – Narrator (voice)
1954Rupert of Hentzau
Rupert of Hentzau
1957North to the Dales
Narrator (voice)
1962
Diamonds
Charles / Earl Hodgson
1975Yorkshire Sands
Narrator (voice)
1955Holiday
Narrator (voice)
1957