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Robert Archibald Shaw (9 August 1927 – 28 August 1978) was an English stage and film actor and writer. He is most remembered for his performances in The Sting, From Russia with Love, A Man for all Seasons and as Quint in Jaws. Robert Shaw was born on King Street, in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, in 1927, to Thomas (a physician) and Doreen Shaw. He had three sisters and one brother. When he was seven, the family moved to Stromness, Orkney, Scotland and when he was 12 his father committed suicide by swallowing a lethal dose of opium. He apparently had been struggling with alcohol for a number of years. The family then moved to Cornwall, where he went to school in Truro. Shaw was a teacher in Saltburn, Yorkshire for a brief period, then attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
Shaw was married three times and had ten children: Jennifer Bourke (1952-1963) by whom he had four daughters; Mary Ure (1963-1975, until her death as a result of accidental overdose), with whom he had two sons and two daughters; and Virginia Jansen (1976-1978), two sons, one, he adopted. One of his sons by Mary Ure, Ian Shaw, is also an actor and bares a striking similarity to his father. For the last seven years of his life he lived at Drimbawn House, in the village of Tourmakeady, County Mayo in Ireland. Shaw died of a heart attack in Ireland while filming Avalanche Express, on August 28, 1978. He was driving home with his wife, Virginia, and his youngest son, Thomas (then twenty months old), after golfing with friends during a break in filming. After feeling chest pains, he stopped the car and told Virginia he would get out and walk them off. After taking four or five steps he collapsed by the side of the road and was pronounced dead by the paramedic team which arrived fifteen minutes later. He was cremated and his ashes scattered near his home in Ireland. A stone memorial to him was unveiled there in his honor in August 2008. Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shaw_(actor) |
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Quotes Being 51 years old and having 10 children - the youngest is thirteen months (March 1978) - creates the economic necessity that forces me into all those big budget movies in which I often don`t have a single realistic line. Last week, we had very high expectations for these babies, and to this point, they have fulfilled all of those expectations remarkably well, ... Face the Nation. I once asked Otto Preminger if it was possible for someone to be a character actor and a star. He said `No.` I`d like to prove him wrong. It was like the whole world turned upside down, ... I walked half way into the yard and I saw this man (Joseph Silva) standing over two people saying, `You just couldn`t let it go`. I noticed that the lady (Cook) wasn`t moving. What I try to achieve in acting - flamboyance - would be self-indulgence if I tried it as a writer. I drink too much. Will you tell me one great actor who doesn`t drink? We never imagined that we would have the opportunity or the need to gear up with this type of planning ... It`s not an occurrence that I would expect to repeat during my career. I can say that with some degree of relief but mostly pride in the entire team having risen to this occasion. Writing is where the real center of my integrity lies. I never write for money. I only act for money, but not invariably of course. I would never write certain sentences that I say in films, or even that I write in films, because I often fix up my lines. I drink too much. Will you tell me one great actor who doesn`t drink? I`ll just go over there and finish them off. It is time for me to take a break, I want to remain in sport but I need some different challenges to those I have dealt with for much of my time in football. To Nick Nolte, when the two were discussing how badly their film, The Deep (1977) was going: "It`s a treasure picture Nick, it`s a treasure picture." Whether or not the U.S. will accept any changes to its current role in managing the Internet remains to be seen, ... Let`s just say there`s now a lot of momentum to do so. That`s when he came out of their yard and into our fence, ... He closed our fence and knocked on the door. He was walking like he was on a Sunday stroll ? except he was covered in blood. At first, I thought he was wearing gloves, but his hands were covered in blood. Acting is instant enjoyment and childlike. As an actor, Lord God, I can take an audience in a theatre and throw them in any direction. I can`t do that as a writer. Writing is painful, it`s lonely and you suffer and there`s no immediate feedback.Trivia Parents were Thomas and Doreen Shaw. He had three sisters and one brother. In the town of Westhoughton in England, there is a pub called The Robert Shaw. Is the uncle of author, actor, and filmmaker Scott Shaw. Shaw twice played a villain opposite a hero played by Sean Connery. The first was that of SPECTRE killer Donald Grant in From Russia with Love (1963) opposite Connery as secret agent James Bond 007. The second was the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin and Marian (1976) opposite Connery as aging forest archer Robin Hood. Allegedly didn't get along with Richard Dreyfuss while filming Jaws (1975). Father of actor Ian Shaw. His performance as Captain Quint in Jaws (1975) is ranked #28 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. Was nominated for Broadway's 1969 Tony Award as author of best play nominee The Man in the Glass Booth. Many of Captain Quint's ramblings in Jaws (1975) were actually Shaw's improvisations, and he is considered one of many authors of the famous USS Indianapolis scene. | ||
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