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Acting

Robert Shaw

Career: Active from 1955 to 1979, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 32
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Jaws
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 34 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Robert Shaw Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.3, average 5.4
Coming of Age
1.6, average 3.0
Family Dynamics
3.6, average 4.8
Pop Culture
1.0, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Political Intrigue 7
Historical Drama 6
Espionage 4
Character Study 3
World War II 2
Biographical Drama 2
British History 2
70s Cinema 2
Action-Packed 2
Character-Driven 2
Psychological Drama 2
Clash of Cultures 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

55

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title

Discovering Hamlet

as Claudius (archive footage)

1970s

20 titles · average score 59

Avalanche Express

28

as General Markenkov

Force 10 from Navarone

58

as Mallory

The Deep

49

as Romer Treece

Black Sunday

61

as Kabakov

Robin and Marian

68

as Sheriff of Nottingham

Swashbuckler

49

as Ned Lynch

Jaws

87

as Quint

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

81

as Blue

The Sting

86

as Doyle Lonnegan

Young Winston

57

as Lord Randolph Churchill

A Town Called Bastard

38

as The Priest

Figures in a Landscape

57

as MacConnachie

1960s

20 titles · average score 66

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

54

as Francisco Pizarro

The Birthday Party

63

as Stanley Webber

Custer of the West

37

as General George Armstrong Custer

A Man for All Seasons

79

as King Henry VIII

Battle of the Bulge

65

as Col Hessler

Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious

64

Novel

The Caretaker

72

as Aston

The Luck of Ginger Coffey

68

as Ginger Coffey

Hamlet at Elsinore

78

as Claudius

From Russia with Love

82

as Donald 'Red' Grant

Tomorrow at Ten

63

as Marlowe

The Winter's Tale

as Leontes

1950s

14 titles · average score 69

Libel

69

as First Photographer

The Adventures of William Tell

70

TV show · as Peter von Breck

Sea Fury

60

as Gorman

as Narrator (voice)

The Buccaneers

68

TV show · as Capt. Dan Tempest

A Hill in Korea

59

as LCpl. Hodge

Doublecross

as Ernest

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

TV show · as Lord Anthony Dewhurst

Yorkshire Sands

as Narrator (voice)

The Dam Busters

88

as Flt / Sgt. J. Pulford, D.F.M.

The Lavender Hill Mob

85

as Chemist at Police Exhibition

Sunday Night Theatre

51

TV show · as Herbert