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و 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia english actor and writer 1927 1978 for other people named robert shaw see robert shaw disambiguation robert shaw shaw in a 1958 advertisement for the buccaneers born robert archibald shaw 1927 08 09 9 august 1927 westhoughton lancashire england died 28 august 1978 1978 08 28 aged 51 toormakeady county mayo ireland occupations actor novelist playwright screenwriter years active 1947 1978 spouses jennifer bourke m 1952 div 1963 mary ure m 1963 died 1975 virginia jansen m 1976 children 10 including ian shaw relatives tanya landman niece rob kolar grandson ferdia shaw grandson evzen kolar son in law robert archibald shaw 9 august 1927 28 august 1978 was an english actor and writer beginning his career in theatre shaw joined the shakespeare memorial theatre after the second world war and appeared in productions of macbeth henry viii cymbeline and other shakespeare plays with the old vic company 1951 52 he continued primarily in shakespearean roles in 1959 he starred in a west end production of the long and the short and the tall shaw was nominated for an academy award and a golden globe for his role as henry viii in the drama film a man for all seasons 1966 his other film roles included the mobster doyle lonnegan in the sting 1973 and the shark hunter quint in jaws 1975 he also played roles in from russia with love 1963 battle of britain 1969 young winston 1972 the taking of pelham one two three 1974 robin and marian 1976 and black sunday and the deep both of which were released in 1977 shaw was also a notable writer winning the 1962 hawthornden prize for his novel the sun doctor his novel and play the man in the glass booth was an international success earning shaw a tony award nomination for best play and adapted into a 1975 film early life edit robert archibald shaw was born on 9 august 1927 at 51 king street in westhoughton lancashire 1 the son of thomas archibald shaw and doreen nora née avery his father a medical doctor and former royal field artillery lieutenant was of scottish descent his mother a former nurse was born at piggs peak swaziland 2 3 he had three sisters named elisabeth joanna and wendy and one brother named alexander when shaw was seven years old the family moved to scotland settling in stromness orkney after his father s suicide when shaw was twelve his mother relocated the family to cornwall where he attended the independent truro school 4 for a brief period he was a teacher at glenhow preparatory school in saltburn by the sea in the north riding of yorkshire before attending the royal academy of dramatic art in london graduating in 1948 5 career edit early career edit shaw in the buccaneers 1957 shaw began his acting career in theatre appearing in regional theatre throughout england he played angus in a production of macbeth at stratford in 1946 6 he played at stratford for two seasons in 1947 he appeared in the cherry orchard on british tv also for that medium he performed scenes from twelfth night and macbeth he had a small part in the lavender hill mob 1951 playing a police laboratory technician towards the end of the film the following year he made his london debut in the west end at the embassy theatre in caro william that year he appeared on tv in a time to be born 1952 he returned to stratford in 1953 6 shaw had small roles in the dam busters 1955 a tv version of the scarlet pimpernel 1956 the films doublecross 1956 and a hill in korea 1956 alongside other young actors like michael caine and a tv version of hindle wakes 1957 the buccaneers edit shaw became a tv star in the uk when he starred as captain dan tempest in the buccaneers 1956 57 which ran for 39 episodes 7 he was by this time a tv leading man having lead roles in tv films such as success 1957 and a tv version of rupert of hentzau 1957 he had a big stage success with the long and the short and the tall on the west end in 1959 directed by lindsay anderson a performance that was filmed for television though shaw did not appear in the feature film version 8 shaw had small roles in sea fury 1958 and libel 1959 and guest starred on william tell itv television playhouse the four just men and danger man he also appeared in tv plays including the dark man misfire and the train set in 1961 he appeared in a broadway production of harold pinter s the caretaker alongside donald pleasence and alan bates shaw replaced peter woodthorpe who had performed with the others on stage in london it ran for 165 performances 9 he had good roles in the valiant a war film and tomorrow at ten both 1962 a thriller shaw played the leads in tv versions of the winter s tale and the father both 1962 he pleasence and bates reprised their performances in a film version of the caretaker 1963 shaw was part of the consortium who helped finance the latter 10 writing edit shaw s first novel the hiding place published in 1960 received positive reviews 11 his second novel the sun doctor 1961 was awarded the hawthornden prize in 1962 12 film fame edit shaw became well known as a film actor when cast as assassin donald red grant in the second james bond film from russia with love 1963 for tv he adapted and appeared in a production of a florentine tragedy 1963 and was claudius in hamlet at elsinore 1964 with christopher plummer he played the title role in the luck of ginger coffey 1964 shot in canada alongside mary ure who became his second wife he had a role in carol for another christmas 1964 shaw later said of his early career i could have been a straight leading man but that struck me as a boring life 6 in 1964 shaw returned to broadway in a production of the physicists directed by peter brook but it ran for only 55 performances i want very much to avoid doing bad commercial pictures for lots of money he said it s difficult to avoid with six kids and two wives 13 shaw then embarked on a trilogy of novels the flag 1965 the man in the glass booth 1967 and a card from morocco 1969 he also adapted the hiding place into a screenplay for the film situation hopeless but not serious starring sir alec guinness shaw was the relentless wehrmacht panzer commander colonel hessler in battle of the bulge 1965 produced by philip yordan a young henry viii in a man for all seasons 1966 which earned him a nomination for the golden globe award and the academy award for best supporting actor general george armstrong custer in custer of the west 1967 again for yordan 14 martin luther in luther a 1968 film made for television he was top billed in another film version of pinter s the birthday party 1968 directed by william friedkin 15 the man in the glass booth edit his play the man in the glass booth was a success in london in 1967 it transferred to broadway the following year and was a hit running for 264 performances 16 his adaptation for the stage of the man in the glass booth gained him the most attention for his writing the book and play present a complex and morally ambiguous tale of a man who at various times in the story is either a jewish businessman pretending to be a nazi war criminal or a nazi war criminal pretending to be a jewish businessman the play was quite controversial when performed in the uk and the us some critics praising shaw s sly deft and complex examination of the moral issues of nationality and identity others sharply critical of shaw s treatment of such a sensitive subject 17 the play but not the movie presents the question given the chance would jews behave like nazis 18 shaw was one of many stars in battle of britain 1969 with the role of sailor malan written specifically for him 19 he had the lead in the royal hunt of the sun 1969 where he played spanish conquistador francisco pizarro alongside christopher plummer who played incan emperor atahualpa and figures in a landscape 1970 his fee for the latter was reportedly 500 000 20 in 1970 shaw returned to broadway playing the title role in gantry a musical adaptation of elmer gantry which ran for just one performance despite co starring rita moreno 13 his play cato street about the 1820 cato street conspiracy was produced for the first time in 1971 in london he appeared in old times on broadway in 1971 21 as an actor he appeared in a town called bastard 1971 a spaghetti western young winston 1972 as lord randolph churchill a reflection of fear 1972 the hireling 1973 he had a cameo in the golden voyage of sinbad 1973 played mobster doyle lonnegan in the sting 1973 a huge hit was the subway hijacker and hostage taker mr blue in the taking of pelham one two three 1974 he made his final appearance on broadway in a production of dance of death in 1974 the man in the glass booth was further developed for the screen but shaw disapproved of the resulting screenplay and had his name removed from the credits however he viewed the completed film before its release and asked to have his name reinstated in 2002 director arthur hiller related shaw s initial objection to the screenplay and his subsequent change of heart when we decided that we needed more emotions in the film and leaned it towards that we tried obviously to be honest to robert shaw to keep that intellectual game playing but to create more of an emotional environment and robert shaw became very disturbed he did not like the idea and indeed if you will watch the film you will see that his name does not appear in the credits nor does it even say based on the play the man in the glass booth because he wouldn t let us do it he just didn t like the idea until he saw the film then he phoned eddie anhalt the screenwriter and congratulated him because he thought it was just kept the tone he wanted and did it so well and he phoned mort abrahams the executive producer to see if he could get his name put on the final credits but it was too late to restore his name all the prints were all made 22 arthur hiller s account is uncorroborated 17 film stardom edit shaw achieved his greatest film stardom after playing the shark obsessed fisherman quint in jaws 1975 although he was at first reluctant to take the role since he did not like the book but decided to accept at the urging of both his wife actress mary ure and his secretary the last time they were that enthusiastic was from russia with love and they were right 23 shaw then appeared in end of the game 1975 diamonds 1975 because i wanted to play a wonderfully elegant englishman 6 robin and marian 1976 as the sheriff of nottingham opposite audrey hepburn maid marian and sean connery robin hood swashbuckler 1976 playing the lighthouse keeper and treasure hunter romer treece in the deep 1977 for which his fee was 650 000 24 and as israeli mossad agent david kabakov in black sunday 1977 during filming force 10 from navarone 1978 shaw said i m seriously thinking that this might be my last film i no longer have anything real to say i m appalled at some of the lines i m not at ease in film i can t remember the last film i enjoyed making 25 he made one more film avalanche express 1979 26 27 shaw and director producer mark robson both died of heart attacks during post production within months of each other robson in june 1978 and shaw in august 1978 shaw said he would use the proceeds from the film to pay off his taxes then focus on writing and making the occasional small film 28 personal life edit shaw was married three times and had 10 children two of whom were adopted his first wife was jennifer bourke from 1952 to 1963 with whom he had four daughters his second wife was actress mary ure from 1963 to 1975 they had four children including a son from his wife s previous marriage to playwright john osborne this marriage ended with ure s death from an overdose his third and final wife was virginia jansen from 1976 until his death in 1978 with whom he had one son he also adopted her son from a previous relationship 29 30 for the last seven years of his life shaw lived at drimbawn house in tourmakeady county mayo ireland 31 like his father shaw was an alcoholic for most of his life 32 shaw referred to himself as a socialist during the 1976 cork international film festival i started as a militant socialist and i couldn t even now vote tory under pain of death he elaborated in an interview later the same year adding that i still think i am a socialist in a way 33 shaw supported british withdrawal from northern ireland arguing that due to the troubles it will lead to more violence and murder 34 death edit shaw died in ireland at the age of 51 from a heart attack on 28 august 1978 while driving from castlebar county mayo to his home in tourmakeady 35 he was accompanied by his wife and his son 36 he suddenly became ill stopped the car stepped out then collapsed and lost consciousness on the roadside he was taken to castlebar general hospital where he was pronounced dead 37 38 he had just completed acting in the film avalanche express 1979 39 his body was cremated and his ashes scattered near his home in tourmakeady a stone memorial to him was unveiled there in his honour in august 2008 three decades after his death 31 the irish language inscription is a common prayer for the dead may his soul be on the right hand side of god robert shaw memorial in tourmakeady county mayo ireland near the location where he died closeup of the text view of the pier at the site tributes edit shaw has a wetherspoons pub named after him in his birthplace of westhoughton 40 the marvel comics villain sebastian shaw is named and modelled after shaw 41 film director ridley scott in the dvd commentary for gladiator 2000 when discussing the casting of próximo and marcus aurelius said we have very few robert shaws now 42 implying he had wanted to cast a certain type of rugged actor that shaw typified in this case oliver reed and richard harris work edit stage edit the caretaker 1962 the physicists 1964 the man in the glass booth 1968 gantry 1970 old times 1971 the dance of death 1974 filmography edit year title role notes 1947 the cherry orchard 1951 the lavender hill mob chemist at police exhibition uncredited 1954 the dam busters flight sgt j pulford 1956 double cross ernest a hill in korea lance corporal hodge 1958 sea fury gorman 1959 libel first photographer 1960 the dark man alan regan tv 1962 the valiant lieutenant field the father the captain tomorrow at ten george marlow 1963 the caretaker aston from russia with love donald red grant 1964 the luck of ginger coffey ginger coffey 1965 battle of the bulge col martin hessler 1966 a man for all seasons king henry viii 1967 custer of the west gen george armstrong custer 1968 luther martin...