Robert Shaw

What fascinates me about Robert Shaw is that he refused to be just one thing. Most actors who came up through the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and the Old Vic would have been content with a distinguished stage career, but Shaw also wrote well enough to win the Hawthornden Prize. I think that literary mind is exactly what made his screen presence so dangerous and intelligent — you always sensed a writer's understanding of character beneath the gruff surface. Dying at fifty-one, he left us wondering what else he had in him. For me, he remains the rare performer whose talent genuinely ran in two directions at once.

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Name (English)

Robert Shaw

Name (Japanese)

ロバート・ショウ

Reading

ろばーと・しょう

Born

August 9, 1927 – August 28, 1978

Origin

Westhoughton, United Kingdom

Height

180 cm

Occupation

actor / writer / novelist / playwright / screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

Awards & achievements

• 1962 Hawthornden Prize

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Shaw
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313727

Tags

• actor
• writer
• novelist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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