Robert Shaw
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Raised in Scotland and then Cornwall, Robert Shaw was drawn to acting and writing from his youth. Shaw trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1949 he debuted onstage at the Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford-on-Avon. From 1951 he... more
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Cast: Robert Shaw Maximilian Schell Lee Marvin Michael Connors Mark Robson   
Tags: Action Thriller Disaster Film Spy Film Action 
Length: 89min
Lee Marvin plays a CIA agent who lures a Soviet biological warfare expert aboard a European train in the hopes of murdering the expert, thus eliminating a world threat. Things go awry when the train is caught in an avalanche. ~ All Movie Guide

Cast: Harrison Ford Robert Shaw Edward Fox Franco Nero Samuel Z. Arkoff   
Tags: War Adventure Action Adventure War 
Length: 118min
Force 10 From Navarone was a sequel to the 1961 blockbuster The Guns of Navarone and tells the tale of ten widely divergent WW II troubleshooters who attempt to blow up a crucial bridge in Yugoslavia. As in the first Navarone film, one of the...

Cast: Robert Shaw Bruce Dern John Williams John Frankenheimer Robert Evans   
Tags: Action Thriller Action 
Length: 165min
Bruce Dern is ideally cast as Lander, a crazed Vietnam veteran, in Black Sunday. Lander joins terrorists Dahlia (Marthe Keller) and Fasil (Bekim Fehmu) in a plot to create a bloodbath at the annual Super Bowl. Piloting the ubiquitous Goodyear blimp,...

Cast: John Barry Eli Wallach Nick Nolte Louis Gossett, Jr. Jacqueline Bisset   
Tags: Adventure 
Length: 124min
Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, also wrote The Deep. Scuba divers David Sanders and Gail Berke (Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset), assisted by Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), discover a sunken treasure off the Bermuda coast. They also find a stash of...

Cast: Audrey Hepburn Sean Connery John Barry Richard Harris Robert Shaw   
Tags: Swashbuckler Romantic Adventure Adventure 
Length: 106min
Though the story told in Robin and Marian is unfamiliar to most audiences, it is actually quite faithful to several of the ancient Robin Hood legends. During the Crusades, Robin (Sean Connery) is still loyal to King Richard the Lionheart (Richard...

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss Steven Spielberg Robert Shaw Roy Scheider Murray Hamilton   
Tags: Sea Adventure Adventure Creature Film Thriller 
Length: 130min
Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark saga set the standard for the New Hollywood popcorn blockbuster while frightening millions of moviegoers out of the water. One early summer night on fictional Atlantic resort...

Cast: James Earl Jones Geneviève Bujold Beau Bridges Peter Boyle Robert Shaw   
Tags: Swashbuckler 
Length: 101min
A latter-day attempt to update the swordplay success of Errol Flynn movies, this film is part burlesque, part homage to old-fashioned pirate films. James Earl Jones and Robert Shaw play Nick Debrett and Ned Lynch, two pirates who save a noblewoman,...

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Cast: Walter Matthau Robert Shaw Joseph Sargent Martin Balsam Hector Elizondo   
Tags: Action Thriller Police Detective Film Crime Thriller Thriller 
Length: 104min
On a quiet midday in New York, along the Lexington Avenue subway line, the train designated "Pelham One Two Three" -- so named for its station of origin and time of departure -- makes its way down the East Side of Manhattan. One by one, three men...

Der Richter und sein Henker (1975)
Cast: Jon Voight Robert Shaw Ennio Morricone Maximilian Schell Jacqueline Bisset   
Tags: Mystery Psychological Thriller Thriller Police Detective Film 
Length: 107min
Actor Maximillian Schell functioned as coproducer and director of End of the Game. Conversely, director Martin Ritt is the leading actor in this existentialist crime story. Ritt plays Hans Barlach, a Swiss police inspector who has spent 30 years...

Cast: Barbara Hershey Richard Roundtree Shelley Winters Robert Shaw Menahem Golan   
Tags: Caper Action Crime 
Length: 106min
Menahem Golan directed this low wattage heist movie enlivened by Robert Shaw in a dual role as twin brothers. Shaw plays a jaded British aristocrat who decides to become a jewel thief in order to get back at his brother (also played by Shaw), a...

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