Robert Shaw

Born

August 9, 1927

Died

August 28, 1978 (aged 51)

Known as

actor, writer, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, film actor

Robert Archibald Shaw 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.

Biography from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.