Sebastian Shaw
Also Known As: Sebastian Lewis Shaw
Biography: Sebastian Lewis Shaw was an English actor, director, novelist, playwright and poet. During his 65-year career, he appeared in dozens of stage performances and more than 40 film and television productions. Shaw was born and brought up in Holt, Norfolk, and made his acting debut at age eight at a London theatre. He studied acting at Gresham's School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Although he worked primarily on the London stage, he made his Broadway debut in 1929, when he played one of the two murderers in Rope's End. He appeared in his first film, Caste, in 1930 and quickly began to create a name for himself in films. He described himself as a "rotten actor" as a youth and said his success was primarily due to his good looks. He claimed to mature as a performer only after returning from service in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Shaw was particularly known for his performances in productions of Shakespeare plays which were considered daring and ahead of their time. In 1966, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he remained for a decade and delivered some of his most acclaimed performances. He also wrote several poems and a novel, The Christening, in 1975.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Holt, Norfolk, England, UK
Birthday: May 29, 1905
Deathday: December 23, 1994
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Gender: Male
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Return of the Jedi
Overview: Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-25
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Jury's Evidence
Overview: 'Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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It Happened Here
Overview: World War II, 1940. When the Nazi hordes invade and occupy Great Britain, the English citizens are soon divided between those who choose to submissively collaborate and those who are willing to fight.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-12
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A Bit of Singing and Dancing
Overview: Freed at last by death from tyranny of an elderly, querulous mother, Esme Fanshaw is persuaded to take a man, Amos Curry, into her house as a paying guest. At first wary of him, Esme becomes increasingly fond of this dapper little man with his mysterious summer occupation. When she finally learns the nature of this occupation she is at first shocked then sympathetic.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-22
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The Spy in Black
Overview: A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-03
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High Season
Overview: On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-01
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Men Are Not Gods
Overview: Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-26
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The Squeaker
Overview: London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
Genres: Romance Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-11
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The Ace of Spades
Overview: The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-09
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-30
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The Glass Mountain
Overview: An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-09
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Julius Caesar
Overview: The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-09
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Three Silent Men
Overview: An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-07
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The Flying Squad
Overview: Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-12
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Department Store
Overview: The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged, for a cracksman, just out of prison, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-06
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Timon of Athens
Overview: Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-16
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Jack B. Yeats: Associated Memories 1871-1957
Overview: The life and work of Anglo-Irish social realist painter, Jack B Yeats (1871-1957)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Prison Without Bars
Overview: 1939 BBC studio production of Peggy Barwell’s play Prison without Bars, set in a girls’ reformatory, which was adapted from a German play by Gina Kaus and Otto Edgar Eis. An inmate of a girl's reformatory competes with its superintendent for the affections of its young doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-29
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Tomorrow We Live
Overview: Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to invite twelve similarly desperate individuals to dinner so they can all discuss their problems. Will his generosity change the course of their lives?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-06
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East of Piccadilly
Overview: A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the interest of a crime reporter to the case.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-23
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All's Well That Ends Well
Overview: An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Catherine Lacey (the Countess), Ian Richardson (Bertram), Lynn Farleigh (Helen), Clive Swift (Parolles) and Sebastian Shaw (the King), it was broadcast on 3 June 1968.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-06
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Farewell Again
Overview: Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-05
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The Master Builder
Overview: Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being surpassed by those younger than himself. The arrival of a young woman called Hilda stirs up memories and feelings with stories of a promise he made her many years ago.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-15
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Brewster's Millions
Overview: Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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The Story of Star Wars
Overview: The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the characters who witnessed it all: the famous droid duo C-3PO and R2-D2. Episodes IV,V and VI are explored in "The Story of Luke Skywalker," which follows the young man escaping from his daily chores on Tatooine to his becoming a hero in the Rebal Alliance. In "The Story of Anakin Skywalker," you'll go behind the mask of the greatest Star Wars villain and discover how Darth Vader started life as a young Podracing Champ on Tatooine and later became a headstrong young Jedi seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. With clips from the Star Wars films, C-3PO and R2-D2 take you on an hour-long journey through the saga and prepare you for the explosive final chapter: Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-18
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Caste
Overview: The daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action in WWI. When she gets the news she goes to stay with her aristocratic in-laws.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-01
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Landfall
Overview: A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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Birds of a Feather
Overview: A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-12
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Adventure Ltd.
Overview: A British adventure film directed by George King
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-31
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Three Witnesses
Overview: At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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A Choice of Evils
Overview: Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but struggles to reason with either the Vatican, the Nazis or his friend.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-19
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The Weather in the Streets
Overview: Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-30
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Laxdale Hall
Overview: A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few days among the locals.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Now You're Talking
Overview: Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets slip vital information about some overnight research on a captured enemy aircraft. This inevitably leads to this most important of secrets falling into the lap of the enemy.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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Journey Together
Overview: Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-01
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Chernobyl: The Final Warning
Overview: True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-22
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The Lad
Overview: An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed by a group of people to be investigating them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-27
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The Way of Youth
Overview: The manager of a gambling club tries to swindle the owner.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-07
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Fothergill
Overview: John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-08
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Liza
Overview: Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-28
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