Robert Shaw
Also Known As: Роберт Шоу, رابرت شاو
Biography: Robert Archibald Shaw (9 August 1927 – 28 August 1978) was an English stage and film actor and novelist, remembered for his performances in The Sting, From Russia with Love, A Man for All Seasons, the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Black Sunday (1977), The Deep (1977) and Jaws, where he played the shark hunter Quint.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: August 09, 1927
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 28, 1978
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A Man for All Seasons
Overview: A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-13
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Jaws
Overview: When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.
Genres: Horror Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-20
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Avalanche Express
Overview: CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-27
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From Russia with Love
Overview: Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-10
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Robin and Marian
Overview: Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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The Deep
Overview: A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-17
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North to the Dales
Overview: The Yorkshire Dales - 'from which no traveller wishes to return'. Sheltering under the Pennines, the Dales have escaped the human ravages of time. There is magic here; skysweeping hillsides and weirdly weathered rocks; Wensleydale cheese; ruined abbeys and castles and standing drystone walls; fellracing and potholing, photography, traditional songs and a commentary spoken by Robert Shaw.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-02
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Battle of Britain
Overview: In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
Genres: War History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-15
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Overview: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-02
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The Sting
Overview: A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-25
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The Horror Show
Overview: A history of horror movies.
Genres: Horror Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-06
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Battle of the Bulge
Overview: In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-16
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Swashbuckler
Overview: A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-29
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Godzilla Apex
Overview: The dramatic conclusion to the Kaiju Century War Saga.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-05
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Young Winston
Overview: This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-20
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A Town Called Hell
Overview: A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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Force 10 from Navarone
Overview: World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-16
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The Hireling
Overview: Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more than friends.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-10
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Black Sunday
Overview: An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-01
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Custer of the West
Overview: Biopic of General George Armstrong Custer from his rise to prominence in the Civil War through to his "last stand" at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-09
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End of the Game
Overview: Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard Gastmann. Though Baerlach's partner meets his demise while investigating Gastmann, his replacement, Walter Tschanz, is undaunted. Meanwhile, the lovely Anna Crawley becomes involved in the case, which proceeds to take many twists and turns.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-05-05
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Carol for Another Christmas
Overview: Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-28
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The Caretaker
Overview: Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-21
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The Birthday Party
Overview: Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-09
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A Reflection of Fear
Overview: A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance. Soon the girl finds herself in the midst of strange goings-on, which evolve into a web of crime and murder.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-12
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Diamonds
Overview: Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl, a security expert who has built a supposedly impregnable vault in Tel Aviv, which holds a cache of diamonds. For the caper, Charles enlists Archie, a heist expert, and Sally. He also becomes acquainted with an American woman, Zelda Shapiro, who is in Israel looking for a new husband.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-22
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Figures in a Landscape
Overview: Two escaped convicts are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black helicopter.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-12
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Tomorrow at Ten
Overview: A British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a kidnapper's (Robert Shaw) time bomb blows.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-23
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The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Overview: An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-21
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The Valiant
Overview: Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission!
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-13
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Overview: The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-05
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Discovering Hamlet
Overview: Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-01
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The Incredible World of James Bond
Overview: This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965). Narrated by Alexander Scourby, the 48 minute documentary aired as a one hour special. It included footage of the filming at Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire and of the fight aboard the Disco Volante at Pinewood Studios; media coverage of Martine Beswick, Luciana Paluzzi and Claudine Auger; and archive footage of Ian Fleming at 'Goldeneye', Jamaica.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-26
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Hamlet at Elsinore
Overview: The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-15
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Sea Fury
Overview: The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the hope of getting his hands on the vessel. Meanwhile, a handsome English sailor, signs on to the boat and before long he and the girl fall for one another. Meanwhile a sinking freighter carrying explosive cargo has to be salvaged....
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-26
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The Dam Busters
Overview: The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
Genres: Drama Action History Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-16
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The Break
Overview: Two strangers break into a man's house and subject him to a series of terrifying - and humiliating - mind games.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-08
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The Winter's Tale
Overview: Adaptation of the Shakespeare play.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-20
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Best Ever Bond
Overview: Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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A Hill in Korea
Overview: Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-18
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The Peak District
Overview: The Peak District waits invitingly within a sixty-mile reach of half the population of England. To this green centre of a great industrial area, the first of the National Parks, holidaymakers come throughout the year to enjoy a wide variety of scenery and of pastimes. Some visitors come to glide, others to go ‘caving’ or climbing, boating or fishing. The lovely surroundings vary from the windy flat tops of heath with their rocky outcrops to the lush, sheltered dales of the Manifold, the Derwent and the Dove; from the simple stone cottages of the quiet villages to the historic architecture of Ashbourne, Bakewell and Buxton, and the great houses of the past like Chatsworth and Haddon Hall.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-02
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Holiday
Overview: Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-20
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Libel
Overview: A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-23
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Luther
Overview: An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-29
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Yorkshire Sands
Overview: Light verse and gay music make their own comment on the holidaymakers of the Yorkshire coastline. Between Tees and Humber thousands each year enjoy the sea and the sands, the funfair and the ballroom: for a row or romance, there's something for each!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-02
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The Lavender Hill Mob
Overview: A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-28
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Doublecross
Overview: A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-01
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Overview: Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile, Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-20
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New England Our Way
Overview: The program is a fascinating look some at the key people involved with JAWS before it was released. It contains interviews with the “big three” of Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw, Steven Spielberg, and Martha’s Vineyard local Craig Kingsbury, who played Ben Gardner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-09
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Rupert of Hentzau
Overview: A sequel to "The Prisoner Of Zenda" in which the villainous Rupert returns to Ruritania intent on exposing the replacement of the king by a double.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-26
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