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Robert Shaw

1927 - 1978

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Robert Archibald Shaw (9 August 1927 – 28 August 1978) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Shaw is the 153rd most popular actor (up from 1,127th in 2019), the 317th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,213th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Actor.

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Among actors, Robert Shaw ranks 153 out of 13,578. Before him are Demi Moore, Susan Sarandon, Rita Hayworth, Jean Renoir, Irene Papas, and Spencer Tracy. After him are Rutger Hauer, Christoph Waltz, Ava Gardner, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, and Aishwarya Rai.

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Among people born in 1927, Robert Shaw ranks 14. Before him are K. Alex Müller, F. Sherwood Rowland, Peter Falk, Roger Moore, Samuel P. Huntington, and Kim Young-sam. After him are Vladimir Komarov, Turgut Özal, Mstislav Rostropovich, Ram Narayan, Sidney Poitier, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. Among people deceased in 1978, Robert Shaw ranks 12. Before him are Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Manne Siegbahn, Aldo Moro, Jacques Brel, Mohammed Daoud Khan, and Giorgio de Chirico. After him are Harry Martinson, Ramón Mercader, Adolf Dassler, Vincent du Vigneaud, Jack L. Warner, and Anastas Mikoyan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Shaw ranks 317 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881), Anne Brontë (1820), William Golding (1911), Thomas Reid (1710), Roger Waters (1943), and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901). After him are Kate Bush (1958), Charlotte, Princess Royal (1766), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944), Tim Berners-Lee (1955), and Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Robert Shaw ranks 23. Before him are Leslie Howard (1893), Helen Mirren (1945), Jane Birkin (1946), Judi Dench (1934), Jason Statham (1967), and Michael York (1942). After him are Ben Kingsley (1943), Jeremy Irons (1948), Julie Andrews (1935), Stan Laurel (1890), Laurence Olivier (1907), and Peter O'Toole (1932).

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