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Robert Shaw
August 9, 1927 – August 28, 1978
British actor and writer (1927–1978)
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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.
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- Birthday · August 9
- Anniversary · August 28
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