Robert Shaw (actor)

Robert Archibald Shaw was an English actor, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. 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.

9 August 1927

Born on the same birth date (9 August 1927): Daniel Keyes

Born on the same birth day (9 August): Alfred David Benjamin • Anthony Castonzo • Bob Cousy • D'Arcy Short • Eli Apple • Filippo Inzaghi • Francesco Cetti • John Varley (author) • Justice Smith • Kurtis Blow • Li Jiawei • Mahesh Babu • Mathews Barnabas • Sanya Lopez • Sarah McBride

Born in the same month (August 1927): Althea Gibson • Anthony G. Bosco • Daniel Keyes • Des Renford • Geoffrey Beene • Harry Markowitz • John Boardman (art historian) • Lois Nettleton • Martial Solal • Oliver Popplewell • Thomas S. Monson • Yootha Joyce