Ian Shaw was a small boy when he went to visit his father, Robert, on Martha’s Vineyard, where the revered British actor was making a movie about a great white shark that terrorises a New England town ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like father, like son: Robert Shaw (l) in Jaws and Ian Shaw in The Shark Is Broken. (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images/Nick ...

Although nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Henry VIII in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, audiences now may know Robert Shaw best for his role as Captain Quint in the 1975 film Jaws.

Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws, released 50 years ago, may have been about a killer great white shark on the hunt off of Amity Island, but the heart of the film is undoubtedly its cast of characters who made ...

In Chapter 7 of Christopher Shaw Myers’s new book, “Robert Shaw: An Actor’s Life on the Set of Jaws and Beyond,” Nelson Mandela pays a visit to an apartheid-era South African school during the ...

Of all the movies from the past half century, there’s one that has arguably had the most lasting cultural impact—and with nothing to do with cinema. Before Jaws, not a lot of people who went to the ...