Robert Shaw in From Russia With Love
Robert Shaw (1927 - 1978)
Playwright/novelist
Film Deaths[]
- A Hill in Korea (1956) [L/Cpl. Hodge]: Manning a Bren gun against a full frontal assault, he is killed when one of the Chinese soldiers survives and manages to hurl a grenade with deadly effect.
- Tomorrow at Ten (1962) [Marlowe]: Succumbs to serious injuries after being attacked by Alec Clunes earlier on.
- From Russia with Love (1963) [Donald 'Red' Grant]: Garroted with his own wire at the end of a struggle with Sean Connery in the train compartment after Sean broke free from Robert's wire by stabbing him in the arm with a knife.
- Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) [Claudius, King of Denmark]: Stabbed with a poison-coated sword, then forced to drink his own poison, by Christopher Plummer.
- Battle of the Bulge (1965) [Colonel Martin Hessler]: Killed in an explosion when his tank blows up while trying to capture an American fuel depot.
- A Man for All Seasons (1966) [King Henry VIII]: Dies off-screen of syphilis. His death is mentioned in the closing narration.
- Custer of the West (A Good Day for Fighting) (1967) [General George Armstrong Custer]: Killed by the Sioux warriors, after they killed all his men. (obviously, in real life Custer was not the last man standing in his final battle)
- Figures in a Landscape (1970) [MacConnachie]: Machine-gunned to death by a helicopter after Robert decides to have a last stand with it after being chased by the helicopter the entire film.
- A Town Called Hell (A Town Called Bastard) (1971) [The Priest]: Shot in the back numerous times while in his church by Dudley Sutton.
- Young Winston (1972) [Lord Randolph Churchill]: Dies (off-screen) of a long-suffering disease (I forget the mention of what it was).
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)[Bernard Ryder a.k.a. Mr. Blue]: Commits suicide by electrocuting himself on the subway's third rail, rather than be arrested by Walter Matthau.
- Jaws (1975) [Bartholomew Marion Quint]: Attacked by the shark on his boat and killed, before the shark, with Roberts body in its mouth, goes under water while Roy Scheider looks on in horror.
- Robin and Marian (1976) [Sheriff of Nottingham]: Stabbed in the chest at the end of the fight with Sean Connery.
Gallery[]
Robert Shaw in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Robert Shaw in Jaws