Sebastian Shaw
Date of birth: 1905-05-29
Place of birth: Holt, Norfolk, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Sebastian Lewis Shaw
Biography
Sebastian Lewis Shaw was an English actor, director, novelist, playwright and poet. During his 65-year career, he appeared in dozens of stage performances and more than 40 film and television productions. Shaw was born and brought up in Holt, Norfolk, and made his acting debut at age eight at a London theatre. He studied acting at Gresham's School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Although he worked primarily on the London stage, he made his Broadway debut in 1929, when he played one of the two murderers in Rope's End. He appeared in his first film, Caste, in 1930 and quickly began to create a name for himself in films. He described himself as a "rotten actor" as a youth and said his success was primarily due to his good looks. He claimed to mature as a performer only after returning from service in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Shaw was particularly known for his performances in productions of Shakespeare plays which were considered daring and ahead of their time. In 1966, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he remained for a decade and delivered some of his most acclaimed performances. He also wrote several poems and a novel, The Christening, in 1975.
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Return of the Jedi
1983-05-25
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, wh
Jury's Evidence
1936-01-01
The Foreman of an Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder c
It Happened Here
1966-05-12
World War II, 1940. When the Nazi hordes invade and occupy Great Britain, the English citizens are s
A Bit of Singing and Dancing
1982-08-22
Freed at last by death from tyranny of an elderly, querulous mother, Esme Fanshaw is persuaded to ta
The Spy in Black
1939-08-03
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
High Season
1987-09-01
On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A you
Men Are Not Gods
1936-11-26
Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of
The Squeaker
1937-11-11
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief w
The Ace of Spades
1935-02-09
The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968-09-30
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house
The Glass Mountain
1949-03-09
An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italia
Julius Caesar
1938-12-09
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassi
Three Silent Men
1940-09-07
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir Jam
The Flying Squad
1940-10-12
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organi
Department Store
1935-10-06
The heir to a London department store must learn the business by working his way through various men
Timon of Athens
1981-04-16
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "frien
Jack B. Yeats: Associated Memories 1871-1957
1985-01-01
The life and work of Anglo-Irish social realist painter, Jack B Yeats (1871-1957)
Prison Without Bars
1939-07-29
1939 BBC studio production of Peggy Barwell’s play Prison without Bars, set in a girls’ reformatory,
Tomorrow We Live
1936-10-06
Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After ponderin
East of Piccadilly
1941-06-23
A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the inte
All's Well That Ends Well
1968-03-06
An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of
Farewell Again
1937-01-05
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've
The Master Builder
1988-05-15
Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a succe
Brewster's Millions
1935-01-01
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling
The Story of Star Wars
2004-08-18
The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and An
Caste
1930-09-01
The daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action in WW
Landfall
1949-09-30
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a Britis
Birds of a Feather
1936-04-12
A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.
Adventure Ltd.
1935-03-31
A British adventure film directed by George King
Three Witnesses
1935-03-01
At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.
A Choice of Evils
1977-04-19
Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being execut
The Weather in the Streets
1983-11-30
Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into fi
Laxdale Hall
1953-04-01
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the resid
Now You're Talking
1940-03-01
Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now yo
Journey Together
1945-10-01
Two Englishmen train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991-04-22
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl.
The Lad
1935-02-27
An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed by a group of people to be investigating them.
The Way of Youth
1935-05-07
The manager of a gambling club tries to swindle the owner.
Fothergill
1981-01-08
John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfords
Liza
1978-03-28
Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousi
Monkey Boy
1992-12-31
Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investig
Little Miss Nobody
1933-01-01