FrameThrower · Actors · Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw
3 films · 218 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1963–1965
Born 9 August 1927 · Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK · died 28 August 1978
Robert Archibald Shaw was an English stage and film actor and novelist, remembered for his performances in The Sting, From Russia with Love, A Man for All Seasons, the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Black Sunday (1977), The Deep (1977) and Jaws, where he played the shark hunter Quint.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 218 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1963–1965
- Hawthornden Prize1962
How their films are shot
Measured across 218 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Robert takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 69% of their frames are day, 67% natural — the look of the work Robert takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 218 frames from Robert Shaw's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.