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Robert Shaw (August 9, 1927 - August 28, 1978) was an English actor and writer. His best-known film performances include Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (1966) Doyle Lonegan in The Sting (1973) and Quint in Jaws (1975). He was an accomplished writer as well as a respected actor, adapting his own novel The Man in the Glass Booth for the stage but asking for his credit to be removed from the filmed version. He played "the Priest" in the beautifully named A Town Called Bastard (1971). Films
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He played "the Priest" in the beautifully named A Town Called Bastard (1971). Since then he has intermittently toured with his former bandmates and also played with his own bands The Peter Tork Project and Shoe Suede Blues as well as in solo performances and with touring partner James Lee Stanley. He was an accomplished writer as well as a respected actor, adapting his own novel The Man in the Glass Booth for the stage but asking for his credit to be removed from the filmed version. Finally in 1980 he quit drinking and the next year gave up drugs, and in 1986 he rejoined fellow-Monkees Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz for a 20th anniversary reunion tour. His best-known film performances include Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (1966) Doyle Lonegan in The Sting (1973) and Quint in Jaws (1975). After two years of the show, six albums, a movie, and a television special, Tork had had enough and quit the group, striking out on his own with a group called “Release.” This new band never achieved success, and problems with drugs including alcohol led to his leaving show business entirely for a few years while he taught school and coached basketball. Robert Shaw (August 9, 1927 - August 28, 1978) was an English actor and writer. On the television show, he was relegated to playing the “dummy” even though he was actually an intelligent, literate person. The Man in the Glass Booth (1969) ISBN 0140030115. Tork was the most proficient musician of the four, and though the group did not play their own instruments on their first two albums, after that point he played keyboards, bass guitar, banjo, and other instruments on their recordings. But Not Serious (1965) (novel). Tork got the job and became one of the four members of The Monkees, who ended up being both characters in a television sitcom and a band in their own right. Situation Hopeless.. While there he befriended other up and coming musicians such as Stephen Stills, and after both moved to the Los Angeles area Stills suggested Tork audition for a new television series about four pop-rock musicians. The Flag. Tork dropped out of college and moved to New York City, where he became part of the folk music scene in Greenwich Village during the first half of the 1960‘s. The Sun Doctor. and began studying piano at the age of nine, and showed an aptitude for music by learning to play several different instruments, including the banjo and acoustic and bass guitars. The Hiding Place. He was born in Washington, D.C. General Marenkov. Peter Halsten Thorkelson (born February 13, 1942), better known as Peter Tork, is an American musician and actor. Avalanche Express (1979) ... Major Keith Mallory. Force 10 From Navarone (1978) ... Romer Treece. The Deep (1977) ... Black Sunday (1977) .... Major David Kabokov. Ned Lynch. Scarlet Buccaneer) (1976) ... Swashbuckler (a.k.a. Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin and Marian (1976) ... Charles/Earl Hodgson. Diamond Shaft) (1975) ... Diamonds (a.k.a. Richard Gastmann. End of the Game, Murder on the Bridge, Deception, and Getting Away with Murder) (1975) ... Der Richter und sein Henker (a.k.a. Jaws (1975) .... Quint. Blue - Bernard Ryder. Mr. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) ... The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) (uncredited) .... The Orale of All Knowledge. Doyle Lonnegan. The Sting (1973) ... Steven Ledbetter. The Hireling (1973) ... Michael. Labyrinth) (1973) ... A Reflection of Fear (a.k.a. Lord Randolph Churchill. Young Winston (1972) ... The Priest. A Town Called Hell) (1971) ... A Town Called Bastard (a.k.a. MacConnachie. Figures in a Landscape (1970) ... Francisco Pizarro. The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) ... Squadron Leader Skipper. Battle of Britain (1969) ... Stanley Webber. The Birthday Party (1968) ... George Armstrong Custer. Gen. Custer of the West (1967) ... King Henry VIII. A Man for All Seasons (1966) ... Martin Hessler. Col. Battle of the Bulge (1965) ... Claudius, King of Denmark. Hamlet (1964) (TV movie) ... Marlowe. Tomorrow at Ten (1964) ... Ghost of Christmas Future. Carol for Another Chrismas (TV movie) (1964) ... Ginger Coffey. The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964) ... Moke. The Cracksman (1963) ... Donald 'Red' Grant. From Russia with Love (1963) ... Aston. The Guest (1963) ... The Caretaker (in USA) a.k.a. The Valiant (1962) .... Lieutenant Field. Leontes. The Winter's Tale (TV movie) (1961) ... Newspaper Photographer. Libel (1959) ... Gorman. Sea Fury (1958) ... Johnny. Thunder Over Tangier) (1957) ... Man from Tangier (a.k.a. Double Cross (1956). Hodge. LCpl. Hell in Korea) (1956) ... A Hill in Korea (a.k.a. Pulford. J. Flight Sgt. The Dam Busters (1954) ... Jacques. Operation Secret (1952) (uncredited) ... Chemist at Police Exhibition. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) (uncredited) ... |