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.
Sebastian Shaw Biography / Wiki
| Name | Sebastian Shaw |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Norfolk, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | May 29, 1905 |
| Age(as in 2023) | 89 |
| Deathday | 1994-12-23 |
Sebastian Shaw Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Three Silent Men | Sir James Quentin | 1940-09-07 | An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of t… |
| The Flying Squad | Inspector Bradley | 1940-10-12 | Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London…. |
| Now You’re Talking | Charles Hampton | 1940-03-01 | Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who le… |
| It Happened Here | Doctor Richard ‘Dick’ Fletcher | 1966-05-01 | It is the Second World War. The Nazis have invaded Britain. There is a split between the resistance and those who prefer to collaborate with the invad… |
| The Spy in Black | Ashington | 1939-08-03 | A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet…. |
| The Squeaker | Frank Sutton | 1937-11-11 | London’s jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires … |
| East of Piccadilly | Tamsie Green | 1941-06-23 | A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the interest of a crime reporter to the case…. |
| Men Are Not Gods | Edmund Davey | 1936-11-26 | Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review … |
| Prison Without Bars | 1939-07-29 | An inmate of a girl’s reformatory competes with its superintendent for the affections of its young doctor…. | |
| Farewell Again | Capt. Gilbert Reed | 1937-01-05 | Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they’ve left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty … |
| Adventure Ltd. | Bruce Blandford | 1935-03-31 | A British adventure film directed by George King… |
| Three Witnesses | Roger Truscott | 1935-03-01 | At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid…. |
| The Way of Youth | Lieut. Alan Marmon | 1935-05-07 | The manager of a gambling club tries to swindle the owner…. |
| High Season | Sharp | 1987-09-01 | On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commiss… |
| The Glass Mountain | Bruce McLeod | 1949-03-09 | An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to w… |
| Tomorrow We Live | Eric Morton | 1936-10-06 | Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to invit… |
| Department Store | John Goodman Johnson | 1935-10-06 | The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito firs… |
| Caste | Hon. George d’Alroy | 1930-09-01 | The daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action in WWI. When she gets the news she goes to stay with he… |
| Laxdale Hall | Hugh Marvell, M.P. | 1953-04-01 | A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their ro… |
| Landfall | Wing Commander Dickens | 1949-09-30 | A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to… |
| Jury’s Evidence | Philip | 1936-01-01 | ‘Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.’ (British Film Catalogue)… |
| The Ace of Spades | Trent | 1935-02-09 | The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband’s rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of … |
| The Lad | Jimmy | 1935-02-27 | An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed by a group of people to be investigating them…. |
| Return of the Jedi | Anakin Skywalker | 1983-05-25 | Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion onc… |
| The Story of Star Wars | Anakin Skywalker (archive footage) | 2004-08-18 | The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the characters who witnessed i… |
| The Weather in the Streets | Mr. Curtis | 1983-11-30 | Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love…. |
| The Master Builder | Knut Brovik | 1988-05-15 | Ibsen’s play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he’s afraid of the being surpa… |
| Timon of Athens | Old Athenian | 1981-04-16 | Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his “friends” refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthro… |
| Brewster’s Millions | Frank | 1935-01-01 | Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns… |
| All’s Well That Ends Well | King of France | 1968-03-06 | An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC’s Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton’s acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company … |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Quince | 1968-09-30 | Peter Hall’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Com… |
| Birds of a Feather | Jack Wortle | 1936-04-12 | A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat…. |
| A Choice of Evils | Abbot General | 1977-04-19 | Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but s… |
| Chernobyl: The Final Warning | Grandpa | 1991-04-22 | True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl…. |
| Journey Together | Squadron Leader Marshall | 1945-10-01 | Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin…. |
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