Editing Robert Shaw (actor) (section)

===''The Buccaneers''===
Shaw became a TV star in the UK when he starred as Captain Dan Tempest in ''[[The Buccaneers (1956 TV series)|The Buccaneers]]'' (1956–57) which ran for 39 episodes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1131436/ |title=The Buccaneers |website=BFI Screenonline}}</ref>

He was by this time a TV leading man, having lead roles in TV films such as ''Success'' (1957) and a TV version of ''[[Rupert of Hentzau]]'' (1957). He had a big stage success with ''[[The Long and the Short and the Tall (play)|The Long and the Short and the Tall]]'' on the West End in 1959, directed by [[Lindsay Anderson]], a performance that was filmed for television (though Shaw did not appear in the feature film version).<ref name="guard">{{cite news |title=Actor-author Robert Shaw dies |work=The Guardian |date=29 August 1978 |page=1}}</ref>

Shaw had small roles in ''[[Sea Fury (1958 film)|Sea Fury]]'' (1958) and ''[[Libel (film)|Libel]]'' (1959) and guest-starred on ''[[William Tell (TV series)|William Tell]]'', ''[[ITV Television Playhouse]]'', ''[[The Four Just Men (TV series)|The Four Just Men]]'', and ''[[Danger Man]]''. He also appeared in TV plays including ''The Dark Man'', ''Misfire'' and ''The Train Set''.

In 1961, he appeared in a [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production of [[Harold Pinter]]'s ''[[The Caretaker (play)|The Caretaker]]'' alongside [[Donald Pleasence]] and [[Alan Bates]]. Shaw replaced [[Peter Woodthorpe]], who had performed with the others on stage in London. It ran for 165 performances.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/443431/index.html |title=The Caretaker |website=BFI Screenonline}}</ref> He had good roles in ''[[The Valiant (1962 film)|The Valiant]]'', a war film, and ''[[Tomorrow at Ten]]'' (both 1962), a thriller. Shaw played the leads in TV versions of ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'' and ''[[The Father (Strindberg play)|The Father]]'' (both 1962). He, Pleasence, and Bates reprised their performances in a film version of ''[[The Caretaker (film)|The Caretaker]]'' (1963); Shaw was part of the consortium who helped finance the latter.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mr Shaw likes to play the winner |first=Hugh |last=McIlvanney |work=The Observer |date=21 April 1968 |page=22}}</ref>