Editing Robert Shaw (actor) (section)

===Film fame===
Shaw became well known as a film actor when cast as assassin Donald "Red" Grant in the second [[James Bond]] film, ''[[From Russia with Love (film)|From Russia with Love]]'' (1963). For TV he adapted and appeared in a production of ''[[A Florentine Tragedy]]'' (1963), and was Claudius in ''[[Hamlet at Elsinore]]'' (1964) with [[Christopher Plummer]]. He played the title role in ''[[The Luck of Ginger Coffey (film)|The Luck of Ginger Coffey]]'' (1964), shot in Canada alongside [[Mary Ure]], who became his second wife. He had a role in ''[[A Carol for Another Christmas]]'' (1964). Shaw later said of his early career, "I could have been a straight leading man but that struck me as a boring life."<ref name="post">{{cite news |title=Robert Shaw: Actor, Author, Egotist |first=Clarke |last=Taylor |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=3 February 1976 |page=D2}}</ref>

In 1964, Shaw returned to Broadway in a production of ''[[The Physicists]]'' directed by [[Peter Brook]] but it ran for only 55 performances. "I want very much to avoid doing bad commercial pictures for lots of money", he said. "It's difficult to avoid with six kids and two wives."<ref name="gantry">{{cite news |title=Robert Shaw: Actor, Novelist, Playwright Singer? |first=Mel |last=Gussow |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=5 January 1970 |page=48}}</ref> Shaw then embarked on a trilogy of novels – ''[[The Flag (novel)|The Flag]]'' (1965), ''[[The Man in the Glass Booth]]'' (1967) and ''[[A Card from Morocco]]'' (1969). He also adapted ''The Hiding Place'' into a screenplay for the film ''[[Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious|Situation Hopeless{{nbsp}}... But Not Serious]]'' starring Sir [[Alec Guinness]].

Shaw was the relentless [[Wehrmacht]] [[Panzer division|panzer]] commander Colonel Hessler in ''[[Battle of the Bulge (1965 film)|Battle of the Bulge]]'' (1965), produced by [[Philip Yordan]]; a young [[Henry VIII]] in ''[[A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)|A Man for All Seasons]]'' (1966), which earned him a nomination for the [[Golden Globe Award]] and the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]]; General [[George Armstrong Custer]] in ''[[Custer of the West]]'' (1967), again for Yordan;<ref name="custer">{{cite web |url=https://contrappassomag.wordpress.com/tag/phillip-yordan/ |website=Contrapasso |title=Writers at the Movies: 'Custer of the West' |first=Clive |last=Sinclair |date=4 May 2015}}</ref> [[Martin Luther]] in ''Luther'' (a 1968 film made for television); he was top billed in another film version of Pinter's ''[[The Birthday Party (1968 film)|The Birthday Party]]'' (1968), directed by [[William Friedkin]].<ref name="variety">{{cite news |title=ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses |work=Variety |date=31 May 1973 |page=3}}</ref>