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Robert Shaw: An Actor’s Life on the Set of JAWS and Beyond by Christopher Shaw Myers is a biography of the actor, with a special focus on his family and role in the movie Jaws. Mr. Myers is an American author and nephew of the actor.
- 320 pages
- Publisher : Citadel Press
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 0806544325
My rating for Robert Shaw: An Actor’s Life on the Set of JAWS and Beyond — 4
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Thoughts:
While I know that Robert Shaw shined in Jaws, as a James Bond fan I know him as Red Grant in From Russia with Love. While I do appreciate Jaws, the first “summer blockbuster”, I like the Bond movie better.
Robert Shaw’s biography is written by his nephew, Christopher Shaw Myers, who inherited his uncle’s writing chops. It’s an enjoyable tale, which gives readers not just stories about the famous actor, but also mini bios of the entire Shaw clan as a frame of reference. One can say that the book is just as much about his sister Dr. Joanna Shaw Meyers as it is about Robert.
I felt that this book is meant more for the future relatives of the actor, than it is for the public. It concentrates on wonderful family anecdotes just as much, if not more, than timelines and screen credits. Frankly, to me those anecdotes are what makes any biography or auto-biography worth reading.
We get to not only appreciate Robert Shaw’s impact on Jaws and it’s “young director”, but also understand the man. This is not an all-encompassing biography at all, the subtitle of the book makes clear, but a loving work from one relative to another.
The 007 flick (which is still one of the better ones, almost 50 years later) as well as such classics as The Sting, and The Man in the Glass Booth which Shaw wrote are all mentioned but are not the focus of this book. It is, nonetheless, a fascinating , well written and delightful insight into a fascinating man and a fascinating family.
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Disclaimer: I got this book for free
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