Tag Archives: Robert Shaw

Very Rare JAWS Interviews from 1974 – Benchley Interviews Spielberg and Shaw

Posted by on September 15, 2012 1 comment | 3,894 views

  Recently released by Peter Benchley’s widow Wendy on the new PeterBenchley.com website, this RARE video features Peter interviewing JAWS producers David Brown and Richard Zanuck, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Shaw.  Shaw is wearing a yellow JAWS t-shirt for his …

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Shark Man of Montauk

Posted by on October 1, 2008 1 comment | 3,224 views

It’s been a couple weeks since Frank Mundus (an inspiration for Quint) has passed away, but I found an interesting retrospective article about him and his book, Captain Frank Mundus, Shark Man: Master Hunter of the Deep.

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JAWS Lost Interviews from the 1970s

Posted by on September 23, 2008 No comments | 3,975 views

New England Our Way was a fascinating look some at the key people involved with JAWS before it was released. It contains interviews with the “big three” of Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw, Steven Spielberg, and Martha’s Vineyard local Craig Kingsbury, who played Ben Gardner.

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JAWS Characters: Quint (Robert Shaw)

Posted by on December 31, 2005 2 comments | 8,783 views
JAWS Characters: Quint

Robert Shaw (1927-1978) played Amity’s most colorful character, the Ahab-like Quint, who offers to kill the shark. Quint has a reason to hate sharks; he was a survivor of a harrowing incident during World War II, which he reveals in …

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