Robert Shaw is most celebrated today as the Oscarnominated star in movies like From Russia with Love, A Man For All Seasons, The Sting and most memorably of all as Quint in the recordbreaking Jaws. His breakthrough came when Hollywood was experiencing something of a British Invasion. Sean Connery, Peter OToole, Vanessa Redgrave and Richard Burton were among the new stars. But Shaw was arguably more talented than any, a figure of extraordinary and wideranging promise. More than just a mesmerising actor on stage and screen, he was also a gifted writer. He wrote no less than six published novels (winning the Hawthornden Prize), while his plays include the acclaimed Man in The Glass Booth. The flipside to Shaws diverse abilities was his wellearned reputation as a hellraiser. A fiercely competitive man in all areas of his life, whether playing table tennis or drinking whisky, he emptied minibars, crashed Aston Martins, fathered nine children by three different women, made (and spent) a fortune, and set fire to Orson Welles house. He died at 51, having driven himself too hard, too fast, but unable to get past the tortured relationship to his father who had committed suicide when Shaw was just 11. Though his life ended tragically, it is fortunate that Shaws biographer is someone who knew him well, professionally and personally. Robert Shaw The Price of Success is a perceptive, sympathetic, but unsparing portrait of the blessings and curses endowing this mercurial, enigmatic...

Binding: Paperback;294 pages; Publisher: Dean Street Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 411.21 g; Dimensions: N/A

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