Jaws, Steven Spielberg’s film from 1975, was a notoriously chaotic production, riddled with mishaps and other stumbling blocks that paradoxically coalesced into the birth of the modern Hollywood ...

At left, Ian Shaw; at right, Ian as his father, Robert (himself pictured on a magazine cover). Courtesy of Ian Shaw/Nick Driftwood Were it not for Robert Shaw, I might not be a writer today. In the ...

Ian Shaw first saw “Jaws” when he was 7 or 8. Steven Spielberg’s epic monster movie instilled in the boy a lifelong fear of swimming in open water. “It still has an effect on me,” says Shaw, who is 53 ...

When Ian Shaw was five he did something to make any movie fan jealous: he visited the set of Jaws. On location on Martha's Vineyard, on the east coast of the United States, an assistant pulled back a ...

A new play about the famously troubled production of Jaws has just opened in London's West End. The show named The Shark Is Broken stars Ian Shaw who plays his own dad Robert who starred as Quint in ...

For Ian Shaw, “The Shark Is Broken” is a thrilling ‒ and bittersweet ‒ family affair. The new Broadway play, which he co-wrote, looks back at the tumultuous making of Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws.” Shaw ...

Day 610:11Broadway play The Shark is Broken offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Jaws The Shark is Broken is a play about the squabbles between a trio of bored actors stuck on a ramshackle ...

Ian Shaw, Demetri Goritas and Liam Murray Scott perform in The Shark Is Broken during the show's 2021 run in London. Ian Shaw reprises his role on Broadway, playing his father, Robert Shaw, while ...

Actor Ian Shaw talks about his memories of his beloved film star dad Robert — many from their time together in Mayo — who died when Ian was eight; as well as the writing of The Shark is Broken — a ...

Several years ago, the British actor Ian Shaw looked in the mirror and saw the face of Quint, the grizzled, Ahab-esque shark hunter from Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws.” Shaw had grown a Quint-like mustache ...

Never mind the shark – in this show about the troubled shoot for classic blockbuster Jaws, it’s Ian Shaw that you need to see. Playing his father, Robert Shaw – aka Quint, the world-weary shark hunter ...