Spielberg's film was a smash hit, but stories emerged about how difficult it was to film, primarily because 'Bruce', the mechanical shark, kept breaking down, delaying the filming for hours each day.

Robert Shaw famously played the wily, hard drinking shark hunter Quint in the original film. His son Ian, also an actor, is ...

but one of the greatest opponents he ever faced was a ruthless Russian assassin played by Robert Shaw. Shaw is certainly best known for his legendary role as the shark hunter Quint in Jaws ...

FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed…again. The lead actors—theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider—are crammed into a too ...

Robert Shaw, whose stories from the infamous fishing boat The Orca inspired the story. Audiences join veteran actor Robert, who plays grizzled local shark hunter Quint in the feature film ...

Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss - who starred as shark-hunting team Brody, Quint and Hooper - spent stuck together in a boat on the open sea between takes. During long hours of waiting around ...

It is based on Robert Shaw's experience of playing Quint in Jaws and was co-written by his son Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon.