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Sebastian Lewis Shaw was an English actor, director, novelist, playwright and poet. During his 65-year career, he appeared in dozens of stage performances and more than 40 film and television productions. Shaw was born and brought up in Holt, Norfolk, and made his acting debut at age eight at a London theatre. He studied acting at Gresham's School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Although he worked primarily on the London stage, he made his Broadway debut in 1929, when he played one of the two murderers in Rope's End. He appeared in his first film, Caste, in 1930 and quickly began to create a name for himself in films. He described himself as a "rotten actor" as a youth and said his success was primarily due to his good looks. He claimed to mature as a performer only after returning from service in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Shaw was particularly known for his performances in productions of Shakespeare plays which were considered daring and ahead of their time. In 1966, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he remained for a decade and delivered some of his most acclaimed performances. He also wrote several poems and a novel, The Christening, in 1975.
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25 May 1983
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, and the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station.
18 August 2004
The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the characters who witnessed it all: the famous droid duo C-3PO and R2-D2.
31 March 1935
A British adventure film directed by George King
06 March 1968
An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Catherine Lacey (the Countess), Ian Richardson (Bertram), Lynn Farleigh (Helen), Clive Swift (Parolles) and Sebastian Shaw (the King), it was broadcast on 3 June 1968.
12 April 1936
A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.
01 March 1940
Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets slip vital information about some overnight research on a captured enemy aircraft.
30 September 1949
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat.
05 January 1937
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left.
01 January 1936
The Foreman of an Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.
11 November 1937
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him.
30 November 1983
Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.
23 June 1941
A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the interest of a crime reporter to the case.
01 April 1953
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few days among the locals.
16 April 1981
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
09 February 1935
The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land.
09 March 1949
An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl.
22 August 1982
Freed at last by death from tyranny of an elderly, querulous mother, Esme Fanshaw is persuaded to take a man, Amos Curry, into her house as a paying guest.
27 February 1935
An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed by a group of people to be investigating them.
07 September 1940
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
07 May 1935
The manager of a gambling club tries to swindle the owner.
22 April 1991
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl.
03 August 1939
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
01 October 1945
Two Englishmen train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
01 September 1930
The daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action in WWI.
30 September 1968
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
19 April 1977
Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but struggles to reason with either the Vatican, the Nazis or his friend.
29 July 1939
1939 BBC studio production of Peggy Barwell’s play Prison without Bars, set in a girls’ reformatory, which was adapted from a German play by Gina Kaus and Otto Edgar Eis.
06 October 1935
The heir to a London department store must learn the business by working his way through various menial jobs incognito first.
01 January 1935
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative.
01 January 1985
The life and work of Anglo-Irish painter, Jack B Yeats (1871-1957)
31 December 1992
Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investigating a macabre mass-murder, discovers the mutant boy — a creature with the mind of a child and superhuman strength.
06 October 1936
Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to invite twelve similarly desperate individuals to dinner so they can all discuss their problems.
28 March 1978
Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.
01 September 1987
On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband.
12 May 1966
World War II, 1940. When the Nazi hordes invade and occupy Great Britain, the English citizens are soon divided between those who choose to submissively collaborate and those who are willing to fight.
09 December 1938
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassiy
01 March 1935
At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.
12 October 1940
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
15 May 1988
Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being surpassed by those younger than himself.
26 November 1936
Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.
08 January 1981
John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
14 September 1940
The armaments production programme is being sabotaged by a gang of Germans. A few arrests are made but the destruction of a vital plant goes on.
22 December 1966
Dr Saint's offer of a free place in his comfortable old-folks' home appears entirely philanthropic to Miss Claythorpe.
