I grew up listening to the laugh-out-loud stories of my uncle, Robert Shaw, my mother, Joanna Shaw (Robert's sister), and my grandmother, Doreen Avery Shaw (pictured together on the set of JAWS). This is their story.

   ‘ROBERT SHAW’ is not your typical biography.  While other biographies begin with “So-and-so was born here...” this one begins with “Mrs. Shaw, did you murder your husband?”

    But then, the Shaws were not your typical family: they were shaped by strong women who believed in equal rights and actively fought for them. Robert Shaw grew up with those women, and he was not your typical Hollywood actor: he was a magnet for fascinating people and exhilarating adventures. Women find him sexy.  Men call him a man’s man.  The fact that he was a brilliant actor and a brilliant writer is almost beside the point.

   As an actor, Robert made every movie he was in better.  He turned bad movies into good ones, and good movies into great ones.  As a writer, he created roles that were played by a 'Who's Who' list of famous actors. 

   And not to be overlooked is his contribution to JAWS, in which he used both his acting and writing talent to help create a classic.