Denis Shaw
Douglas "Denis" Findlay Shaw (7 February 1921 – 28 February 1971) was a British character actor who specialized in portraying villains.
Shaw was born in Dulwich on 7 February 1921. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was frequently cast as villains in films and television shows, most notably as the German guard Priem in The Colditz Story (1955), as well as a number of British horror films including Jack the Ripper (1959), The Mummy (1959) and The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). He was cast in the leading role of The Great Van Robbery (1959) as the judo-throwing Interpol detective Caesar Smith.
Shaw's television credits include The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Avengers, Danger Man, Dixon of Dock Green, The Prisoner, Sherlock Holmes and Z-Cars.
Shaw died from a heart attack in London on 28 February 1971, at the age of 50. A familiar face around the bars of Soho in London, he is mentioned in Keith Waterhouse's play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell.
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Films (38)
The File of the Golden Goose
1969 · Vance
The Magnificent Six and ½: It's Not Cricket
1969 · Heavyset Workman
The Magnificent Six and ½: Kontiki Kids
1968 · Nasty Workman
The Viking Queen
1967 · Osiris
The Deadly Affair
1967 · Wolfe - Publican
The Pirates of Blood River
1962 · Silver (uncredited)
Nothing Barred
1961 · Convict
The Curse of the Werewolf
1961 · Gaoler
Carry On Regardless
1961 · Sinister Passenger (uncredited)
The Hellfire Club
1961 · Sir Richard Benlow
Ticket to Paradise
1961 · Giuseppe
The Night We Got the Bird
1960 · Wolfie's Stooge
The Criminal
1960 · Taxi Customer at Racetrack (uncredited)
Beyond the Curtain
1960 · Krumm
Trouble with Eve
1960 · George Rigby
The Mummy
1959 · Mike
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
1959 · Tavern Customer
Jack the Ripper
1959 · Simes
Innocent Meeting
1959 · Uncle
The Great Van Robbery
1959 · Caesar Smith
Naked Fury
1959 · Captain Horst
Passport to Shame
1958 · Mac
Links of Justice
1958 · Heath
A Woman Possessed
1958 · Bishop
Moment of Indiscretion
1958 · Inspector Marsh
Soapbox Derby
1958 · Lender
The Depraved
1957 · Inspector O'Flynn
Seven Thunders
1957 · Fat German Soldier
Let's Be Happy
1957 · Fat Man in Train Corridor (uncredited)
The Weapon
1956 · Groggins
Port Afrique
1956 · Grila
Who Done It?
1956 · Professor Stumpf
The Prisoner
1955 · Plainclothesman (uncredited)
The Colditz Story
1955 · Priem
Forbidden Cargo
1954 · Ship's Cook
House of Blackmail
1953 · Bassett
The Long Memory
1953 · Shaw (uncredited)
Girdle of Gold
1952 · Choirmaster
Séries (15)
Bright's Boffins
1970
The Misfit
1970 · Aircraft Passenger
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder
1969 · Wu Tong
Tom Grattan's War
1968 · Koestler
The Prisoner
1967 · Shopkeeper
Londoners
1965 · Louie
Sherlock Holmes
1964
Theatre 625
1964 · Matvei
Espionage
1963 · Frohlich
Stryker of the Yard
1961
The Avengers
1961 · Murray
International Detective
1959 · Horse Carlucci, Victor Prado
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Ziggy
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955 · Biggs
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955 · Butcher (as Dennis Shaw)