Ian Shaw has worked steadily in theater, TV and film projects while striving not to trade on the renown of his illustrious father.
“You still have to have the conversation about your validity in comparison to your father,” he said.
“As I’ve gotten older and more mature, I feel less burdened about that.
Robert Shaw was a celebrated man of letters, a friend of Harold Pinter (whose play “Old Times” he starred in with Ure) and an accomplished playwright himself.
He also made no secret of his heavy drinking, in an era when such habits were fundamental to the machismo of a generation of actors.
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