Stan Shaw

Stan Shaw (born July 14, 1952) is an American actor. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he is the son of Bertha Shaw and saxophonist Eddie Shaw, and cousin of the late soul singers Sam Cooke and Tyrone Davis. Shaw started his acting career in the Chicago production of the Broadway musical Hair as well as the Broadway production of The Me Nobody Knows. His last Broadway show, Via Galactica was directed by Sir Peter Hall. Before becoming an actor, Shaw was a karate, judo, and jujutsu instructor in Chicago. He holds first dan black belt in judo and jujutsu and a second dan in karate. Shaw appeared in Rocky (1976) as Dipper, another boxer. In a deleted scene, Dipper, infuriated by the attention Rocky has received, challenges him before a television reporter. He also played a professional fighter in Tough Enough (1983), Harlem Nights (1989), and Snake Eyes (1998). One of his most notable roles was his appearance as Alex Haley's maternal grandfather Will Palmer in the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generations. Another highly notable role was Private Washington in The Boys in Company C (1978). Shaw also played in The Great Santini (1979) as Toomer Smalls with Robert Duvall and David Keith. After a part in the 1991 film Fried Green Tomatoes, he had a role in the 1995 comedy Houseguest alongside Sinbad and appeared as a pirate in Cutthroat Island with Geena Davis. His television credits include episodes of Matlock, Murder, She Wrote, The X-Files, and a 2009 episode of CSI. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stan Shaw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1952-07-14

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1974	TNT Jackson	Charlie	47
2	1974	Truck Turner	Fontana	65
3	1975	Darktown Strutters	Raunchy	47
4	1976	The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings	Esquire Joe	61
5	1976	Street Killing	Mitchell Small	0
6	1976	Rocky	Dipper	78
7	1978	The Boys in Company C	Pfc / Sgt. Tyrone Washington	65
8	1979	The Great Santini	Toomer Smalls	67
9	1980	Scared Straight! Another Story	Carl Jones	0
10	1983	Tough Enough	P.T. Coolidge	51
11	1983	Venice Medical		0
12	1984	Runaway	Marvin	55
13	1985	Displaced Person	Sergeant	90
14	1985	When Dreams Come True	Harry Jenks	57
15	1986	The Gladiator	Joe Barker	59
16	1986	Under Siege	Nick Tutman	75
17	1986	Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story	Harold Moss	0
18	1986	Busted Up	Angie	65
19	1987	The Monster Squad	Detective Sapir	67
20	1987	Billionaire Boys Club	Frank Booker	66
21	1987	The Three Kings	Paul	28
22	1988	Red River	Jack Byrd	56
23	1989	Harlem Nights	Jack Jenkins	61
24	1990	Fear	Detective Webber	59
25	1990	The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson	Joe Louis	70
26	1991	Fried Green Tomatoes	Big George	77
27	1993	Body of Evidence	Charles Biggs	50
28	1993	When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn	Gerst	10
29	1993	Lifepod	Parker	51
30	1993	Rising Sun	Phillips	61
31	1995	Houseguest	Larry the Tattoo Artist	55
32	1995	Cutthroat Island	Glasspoole	58
33	1996	Daylight	George Tyrell	61
34	1998	Rag and Bone	Det. Ritchie	33
35	1998	Snake Eyes	Lincoln Tyler	62
36	1998	Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes	Self	0
37	2000	Freedom Song	Archie Mullen	55
38	2003	Detonator	Robert Brickland	49
39	2013	Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic	Self	71
40	2016	Cassidy Way	Kane	41
41	2017	Jeepers Creepers 3	Sheriff Tashtego	49
42	2018	Drive Me to Vegas and Mars	Cowboy	0
43	2019	A Christmas Winter Song	Fred	60
44	2020	The Pale Door	Lester	52
45	2023	A Nashville Legacy	Franklin Berryhall	80
46	2023	Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount	Himself	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Starsky & Hutch	Leotis	73
2	1977	Lucan		60
3	1979	Roots: The Next Generations	Will Palmer	75
4	1981	Hill Street Blues		76
5	1982	Fame		68
6	1982	Matt Houston		62
7	1983	The Mississippi	Lafayette 'Lafe' Tate	60
8	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Det. Sgt. Vince Lofton	75
9	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Eddie Walters	75
10	1985	North and South	Isaac	74
11	1986	Matlock		71
12	1986	L.A. Law	Terry Slueman	71
13	1987	Wiseguy		65
14	1987	Billionaire Boys Club	Frank Booker	87
15	1993	The X-Files	Stephen Murdoch	84
16	1996	Early Edition	Earl Camby	73
17	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Geoff Johnson	76
18	2005	Criminal Minds	Albert Lewis	83
19	2015	What Lives Inside	Soot (voice)	74
20	2015	Chicago Med	Dr. George Thomas	83
21	2018	Carl Weber's The Family Business	Larry Duncan	83
22	2022	Quantum Leap	Eli Jackson	71
23	2025	The Family Business: New Orleans	Larry Duncan	100

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