Started acting 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.”
Stan Shaw
Movies
Rocky
Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time, working as a debt collector for a pittance. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer, touting the fight as a chance for a…
Fun Facts
Before becoming an actor, Stan was a Karate Judo and Ju Jitsu instructor in Chicago.
Coincidence? Stan Shaw played a professional fighter in Snake Eyes (1998), Tough Enough (1983) and Harlem Nights (1989), and also appeared in Rocky (1976), and portrayed boxing legend Joe Louis in the TV movie "The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson"".
Graduate of Marshall High School in Chicago.
Large-framed Chicago-born African-American lead and support player with a singing background.
Son of saxophonist Eddie Shaw and cousin of the late soul singer Sam Cooke.
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Quotes
No matter how fast a fish swims, he never sweats!
I want parts all people will want to see, that are marketable and that will present a man as a man.