After watching the famous movie Jaws, you might not go near a beach for a while after viewing it. And although you and I might find a great white shark to be a scary villain in Steven Spielberg’s movie, Actor Robert Shaw was scared of another (and far more menacing) foe: The IRS tax collector!

Robert Shaw lived from 1927 to 1978 and starred in such hit films as The Sting, From Russia With Love, The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three, and (of course), our favorite fish movie, Jaws.

Shaw played Quint, a gruff sea captain who takes Chief Martin Brody (played by Roy Scheider) and Matt Hooper (played by Richard Dreyfuss) out to the ocean to catch and kill the shark (not the government sharks that want to garnish your wages and tax your earnings).
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