Rose Tobias Shaw obit

Casting Director Rose Tobias Shaw Dies at 96

Her credits include TV’s 'The Prisoner' and Scorsese’s 'The Last Temptation of Christ,' and she gave Pierce Brosnan's career a big boost. 

She was not on the list.

Rose Tobias Shaw, a casting director who worked on the British show The Prisoner and Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and boosted the career of actor Pierce Brosnan, has died. She was 96.

Shaw died Oct. 27, the Telegraph newspaper in London reported. No other details of her death were immediately available.

After she saw Brosnan play a man kidnapped by the IRA in the 1980 film The Long Good Friday — he was in the movie for less than a minute — Shaw got the actor, then 29, a big part in the 1981 six-part ABC miniseries The Manions of America, a turning point in the career of the man who would go on to play James Bond.

Shaw gained the nickname “The Queen of the Miniseries” by casting other 1980s multi-episodic projects like The Bourne Identity, Till We Meet Again and Around the World in 80 Days.

Her credits include two more 1960s British TV series, Secret Agent and Man in a Suitcase, as well as the films Madhouse (1974), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), Equus (1977), The Wild Geese (1978), Otto Preminger’s last feature, The Human Factor (1979), Lassiter (1984) and The Jewel of the Nile (1985).

Born in Poland, she came with her parents and sister to New York as a child. She was briefly engaged to acclaimed Broadway director and choreographer Jerome Robbins before marrying British actor Maxwell Shaw. He died in 1985.

Casting Director

Screen One (1985)

Screen One

6.9

TV Series

Casting Director

1994

1 episode

 

Jeff Dahlgren and Mylène Farmer in Giorgino (1994)

Giorgino

7.2

casting director - London

1994

 

Ione Skye, Jonathan Firth, Tim Killick, Glenn Quinn, and Nigel Terry in Covington Cross (1992)

Covington Cross

7.5

TV Series

Casting Director

1992

2 episodes

 

Lindsay Wagner in To Be the Best (1991)

To Be the Best

5.0

TV Series

Casting Director

1991

 

Jürgen Prochnow in Kill Cruise (1990)

Kill Cruise

4.8

Casting Director (as Rose Tobias-Shaw)

1990

 

Face to Face (1990)

Face to Face

5.7

TV Movie

Casting Director

1990

 

Mia Sara, Bruce Boxleitner, and Michael York in Till We Meet Again (1989)

Till We Meet Again

6.9

TV Mini Series

UK casting

1989

2 episodes

 

Around the World in 80 Days (1989)

Around the World in 80 Days

7.1

TV Mini Series

Casting Director

1989

3 episodes

 

Voice of the Heart (1989)

Voice of the Heart

5.8

TV Movie

Casting Director

1989

 

Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith in The Bourne Identity (1988)

The Bourne Identity

6.8

TV Mini Series

Casting Director

1988

2 episodes

 

Freedom Fighter (1988)

Freedom Fighter

6.5

TV Movie

casting

1988

 

Joan Collins and George Hamilton in Monte Carlo (1986)

Monte Carlo

5.7

TV Mini Series

casting: UK

1986

2 episodes

 

Tai-Pan (1986)

Tai-Pan

5.6

Casting Director

1986

 

Harem (1986)

Harem

6.0

TV Movie

Casting Director

1986

 

Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, and Kathleen Turner in The Jewel of the Nile (1985)

The Jewel of the Nile

6.1

Casting Director

1985

 

Jaclyn Smith and Timothy Dalton in Florence Nightingale (1985)

Florence Nightingale

7.2

TV Movie

Casting Director

1985

 

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

5.1

casting

1985

 

Malcolm McDowell and David Keith in Gulag (1985)

Gulag

6.6

TV Movie

Casting Director

1985

 

Candice Bergen, Malcolm McDowell, Dyan Cannon, and Edward Woodward in Arthur the King (1985)

Arthur the King

4.2

TV Movie

Casting Director

1985

 

Nairobi Affair (1984)

Nairobi Affair

5.2

TV Movie

Casting Director

1984

 

Stacy Keach and Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu in Mistral's Daughter (1984)

Mistral's Daughter

6.7

TV Mini Series

Casting Director

1984

3 episodes

 

Tom Selleck, Lauren Hutton, and Jane Seymour in Lassiter (1984)

Lassiter

5.8

Casting Director

1984

 

Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Robert Morley, and Jack Weston in High Road to China (1983)

High Road to China

6.1

Casting Director

1983

 

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)

The Scarlet Pimpernel

7.6

TV Movie

Casting Director

1982

 

Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, and Pelé in Victory (1981)

Victory

6.7

Casting Director

1981

 

The Bunker (1981)

The Bunker

6.8

TV Movie

Casting Director

1981

 

Inseminoid (1981)

Inseminoid

4.0

Casting Director

1981

 

Oh Heavenly Dog (1980)

Oh Heavenly Dog

5.4

Casting Director

1980

 

Nijinsky (1980)

Nijinsky

6.6

Casting Director (as Rose Tobias-Shaw)

1980

 

"The Human Factor" (Saul Bass Poster) 1979

The Human Factor

6.1

Casting Director

1979

 

S.O.S. Titanic (1979)

S.O.S. Titanic

6.2

TV Movie

Casting Director

1979

 

Lady Oscar (1979)

Lady Oscar

5.7

Casting Director

1979

 

The Corn Is Green (1979)

The Corn Is Green

6.7

TV Movie

casting by

1979

 

Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Bruce Davison, Edward Herrmann, George Kennedy, Patrick McGoohan, Robert Vaughn, and Max von Sydow in Brass Target (1978)

Brass Target

6.0

Casting Director

1978

 

Honor Blackman, Olivia Hussey, Edward Fox, Michael Callan, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Beatrix Lehmann, Carol Lynley, Daniel Massey, and Peter McEnery in The Cat and the Canary (1978)

The Cat and the Canary

5.6

Casting Director

1978

 

Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, and Hardy Krüger in The Wild Geese (1978)

The Wild Geese

6.8

Casting Director

1978

 

Anthony Quinn and Jacqueline Bisset in The Greek Tycoon (1978)

The Greek Tycoon

5.4

Casting Director

1978

 

The Stick Up (1977)

The Stick Up

5.4

Casting Director

1977

 

Richard Burton and Peter Firth in Equus (1977)

Equus

7.1

Casting Director

1977

 

The Incredible Sarah (1976)

The Incredible Sarah

5.5

Casting Director

1976

 

Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall, Vanessa Redgrave, and Nicol Williamson in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

6.6

Casting Director

1976

 

Oliver Reed, Richard Widmark, and Gayle Hunnicutt in The Sell-Out (1976)

The Sell-Out

4.8

Casting Director

1976

 

Mr. Quilp (1975)

Mr. Quilp

6.7

Casting Director

1975

 

Anthony Hopkins, Lisa Harrow, and Simon Ward in All Creatures Great and Small (1975)

All Creatures Great and Small

6.5

Casting Director

1975

 

The Spiral Staircase (1975)

The Spiral Staircase

4.7

Casting Director

1975

 

The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)

The Count of Monte-Cristo

6.9

TV Movie

casting

1975

 

Goldie Hawn and Hal Holbrook in The Girl from Petrovka (1974)

The Girl from Petrovka

5.2

Casting Director

1974

 

Madhouse (1974)

Madhouse

6.2

Casting Director

1974

 

Scott Jacoby and Patricia Neal in Baxter! (1973)

Baxter!

6.8

Casting Director

1973

 

Tower of Evil (1972)

Tower of Evil

5.6

Casting Director (uncredited)

1972

 

Richard Burton in Villain (1971)

Villain

6.5

Casting Director (uncredited)

1971

 

From a Bird's Eye View (1970)

From a Bird's Eye View

6.3

TV Series

Casting Directorcasting

1970–1971

16 episodes

 

UFO (1970)

UFO

7.9

TV Series

Casting Director

1970–1971

17 episodes

 

Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis, and Michèle Mercier in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)

You Can't Win 'Em All

5.7

Casting Director

1970

 

Girly (1970)

Girly

6.4

Casting Director (as Rose Tobias-Shaw)

1970

 

Kaz Garas, Anthony Quayle, and Anneke Wills in Strange Report (1969)

Strange Report

8.1

TV Series

Casting Director

1969

4 episodes

 

Koroshi (1968)

Koroshi

6.2

TV Movie

Casting Director (as Rose Tobias-Shaw)

1968

 

Man in a Suitcase (1967)

Man in a Suitcase

7.6

TV Series

Casting Director

1967–1968

29 episodes

 

The Prisoner (1967)

The Prisoner

8.4

TV Series

casting director (as Rose Tobias-Shaw)

1967–1968

17 episodes

 

Patrick McGoohan in Secret Agent (1964)

Secret Agent

8.2

TV Series

casting director (as Rose Tobias-Shaw)

1964–1967

47 episodes

 

Bradford Dillman and Peter Graves in Court Martial (1965)

Court Martial

7.1

TV Series

Casting Director (as Rose Tobias-Shaw)

1965–1966

14 episodes

 

Espionage (1963)

Espionage

7.5

TV Series

Casting Director

1963–1964

11 episodes

 

Art Carney in Art Carney Special (1959)

Art Carney Special

6.9

TV Series

Casting Director (as Rose Tobias)

1960

1 episode

 

Ten Little Indians (1959)

Ten Little Indians

6.2

TV Movie

Casting Director (as Rose Tobias)

1959

 

Kraft Theatre (1947)

Kraft Theatre

7.9

TV Series

Casting Director (as Rose Tobias)

1958

4 episodes

 

Casting Department

Ben Cross in Dark Shadows (1991)

Dark Shadows

7.5

TV Series

casting: London

1991

1 episode

 

Coins in the Fountain (1990)

Coins in the Fountain

5.9

TV Movie

casting: Europe

1990

 

Molly Ringwald, James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Peter Weller, Beau Bridges, and Elizabeth McGovern in Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction

5.2

TV Movie

casting: London

1990

 

Jürgen Prochnow in Kill Cruise (1990)

Kill Cruise

4.8

casting: Mediterranean Film Studios

1990

 

Mia Sara, Bruce Boxleitner, and Michael York in Till We Meet Again (1989)

Till We Meet Again

6.9

TV Mini Series

casting: U.K.

1989

1 episode

 

Voice of the Heart (1989)

Voice of the Heart

5.8

TV Movie

casting: UK

1989

 

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

5.6

TV Movie

casting: U.K.

1988

 

Dadah Is Death (1988)

Dadah Is Death

6.7

TV Movie

casting: UK

1988

 

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

The Last Temptation of Christ

7.5

casting: London

1988

 

Andy Griffith in Matlock (1986)

Matlock

7.2

TV Series

casting: UK

1987

1 episode

 

If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987)

If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium

4.7

TV Movie

casting: United Kingdom

1987

 

Kirk Douglas and Mia Sara in Queenie (1987)

Queenie

6.7

TV Mini Series

casting: UK

1987

2 episodes

 

Ann-Margret and Claudette Colbert in The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987)

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

7.5

TV Mini Series

casting: UK

1987

2 episodes

 

Out on a Limb (1987)

Out on a Limb

7.3

TV Mini Series

casting: Europe

1987

1 episode

 

Tom Berenger, Liam Neeson, David Keith, and Madolyn Smith Osborne in If Tomorrow Comes (1986)

If Tomorrow Comes

7.7

TV Mini Series

casting: Europe

1986

3 episodes

 

Sins (1986)

Sins

7.1

TV Mini Series

casting director: UK

1986

1 episode

 

Faye Dunaway and Peter Ustinov in Thirteen at Dinner (1985)

Thirteen at Dinner

6.2

TV Movie

casting: English

1985

 

Space (1985)

Space

7.3

TV Mini Series

casting: UK

1985

1 episode

 

Stacy Keach and Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu in Mistral's Daughter (1984)

Mistral's Daughter

6.7

TV Mini Series

casting: UK

1984

3 episodes

 

Phoebe Cates, Brooke Adams, Bess Armstrong, and Arielle Dombasle in Lace (1984)

Lace

7.1

TV Mini Series

casting: UK

1984

2 episodes

 

The Lonely Lady (1983)

The Lonely Lady

3.2

casting: London

1983

 

The Phantom of the Opera (1983)

The Phantom of the Opera

5.5

TV Movie

casting: Europe

1983

 

Rosanna Arquette, Lisa Eichhorn, and Eli Wallach in The Wall (1982)

The Wall

6.9

TV Movie

casting: Europe

1982

 

Lesley-Anne Down, Bill Bixby, and Helen Hayes in Murder Is Easy (1982)

Murder Is Easy

6.1

TV Movie

casting

1982

 

The Manions of America (1981)

The Manions of America

7.1

TV Mini Series

casting: England & Ireland

1981

1 episode

 

The Sea Wolves (1980)

The Sea Wolves

6.3

casting

1980

 

Gauguin the Savage (1980)

Gauguin the Savage

6.8

TV Movie

casting: France

1980

 

The Day Christ Died (1980)

The Day Christ Died

5.9

TV Movie

casting: England

1980

 

Ike: The War Years (1979)

Ike: The War Years

7.0

TV Mini Series

casting: U.K.

1979

3 episodes

 

The Word (1978)

The Word

6.2

TV Mini Series

casting: europe

1978

4 episodes

 

A Little Night Music (1977)

A Little Night Music

5.4

casting

1977

 

Ann-Margret, Marty Feldman, and Michael York in The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

6.0

casting director: Europe

1977

 

Lost Horizon (1973)

Lost Horizon

5.3

casting supervisor

1973

 

The DuPont Show of the Month (1957)

The DuPont Show of the Month

6.8

TV Series

talent coordinator (as Rose Tobias)

1958

1 episode

 

Additional Crew

Susan Hayward in Stolen Hours (1963)

Stolen Hours

6.2

assistant to producer

1963

 

Judy Garland and Dirk Bogarde in I Could Go on Singing (1963)

I Could Go on Singing

7.0

assistant to producers

1963

 

The DuPont Show of the Month (1957)

The DuPont Show of the Month

6.8

TV Series

talent consultant

1959–1960

2 episodes

 

Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950)

Armstrong Circle Theatre

7.5

TV Series

talent consultant

1959

1 episode

 

Actress

Kraft Theatre (1947)

Kraft Theatre

7.9

TV Series

1958

2 episodes

 

Self

American Masters (1985)

American Masters

8.2

TV Series

Self

2009

1 episode

 

The Eamonn Andrews Show (1964)

The Eamonn Andrews Show

7.5

TV Series

Self

1967

1 episode