Rose Tobias Shaw

Rose Tobias Shaw (September 7, 1919 – October 27, 2015) was a Polish-American casting director.

Early life Born to a Polish Jewish family in Stuttgart, she left a shtetl near Łódź Initially embarking on a career as a dancer, she was engaged briefly to Broadway director and choreographer Jerome Robbins and later married Maxwell Shaw, an actor. Her credits include the British televisions shows Danger Man (US: Secret Agent), The Prisoner and Man in a Suitcase. Pierce Brosnan appeared on screen for about a minute in The Long Good Friday (1980), as a member of the IRA, but Tobias Shaw was able to assist Brosnan in gaining a significant role in the American mini-series Manions of America (1981) as a result. and was described by the British Federation of Film Societies as a 'veteran of the business' and 'one of the best known casting directors'.