Biography
Stan Shaw is an American actor born on 14 July 1952 in Chicago, Illinois. He began his career in stage productions, appearing in the Chicago production of the musical Hair and the Broadway shows The Me Nobody Knows and Via Galactica.
Shaw made his feature film debut in Truck Turner (1974). His early film roles include Dipper in Rocky (1976), Private Washington in The Boys in Company C (1978) and Toomer Smalls in The Great Santini (1979). He is known for playing Big George in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), as well as appearances in Harlem Nights (1989), Rising Sun (1993), Daylight (1996) and Snake Eyes (1998).
On television, Shaw portrayed Will Palmer in the miniseries Roots: The Next Generations (1979) and has appeared in episodes of The X-Files, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Chicago Med.
