“...btw, Captain Quint is my all time favorite movie character. Robert Shaw could flat out act. Where did he come up that character?”
Paraphrasing a borrowed Quint line.. “Obama goes to the White House? Valerie Jarrett goes to the White House with him? Farewell and adieu....”
I watched the making of Jaws on Discovery channel and they say that say that Shaw was three sheets to the wind much of the time. The other actors didn't know if he would make it through the scene.