---
name: "Anabel Shaw"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anabel-shaw"
fi1m_id: "anabel-shaw"
imdb_id: "nm0378134"
tmdb_id: 86002
wikidata_id: "Q26157397"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 June 1921"
died: "16 April 2010"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T04:26:31.956535+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Anabel Shaw

## Identity

Anabel Shaw

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anabel-shaw
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** anabel-shaw
- **IMDb ID:** nm0378134
- **TMDB ID:** 86002
- **Wikidata ID:** Q26157397
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabel_Shaw, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26157397, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378134/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/86002

Actor. Born 24 June 1921 in Oakland, California, USA. Died 16 April 2010.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 June 1921, Oakland, California, USA
- **Died:** 16 April 2010
- **Active:** 1947–1950
- **Also known as:** Marjorie Henshaw
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 60 (1), 1950s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabel_Shaw, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26157397, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378134/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/86002

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Gun Crazy*](https://film.one/film/gun-crazy.md) (86)

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## Biography

Anabel Shaw (born Marjorie Henshaw) was an American actress. Born on 24 June 1921 in Oakland, California, she graduated from the University of California in 1943. She began her film career under her birth name, appearing in *Here Come the Waves* (1944), before adopting the stage name Anabel Shaw.

She appeared in a range of films during the 1940s and 1950s, including *Shock* (1946), *Secret Beyond the Door* (1947) as the Intellectual Sub-Deb, *Gun Crazy* (1950) as Ruby Tare Flagler, and *To Hell and Back* (1955). She also made television appearances, such as in *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955). Her final film role was an uncredited part in *The Mephisto Waltz* (1971).

Shaw married sociologist Joseph Ford in 1948; they had three children, including archaeologist Anabel Ford, and divorced in 1986. She later married George Scopececk. She died on 16 April 2010 in Santa Barbara, California.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, independent.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Gun Crazy* (1950), Fi1m 86, as Ruby Tare Flagler — [page](https://film.one/film/gun-crazy.md)
- *Secret Beyond the Door* (1947), Fi1m 60, as Intellectual Sub-Deb — [page](https://film.one/film/secret-beyond-the-door.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *26 Men* (1957), series, Actor
- *The Real McCoys* (1957), series, Actor
- *At Gunpoint* (1955), as Ann Clark
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Rhoda Forbes
- *To Hell and Back* (1955), as Helen
- *Gun Crazy* (1950), as Ruby Tare Flagler — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/gun-crazy.md)
- *Hold That Baby!* (1949), as Laura Andrews
- *In This Corner* (1948), as Sally Rivers
- *Secret Beyond the Door* (1947), as Intellectual Sub-Deb — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/secret-beyond-the-door.md)
- *Dangerous Years* (1947), as Connie Burns
- *High Tide* (1947), as Dana Jones
- *Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back* (1947), as Ellen Curtiss #2
- *Mother Wore Tights* (1947), as Alice Flemmerhammer
- *Killer at Large* (1947), as Anne Arnold
- *Home Sweet Homicide* (1946), as Polly Walker
- *Strange Triangle* (1946), as Betty Wilson
- *Shock* (1946), as Janet Stewart
- *The Horn Blows at Midnight* (1945), as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- *Here Come the Waves* (1944), as Isabel

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