Dick Shawn

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-12-01 (64 years old)

Deathday

1987-04-17

Place of Birth

Buffalo, New York, USA

Dick Shawn

Biography

Dick Shawn (December 1, 1923 – April 17, 1987) was an American actor. Way ahead of his time most say, it was extremely difficult indeed to know how to properly tap into this man's eclectic talents. Shawn began inching toward the forefront during the be-bop 50s and early 60s with his odd penchant for playing cool cats. During his mild bid for film stardom, he was top-billed as a hip, laid back genie in the thoroughly dismal satire The Wizard of Baghdad (1960), but seemed to have better luck when taken in smaller doses. He fared quite well opposite another "way-out-there" comedian, Ernie Kovacs, in Wake Me When It's Over (1960) as a hustling ...

Acting

1984

Angel

as Mae

1987

Maid to Order

as Stan Starkey

1968

The Producers

as Lorenzo St. DuBois (L.S.D.)

1983

Young Warriors

as Professor Hoover

1984

1963

1974

The Year Without a Santa Claus

as Snow Miser (voice)

1966

1979

Love at First Bite

as Lieutenant Ferguson NYPD

1969

The Happy Ending

as Harry Bricker

1966

Way... Way Out

as Igor Valkleinokov

1960

Wake Me When It's Over

as Gus Brubaker

1977

Looking Up

as Manny Lander

1966

Penelope

as Dr. Gregory Mannix

1983

Good-bye Cruel World

as Rodney Pointsetter / Ainsley Pointsetter

1965

A Very Special Favor

as Arnold Plum

1985

1972

Evil Roy Slade

as Marshal Bing Bell

2018

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

as Self (archive footage)

1956

1961

The Wizard of Baghdad

as Genii-Ali Mahmud

1985

Water

as Deke Halliday

1971

Dames at Sea

as Lucky

1986

The Perils of P.K

as The Psychiatrist

1987

Rented Lips

as Charlie Slater

1997

Batman & Robin

as Snow Miser (archive sound) (uncredited)

1979

Fast Friends

as Deke Edwards

2020

Leave 'em Laughing

as Self (archive footage)

1984

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

as The Ultimate Patient

1986

Captain EO

as Commander Bog

Production

1983

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