[ << Back ]

Naked Photos of Dick Shawn are available at MaleStars.com. They currently feature over 65,000 Nude Pics, Biographies, Video Clips, Articles, and Movie Reviews of famous stars.

 

Related Links:
Chixinflix.com
MenInMovies.com
StarsOfHollywood.com
MaleStars.com

 

Actresses who appeared with Dick Shawn on screen:

Jennifer Tilly
Natalie Wood
Ally Sheedy
Katey Sagal
Beverly D'Angelo
Angelica Huston
Anjelica Huston
Jay Smith
Rain Phoenix
Anne Archer
Carol Kane
Jean Simmons
Khandi Alexander
Tina Louise
Penny Marshall
Shirley Jones


Dick Shawn
Birthday: December 1, 1923

Birth Place: Buffalo, New York, USA
Height: 0' 0"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Dick Shawn. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

Like Sheckey Greene and Guy Marks, Dick Shawn was a nightclub comedian whose talents were highly prized by the members of his profession, but who took quite some time building up a fan following with "civilian" audiences. Beginning his film career with a peripheral role in 1956's The Opposite Sex, Shawn signed a contract with 20th Century Fox in 1960. He starred in an Arabian Nights satire, The Wizard of Baghdad (1960), which may have been too "inside" for fans of that genre. After co-starring with Ernie Kovacs in Wake Me When It's Over (1961), Shawn was generally seen in secondary, plot-motivating comic roles in such films as It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) and What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966). He was hysterically funny in Mel Brooks' The Producers (1967), playing an erratic hippie actor named L.S.D. who was cast in the musical play "Springtime for Hitler" as a singing Fuehrer. Outside of The Producers, Shawn was seen to best advantage in his bizarre, stream-of-consciousness nightclub routines. So quirky and unpredictable were his live performances that, when Dick Shawn died of a heart attack while performing before a college crowd in San Diego, many members of the audience assumed his collapse was part of the act.

Movie Credits
Rented Lips (1988)
[ Robert Downey Jr. ][ Martin Mull ][ Kenneth Mars ][ Eric Bruskotter ]
Maid to Order (1987)
[ Tom Skerritt ][ Michael Ontkean ][ Raymond Cruz ][ Jason Beghe ]
Captain EO (1986)
[ George Lucas ][ Michael Jackson ][ Tony Cox ]
The Perils of P.K. (1986)
[ Sammy Davis Jr. ]
The Check Is in the Mail... (1986)
[ Lewis Arquette ]
Beer (1985)
[ Rip Torn ][ William Russ ][ Kenneth Mars ]
Water (1985)
[ Michael Caine ][ Alfred Molina ][ Billy Connolly ][ Fred Gwynne ][ Dennis Dugan ]
Angel (1984)
[ John Diehl ][ Cliff Gorman ]
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984)
[ Bud Cort ][ Klaus Kinski ]
Young Warriors (1983)
[ Ernest Borgnine ][ Richard Roundtree ]
Good-bye Cruel World (1983)
[ Corey Burton ]
Model Marriage, A/This Year's Model/Original Sin/Vogue Rogue/Too Clothes for Comfort: Part 1 (1981)
[ McLean Stevenson ][ Mike Connors ]
Model Marriage, A/This Year's Model/Original Sin/Vogue Rogue/Too Clothes for Comfort: Part 2 (1981)
[ Robert Vaughn ][ McLean Stevenson ][ Mike Connors ]
Love at First Bite (1979)
[ George Hamilton ][ Sherman Hemsley ]
Fast Friends (1979)
Looking Up (1977)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
[ Mickey Rooney ]
Love and the Hairy Excuse/Love and Lady Luck/Love and the Pick-Up Fantasy (1972)
[ Pat Morita ]
Evil Roy Slade (1972)
[ John Ritter ][ Pat Morita ][ Mickey Rooney ][ John Astin ][ Dom DeLuise ]
The Happy Ending (1969)
[ Bobby Darin ]
The Producers (1968)
[ Mel Brooks ][ Gene Wilder ][ Kenneth Mars ][ Bill Macy ]
Sheriff Who (1967)
[ John Astin ]
Penelope (1966)
[ John Williams ][ Jonathan Winters ]
Way... Way Out (1966)
[ Jerry Lewis ][ James Brolin ][ Brian Keith ][ Dennis Weaver ]
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
[ Harry Morgan ][ Blake Edwards ][ Carroll O'Connor ][ Aldo Ray ]
A Very Special Favor (1965)
[ Rock Hudson ]
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
[ Don Knotts ][ Mickey Rooney ][ Spencer Tracy ][ Jerry Lewis ][ Buster Keaton ]
The Wizard of Baghdad (1960)
[ Bill Mumy ]
Wake Me When It's Over (1960)
[ Don Knotts ][ Jack Warden ]

Trivia

  • Interred at Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, California, USA.
  • Died on stage of a heart attack.
  • Was supposedly the first person to execute the icon "The High Five". It was in the movie, The Producers (1968). It was during the play in the movie, "Springtime For Hitler", the character of Hitler played by Shawn sent for Goebbels who was played by David Patch, and instead of putting his hand in front of for the "give me five", Shawn held it up and Patch slapped it. Though it would not become popular till many years later.
  • Father of Adam Shawn.

Naked Photos of Dick Shawn are available at MaleStars.com. They currently feature over 65,000 Nude Pics, Biographies, Video Clips, Articles, and Movie Reviews of famous stars.

Copyright © 2011 actorsofhollywood.com, Inc. All rights reserved.