Wallace Shawn

Acting · 3.8 popularity

Age

Movies

135

Born: November 12, 1943
From: New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is known for playing Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987), Mr. Hall in Clueless (1995), Dr. John Sturgis in Young Sheldon (2017–2024), and voicing Rex in the Toy Story franchise (1995–present). Shawn also appeared in The Bostonians (1984), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989), Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), My Favorite Martian (1999), The Double (2013), Maggie's Plan (2015), and Marriage Story (2019). He appeared in six Woody Allen films including Manhattan (1979), Radio Days (1987), and Rifkin's Festival (2020). His television work includes recurring roles as Jeff Engels in The Cosby Show (1987–1991), Grand Nagus Zek in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999), Cyrus Rose in Gossip Girl (2008–2012), and Father Frank Ignatius in Evil (2022–2024). Shawn is also a playwright; his plays include the Obie Award–winning Aunt Dan and Lemon (1985), The Designated Mourner (1996) and Grasses of a Thousand Colors (2008). He wrote and starred, with Andre Gregory, in the 1981 avant-garde drama My Dinner with Andre, and played the title role in A Master Builder (2013), a film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play. Haymarket Books published his books Essays (2009) and Night Thoughts (2017). Description above from the Wikipedia article Wallace Shawn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

135 films

Toy Story 5

20267.4

Toy Story

19958.0

Toy Story 2

19997.6

Monsters, Inc.

20017.9

Toy Story 3

20107.8

Toy Story 4

20197.5

The Incredibles

20047.7

The Princess Bride

19877.7

Chicken Little

20055.9

Clueless

19957.3

A Goofy Movie

19957.0

Marriage Story

20197.7

Small Fry

20116.9

Book Club

20186.2

Starting Over

19796.4

The Haunted Mansion

20035.7

The Addams Family 2

20216.9

Toy Story That Time Forgot

20147.1

Air Buddies

20065.9

Duplex

20036.1

Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers

20066.9

Hawaiian Vacation

20117.0

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

20105.2

Manhattan

19797.7

Vegas Vacation

19976.0

The Double

20146.5

All Dogs Go to Heaven 2

19966.0

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins

20006.4

All That Jazz

19797.5

Partysaurus Rex

20127.1

The Clock

2025

I Could Never Be Your Woman

20075.9

My Favorite Martian

19995.7

The Only Living Boy in New York

20176.3

Happily N'Ever After

20075.1

Napoleon

19956.3

Teacher's Pet

20046.1

Animal Crackers

20186.4

Southland Tales

20075.2

Vamps

20125.3

Furry Vengeance

20105.0

Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King

20087.6

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

19895.4

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

20206.2

My Dinner with Andre

19817.5

The Pixar Story

20077.5

Admission

20135.6

A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion

20206.3

The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story

19985.7

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

20016.6

Jack and the Beanstalk

20095.2

We're No Angels

19896.2

Strong Medicine

19816.3

Rifkin's Festival

20206.1

Radio Days

19877.0

The Bedroom Window

19876.3

Canadian Bacon

19955.8

Maggie's Plan

20165.7

Shadows and Fog

19916.7

Melinda and Melinda

20046.2

The Meteor Man

19935.8

House Arrest

19965.3

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

20086.5

Atlantic City

19806.8

The Hotel New Hampshire

19845.7

Monte Walsh

20036.1

She's Out of Control

19895.2

Heaven Help Us

19856.4

Micki & Maude

19845.7

The Moderns

19885.9

Capitalism: A Love Story

20097.1

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?

20196.1

Critical Care

19976.3

Nickel & Dime

19926.0

Deal of the Century

19834.7

USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland

2008

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

19945.9

A Late Quartet

20126.7

Starring Austin Pendleton

20166.7

Vanya on 42nd Street

19946.6

Head Office

19855.4

Cop and a Half: New Recruit

20175.5

Mr. St. Nick

20025.9

Robo-Dog

20156.3

Prick Up Your Ears

19876.7

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond

20157.1

A Little Sex

19823.6

Don Peyote

20143.8

The Prime Gig

20016.0

Club Penguin Halloween Panic!

201510.0

Mom and Dad Save the World

19924.9

The Bostonians

19845.5

Strange Invaders

19834.8

The Story Behind 'Toy Story'

19967.5

Club Penguin Monster Beach Party

201510.0

Phineas and Ferb Save Summer

20148.0

Toy Story: 30 Years and Beyond - A Special Edition of 20/20

2026

Crackers

19844.7

New York City Serenade

20075.7

Just Like Dad

19955.2

The Last Impresario

20145.5

Personal Velocity

20025.9

Another Kind of Wedding

20175.0

Christmas at Cartwright's

20145.5

The Magic Bubble

19933.1

The Cemetery Club

19935.5

The Double 0 Kid

19925.1

Cheaper to Keep Her

19814.3

Karroll's Christmas

20044.8

The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man

19998.0

A Master Builder

20145.9

Saigon: Year of the Cat

19835.3

Nice Girls Don't Explode

19874.8

Lovesick

19835.7

Simon

19806.3

The Wife

19964.9

Just Write

19975.6

Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner

20133.2

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

20187.0

The Speed of Thought

20114.5

The Windmill Movie

20097.0

Driving Mr. Pink

199510.0

André Gregory and Wallace Shawn

2009

My Dinner with Louis

1984

The Fog of Courage

20146.3

Drawing Home

2017

As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'

20017.6

The First Time

19835.0

Noah

19985.6

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days

19847.0

Waiting for Godot

20213.0

Love Thy Neighbor

20033.0

Strange Culture

20074.7

Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States

2006

Toy Story of Terror!

20137.2