Wallace Shawn
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.
189 acting credits
Acting · 189
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Simpsons
1989
Family Guy
1999
Stargate SG-1
1997
Desperate Housewives
2004
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Regular Show
2010
Young Sheldon
2017
The Good Wife
2009
Gossip Girl
2007
King of the Hill
1997
Phineas and Ferb
2007
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
Crossing Jordan
2001
The Nanny
1993
Sex and the City
1998
BoJack Horseman
2014
The Good Fight
2017
The Cosby Show
1984
Mr. Robot
2015
Damages
2007
Evil
2019
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Toy Story 5
2026
Summer Camp Island
2018
The L Word
2004
Toy Story
1995
Eureka
2006
Taxi
1978
Amphibia
2019
Big City Greens
2018
Toy Story 2
1999
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
2011
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
2017
Monsters, Inc.
2001
Life in Pieces
2015
Ally McBeal
1997
Toy Story 3
2010
Krapopolis
2023
Search Party
2016
Fish Hooks
2010
Toy Story 4
2019
Mozart in the Jungle
2014
The Incredibles
2004
The 7D
2014
The Night Shift
2014
The Mysteries of Laura
2014
Gossip Girl
2021
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Clueless
1996
Life on Mars
2008
The Pink Panther
1993
The Princess Bride
1987
Chicken Little
2005
Teacher's Pet
2000
Graves
2016
Civil Wars
1991
Clueless
1995
Marriage Story
2019
The Stinky & Dirty Show
2016
Toy Story Treats
1996
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010
A Goofy Movie
1995
Fat Actress
2005
The Lionhearts
1998
Blonde
2001
Toy Story That Time Forgot
2014
The Haunted Mansion
2003
Vegas Vacation
1997
Hawaiian Vacation
2011
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
2000
The Addams Family 2
2021
I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007
Happily N'Ever After
2007
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
2020
Duplex
2003
Southland Tales
2007
My Dinner with Andre
1981
The Pixar Story
2007
All That Jazz
1979
The Double
2014
Vamps
2012
Partysaurus Rex
2012
Small Fry
2011
Book Club
2018
The Meteor Man
1993
My Favorite Martian
1999
Animal Crackers
2018
Capitalism: A Love Story
2009
The Bedroom Window
1987
Rifkin’s Festival
2020
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001
Manhattan
1979
The Only Living Boy in New York
2017
Air Buddies
2006
We're No Angels
1989
Radio Days
1987
Admission
2013
Jack and the Beanstalk
2009
A Little Sex
1982
Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers
2006
Monte Walsh
2003
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
2018
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
1996
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
House Arrest
1996
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
1998
Shadows and Fog
1991
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2015
Micki & Maude
1984
She's Out of Control
1989
Maggie's Plan
2016
Melinda and Melinda
2004
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
2008
Atlantic City
1980
Canadian Bacon
1995
Furry Vengeance
2010
Starting Over
1979
Personal Velocity
2002
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
2008
Critical Care
1997
Deal of the Century
1983
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Buzz Lightyear Mission Logs
2010
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
1989
A Late Quartet
2012
The Moderns
1988
Mom and Dad Save the World
1992
Heaven Help Us
1985
Teacher's Pet
2004
Lovesick
1983
Vanya on 42nd Street
1994
Simon
1980
The Prime Gig
2001
The Cemetery Club
1993
The Bostonians
1984
Don Peyote
2014
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
1996
Napoleon
1995
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland
2008
Strange Invaders
1983
Cop and a Half: New Recruit
2017
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
1984
Another Kind of Wedding
2017
Just Write
1997
Head Office
1985
Crackers
1984
Robo-Dog
2015
Phineas and Ferb Save Summer
2014
The Double 0 Kid
1992
As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
2001
The Magic Bubble
1993
The Speed of Thought
2011
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
A Master Builder
2014
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2020
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?
2019
The First Time
1983
Mr. St. Nick
2002
Love Thy Neighbor
2003
Christmas at Cartwright's
2014
New York City Serenade
2007
Waiting for Godot
2021
Strong Medicine
1981
Nickel & Dime
1992
Cheaper to Keep Her
1981
The Last Impresario
2014
Nice Girls Don't Explode
1987
Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
2006
Karroll's Christmas
2004
Noah
1998
Club Penguin Halloween Panic!
2015
Drawing Home
2017
Just Like Dad
1995
The Wife
1996
Driving Mr. Pink
1995
The Man Who Changed the World
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Club Penguin Monster Beach Party
2015
Strange Culture
2007
The Clock
2025
The Windmill Movie
2009
André Gregory and Wallace Shawn
2009
Toy Story of Terror!
2013
Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
2013
The Fog of Courage
2014
My Dinner with Louis
1984