Wallace Shawn
Biography
Wallace Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, playwright, essayist and comedian.
His film roles have included Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre, Vizzini in The Princess Bride, Mr. Hall in Clueless and Rex in the Toy Story franchise. He has also appeared in a variety of television series, including recurring roles as Cyrus Rose in Gossip Girl and as Grand Nagus Zek in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon and Grasses of a Thousand Colors. He also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre and he scripted A Master Builder, a film adaptation of of the play by Henrik Ibsen, which he also starred in. His book Essays was published in 2009 by Haymarket Books.
Acting (131 movies)
Toy Story
1995
Toy Story 2
1999
Manhattan
1979
Toy Story 3
2010
Canadian Bacon
1995
The Princess Bride
1987
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001
Southland Tales
2007
Happily N'Ever After
2007
Deal of the Century
1983
Capitalism: A Love Story
2009
Cheaper to Keep Her
1981
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
Atlantic City
1980
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
Radio Days
1987
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
2008
My Dinner with Andre
1981
Monsters, Inc.
2001
Vanya on 42nd Street
1994
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
2008
Clueless
1995
Chicken Little
2005
My Favorite Martian
1999
Melinda and Melinda
2004
Mom and Dad Save the World
1992
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Micki & Maude
1984
Jack and the Beanstalk
2009
Head Office
1985
The Windmill Movie
2009
The Moderns
1988
Strong Medicine
1981
The Speed of Thought
2011
Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers
2006
Monte Walsh
2003
Critical Care
1997
The Prime Gig
2001
USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland
2008
A Goofy Movie
1995
The Bedroom Window
1987
Strange Invaders
1983
She's Out of Control
1989
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
1996
Lovesick
1983
The Double 0 Kid
1992
Vamps
2012
The Wife
1996
The Magic Bubble
1993
Nice Girls Don't Explode
1987
Crackers
1984
Hawaiian Vacation
2011
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999
A Late Quartet
2012
Heaven Help Us
1985
Admission
2013
Karroll's Christmas
2004
The Double
2014
Partysaurus Rex
2012
Just Write
1997
Furry Vengeance
2010
Noah
1998
The First Time
1983
Toy Story of Terror!
2013
The Pixar Story
2007
The Haunted Mansion
2003
A Master Builder
2014
André Gregory and Wallace Shawn
2009
All That Jazz
1979
Driving Mr. Pink
1995
Love Thy Neighbor
2003
Simon
1980
Toy Story That Time Forgot
2014
Shadows and Fog
1991
Christmas at Cartwright's
2014
We're No Angels
1989
House Arrest
1996
Maggie's Plan
2016
Vegas Vacation
1997
Robo-Dog
2015
Starting Over
1979
Teacher's Pet
2004
Personal Velocity
2002
The Incredibles
2004
Small Fry
2011
Club Penguin Halloween Panic!
2015
Duplex
2003
A Little Sex
1982
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
1984
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
1989
Animal Crackers
2017
Just Like Dad
1995
Nickel & Dime
1992
Club Penguin Monster Beach Party
2015
The Bostonians
1984
Air Buddies
2006
Cop and a Half: New Recruit
2017
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
1996
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Our Late Night | 1975 | Writer |
| My Dinner with Andre | 1981 | Writer |
| The Designated Mourner | 1997 | Writer |
| Marie and Bruce | 2004 | Screenplay |
| The Fever | 2004 | Screenplay |
| A Master Builder | 2014 | Producer |
| A Master Builder | 2014 | Screenplay |