Cast
Wallace Shawn
Acting
Cast
Wallace Shawn
Known for
Acting
Born
1943-11-12
From
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as Wally Shawn, Wallace Michael Shawn, والاس شاون
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.
★7.4
MOVIE2026
Toy Story 5
as Rex (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1995
Toy Story
as Rex (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE2019
Toy Story 4
as Rex (voice)
★7.6
MOVIE1999
Toy Story 2
as Rex (voice)
★7.9
MOVIE2001
Monsters, Inc.
as Rex (voice) (uncredited)
★7.8
MOVIE2010
Toy Story 3
as Rex (voice)
★7.7
MOVIE2004
The Incredibles
as Gilbert Huph (voice)
★7.7
MOVIE1987
The Princess Bride
as Vizzini
★5.9
MOVIE2005
Chicken Little
as Principal Fetchit (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE1995
Clueless
as Mr. Wendell Hall
★7.1
MOVIE2014
Toy Story That Time Forgot
as Rex (voice)
★7.7
MOVIE2019
Marriage Story
as Frank
★6.4
MOVIE1979
Starting Over
as Workshop Member
★6.9
MOVIE2021
The Addams Family 2
as Mr. Mustela (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE2011
Hawaiian Vacation
as Rex (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1995
A Goofy Movie
as Principal Mazur (voice)
★7.1
MOVIE2012
Partysaurus Rex
as Rex (voice)
★6.9
MOVIE2011
Small Fry
as Rex (voice)
★5.3
MOVIE2012
Vamps
as Dr. Van Helsing
★5.7
MOVIE2003
The Haunted Mansion
as Ezra
★6.2
MOVIE1995
Napoleon
as Echidna (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE1981
My Dinner with Andre
as Wallace Shawn
★6.2
MOVIE2018
Book Club
as Dr. Derek
★6.3
MOVIE2017
The Only Living Boy in New York
as David
★6.7
MOVIE2012
A Late Quartet
as Gideon Rosen
★6.0
MOVIE1997
Vegas Vacation
as Marty
★6.5
MOVIE2014
The Double
as Mr. Papadopoulos
★5.2
MOVIE2010
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
as Calico (voice)
★6.1
MOVIE2003
Duplex
as Herman
★5.1
MOVIE2007
Happily N'Ever After
as Munk (voice)
★6.9
MOVIE2006
Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers
as Barnacle Paul (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE2006
Air Buddies
as Billy (voice)
★5.7
MOVIE1999
My Favorite Martian
as Coleye
★6.4
MOVIE2000
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
as Rex (voice)
★5.2
MOVIE2007
Southland Tales
as Baron Von Westphalen
★6.0
MOVIE1996
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
as Labrador MC (voice)
★7.7
MOVIE1979
Manhattan
as Jeremiah
★7.5
MOVIE2007
The Pixar Story
as Rex (voice) (archive footage)
★5.9
MOVIE2007
I Could Never Be Your Woman
as Math Teacher (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1979
All That Jazz
as Assistant Insurance Man
★6.4
MOVIE2018
Animal Crackers
as Mr. Woodley (voice)
★3.6
MOVIE1982
A Little Sex
as Oliver
MOVIE2025
The Clock
as Harold Jenkins
★5.0
MOVIE2010
Furry Vengeance
as Dr. Christian Burr (uncredited)
★5.2
MOVIE2009
Jack and the Beanstalk
as Booker / Broker / Lancealot Squarejaw
★5.2
MOVIE2009
Jack and the Beanstalk
as Broker / Booker / Lancelot Squarejaw
★7.6
MOVIE2008
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
as Mr. Gibbles (voice)
★5.7
MOVIE2016
Maggie's Plan
as Kliegler
★6.1
MOVIE2020
Rifkin's Festival
as Mort Rifkin
★8.0
MOVIE1992
Nickel & Dime
as Everett Willits
★6.7
MOVIE1991
Shadows and Fog
as Simon Carr
★6.1
MOVIE2004
Teacher's Pet
as Principal Crosby Strickler (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE1997
Critical Care
as Furnaceman
MOVIE2026
Toy Story: 30 Years and Beyond - A Special Edition of 20/20
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE2003
Monte Walsh
as Colonel Wilson
★7.0
MOVIE1987
Radio Days
as Masked Avenger
★6.2
MOVIE2004
Melinda and Melinda
as Sy
★5.0
MOVIE1995
Just Like Dad
as Stan Spiegel
★5.7
MOVIE1998
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
as Tarzan Chimp (voice)
★5.8
MOVIE1995
Canadian Bacon
as Canadian Prime Minister Clark MacDonald
★6.6
MOVIE2001
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
as George Bond
★5.8
MOVIE1993
The Meteor Man
as Mr. Little
★5.2
MOVIE1989
She's Out of Control
as Dr. Fishbinder
★5.7
MOVIE2007
New York City Serenade
as Wallace Shawn
★7.1
MOVIE2009
Capitalism: A Love Story
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE1988
The Moderns
as Oiseau
★5.7
MOVIE1984
The Hotel New Hampshire
as Freud
★5.6
MOVIE2013
Admission
as Clarence
★4.7
MOVIE1983
Deal of the Century
as Harold DeVoto
★6.2
MOVIE1989
We're No Angels
as Translator
★6.3
MOVIE1987
The Bedroom Window
as Henderson's Attorney
★5.4
MOVIE1985
Head Office
as Mike Hoover
★6.3
MOVIE2020
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
as Vizzini
★5.5
MOVIE2017
Cop and a Half: New Recruit
as Principal Miller
MOVIE2008
USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland
as Self
★4.8
MOVIE1983
Strange Invaders
as Earl
★6.8
MOVIE1980
Atlantic City
as Waiter
★6.2
MOVIE2020
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
as Mr. Crocus
★5.0
MOVIE1992
The Double 0 Kid
as Cashpot
★6.4
MOVIE1985
Heaven Help Us
as Father Abruzzi
★7.1
MOVIE2015
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
as Self (archive footage)
★5.3
MOVIE1996
House Arrest
as Vic Finley
★5.0
MOVIE2017
Another Kind of Wedding
as Albert
★4.8
MOVIE2004
Karroll's Christmas
MOVIE1984
My Dinner with Louis
as Interviewer
★5.9
MOVIE2002
Personal Velocity
as Mr. Gelb
★5.5
MOVIE1993
The Cemetery Club
as Larry
★4.5
MOVIE2011
The Speed of Thought
as Sandy
★10.0
MOVIE2015
Club Penguin Halloween Panic!
as Gary
★6.7
MOVIE2016
Starring Austin Pendleton
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE1984
Micki & Maude
as Dr. Elliot Fibel
★6.7
MOVIE1987
Prick Up Your Ears
as John Lahr
★4.7
MOVIE1984
Crackers
as Turtle
★6.5
MOVIE2008
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
as Mr. Gibson
★5.3
MOVIE1983
Saigon: Year of the Cat
as Frank Judd
★10.0
MOVIE2015
Club Penguin Monster Beach Party
as Gary the Gadget Guy (voice)
★5.6
MOVIE1984
The Bostonians
as Mr. Pardon
★5.5
MOVIE2014
Christmas at Cartwright's
as Harry
★3.1
MOVIE1993
The Magic Bubble
as Doctor/Therapist
★5.5
MOVIE2014
The Last Impresario
as Self
★5.7
MOVIE1983
Lovesick
as Otto Jaffe
★5.9
MOVIE2014
A Master Builder
as Halvard Solness
★4.8
MOVIE1987
Nice Girls Don't Explode
as Ellen
★4.9
MOVIE1992
Mom and Dad Save the World
as Sibor, Semage's Beau
★6.6
MOVIE1994
Vanya on 42nd Street
as Vanya
★4.3
MOVIE1981
Cheaper to Keep Her
as Mugger
★3.0
MOVIE2003
Love Thy Neighbor
as Clinic Doctor
★7.0
MOVIE2009
The Windmill Movie
as Self
★3.8
MOVIE2014
Don Peyote
as Dr. Fieldman
★6.1
MOVIE2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?
as Rex (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE1994
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
as Horatio Byrd
★7.0
MOVIE2018
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
as Self
★4.7
MOVIE2007
Strange Culture
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2001
The Prime Gig
as Gene
★5.4
MOVIE1989
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
as Howard
★6.3
MOVIE1980
Simon
as Eric Van Dongen
★6.3
MOVIE2015
Robo-Dog
as Mr. Willis
★6.3
MOVIE2014
The Fog of Courage
as Eustace Bagge
★7.6
MOVIE2001
As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
as Self
★7.5
MOVIE1996
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE2002
Mr. St. Nick
as Mimir
MOVIE2017
Drawing Home
★8.0
MOVIE2014
Phineas and Ferb Save Summer
as Saul (voice)
★5.0
MOVIE1983
The First Time
as Jules Goldfarb
★5.6
MOVIE1998
Noah
★3.0
MOVIE2021
Waiting for Godot
as Lucky
★5.6
MOVIE1997
Just Write
as Arthur Blake
★6.3
MOVIE1981
Strong Medicine
as Birthday Party Guest (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1995
Driving Mr. Pink
as Boss Man (voice)
★4.9
MOVIE1996
The Wife
as Cosmo
MOVIE2009
André Gregory and Wallace Shawn
★8.0
MOVIE1999
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
★7.2
MOVIE2013
Toy Story of Terror!
as Rex (Voice)
MOVIE2006
Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1984
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
as Professor Silverfish
★3.2
MOVIE2013
Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
as Self