Wallace Shawn

ACTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

American character actor and writer Wallace Shawn has one of those fun, mischievously homely faces just made to entertain. Though he got out of the starting gate rather slowly, he has since excelled on stage, television and film while managing to turn himself into a winner with his loser-type looks. Woody Allen's character in the movie Manhattan (1979) amusingly describes Wallace's character as "a homunculus", which is a pretty fair description of this predominantly bald, wan, pucker-mouthed, butterball-framed, slightly lisping gent. Wallace made his movie debut in Allen's heralded classic playing Diane Keaton's ex-husband.Born to privilege on November 12, 1943 in New York City, Wallace is the son of Cecille (Lyon), a journalist, and William Shawn, renowned and long-time editor of The New Yorker. His brother is composer Allen Shawn. He was educated at both Harvard University, where he studied history, and Magdalen College, Oxford. Wallace initially taught English in India on a Fulbright scholarship, and then English, Latin and drama back in New York. However, a keen interest in writing and acting soon compelled him to leave his cushy position and pursue a stage career as both playwright and actor. During his distinguished career, Wallace turned out several plays. "Our Late Night", the first of his works to be performed, was awarded an off-Broadway Obie in 1975. "A Thought in Three Parts" (1976); "The Mandrake" (1977), which he translated from the original Italian and in which he made his acting debut; "Marie and Bruce" (1979); "Aunt Dan and Lemon" (1985) and "The Fever", for which he received his second Obie Award for "Best New Play" during the 1990-91 season, then followed. A popular support player in both comedy and occasional drama, his assorted kooks, creeps, eggheads and schmucks possessed both endearing and unappetizing qualities. He earned some of his best early notices partnered with theatre director/actor Andre Gregory in the unique Louis Malle-directed film Mein Essen mit André (1981). Shawn co-wrote the improvisatory, humanistic piece and his brother, Allen Shawn, was the composer. Shawn and Gregory would collaborate again for Malle in another superb, original-concept film Vanya - 42. Straße (1994). Among the quality offbeat filming involving has been Bruce Paltrow's Der verführte Mann (1982); James Ivory's Die Damen aus Boston (1984); Stephen Frears' Das stürmische Leben des Joe Orton (1987); Rob Reiner's Die Braut des Prinzen (1987); Alan Rudolph's Wilde Jahre in Paris (1988) and Mrs. Parker und ihr lasterhafter Kreis (1994); Paul Bartel's Luxus, Sex und Lotterleben (1989); and several others for Woody Allen: Radio Days (1987), Schatten und Nebel (1991), Im Bann des Jade Skorpions (2001) and Melinda und Melinda (2004). Since the 1990s, he has lent his vocal talents to a considerable number of animated pictures including Der Goofy Film (1995), Toy Story (1995) (and its sequel), Das Dschungelbuch - Mowglis Abenteuer (1998), Die Unglaublichen (2004), Himmel und Huhn (2005) and Es war k'einmal im Märchenland (2006).Over the decades, Shawn has scurried about effortlessly in a number of television guest appearances including Taxi (1978), Homicide (1993), Ally McBeal (1997), Criminal Intent - Verbrechen im Visier (2001) and Desperate Housewives (2004), and has drummed up a few recurring roles for himself in the process, including Die Bill Cosby Show (1984), Murphy Brown (1988), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) and Crossing Jordan: Pathologin mit Profil (2001). In the series Clueless - Die wichtigen Dinge des Lebens (1996), based on the highly successful of the same name Clueless - Was sonst! (1995), Shawn revisited his role as the owlish high school teacher. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net

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Streaming Availability

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Releases by Year

Wallace Shawn on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1981 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Wallace Shawn movies released per year from 1997 till 2021.

Top Genres

Wallace Shawn works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Drama Genre flixes. 36% of Wallace Shawn movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Wallace Shawn worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Wallace Shawn has worked on is 6.5.

6.5 / 10

Wallace Shawn's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

7.7/10110 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Meet a child genius named Sheldon Cooper; (already seen as an adult in The Big Bang Theory (2007)) and his family. Some unique challenges face Sheldon who seems socially impaired.

7.5/1030 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

The adventures of best friends and unlikely heroes, Stinky the garbage truck and Dirty the backhoe loader, a dynamic and hilarious duo of resourcefulness that learn that when things don't ...

7.4/1011 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Romance
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre.

7.4/10119 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

This movie is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman). In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved Kenneth ...

7.1/10105 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama
The Wife (1995)

Tom Noonan's dark comedy features a husband-and-wife team of psychotherapists who run a New-Age therapy group out in the wilderness. Late one night, Jack and Rita are visited by one of ...

6.8/10101 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Mystery
The Double (2013)

A clerk in a government agency finds his unenviable life takes a turn for the horrific with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and seductive with women.

6.5/1093 min

Available in 16 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Romance
Melinda and Melinda (2004)

Two alternating stories, one comedy and the other tragedy, about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life.

6.4/1099 min

Available in 8 platform(s).