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.
135 movies · 56 shows
Toy Story 5
2026·7.4
Toy Story: 30 Years and Beyond - A Special Edition of 20/20
2026·0.0
The Clock
2025·0.0
The Addams Family 2
2021·6.9
Waiting for Godot
2021·3.0
Rifkin's Festival
2020·6.1
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2020·6.3
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
2020·6.2
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?
2019·6.1
Marriage Story
2019·7.7
Toy Story 4
2019·7.5
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
2018·7.0
Animal Crackers
2018·6.4
Book Club
2018·6.2
Another Kind of Wedding
2017·5.0
Drawing Home
2017·0.0
Cop and a Half: New Recruit
2017·5.5
The Only Living Boy in New York
2017·6.3
Maggie's Plan
2016·5.7
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016·6.7
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2015·7.1
Club Penguin Halloween Panic!
2015·10.0
Robo-Dog
2015·6.3
Club Penguin Monster Beach Party
2015·10.0
Christmas at Cartwright's
2014·5.5
Toy Story That Time Forgot
2014·7.1
The Fog of Courage
2014·6.3
A Master Builder
2014·5.9
The Last Impresario
2014·5.5
Phineas and Ferb Save Summer
2014·8.0
Don Peyote
2014·3.8
The Double
2014·6.5
Toy Story of Terror!
2013·7.2
Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
2013·3.2
Admission
2013·5.6
A Late Quartet
2012·6.7
Partysaurus Rex
2012·7.1
Vamps
2012·5.3
Small Fry
2011·6.9
Hawaiian Vacation
2011·7.0
The Speed of Thought
2011·4.5
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010·5.2
Toy Story 3
2010·7.8
Furry Vengeance
2010·5.0
Jack and the Beanstalk
2009·5.2
Capitalism: A Love Story
2009·7.1
The Windmill Movie
2009·7.0
André Gregory and Wallace Shawn
2009·0.0
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
2008·7.6
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
2008·6.5
USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland
2008·0.0
Southland Tales
2007·5.2
New York City Serenade
2007·5.7
The Pixar Story
2007·7.5
I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007·5.9
Strange Culture
2007·4.7
Happily N'Ever After
2007·5.1
Air Buddies
2006·5.9
Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers
2006·6.9
Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
2006·0.0
Chicken Little
2005·5.9
Karroll's Christmas
2004·4.8
Melinda and Melinda
2004·6.2
The Incredibles
2004·7.7
Teacher's Pet
2004·6.1
The Haunted Mansion
2003·5.7
Love Thy Neighbor
2003·3.0
Duplex
2003·6.1
Monte Walsh
2003·6.1
Mr. St. Nick
2002·5.9
Personal Velocity
2002·5.9
Monsters, Inc.
2001·7.9
As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
2001·7.6
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001·6.6
The Prime Gig
2001·6.0
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
2000·6.4
Toy Story 2
1999·7.6
My Favorite Martian
1999·5.7
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999·8.0
Noah
1998·5.6
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
1998·5.7
Critical Care
1997·6.3
Just Write
1997·5.6
Vegas Vacation
1997·6.0
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
1996·7.5
The Wife
1996·4.9
House Arrest
1996·5.3
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
1996·6.0
Toy Story
1995·8.0
Just Like Dad
1995·5.2
Clueless
1995·7.2
Napoleon
1995·6.3
Canadian Bacon
1995·5.8
Driving Mr. Pink
1995·10.0
A Goofy Movie
1995·7.0
Vanya on 42nd Street
1994·6.6
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994·5.9
The Meteor Man
1993·5.8
The Magic Bubble
1993·3.1
The Cemetery Club
1993·5.5
The Double 0 Kid
1992·5.1
Mom and Dad Save the World
1992·4.9
Nickel & Dime
1992·6.0
Shadows and Fog
1991·6.7
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
1989·5.4
We're No Angels
1989·6.2
She's Out of Control
1989·5.3
The Moderns
1988·5.9
The Princess Bride
1987·7.7
Prick Up Your Ears
1987·6.7
Nice Girls Don't Explode
1987·4.8
Radio Days
1987·7.0
The Bedroom Window
1987·6.3
Head Office
1985·5.4
Heaven Help Us
1985·6.4
Micki & Maude
1984·5.6
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
1984·7.0
My Dinner with Louis
1984·0.0
The Bostonians
1984·5.6
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984·5.7
Crackers
1984·4.7
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983·5.3
Deal of the Century
1983·4.7
Strange Invaders
1983·4.8
The First Time
1983·5.0
Lovesick
1983·5.7
A Little Sex
1982·3.6
Strong Medicine
1981·6.3
My Dinner with Andre
1981·7.5
Cheaper to Keep Her
1981·4.3
Atlantic City
1980·6.8
Simon
1980·6.3
All That Jazz
1979·7.5
Starting Over
1979·6.4
Manhattan
1979·7.7