Dick Shawn

Dick Shawn was an American actor and comedian. He played a wide variety of supporting roles and was a prolific character actor. During the 1960s, he played small roles in madcap comedies, usually portraying caricatures of counterculture personalities, such as the hedonistic but mother-obsessed Sylvester Marcus in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and the hippie actor Lorenzo Saint DuBois ("L.S.D.") in The Producers (1967). Besides his film work, he appeared in numerous television shows from the 1960s through the 1980s.

1 December 1923

Born on the same birth date (1 December 1923): Stansfield Turner

Born on the same birth day (1 December): Bart Millard • Christian Pescatori • Christos Melissis • Franz Xaver Richter • Georgy Zhukov • Jimmy Lyons • Justin Chadwick • Kenny Moore (runner) • Lee McKenzie • Lou Rawls • Marie Bashir • Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc • Pablo Escobar • Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke • Sebastián Piñera • Sophia Skou • Sophie Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1592–1642) • Tyler Joseph • Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga • Violette Verdy

Born in the same month (December 1923): Betsy Blair • Bruno Bobak • Dewey Martin (actor) • Eagle Keys • Edwin Bramall • George Patton IV • James Stockdale • Onofre Marimón • Philip W. Anderson • Pierre Cossette • Prakash Vir Shastri • Robert V. Bruce • Stansfield Turner • Stjepan Bobek