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

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Born in the same month (December 1923): Charles Keating • Edwin Bramall • Freeman Dyson • Jaroslav Pelikan • John Krish • Larry Doby • Lucas Mangope • Morrie Turner • Peregrine Worsthorne • Stansfield Turner • Ted Knight • Trevor Bailey • William C. Schneider