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): Alex Wilson (Canadian sprinter) • Emily McLaughlin • Javier Báez • Luke McPharlin • Marty Marion • Mihály Vörösmarty • Mika Pohjola • Mike Denness • Sarah Silverman • Stephen Poliakoff • Veikko Aaltonen • Vernon McGarity

Born in the same month (December 1923): Betsy Blair • Bob Barker • Clorindo Testa • Dewey Martin (actor) • Ernst Florian Winter • Gordon Jackson (actor) • Harold Gould • Jaroslav Pelikan • Larry Doby • Lucas Mangope • Morrie Turner • Onofre Marimón • Peregrine Worsthorne • Prakash Vir Shastri • Richard Artschwager • Robert V. Bruce • Rudolph Pariser • Valentin Varennikov