Cast: Dick Shawn
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Dick Shawn. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 25
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Movie · 154 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters
Synopsis After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go...
6.8
5K votes
6.8
5K votes
The Producers
1967 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Mel Brooks
Cast Zero Mostel · Gene Wilder · Kenneth Mars · Estelle Winwood
Synopsis Max Bialystock is a washed up Broadway producer. Leo Bloom is a mousey CPA. When the two meet, their combined expertise points them toward the ultimate scam: Raise more money than you need for a SURE Flop Broadway Show. No...
6.6
2K votes
6.6
2K votes
What Did you Do in the War, Daddy?
1966 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Blake Edwards
Cast James Coburn · Aldo Ray · Dick Shawn · Sergio Fantoni
Synopsis A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance,...
6.6
960 votes
6.6
960 votes
The Happy Ending
1969 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Richard Brooks
Cast Jean Simmons · John Forsythe · Lloyd Bridges · Teresa Wright
Synopsis The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons), a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She...
6.6
328 votes
6.6
328 votes
Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series)
1982 · Series · 50 min. · United States
Direction Peter Medak · Gilbert Cates · Graeme Clifford · Robert Iscove
Cast Shelley Duvall · John Achorn · Patrick DeSantis · David McCharen
Synopsis TV Series (1982-1987). 6 seasons. 27 chapters. At a time when most other shows for children were either low-budget productions or product-inspired cartoons that were little more than half-hour commercials, this program set out to produce high-quality classic entertainment that...
6.4
119 votes
6.4
119 votes
The Emperor's New Clothes (Faerie Tale Theatre Series) (TV)
1985 · Movie · 54 min. · United States
Direction Peter Medak
Cast Dick Shawn · Art Carney · Alan Arkin · Timothy Dalton
Synopsis Thanks to two con men, an overly fashion-conscious Emperor finds out that there's a lot more to being a good ruler than just looking the part. Bo (America's Sweetheart's Alan Arkin) and Morty (The Honeymooner's Art Carney) show up to...
5.9
149 votes
5.9
149 votes
Penelope
1966 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Hiller
Cast Natalie Wood · Ian Bannen · Dick Shawn · Peter Falk
Synopsis Comedy about a flighty, bored, kleptomaniac wife of a banker who robs her husband's bank of $60,000.
5.7
75 votes
5.7
75 votes
A Very Special Favor
1965 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Rock Hudson · Leslie Caron · Charles Boyer · Walter Slezak
5.4
157 votes
5.4
157 votes
Captain EO (S)
1986 · Movie · 17 min. · United States
Direction Francis Ford Coppola
Cast Michael Jackson · Anjelica Huston · Dick Shawn · Tony Cox
Synopsis Captain Eo and his rugged crew set out on a mission to deliver a special gift to a wicked queen who lives on a dark, desolate world. Getting there is half the fun, especially when the good captain starts boogying...
5.3
861 votes
5.3
861 votes
Angel
1984 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Robert Vincent O'Neill
Cast Donna Wilkes · Cliff Gorman · Susan Tyrrell · Dick Shawn
Synopsis 15 year-old Molly is the best in her class in high school. Nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as prostitute "Angel" on Sunset Blvd. The well-organized separation of her two lives is shattered when two...
5.2
240 votes
5.2
240 votes
Way... Way Out
1966 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Jerry Lewis · Connie Stevens · Robert Morley · Dennis Weaver
Synopsis The Americans and the Russians each have a two-person base on the moon. The Americans have had to keep replacing their astronaut teams because they quickly go crazy; they have been using only male astronauts on the unspoken assumption that...
4.7
95 votes
4.7
95 votes
Maid to Order
1987 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Amy Holden Jones
Cast Ally Sheedy · Dick Shawn · Theresa Randle · Katey Sagal
Synopsis Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell which...
4.7
149 votes
4.7
149 votes
Love at First Bite
1979 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Stan Dragoti
Cast George Hamilton · Susan Saint James · Richard Benjamin · Barry Gordon
Synopsis The Communists evict Count Dracula and his manservant Renfield from Castle Dracula so that the castle can be occupied by the Rumanian Gymnastics Team. Dracula decides to head to New York City in pursuit of fashion model Cindy Sondheim, whom...
4.6
615 votes
4.6
615 votes
Miss Stardust (Amazing Stories) (TV)
1987 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Tobe Hooper
Cast Dick Shawn · Laraine Newman · Rick Overton · Jack Carter
Synopsis Public-relations man Joe Willoughby thinks that promoting the Miss Stardust beauty pageant will be a snap, until "Cabbage Man," a representative from outer space, arrives and contends he owns the rights to the title and threatens to eliminate Earth unless...
4.5
226 votes
4.5
226 votes
Young Warriors
1983 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Lawrence D. Foldes
Cast Ernest Borgnine · Richard Roundtree · Lynda Day George · James Van Patten
Synopsis A young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, sparking her brother Kevin to take up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, brutally punishing any miscreants they catch in a...
3.4
82 votes
3.4
82 votes
The Perils of P.K.
1986 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Green
Cast Naura Hayden · Dick Shawn · Jackie Mason · Larry Storch
Synopsis P.K., a former movie star now reduced to working as a stripper in a Las Vegas nightclub, is desperate for a comeback, and thinks she could make one if she could only get a big-name star to appear in a...
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The Wizard of Baghdad
1960 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Dick Shawn · Diane Baker · Barry Coe · John Van Dreelen
Synopsis A genie turned mortal after his many failures is sent to Baghdad. As his last chance to prove himself he must help a prince and princess fulfill a prophecy.
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Captain Kangaroo (TV Series)
1955 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Bob Claver · Jim Hirschfeld · Peter Birch
Cast Bob Keeshan · Hugh Brannum · Shari Lewis · James E. Wall
Synopsis In the annals of televison, few children's programs ever made as much impact as Captain Kangaroo. Hosted by Bob Keeshan (at one time, he played Howdy Doody's friend, Clarabell) from the appropriately-named Captain's Place, the Captain was so named because...
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Beer
1985 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Patrick Kelly
Cast Loretta Swit · Rip Torn · Kenneth Mars · David Alan Grier
Synopsis An advertising firm, desperate to keep an account from a financially-ailing brewery, concocts a macho ad campaign centering on three losers who inadvertently prevent a robbery at a bar.
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The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984 · Movie · 90 min. · Yugoslavia
Direction Danford B. Greene
Cast Bud Cort · Carol Kane · Klaus Kinski · Marisa Berenson
Synopsis Young Sigmund Freud discovers the ultimate answer to all his patient's problems - hypnosis. Hilarity ensues
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