Cast: Dick Shawn

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Dick Shawn. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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

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

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

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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

Not rated

Not rated