page_title: Dick Shawn
hierarchical_section_title: Dick Shawn
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of Dick Shawn.
context_page_description: 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 counter culture personalities, such as deadbeat son Sylvester Marcus in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and the hippie actor Lorenzo Saint DuBois in The Producers.
context_section_description: Dick Shawn (born Richard Schulefand, December 1, 1923 – April 17, 1987) 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 counter culture personalities, such as  deadbeat son Sylvester Marcus in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and the hippie actor Lorenzo Saint DuBois ("L.S.D.")  in The Producers (1968).
caption: Shawn in 1964
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