# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-shawn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:25:06.353Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-shawn"
name: "Dick Shawn"
slug: "dick-shawn"
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 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). Beyond his film work, he appeared in numerous television shows from the 1960s through the 1980s."
tagline: "American actor (1923–1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dick_Shawn_1964.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1923-12-01"
deathDate: "1987-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.92649466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790071/"
    handle:    "nm0790071"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Dick Shawn"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Shawn"
    title: "Dick Shawn"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Shawn"
    title: "Dick Shawn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Shawn"
    title: "Dick Shawn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dick Shawn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Shawn"
    title: "Dick Shawn"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Shawn"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump