Biography
Wallace Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, playwright, essayist and comedian. His film roles have included those of Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre, Vizzini in The Princess Bride, Mr. Hall in Clueless and Rex in the Toy Story franchise. He has also appeared in a variety of television series, including recurring roles as Cyrus Rose in Gossip Girl and as Grand Nagus Zek in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Addams Family 2
2021
as Mr. Mustela (voice)
The Addams get tangled up in more wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins with all sorts of unsuspecting characters.

Waiting for Godot
2021
as Lucky
An experimental exploration of the storied play. Becket’s vision of perpetual uncertainty, anxiety, and loneliness is refracted through our current mo...

Rifkin’s Festival
2020
as Mort Rifkin
The story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and char...

A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2020
as Vizzini
The cast of The Princess Bride is together again! The stars of the iconic 1987 fantasy film reunited for a virtual table read hosted by Jason Reitman....

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
2020
as Mr. Crocus
An 11-year old boy believes that he is the best detective in town and runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, an imaginary 1,200 pound po...

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?
2019
as Rex (voice)
Rex uses the age of dinosaurs as an example to give Forky an understanding of the concept of time.

Marriage Story
2019
as Frank
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

Toy Story 4
2019
as Rex (voice)
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when ...

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
2018
as Self
A documentary exploring the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the reasons it went from the black sheep of Star Trek to a beloved mainstay of the f...

Book Club
2018
as Dr. Derek
Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club to get inspir...

Another Kind of Wedding
2017
as Albert
A fractured family is forced to confront what tore them apart at the eldest son's wedding.

Drawing Home
2017
Boston in the 1920s. A young East Coast debutante is dating the most eligible bachelor in the world, John D. Rockefeller III. Her future seems set: a ...

Cop and a Half: New Recruit
2017
as Principal Miller
In this family-friendly action reboot of the 1993 film, Karina Foley, an ambitious and spunky 12-year-old, inserts herself in a police investigation o...

The Only Living Boy in New York
2017
as David
When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.

Animal Crackers
2017
as Mr. Woodley (voice)
A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a rundown circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.

Maggie's Plan
2016
as Kliegler
Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own with a sperm donor is derailed when she falls in love with John, an older married professor, destroying his vo...

Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
as Self
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story.

Club Penguin Halloween Panic!
2015
as Gary
Happy Halloween from Club Penguin! Everyone is in the spirit for Halloween treats, except for master- prankster Blizzard who feels that tricks are the...

Robo-Dog
2015
as Mr. Willis
When Tyler's furry best friend dies tragically, his inventor Dad creates a new dog to take his place - complete with mechanical powers and robotic abi...

Club Penguin Monster Beach Party
2015
as Gary the Gadget Guy (voice)
It’s summer time on Club Penguin Island and resident party planner Jangrah has prepared the perfect “Surf ‘n’ Sno-cone” Beach Party for all of her pen...

Christmas at Cartwright's
2014
as Harry
With Christmas approaching, a struggling single mom finds herself working as a department store Santa Claus, as a real-life angel delivers good fortun...

Toy Story That Time Forgot
2014
as Rex (voice)
During a post-Christmas play date, the gang find themselves in uncharted territory when the coolest set of action figures ever turn out to be dangerou...

The Fog of Courage
2014
as Eustace Bagge
In this animated horror comedy, a cowardly dog named Courage must rescue his lovely owner, Muriel from a vengeful supernatural Fog. Eustace, Muriel's ...

A Master Builder
2014
as Halvard Solness
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches i...

A Master Builder
2014
Producer, Screenplay
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches i...

Phineas and Ferb Save Summer
2014
as Saul (voice)
When L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. moves the Earth further from the sun, Phineas and Ferb must find a way to save summer and prevent a new ice age.

Don Peyote
2014
as Dr. Fieldman
An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to discern the structure of society.

The Double
2014
as Mr. Papadopoulos
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman ...

Toy Story of Terror!
2013
as Rex (Voice)
What starts out as a fun road trip for the Toy Story gang takes an unexpected turn for the worse when the trip detours to a roadside motel. After one ...
Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
2013
as Self
BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER is an exploration of the life and work of Andre Gregory, groundbreaking director, actor, artist, and raconteur, filmed by priz...

Admission
2013
as Clarence
Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school ...

A Late Quartet
2012
as Gideon Rosen
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group's future suddenly hangs in the bal...

Partysaurus Rex
2012
as Rex (voice)
When Rex finds himself left behind in the bathroom, he puts his limbs to use by getting a bath going for a bunch of new toy friends.

Vamps
2012
as Dr. Van Helsing
The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has ...

Small Fry
2011
as Rex (voice)
A fast food restaurant mini variant of Buzz forcibly switches places with the real Buzz and his friends have to deal with the obnoxious impostor.

Hawaiian Vacation
2011
as Rex (voice)
The toys throw Ken and Barbie a Hawaiian vacation in Bonnie's room.

The Speed of Thought
2011
as Sandy
Joshua Lazarus (Nick Stahl) is a telepath who has been raised in a NSA foster home. Lazarus helps the government by using his abilities. He is told by...

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010
as Calico (voice)
The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for c...

Toy Story 3
2010
as Rex (voice)
Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally le...

Furry Vengeance
2010
as Dr. Christian Burr (uncredited)
When real estate developer Dan Sanders finalizes plans to level a swath of pristine Oregon forest to make way for a soulless housing subdivision, a ba...

Pixar Short Films
2009
as Rex (voice)
A collection of 20 computer-animated short films including "Rescue Squad Mater", "Jack-Jack Attack", and Oscar-winners "For The Birds", "Geri's Game",...

Jack and the Beanstalk
2009
as Booker / Broker / Lancealot Squarejaw
A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his fath...

Jack and the Beanstalk
2009
as Broker / Booker / Lancelot Squarejaw
A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his fath...

Capitalism: A Love Story
2009
as Self
Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of...

The Windmill Movie
2009
as Self
Filmmaker Richard P. Rogers tried for twenty years to make a documentary about his own life. He died in 2001, leaving the project unfinished, until hi...

André Gregory and Wallace Shawn
2009
In this hour-long piece, recorded in 2009, filmmaker Noah Baumbach talks with his friends the writer-actors André Gregory and Wallace Shawn about thei...

Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
2008
as Mr. Gibbles (voice)
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy must go into the underworld ruled by The Goblin King in order to stop a mortal named The Amazing Krudsky who wants power and is ...

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
2008
as Mr. Gibson
The Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin ...

USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland
2008
as Self
Making of the movie Southland Tales

Southland Tales
2007
as Baron Von Westphalen
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santar...

The Pixar Story
2007
as Rex (voice) (archive footage)
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of it...

I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007
as Math Teacher (uncredited)
Mother Nature loves to cause mischief, and she steps in to help two love-starved souls find happiness. She helps an aging professional woman and singl...

Strange Culture
2007
as Self
The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members d...

Happily N'Ever After
2007
as Munk (voice)
An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook exist...

Air Buddies
2006
as Billy (voice)
The offspring of sportsman canine Air Bud: B-Dawg, Mudbud, Budderball, Buddha, and Rosebud, uncover a kidnapping plot motivated by a little rich boy's...

Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers
2006
as Barnacle Paul (voice)
Dueling cat-and-mouse team Tom and Jerry hit the high seas on a hunt for buried treasure in this pirate adventure. The tale begins when crew member To...

Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
2006
as Self
An impressive roster of celebrities -- including Lili Taylor, Paul Robeson, Sarah Jones, Brian Jones, John Sayles and Wallace Shawn -- lend their voic...

Chicken Little
2005
as Principal Fetchit (voice)
When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chic...

Karroll's Christmas
2004
Allen Karroll hates Christmas ever since his ex-girlfriend humiliated him in front of thousands of people one Christmas. As a man who writes greeting ...

Melinda and Melinda
2004
as Sy
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel...

The Incredibles
2004
as Gilbert Huph (voice)
Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbi...

The Fever
2004
Screenplay, Author
Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.

Marie and Bruce
2004
Screenplay
A day in the life of a couple trapped in a sadomasochistic relationship. When Marie decides to break up with Bruce, their conversation devolves into a...

Teacher's Pet
2004
as Principal Crosby Strickler (voice)
Meet Spot, a clever little dog with big dreams of becoming a real boy. When Spot finds out that a crazy scientist can make his wish come true, he take...

The Haunted Mansion
2003
as Ezra
Workaholic Jim Evers and his wife/business partner Sara get a call one night from a mansion owner, Edward Gracey, who wants to sell his house. Once t...

Love Thy Neighbor
2003
as Clinic Doctor
Two married couples are about to give new meaning to the phrase "Love Thy Neighbor." When these best friends become more than just friends, one simple...

Duplex
2003
as Herman
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!

Monte Walsh
2003
as Colonel Wilson
Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their live...

Mr. St. Nick
2002
as Mimir
King Nicholas XX is ready to retire and pass the throne to his son, Nick St. Nicholas. But he is a no-show, preferring his lavish seaside lifestyle an...

Personal Velocity
2002
as Mr. Gelb
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.

Monsters, Inc.
2001
as Rex (voice) (uncredited)
Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. Wh...

As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
2001
as Self
A "behinds the scenes" documentary about the making of the 1987 film THE PRINCESS BRIDE with original archive footage and new interviews with cast mem...

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001
as George Bond
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task ...

The Prime Gig
2001
as Gene
Pendelton "Penny" Wise is a smooth-talking con-artist who scams people with phoney travel comp vacations over the phone when, desperate for more fast ...

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
2000
as Rex (voice)
Buzz Lightyear must battle Emperor Zurg with the help of three hopefuls who insist on being his partners.

Toy Story 2
1999
as Rex (voice)
Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, ...

My Favorite Martian
1999
as Coleye
Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a P...

The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999
This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions.

Noah
1998
In order to save his family, a contractor must construct an ark before a massive flood hits his home town.

The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
1998
as Tarzan Chimp (voice)
Told from Mowgli's point of view, it's the story of how a boy became a mancub and a mancub became a man.

Critical Care
1997
as Furnaceman
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their com...

The Designated Mourner
1997
Theatre Play, Writer
Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story ...

Just Write
1997
as Arthur Blake
A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.

Vegas Vacation
1997
as Marty
The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.

The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
1996
as Self
The documentary short of Toy Story of why and how the feature length blockbuster sleeper movie became a success and helps to boost Pixar's popularity ...

House Arrest
1996
as Victor Finley
High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce...

All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
1996
as Labrador MC (voice)
Charlie and Itchy return to Earth to find Gabriel's Horn, but along the way meet up with a young boy named David, who ran away from home.

Toy Story
1995
as Rex (voice)
Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's he...

Just Like Dad
1995
as Stan Spiegel
Embarrassed because he perceives his father as dull, a creative boy invents himself a new, more exciting one and finds the popularity he craves.

Clueless
1995
as Mr. Wendell Hall
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first ...

Napoleon
1995
as Echidna (voice)
The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.

Canadian Bacon
1995
as Canadian Prime Minister Clark MacDonald
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.

The Wife
1995
as Cosmo
A sudden visit from a patient and his unstable, outrageously candid wife leads to a delirious night of shattering revelations for a husband and wife t...

Driving Mr. Pink
1995
as Boss Man (voice)
Originally an episode of the 1993 Pink Panther television series but went theatrical to accompany The Pebble and The Penguin. The short would later ai...

A Goofy Movie
1995
as Principal Mazur (voice)
An endearing modern-day story about how the lovable Goof bonds with his teenage son Max on a hilarious cross-country road trip. En route to the ol' fi...

Vanya on 42nd Street
1994
as Vanya
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 1899 play "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusa...

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
as Horatio Byrd
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted w...

The Meteor Man
1993
as Mr. Little
One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he's scared of heights. He can master the informatio...

The Magic Bubble
1993
as Doctor/Therapist
A middle-aged woman frees herself from the spirit-crushing influence of her husband by refusing to remember what her age is.

The Cemetery Club
1993
as Larry
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.

The Double 0 Kid
1992
as Cashpot
Lance, a teenager, dreams to be a secret agent when he is suddenly in the middle of an hacker intrigue which aims at an international environmental co...

Mom and Dad Save the World
1992
as Sibor, Semage's Beau
Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make Marge his before blowing up the Earth. The...

Nickel & Dime
1992
as Everett Willits
A P.I. hasn't paid taxes in ages. When the IRS sends an accountant to investigate him, his only way out is to solve his latest case of a missing heire...

Shadows and Fog
1991
as Simon Carr
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
1989
as Howard
A wealthy Beverly Hills resident who has just become a widow, Clare Lipkin temporarily takes on her friend Lisabeth as a house guest. As the two women...

We're No Angels
1989
as Translator
Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.

She's Out of Control
1989
as Dr. Fishbinder
A Los Angeles radio-station manager's girlfriend shows his teenage daughter how to be sexy.

The Moderns
1988
as Oiseau
Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializi...

The Princess Bride
1987
as Vizzini
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid...

Prick Up Your Ears
1987
as John Lahr
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they sta...

Nice Girls Don't Explode
1987
as Ellen
April has a problem. Whenever she gets anything like passionate with a guy all sorts of things seem to spontaneously combust. The only men she meets m...

Radio Days
1987
as Masked Avenger
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944,...

The Bedroom Window
1987
as Henderson's Attorney
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that sa...

Head Office
1985
as Mike Hoover
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But...

Heaven Help Us
1985
as Father Abruzzi
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class ...

Micki & Maude
1984
as Dr. Elliot Fibel
TV reporter Rob Salinger longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki, is too busy for motherhood. A romantic fling with a seductive cellist, M...

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
1984
as Professor Silverfish
A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.

My Dinner with Louis
1984
as Interviewer
Interview with director Louis Malle conducted by Wallace Shawn, produced for the BBC-TV programme "Arena".

The Bostonians
1984
as Mr. Pardon
A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.

The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
as Freud
Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in New England and Vienna, as unexpected events chang...

Crackers
1984
as Turtle
In San Francisco, a group of down-and-out friends and a local pimp concoct a convoluted burglary plan on their pawnshop operator friend, all while nav...

Saigon: Year Of The Cat
1983
as Frank Judd
The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Ches...

Deal of the Century
1983
as Harold DeVoto
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; und...

Strange Invaders
1983
as Earl
Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.

The First Time
1983
as Jules Goldfarb
A young film student pursues a woman while studying under a bizarre, eccentric film professor.

Lovesick
1983
as Otto Jaffe
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.

A Little Sex
1982
as Oliver
Michael and Katherine have enjoyed a long relationship together even before they tie the knot. But Michael does not hide the fact he's a womanizer and...

Strong Medicine
1981
as Birthday Party Guest (uncredited)
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday par...

My Dinner with Andre
1981
as Wallace "Wally" Shawn
Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years p...

My Dinner with Andre
1981
Writer
Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years p...

Cheaper to Keep Her
1981
as Mugger
A newly divorced swinger on the prowl goes to work as a detective for a neurotic feminist attorney.

Atlantic City
1980
as Waiter
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs a...

Simon
1980
as Eric Van Dongen
A group of scientists take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwashing experiment and try to convince him that he is a living b...

All That Jazz
1979
as Assistant Insurance Man
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly col...

Starting Over
1979
as Workshop Member
After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.

Manhattan
1979
as Jeremiah
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best fr...

Our Late Night
1975
Writer
A cocktail party at which no topic, thought or action is taboo. The result is Jungian pornography a wickedly funny and often troubled look at what we ...
The Man Who Changed the World
N/A
A drama spanning generations that’s inspired by the story of visionary entrepreneur Lawrence “Bud” Stoecker.