Dick shawn biography

Dick Shawn was an American actor.
Born Richard Schulefand on December 1, 1923, in Buffalo, New York, Dick was raised in nearby Lackawanna where his father owned a clothing store.
Dick Shawn was an American actor.

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Richard (Schulefand) Shawn (1923 - 1987)

Richard"Dick"Shawn formerly Schulefand

Born in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States

Ancestors

Son of Edward Isadore Schulefand and Anna (Schrutt) Schulefand

Brother of Seymour Schulefand

[children unknown]

Died at age 63in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States

Profile last modified | Created 21 Jun 2022

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Biography

Richard (Schulefand) Shawn is Notable.

Richard Schulefand was born in 1923 to Edward Schulefand and Anna Schrutt. He was best known under his stage name Dick Shawn.

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Dick Shawn

American actor (1923–1987)

Dick Shawn (born Richard Schulefand, December 1, 1923 – April 17, 1987) was an American actor. 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). Besides his film work, he appeared in numerous television shows from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Career

Born in Buffalo, New York to a Jewish family, and raised in nearby Lackawanna,^[1] Shawn performed his stand-up comedy act for over 35 years in nightclubs around the world.^[2] His award-winning one-man stage show, The Second Greatest Entertainer in the Whole Wide World, was sometimes performed with a unique opening. When the audience entered the theater, they saw a bare stage with a pile of bricks in stage center. When the pl

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Comedian Dick Shawn, 57, Is Stricken on Stage, Dies

Comedian Dick Shawn died at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla Friday night after apparently suffering a heart attack on stage during a performance at UC San Diego.

Witnesses said Shawn, 57, was left lying on the stage for nearly five minutes before the audience realized it was not part of his act, and an ambulance was called. Hospital spokeswoman Diane Yohe said he received cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the Scripps emergency room, but was pronounced dead at 9:55 p.m.

“He literally was probably on the stage five minutes until it was realized that it was serious,” said Tom Wartelle of San Diego, a member of the audience of about 500. “The stagehand came out several times and obviously thought it was part of the act.

“It all blended in very well,” Wartelle added. “There were comments from the audience like, ‘Take his wallet!’ Finally a doctor came from back of the wings, felt for his pulse and realized something had happened. He flipped him over. The audience reaction by then was, ‘Boy, this is out of taste.’ ”

Wartelle