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Dick Shawn (December 1, 1923 – April 17, 1987) was an American actor and comedian. ==Early life and career== Shawn was born Richard Schulefand in Buffalo, New York, and raised in adjacent Lackawanna. The best remembered roles of his career are the hot-headed Sylvester Marcus, son of Mrs. Marcus (Ethel Merman), in Stanley Kramer's ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' (1963) and easygoing Lorenzo St. DuBois/Adolf Hitler in the musical ''Springtime for Hitler'', the play within Mel Brooks's movie ''The Producers'' (1968). He also provided the Snow Miser's voice in ''The Year Without a Santa Claus''. He had continued success with his stand-up comedy act that he successfully performed for over 35 years in nightclubs around the world. 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 play began, Shawn emerged from the pile of bricks. The startling effect of this required complete concentration and breath control because the slightest movement of the bricks could ruin the surprise appearance. In addition to roles in more than 30 movies and seven Broadway productions, Shawn made numerous television appearances, toured often, and periodically performed a one-man show that mixed songs, sketches, and pantomime. He was a frequent speaker at the infamous Friars Club Roasts in Los Angeles and New York. At one of the X-rated roasts (a 1986 ''Playboy'' roast of Tommy Chong) that had overdosed on tasteless routines by previous speakers, Shawn walked up to the microphone, took a long pause, and "vomited" pea soup onto himself and other speakers at the dais. His many TV appearances included ''The Ed Sullivan Show'', TV movies, sitcoms (including ''Three's Company'' on which he played John Ritter's father), dramas including ''St. Elsewhere'' and ''Magnum, P.I.'', and a music video for "Dance" by the hair metal band Ratt (1986). Among his roles in anthology TV series, he starred in an ''Amazing Stories'' episode "Miss Stardust", directed by Tobe Hooper, about a bizarre intergalactic beauty pageant,〔Amazing Stories: Miss Stardust http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0511106/〕 and played the Emperor in ''The Emperor's New Clothes'' in Shelley Duvall's ''Faerie Tale Theatre''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dick Shawn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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