Jason Robards

In fact, during World War II, he earned the Navy Cross. In late 2004 Shawn published the one-issue-only progressive political magazine Final Edition (http://www.sevenstories.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=58322100960730) which features interviews with and articles by Jonathan Schell, Noam Chomsky, Mark Strand, and Deborah Eisenberg. Robards was a veteran of that battle. He is the son of William Shawn, longtime editor of The New Yorker, and journalist Cecille Lyon Shawn. In Tora Tora Tora, a fairly historically accurate film about the Battle of Pearl Harbor, he played the role of General Walter Short. Before becoming a writer and actor, Shawn studied history, economics, and philosophy at Harvard and Oxford, where he originally thought he might become a diplomat. He received Kennedy Center Honors in 1999. Shawn's political work has invited controversy, as he often presents the audience with several contradictory points of view: in Aunt Dan and Lemon, which Shawn described as a cautionary tale against fascism, the character Lemon explained her neo-Nazi beliefs with such conviction that some critics called the play effectively pro-fascist.

He was also nominated for another Oscar for his role in Melvin and Howard (1980). Among the best-known of these are Aunt Dan and Lemon (1985) and The Designated Mourner (1997), in both of which he appeared off-Broadway; the latter was made into a film by director David Hare. Robards received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in consecutive years for All the President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977). His later plays became more overtly political, drawing parallels between the psychology of his characters and the behavior of governments and social classes. He won two Oscars. His early work, such as Marie and Bruce (1978), portrayed emotional and sexual conflicts in an absurdist style. Jason Robards, Jr. (July 26, 1922 - December 26, 2000) was an American actor with a career spanning sixty years and eighty films. Shawn's career spans all aspects of "low" and "high" culture, and his plays, unlike some of his television appearances, are considered very serious (even if they often have comic aspects).

A Tribute to Jason Robards, Jr. (http://classicfilm.about.com/library/weekly/aa123100a.htm). He is also an accomplished voice actor, appearing especially in animation (including Toy Story and Toy Story 2 where he played "Rex the Green Dinosaur") and commercials. Jason Robards (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm001673/) at the Internet Movie Database. He has had recurring roles as the Ferengi Grand Nagus Zek on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a comic ex-reporter on Murphy Brown, the Cosbys' neighbor on The Bill Cosby Show and on many other shows. Shawn is a widely-used character actor on television, where he has appeared in many genres and series. Other notable appearances include his role as the Masked Avenger in Allen's Radio Days (1987) ("Beware, evildoers! Wherever you are!"), as the evil Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987), and as Uncle Vanya in Andre Gregory's idiosyncratic Chekhov production filmed by Louis Malle, Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), a reading of the play set in a crumbling theater.

Interviewed by film critic Roger Ebert, Shawn and Gregory denied that they were playing themselves and stated that if they remade the film, they'd swap the two characters to prove their point. The two actors also wrote the script, which contrasted Shawn's modest down-to-earth humanism against Gregory's extravagant New-Age fantasies, leaving the viewer of the film in an ironic suspension between the two viewpoints. His most famous role was as one of the two characters in the film My Dinner with Andre, opposite Andre Gregory. He made his film debut playing Diane Keaton's ex-husband in Woody Allen's Manhattan in 1979, in which Woody's character, a short, balding, bespectacled ectomorph, dismisses the short, balding, bespectacled Shawn as "a homunculus.".

Wallace Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor and writer. ISBN 1566395178. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn.

(1997). King, W.D. Woody Allen, 1979; "Jeremiah"). Manhattan (dir.

Louis Malle, 1981; Wally; co-wrote screenplay with Andre Gregory). My Dinner with Andre (dir. Aunt Dan and Lemon (play, 1986, written by Shawn; also starred in productions). The Fever (play, 1990, written and performed by Shawn).

The Princess Bride (1987; Vizzini). Woody Allen, 1987; Masked Avenger). Radio Days (dir. Louis Malle, 1994; Uncle Vanya).

Vanya on 42nd Street (dir. Toy Story (1995; voice of Rex). Hall). Clueless (movie & TV Series, 1996-7; Mr.

The Designated Mourner (play, 1997, written by Shawn; also starred in productions, 1997 and 2001). Toy Story 2 (1999; voice of Rex). Woody Allen, 2001; George Bond). Curse of the Jade Scorpion (dir.

The Incredibles (2004; voice of Gilbert Huph (Bob Parr's Boss)).