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Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is known for playing Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987), Mr. Hall in Clueless (1995), Dr. John Sturgis in Young Sheldon (2018–2024), and voicing Rex in the Toy Story franchise (1995–present).
On Rotten Tomatoes, The Princess Bride holds a 96% approval rating based on 84 reviews and an average rating of 8.50/10. The site's consensus states, "A delightfully postmodern fairy tale, The Princess Bride is a deft, intelligent mix of swashbuckling, romance, and comedy that takes an age-old damsel-in-distress story and makes it fresh."
Vizzini, Inigo, and a Turk named Fezzik (Andre the Giant) are hired by an unknown man to kidnap and kill the "princess bride", Buttercup. Subsequent events lead to Inigo's duel with the "Man in Black" (Westley), an extended sequence in both the book and the movie, in which both contestants begin fencing left-handed and eventually convert to ...
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, The "Good Parts" Version is a 1973 fantasy romance novel by American writer William Goldman. The book combines elements of comedy, adventure , fantasy, drama, romance, and fairy tale .
Here's him in "The Princess Bride" in 1987 and in April 2017: 20th Century Fox / Getty. Still handsome as ever! Take a look at how Elwes has changed over the years: Show comments.
Playing opposite Tom Hanks in the Oscar-winning 1994 film, Wright portrayed Gump's best friend and eventual wife, Jenny Curran, a misguided Southern woman whose life is chronicled over the course ...
The Dread Pirate Roberts is the identity assumed by several characters in the novel The Princess Bride (1973) and its 1987 film adaptation. [1] Various pirates (including Westley) take on the role of Roberts and use his reputation to intimidate their opponents, before retiring and secretly passing on the name to someone else.
Chris Jackson/Getty Images. But even the more candid shots taken of the royal at Trooping the Colour caught our eye. Another stunning photo taken of Princess Catherine and her youngest son, Prince ...