Actor

Shawn Elliott

February 24, 1937 · Santurce, Puerto Rico

Shawn Elliott (February 24, 1937 – March 11, 2016) was an American actor and singer. He is best known for starring in the original cast of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris onstage and as Paco in the film Short Eyes (1977).

Notable work

7.8
Do the Right Thing (1989)
as Puerto Rican Icee Man
7.7
CSI: Miami (2002)
as Ray Santoya
6.3
The Dead Pool (1988)
as Chester Docksteder
6.3
Arbitrage (2012)
as Flores
7.3
Law & Order (1990)
as Judge Joseph Rivera and as Ramone Buenaventura and as Judge Dominic Santos
7
The Cosby Show (1984)
as Mr. Wilson

Often works with

John Turturro
3 titles together
Do the Right Thing, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Off Beat
Spike Lee
2 titles together
Do the Right Thing, Ghostwriter
Samuel L. Jackson
2 titles together
Do the Right Thing, Ghostwriter
Joseph C. Phillips
2 titles together
The Cosby Show, Beat Street

Full filmography · 26

Arbitrage
as Flores
20126.3
The Feast of the Goat
as Johnny Abbes
20065.3
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
as Mickey Wheeler
20016.3
Double Take
as Thomas Chela / Minty Gutierrez
20015.6
Blue Moon
as The Ambassador
2000
The New Yorker
cast
1998
Hurricane Streets
as Paco
19975.3
Death in Small Doses
as Detective Ortega
1995
Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh
as Jackie Cairo
19915.3
Impulse
as Tony Peron
19905.6
Do the Right Thing
as Puerto Rican Icee Man
19897.8
The Dead Pool
as Chester Docksteder
19886.3