Shawn Elliott

Actor Feb 24 (died age 79) Santurce, Puerto Rico 1975–2012 (37 year career)

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Biography

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).

Known For

Film

Do the Right Thing

Puerto Rican Icee Man

Film

The Dead Pool

Chester Docksteder

Film

Arbitrage

Flores

Film

Beat Street

Domingo

Film

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

Mickey Wheeler

Film

Double Take

Thomas Chela / Minty Gutierrez

Film

Short Eyes

Paco

Film

Impulse

Tony Peron

Filmography

Acting (28)

Movies (20)

Arbitrage

2012

as Flores

6.3

The Feast of the Goat

2006

as Johnny Abbes

5.1

Double Take

2001

as Thomas Chela / Minty Gutierrez

5.7

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

as Mickey Wheeler

Blue Moon

as The Ambassador

The New Yorker

Hurricane Streets

as Paco

Death in Small Doses

as Detective Ortega

Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh

as Jackie Cairo

Impulse

as Tony Peron

Do the Right Thing

as Puerto Rican Icee Man

7.8

The Dead Pool

1988

as Chester Docksteder

Promised a Miracle

as Romero

Off Beat

as Hector

Crossover Dreams

as Orlando

Beat Street

as Domingo

When the Mountains Tremble

1983

as President Jacobo Arbenz

9.0

Dream House

1981

as Miguel Rivas

Short Eyes

1977

as Paco

6.6

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

1975

as Voice in 'Madeleine' (voice)

4.0

Television (8)

CSI: Miami

as Ray Santoya

Ghostwriter

as Eduardo Fernandez

Law & Order

as Ramone Buenaventura

7.3

Gideon Oliver

1989

as Torres

7.0

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

as Det. Uribe

Leg Work

Miami Vice

as Moya's Cousin

The Cosby Show

as Mr. Wilson