Dan Shor

Dan Shor is exactly the kind of actor I delight in spotting: a fixture of 1980s cult cinema rather than a marquee star. Ram in Tron, Billy the Kid in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Enoch Emery in Huston's Wise Blood, his roles add texture more than they grab top billing. Over a career spanning more than forty years he has also directed, written, and taught acting, which tells me he loves the whole craft, not just the spotlight. To me he represents the dependable character player who quietly makes movies better. Finding names like his is one of the small joys of this work.

Name (English)

Dan Shor

Name (Japanese)

ダン・ショア

Reading

だん・しょあ

Born

November 16, 1956 (age 69)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Monkey

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / screenwriter / television actor / film actor / film director

High school

Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School

• Official sitehttp://www.shodavision.com/shodavision/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Shor
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1159162

Tags

• New York
• actor
• screenwriter
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.