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Harry Shearer

Born 1943-12-23

📍 Los Angeles, California, USA

Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American actor, comedian, musician, radio host, writer, and producer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor. From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group. Following the breakup of the group, Shearer co-wrote the film Real Life (1979) with Albert Brooks and worked as a writer on Martin Mull's television series Fernwood 2 Night.

Shearer was a cast member on Saturday Night Live between 1979 and 1980, and 1984 and 1985. Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in the film This Is Spinal Tap (1984), a hit satirical rockumentary. In 1989, he joined the cast of the animated sitcom The Simpsons, providing voices for characters including Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Lenny Leonard, Kang, Principal Skinner, Kent Brockman, Otto Mann, Scratchy, and formerly Dr. Hibbert. Shearer has appeared in films including The Truman Show (1998) and A Mighty Wind (2003), and has directed two, Teddy Bears' Picnic (2002) and The Big Uneasy (2010). Since 1983, Shearer has been the host of the public radio comedy/music program Le Show, incorporating satire, music, and sketch comedy. He has written three books.

Shearer has won a Primetime Emmy Award and has received several other Emmy and Grammy Award nominations. He has been married to singer-songwriter Judith Owen since 1993. He became an artist in residence at Loyola University, New Orleans in 2013.

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Filmography 156

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

as Derek Smalls

The Session Man

From Darkness to Light

The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful

as Mr. Burns (voice)

A Taste of Heaven: The Ecstatic Song & Gospel of Maestro Raymond Anthony Myles

The Simpsons | Balenciaga

as 'Breezy' Bob Mckee (voice)

Joe Frank: Somewhere Out There

Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson

as Jebediah Springfield / Lenny Leonard / Mr. Burns (voice)

XTC: This Is Pop

The History of Comedy

as Competition Announcer (voice)

as Sean Boykin/Agent

Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

Have You Been Paying Attention?

Playhouse Presents

as Richard Nixon

Pay Up Cheaters: The Story of the Beat Farmers

Unwigged & Unplugged: An Evening with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer

Spinal Tap: Back from the Dead

as Derek Smalls

as Caress Moscowitz

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

A Couple of White Chicks at the Hairdresser

The Simpsons Movie

as Scratchy / Mr. Burns / Rev. Lovejoy / Ned Flanders / Lenny / Skull / President Arnold Schwarzenegger / Kent Brockman / Principal Skinner / Dr. Hibbert / Smithers / Toll Booth Man / Guard / Otto / Kang (voice)

Would I Lie to You?

The Graham Norton Show

What the Pythons Did Next...

For Your Consideration

as Victor Allan Miller

Comedy Club Shoot-out: Vol. 1

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

as Promo Announcer

as Dog Announcer (voice)

The Colbert Report

The Aristocrats

Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found

The Simpsons: Christmas 2

The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition

as Derek Smalls

The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror

as Mr. Burns / Smithers / Ned Flanders / Kang / Skinner (voice)

The Simpsons: Christmas

as (archive footage)

Anderson Cooper 360°

Realizing The Right Stuff

Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)

Real Time with Bill Maher

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Derek Smalls

as The President

Teddy Bears' Picnic

The Secret Rulers of the World

as Self – Comedian

as Mr. D / Mephisto (voice)

Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big

as The General (voice)

as Ned Flanders / Dr. Julius Hibbert / Rev. Timothy Lovejoy (voice)

Catching Up with Marty DiBergi

as Derek Smalls

as Derek Smalls

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

as Voice of Scratchy (voice) (archive footage)

as G. Gordon Liddy

Encounter in the Third Dimension

as Narrator (voice)

The Simpsons: Too Hot For TV

as Punch-It (voice)

The Truman Show

as Mike Michaelson

as Narrator (voice)

as Charles Caiman

as Principal Peskin

Style & Substance

The Truman Show: Tru-Talk

as Mike Michaelson

as Louis Faraday

Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun

My Best Friend's Wedding

as Jonathan P.E. Rice

as Larry Fenwick

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist

as Harry (voice)

as Radio announcer (uncredited)

The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show

as Mr. Blackwell

as Dr. Baldharar

I'll Do Anything

as Audience Research Captain

Wayne's World 2

as Handsome Dan

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

as Ned Flat (voice)

A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out

as Derek Smalls / Mark Shubb

Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica

as Derek Smalls

A League of Their Own

as Newsreel Announcer

FernGully: The Last Rainforest

as Fairy #3 (voice)

Amnesty International's Big 30

as Derek Smalls

The Fisher King

as Sitcom Actor Ben Starr

Blood and Concrete

as Sammy Rhodes

as Julius Monosoff

as Guido Finucci

as Narrator (voice)

Have I Got News for You

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

Hometown Boy Makes Good

as Radio Announcer (voice)

The Jackie Bison Show

as Ned Flanders / Mr. Burns / Smithers / Skinner / Lenny (voice)

My Stepmother Is an Alien

as Carl Sagan (voice)

Portrait of a White Marriage

Spitting Image: The Ronnie & Nancy Show

as Johnny Carson (Voice)

Martin Mull Live from North Ridgeville, Ohio

as Robin Leach / Ronald Reagan / Nancy Reagan (voices)

Spitting Image: The 1987 Movie Awards

as Various Roles

Down and Out with Donald Duck

as Additional Voices (voice)

as Gordon Huyck

Spitting Image: Down And Out In The White House

as Various Roles

The Hear 'n Aid Sessions

as Derek Smalls [Spinal Tap]

The History of White People in America: Volume II

The Golden Girls

as George Bush (voice)

The History of White People in America

as FBI Agent Timothy Anderson

This Is Spinal Tap

as Derek Smalls

The Right Stuff

as NASA Recruiter

as Narrator / Voice of Philip Alien / Voice of George Blik (voice)

The Million Dollar Infield

Spinal Tap: The Final Tour

as Derek Smalls

Likely Stories Vol. 1

as Bernie Wepner

as Keen Hacksaw / Mayor of Animal Olympic Island / Burnt Woody / Mark Spritz (voice)

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

as Murray Sports

The Concorde... Airport '79

as Jeffrey Marx

as Pete - Cameraman / Radio Announcer

CBS News Sunday Morning

as Narrator (voice)

American Raspberry

as Trucker's Friend

Serpico: The Deadly Game

Laverne & Shirley

as Dr. Jerry Shuster

Saturday Night Live

as Dr. Joseph Shuster (voice) (uncredited)

Saturday Night Live

as Narrator / Emcee (uncredited)

Saturday Night Live

as Franklin Roosevelt / Joe Garagiloa / Various (uncredited)

Saturday Night Live

as Various (uncredited)

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Various Characters

Saturday Night Live

as Derek Smalls (uncredited)

as Crowd Voices (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as David (uncredited)

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

as Second Boy (uncredited)

General Electric Theater

Spinal Tap at Stonehenge: The Final Finale

as Derek Smalls

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

as Self - Panellist