Harry Shearer
Actor
Born December 23, 1943 in 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.
Filmography
Spinal Tap at Stonehenge: The Final Finale
Derek Smalls
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Self - Panellist
Simpsley
Seymour Skinner (voice)
Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition
Lenny Leonard (voice)
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
Derek Smalls
The Session Man
Self
From Darkness to Light
Self
The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful
Mr. Burns (voice)
A Taste of Heaven: The Ecstatic Song & Gospel of Maestro Raymond Anthony Myles
The Simpsons: A Serious Flanders
Ned Flanders / Kent Brockman / Mr. Burns (voice)
The Simpsons | Balenciaga
Easy Does It
'Breezy' Bob Mckee (voice)
Joe Frank: Somewhere Out There
Self
Satan & Adam
Self
Father Figures
Gene
Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson
Jebediah Springfield / Lenny Leonard / Mr. Burns (voice)
XTC: This Is Pop
Self
The History of Comedy
Self
Mascots
Competition Announcer (voice)
The Last Laugh
Self
The Clown
Self
Love & Taxes
Sean Boykin/Agent
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
Self
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Self
Have You Been Paying Attention?
Panellist
The Last Leg
Self
Playhouse Presents
Richard Nixon
Pay Up Cheaters: The Story of the Beat Farmers
Self
The Big Uneasy
Unwigged & Unplugged: An Evening with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer
Self
Spinal Tap: Back from the Dead
Derek Smalls
My Suicide
Caress Moscowitz
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self
A Couple of White Chicks at the Hairdresser
Marc Gavin
The Simpsons Movie
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?
Self
Fired!
Self
The Graham Norton Show
Self
What the Pythons Did Next...
Self
For Your Consideration
Victor Allan Miller
Comedy Club Shoot-out: Vol. 1
Self
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Promo Announcer
Chicken Little
Dog Announcer (voice)
The Colbert Report
Self - Guest
The Aristocrats
Self
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
Self
The Simpsons: Christmas 2
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition
Derek Smalls
Celebrity Mastermind
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
Mr. Burns / Smithers / Ned Flanders / Kang / Skinner (voice)
The Simpsons: Christmas
(archive footage)
Anderson Cooper 360°
Realizing The Right Stuff
Self
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
Self
A Mighty Wind
Mark Shubb
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Derek Smalls - Guest/Musical Guest
There's Only One Paul McCartney
Self
The Agency
The President
Teddy Bears' Picnic
Joey Lavin
The Secret Rulers of the World
Self – Comedian
Haunted Castle
Mr. D / Mephisto (voice)
Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big
The General (voice)
CyberWorld
Ned Flanders / Dr. Julius Hibbert / Rev. Timothy Lovejoy (voice)
Catching Up with Marty DiBergi
Derek Smalls
The Early Show
Derek Smalls
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Voice of Scratchy (voice) (archive footage)
Funny Is Money
Jack & Jill
Dr. Wilfred Madison
Dick
G. Gordon Liddy
Encounter in the Third Dimension
Narrator (voice)
EDtv
Moderator
The Simpsons: Too Hot For TV
Small Soldiers
Punch-It (voice)
Tru-Talk
Mike Michaelson
The Truman Show
Mike Michaelson
Almost Heroes
Narrator (voice)
Godzilla
Charles Caiman
Dawson's Creek
Principal Peskin
Style & Substance
The Visitor
Louis Faraday
George & Leo
The View
Self
Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun
Narrator
My Best Friend's Wedding
Jonathan P.E. Rice
Just Shoot Me!
Larry Fenwick
Waiting for Guffman
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Harry (voice)
Casper
Radio announcer (uncredited)
The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show
Mr. Blackwell
Speechless
Chuck
Little Giants
Announcer
Friends
Dr. Baldharar
ER
John Smythe
Chicago Hope
Nowhere Man
Ellen
Ted Layton
I'll Do Anything
Audience Research Captain
Wayne's World 2
Handsome Dan
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Animaniacs
Ned Flat (voice)
A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out
Derek Smalls / Mark Shubb
Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica
Derek Smalls
A League of Their Own
Newsreel Announcer
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
Fairy #3 (voice)
Amnesty International's Big 30
Derek Smalls
The Fisher King
Sitcom Actor Ben Starr
Blood and Concrete
Sammy Rhodes
Pure Luck
Julius Monosoff
Oscar
Guido Finucci
Dinosaurs
Narrator (voice)
Have I Got News for You
Self
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Hometown Boy Makes Good
Radio Announcer (voice)
Dream On
Steve
The Jackie Bison Show
(voice)
The Simpsons
Mr. Burns
My Stepmother Is an Alien
Carl Sagan (voice)
Portrait of a White Marriage
Al Silvers
Spitting Image: The Ronnie & Nancy Show
Johnny Carson (Voice)
Plain Clothes
Simon Feck
Martin Mull Live from North Ridgeville, Ohio
Robin Leach / Ronald Reagan / Nancy Reagan (voices)
Spitting Image: The 1987 Movie Awards
Various Roles
Down and Out with Donald Duck
Additional Voices (voice)
L.A. Law
Gordon Huyck
Club Paradise
Spitting Image: Down And Out In The White House
Various Roles
The Hear 'n Aid Sessions
Derek Smalls [Spinal Tap]
The History of White People in America: Volume II
Rabbi
The Golden Girls
George Bush (voice)
The History of White People in America
Rabbi
Miami Vice
FBI Agent Timothy Anderson
Jeopardy!
Self
This Is Spinal Tap
Derek Smalls
The Right Stuff
NASA Recruiter
Flicks
Narrator / Voice of Philip Alien / Voice of George Blik (voice)
The Million Dollar Infield
Jack Savage
Spinal Tap: The Final Tour
Derek Smalls
Likely Stories Vol. 1
One Trick Pony
Bernie Wepner
Animalympics
Keen Hacksaw / Mayor of Animal Olympic Island / Burnt Woody / Mark Spritz (voice)
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Murray Sports
The Concorde... Airport '79
Jeffrey Marx
The T.V. Show
Just Friends
Real Life
Pete - Cameraman / Radio Announcer
Disco Beaver from Outer Space
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self
Loose Shoes
Narrator (voice)
America 2-Night
American Raspberry
Trucker's Friend
Cracking Up
Serpico: The Deadly Game
Hippy
Laverne & Shirley
Sick
Dr. Jerry Shuster
Saturday Night Live
Dr. Joseph Shuster (voice) (uncredited)
Jaws
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Street Kid
The Egyptian
Boy
The Robe
David (uncredited)
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Second Boy (uncredited)
General Electric Theater
Timmy
Omnibus
Johnny