Harry Shearer

Birthday: 23 December 1943, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name: Harry Julius Shearer

Height: 169 cm

Harry Shearer was born in 1943 in Los Angeles, California. His film debut was with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953), followed by The Robe (1953). Probably best know ...Show More

I write about broadcast indecency with something of a pedigree. Although it's not widely known - sin Show more I write about broadcast indecency with something of a pedigree. Although it's not widely known - since the comedy group I was part of was not widely known - I was party to the first broadcast utterance of the word 'twat.' Hide

[on Richard Thompson and Danny Thompson] There are two towering figures in British music by the name Show more [on Richard Thompson and Danny Thompson] There are two towering figures in British music by the name of Thompson. Neither of them twins (The Thompson Twins). Hide

[on which character in The Simpsons (1989) is hardest to voice] Burns requires lots of tea and honey Show more [on which character in The Simpsons (1989) is hardest to voice] Burns requires lots of tea and honey. Hide

I have to say about [The Simpsons]: Something that I've learned from my six years of psychoanalysis, Show more I have to say about [The Simpsons]: Something that I've learned from my six years of psychoanalysis, which is one mark of adulthood is that you can hold two conflicting emotions about the same thing at the same time, two things can be true at the same time. So it is true that, as an actor on an insanely successful TV series, I am, by any standard of the human species, obscenely overpaid. It is also true that, as an actor on one of the most insanely successful television series of all time, I am getting royally screwed. Both things are true! [...] It's nobody's fault, it's what happens when you think you know what you want and you are determined to get it. Hide

[asked how many characters on The Simpsons (1989) he voices] I think I do about 12 regular character Show more [asked how many characters on The Simpsons (1989) he voices] I think I do about 12 regular characters but I've been able to pad the resume with God, The Devil and Hitler. Hide

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

[criticizing the decline in quality of The Simpsons (1989)] I rate the last three seasons as among t Show more [criticizing the decline in quality of The Simpsons (1989)] I rate the last three seasons as among the worst, so Season 4 looks very good to me now. Hide

Harry Shearer's FILMOGRAPHY

All as Actor (352) as Creator (1)

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 25

Friends - Season 9

Plain Clothes

Mascots

Laverne and Shirley - Season 5

Outnumbered - Season 1

ER - Season 1 (1994)

The Last Leg - Season 10

Friends - Season 1

Sliders - Season 2

Have I Got News for You - Season 55

Saturday Night Live - Season 28

The Simpsons - Season 12

MADtv - Season 3

The Simpsons - Season 3

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 28

Saturday Night Live - Season 26

The Simpsons - Season 15

The Simpsons - Season 16

Just Shoot Me - Season 6

My Best Friends Wedding

The Golden Girls - Season 2

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled - Season 1

Have I Got News for You - Season 54

Murphy Brown - Season 11

Harry Shearer'S roles

Handsome Dan

Mark Shubb

Principal Skinner

Jonathan P.F. Ritt

Mr. Burns

Dr. Julius Hibbert

Larry

Ned Flanders

President George H.W. Bush

Ice Cream Man

Various, Ronald Reagan, announcer, General, Mr. Blackwell, Narrator, Tom Clay, Angel, Announcer, Billy Bishop...

Charles Caiman

Captain Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach

Principal Peskin

Derek Smalls

Lenny Leonard

Kent Brockman

Eddie

Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Lenny, Kent Brockman, Dr. Hibbert, Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Otto, Montgomery Burns, Reverend Lovejoy...

Mike Michaelson

Scratchy