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| Harry Shearer | |
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| Birth name | Harry Julius Shearer |
| Born | December 23 1943 Los Angeles, California  |
| Spouse(s) | Judith Owen (1993-) |
Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is an American comedic actor and writer. Shearer, a voice actor on The Simpsons (1989 to present), provides the voices of Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Julius Hibbert, Dr. Marvin Monroe, Lenny Leonard, Principal Seymour Skinner, Otto Mann and Rainier Wolfcastle among others.
Shearer was born in Los Angeles, California to Mack Shearer and Dora Kohn, a bookkeeper.[1] His parents were Jewish immigrants from Austria and Poland.[2][3] He was married to Penelope Nichols in 1974, divorcing in 1977. Shearer has been married to singer-songwriter Judith Owen since 1993. Shearer attended UCLA and Harvard. In May 2006, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Goucher College.
He began his career as a child actor in 1950s movies
(The Robe) and television
(The Jack Benny Program). Shearer also played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode of the TV series
Leave It to Beaver. Shearer was later a member of Los Angeles radio comedy group The Credibility Gap, 1968–1974, and a writer for
such television shows as Fernwood 2-Night and
Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in Rob Reiner's 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap with Michael McKean and Christopher Guest. The three of them also collaborated on the acclaimed 2003 spoof A Mighty Wind, which was written by Guest and Eugene Levy (but largely improvised by the cast members) and directed by Guest, and Shearer had a major role in the Guest-directed parody of Oscar politicking For Your Consideration (2006). Shearer's television work also includes two specials for Cinemax, "It's Just TV", and "This Week Indoors" (co-created with Merrill Markoe) and "The Magic of Live". He directed the entire six-episode cable series, "The History of White People in America", co-created by Martin Mull and Allen Rucker, as well as the two-hour feature finale of the series, "Portrait of a White Marriage". He also co-wrote and directed Paul Shaffer's fantasy special for HBO, "Viva Shaf Vegas" (with Shaffer and Tom Leopold). His first theatrical feature, which he wrote and directed, was "Teddy Bears' Picnic", a dark comedy loosely based on the workings of Bohemian Grove, the secret retreat of the elite.
Shearer has three books published, "Man Bites Town" (a collection of his Los Angeles Times Magazine columns), "It's the Stupidity, Stupid", and "Not Enough Indians", a comic novel about Native Americans and gambling.[4]
Shearer may be best known for his prolific work as a voice actor on The Simpsons (1989 to present), where he provides voices for Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Julius Hibbert, Dr. Marvin Monroe, Lenny Leonard, Principal Seymour Skinner, Otto Mann and Rainier Wolfcastle among others. He was one of three Simpsons voice actors to guest star on the show Friends ("The One With the Fake Monica"); the other two were Dan Castellaneta and Hank Azaria. He also appeared in Godzilla with Hank Azaria, which had a cameo appearance from Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson. (In a SFGate Podcast, Shearer said one person who took him under his wing during his early days in show business was voice actor Mel Blanc, who voiced many animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, and Tweety Bird, just to name a few.)[5]
Since 1983, Shearer has been the host of the public radio comedy/music program Le Show on Santa Monica's NPR-affiliated radio station, KCRW. On the weekly program Shearer alternates between DJing, reading and commenting on the news of the day after the manner of Mort Sahl, and performing original (mostly political) comedy sketches and songs. The show airs on public radio stations throughout the country, and is offered as a podcast. Shearer is the regular announcer for TV Land and, since May 2005, has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. Shearer has homes in both Santa Monica, California and the Faubourg Marigny of New Orleans, Louisiana. According to a telephone call on Ask Mr. KABC, his house survived Hurricane Katrina.
Shearer is recording for a BBC Radio 4 sitcom with Brian Hayes called Not Today, Thank You. He plays Nostrils - a man so ugly he can't stand to be in his own presence. He resides in washed up radio presenter Brian Hughes' (played by Hayes) garage (in the house belonging to his grandmother), sometimes appearing in other rooms of the house. On October 30, 2006, he appeared on Graham Norton's Bigger Picture in the UK.
| The Simpsons cast members |
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| Regular cast |
| Dan Castellaneta · Julie Kavner · Nancy Cartwright · Yeardley Smith · Hank Azaria · Harry Shearer |
| Recurring cast |
| Doris Grau · Pamela Hayden · Jo Ann Harris · Tress MacNeille · Marcia Mitzman Gaven · Maggie Roswell · Russi Taylor · Karl Wiedergott |
| Recurring guest stars |
| Albert Brooks · Kelsey Grammer · Phil Hartman · Jan Hooks · Jane Kaczmarek · Maurice LaMarche · Jon Lovitz · Joe Mantegna · Marcia Wallace · Frank Welker |
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