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

[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

[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

[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

[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

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

Harry Shearer's FILMOGRAPHY - Page 4

All as Actor (416) as Creator (1)

Friends - Season 7

Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! - Season 1

Seven Days - Season 2

ER - Season 7

Outnumbered - Season 5

The Simpsons - Season 6

The Simpsons - Season 34

Real Time with Bill Maher - Season 16

The Graham Norton Show - Season 1

The Last Laugh

Just Shoot Me - Season 7

The Last Leg - Season 25

Murphy Brown - Season 9

ER - Season 2

Celebrity Mastermind - Season 23

The Last Leg - Season 10

Conan - Season 11

Plain Clothes

Saturday Night Live - Season 15

Laverne and Shirley - Season 5

The Graham Norton Show - Season 28

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 31

The Fisher King

Saturday Night Live - Season 17

Have I Got News for You - Season 65

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Harry Shearer'S roles

Jonathan P.F. Ritt

Captain Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach

Scratchy

Lenny Leonard

Mr. Burns

Dewey Largo

Derek Smalls

Mike Michaelson

Ned Flanders

Handsome Dan

Ice Cream Man

Kent Brockman

Eddie

Carl Sagan

Principal Skinner

Charles Caiman

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

Principal Peskin

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

Larry

Dr. Julius Hibbert

Punch-It

President George H.W. Bush

Mark Shubb