Harry Shearer
Highest Rated: 100% Love & Taxes (2017)
Lowest Rated: 0% Teddy Bears' Picnic (2002)
Birthday: Dec 23, 1943
Birthplace: Not Available
California native Harry Shearer was one of the busier child actors of the 1950s. He appeared in such films as The Robe (1953) (as the boy David) and Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953); he could be heard on such radio programs as Suspense, Lux Radio Theatre, and the Jack Benny Show; and among his many TV guest roles was the character who would evolve into Eddie Haskell in the 1955 Leave It to Beaver pilot. After attending U.C.L.A., Shearer flourished as a standup comedian and comedy writer. He was frequently employed on the writing staff for such TV laughspinners as Laverne and Shirley and America 2Night; he also worked both sides of the camera in the 1984 rockumentary parody This Is Spinal Tap, co-starring as rock idol Derek Smalls and co-writing the script with director Rob Reiner and fellow cast members Christopher Guest and Michael McKean. In league with another top satirist, Albert Brooks, Shearer concocted the screenplay for another faux documentary, 1979's Real Lampoon. During the 1984-1985 TV season, Shearer joined the Not Ready for Prime Time Players on NBC's Saturday Night Live. The soft-spoken, saturnine Harry Shearer is most famous however for lending his voice to the Fox Network cartoon series The Simpsons.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | Love & Taxes | Actor | $26.9K | 2017 |
| 49% | Mascots | Competition Announcer | — | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | Flood Streets | Executive Producer Actor | — | 2011 |
| 71% | The Big Uneasy | Director | — | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | Spinal Tap: Back from the Dead | Actor | — | 2009 |
| 80% | Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project | Actor | — | 2008 |
| 88% | The Simpsons Movie | Scratchy/Mr. Burns/Moe/Chief Wiggum/Ned Flanders | $183.2M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | A Couple of White Chicks at the Hairdresser | Actor | — | 2007 |
| 52% | For Your Consideration | Victor Allan Miller | $5.5M | 2006 |
| 44% | Fired! | Actor | — | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Harry Shearer: Now You See It | Actor | — | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | The A.C.L.U. Freedom Files | Actor | — | 2006 |
| 37% | Chicken Little | Dog Announcer | $135.3M | 2005 |
| 79% | The Aristocrats | Actor | $6.2M | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition | Actor | — | 2004 |
| 87% | A Mighty Wind | Mark Shubb | $17.5M | 2003 |
| 0% | Teddy Bears' Picnic | Executive Producer | — | 2002 |
| 82% | Gigantic | Actor | — | 2002 |
| 60% | Haiku Tunnel | Orientation Leader | — | 2001 |
| 25% | Haunted Castle | Mr. D/Mephisto | $12.4M | 2001 |
| 71% | Dick | G. Gordon Liddy | — | 1999 |
| 73% | Encounter in the Third Dimension | the Narrator Narrator | — | 1999 |
| 64% | EDtv | Moderator | — | 1999 |
| 48% | Small Soldiers | Punch-It | — | 1998 |
| 94% | The Truman Show | Mike Michaelson | — | 1998 |
| 8% | Almost Heroes | Narrator | — | 1998 |
| 16% | Godzilla | Charles Caiman | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun | Narrator | $17.7M | 1997 |
| 73% | My Best Friend's Wedding | Jonathan P.E. Rice | — | 1997 |
| 11% | Speechless | Chuck | — | 1994 |
| 36% | Little Giants | Announcer | — | 1994 |
| 61% | I'll Do Anything | Audience Research Captain | — | 1994 |
| 61% | Wayne's World 2 | Handsome Dan | — | 1993 |
| 78% | A League of Their Own | Newsreel Announcer | — | 1992 |
| 83% | The Fisher King | Sitcom Actor Ben Starr | — | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | Blood & Concrete: A Love Story | Sammy | — | 1991 |
| 12% | Oscar | Guido | — | 1991 |
| 9% | Pure Luck | Dr. Monosoff | — | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | The Simpsons: Family Therapy | Actor | — | 1989 |
| 19% | My Stepmother Is an Alien | Carl Sagan | — | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | Portrait of a White Marriage | Actor Director | — | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | Plain Clothes | Simon Feck | — | 1988 |
| 11% | Club Paradise | Screenwriter | — | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | Flicks | Narrator | — | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | The History of White People in America | Director Actor | — | 1985 |
| 95% | This Is Spinal Tap | Derek Smalls Screenwriter | — | 1984 |
| 96% | The Right Stuff | recruiter | — | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | One-Trick Pony | Bernie Wepner | — | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | Animalympics | Keen Hacksaw | — | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | Loose Shoes | Actor | — | 1980 |
| 85% | Real Life | Screenwriter Pete | — | 1979 |
| 33% | The Robe | David | — | 1953 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 85% |
The Simpsons 1989 |
Voice |
2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 |
| No Score Yet |
Independent Lens 1999 |
Appearing |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
Charlie Rose 2013-2017 |
Guest |
2014 |
| No Score Yet |
Outnumbered 2007-2014 |
2014 |
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| No Score Yet |
Conan 2010 |
Performer |
2012 2011 |
| No Score Yet |
Real Time with Bill Maher 2003 |
Panelist Guest |
2011 2008 2007 |
| No Score Yet |
Need to Know 2010-2013 |
Guest |
2010 |
| No Score Yet |
The Graham Norton Show 2007 |
Guest |
2008 |
| No Score Yet |
Colbert Report 2005-2014 |
Guest |
2006 |
| 83% |
That's Life 2000-2002 |
Dean of Students |
2001 |
| No Score Yet |
Dawson's Creek 1998-2003 |
Principal Peskin |
2000 |
| No Score Yet |
Just Shoot Me 1997-2003 |
larry |
1999 |
| No Score Yet |
ER 1994-2009 |
John Smythe |
1997 |
| No Score Yet |
Ellen 1994-1998 |
1994 |
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| No Score Yet |
Murphy Brown 1988-2019 |
1990 |
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| No Score Yet |
The Golden Girls 1985-1992 |
Guest |
1990 |
| No Score Yet |
Miami Vice 1984-1990 |
Anderson |
1988 |
| No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live 1975 |
Performer |
1985 1984 1980 1979 |
| No Score Yet |
Laverne & Shirley 1976-1983 |
Screenwriter Announcer Interviewer Harold Tidmore Voice of Mr. Shotz |
1982 1978 1977 1976 |
| No Score Yet |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955-1962 |
Street Kid |
1957 |
| 6% |
Bob Patterson 2001 |
Dr. Tepnick |
QUOTES FROM Harry Shearer CHARACTERS
Derek Smalls says: Rock and roll!!!
Ned Flanders says: boys don't forget to thank The Lord for this valuable... (Bart slams on to window naked) PENIS!
Ned Flanders says: Boys don't forget to thank The Lord for this valuable... [Bart slams on to window naked] PENIS!
President Arnold Schwarzenegger says: It's like Christmas at the Kennedy Compound!
President Arnold Schwarzenegger says: Urgh! I hate this job. Every week is crisis this & end of the world that. Nobody comes up with a joke, I miss Danny DeVito.
President Arnold Schwarzenegger says: I was elected to lead. Not to read.
Marty DiBergi says: Do you feel that playing rock and roll music keeps you a child... that is, keeps you in a state of arrested development?
Derek Smalls says: No, no, no. I feel it's like, it's more like going, going to a national park or something, and there's... you know, they preserve the moose. And that's my childhood up there on stage is that moose, you know.
Marty DiBergi says: So when you're playing, you feel like a preserved moose onstage?
Derek Smalls says: Yeah.
President Arnold Schwarzenegger says: "I was elected to lead, not to read. Number 3!"
President Arnold Schwarzenegger says: I was elected to lead, not to read. Number 3!
Newsreel Announcer says: And how about Marla Hooch? What a hitter!
Skull says: Evil!
President Arnold Schwarzenegger says: I was elected to lead not to read.
President Arnold Schwarzenegger says: I was elected to lead, not to read.
Ned Flanders says: Homer I don't mean to be a Nervous Pervis or anything but if your boy falls wouldn't that make him a parapleg-erino?
Ned Flanders says: Uh, Homer? I don't mean to be a nervous Pervis, but if he falls, couldn't that make your boy a parapleg-erino?
Ned Flanders says: Look at that, you can see the four states that border Springfield: Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky!