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Harry Shearer
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Biography
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. Shearer has won a Primetime Emmy Award and has received several other Emmy and Grammy Award nominations. He has been married to singer-songwriter Judith Owen since 1993. He became an artist in residence at Loyola University, New Orleans in 2013. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Shearer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable films
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The Truman Show
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The Simpsons Movie
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Right Stuff
Appears in a KinoChain journey
This Is Spinal Tap
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Chicken Little
As Dog Announcer (voice)
Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition
As Ned Flanders (voice)
My Stepmother Is an Alien
As Carl Sagan (voice)
Oscar
As Guido Finucci
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Reckless Edge - Talent as a Double-Edged Sword
Forty years after Top Gun roared into cinemas, Maverick's need for speed still feels as exhilarating as ever. But Pete Mitchell is part of a much bigger movie t...
7 films
Breaking the Frame: A Journey Through the Fourth Wall
It began with a gun, a bullet, and an audience leaping out of their seats. When Justus D. Barnes leveled his revolver at the camera in The Great Train Robbery (...
8 films
When the Cartoon Fights Back: Slapstick Meets Liability
What happens when simulated harm, comic violence, or staged ordeals crash into real-world consequences? This collection explores the unsettling borderland where...
8 films
The Camera as Weapon
From Chris Hansen's sting operations to the blood sport of nightly news, this chain traces the moral rot at the heart of spectacle.
8 films
The Long Goodbye to the Small Screen
A journey through the films that turned television's intimate glow into cinema's grand spectacle, and back again.
6 films
Unmasked: Living in the Aftermath of Exposure
The secret is out, and the thrill of anonymity is gone. This collection skips the suspense of a secret identity to focus on the unglamorous aftermath of total e...
7 films
The DVDs That Changed Everything
In the late 1990s, home video underwent a seismic shift driven by a double revolution: an unprecedented jump in technical quality, and an unprecedented access t...
10 films
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Simpsley
2026 · Seymour Skinner (voice)
Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition
2026 · Ned Flanders (voice)
Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition
2026 · Lenny Leonard (voice)
The Last Laugh
2016 · Self
The Simpsons Movie
2007 · 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)
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006 · Promo Announcer
Chicken Little
2005 · Dog Announcer (voice)
A Mighty Wind
2003 · Mark Shubb
The Truman Show
1998 · Mike Michaelson
Wayne's World 2
1993 · Handsome Dan
The Fisher King
1991 · Sitcom Actor Ben Starr
Oscar
1991 · Guido Finucci
My Stepmother Is an Alien
1988 · Carl Sagan (voice)
This Is Spinal Tap
1984 · Derek Smalls
The Right Stuff
1983 · NASA Recruiter
Animalympics
1980 · Keen Hacksaw / Mayor of Animal Olympic Island / Burnt Woody / Mark Spritz (voice)
Serpico: The Deadly Game
1976 · Hippy
