Harry Shearer
Acting
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.
TV Shows(49)
The History of Comedy
Self
2017
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
Self
2014
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Self
2014
The Kumars
Self
2014
Have You Been Paying Attention?
Panellist
2013
The Last Leg
Self
2013
Playhouse Presents
Richard Nixon
2012
Would I Lie to You?
Self
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The Colbert Report
2005
Anderson Cooper 360°
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Derek Smalls
2003
HypaSpace
Self
2002
The Agency
The President
2001
The Secret Rulers of the World
Self – Comedian
2001
The Early Show
Derek Smalls
1999
Jack & Jill
1999
Where Are They Now?
Self
1999
Dawson's Creek
Principal Peskin
1998
Style & Substance
1998
The Visitor
Louis Faraday
1997
George & Leo
1997
The View
Self
1997
Just Shoot Me!
Larry Fenwick
1997
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self
1996
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Harry (voice)
1995
Friends
Dr. Baldharar
1994
ER
John Smythe
1994
Chicago Hope
Nowhere Man
1994
Ellen
Ted Layton
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Animaniacs
Ned Flat (voice)
1993
Dinosaurs
Narrator (voice)
1991
Have I Got News for You
Self
1990
Dream On
Steve
1990
The Simpsons
Mr. Burns
1989
L.A. Law
Gordon Huyck
1986
The Golden Girls
George Bush (voice)
1985
Miami Vice
FBI Agent Timothy Anderson
1984
Jeopardy!
Self
1984
Just Friends
1979
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self
1979
Laverne & Shirley
1976
Saturday Night Live
Dr. Joseph Shuster (voice) (uncredited)
1975
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Street Kid
1955
General Electric Theater
Timmy
1953
Omnibus
Johnny
1952
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Self - Panellist
Movies(111)
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
Derek Smalls
2025
The Session Man
Self
2025
From Darkness to Light
Self
2025
The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful
Mr. Burns (voice)
2024
A Taste of Heaven: The Ecstatic Song & Gospel of Maestro Raymond Anthony Myles
2023
The Simpsons | Balenciaga
2021
Easy Does It
'Breezy' Bob Mckee (voice)
2020
Joe Frank: Somewhere Out There
Self
2019
Satan & Adam
Self
2018
Father Figures
Gene
2017
Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson
Jebediah Springfield / Lenny Leonard / Mr. Burns (voice)
2017
XTC: This Is Pop
Self
2017
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
Self
2016
Mascots
Competition Announcer (voice)
2016
The Last Laugh
Self
2016
The Clown
Self
2016
Love & Taxes
Sean Boykin/Agent
2015
Pay Up Cheaters: The Story of the Beat Farmers
Self
2012
Flood Streets
Dr. Keeley
2011
Unwigged & Unplugged: An Evening with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer
Self
2009
Stonehenge: 'Tis a Magic Place
Derek Smalls
2009
Spinal Tap: Back from the Dead
Derek Smalls
2009
My Suicide
Caress Moscowitz
2009
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self
2007
A Couple of White Chicks at the Hairdresser
Marc Gavin
2007
The Simpsons Movie
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)
2007
Fired!
Self
2007
What the Pythons Did Next...
Self
2007
For Your Consideration
Victor Allan Miller
2006
Comedy Club Shoot-out: Vol. 1
Self
2006
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Promo Announcer
2006
Chicken Little
Dog Announcer (voice)
2005
The Aristocrats
Self
2005
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
Self
2005
The Simpsons: Christmas 2
2004
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition
Derek Smalls
2004
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
Mr. Burns / Smithers / Ned Flanders / Kang / Skinner (voice)
2003
The Simpsons: Christmas
(archive footage)
2003
Realizing The Right Stuff
Self
2003
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
Self
2003
A Mighty Wind
Mark Shubb
2003
Teddy Bears' Picnic
Joey Lavin
2001
Haunted Castle
Mr. D / Mephisto (voice)
2001
Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big
The General (voice)
2000
CyberWorld
Ned Flanders / Dr. Julius Hibbert / Rev. Timothy Lovejoy (voice)
2000
Catching Up with Marty DiBergi
Derek Smalls
2000
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Voice of Scratchy (voice) (archive footage)
1999
Dick
G. Gordon Liddy
1999
Encounter in the Third Dimension
Narrator (voice)
1999
EDtv
Moderator
1999
The Simpsons: Too Hot For TV
1999
Small Soldiers
Punch-It (voice)
1998
The Truman Show
Mike Michaelson
1998
Almost Heroes
Narrator (voice)
1998
Godzilla
Charles Caiman
1998
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
Mike Michaelson
1998
Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun
Narrator
1997
My Best Friend's Wedding
Jonathan P.E. Rice
1997
Casper
Radio announcer (uncredited)
1995
The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show
Mr. Blackwell
1995
Speechless
Chuck
1994
Little Giants
Announcer
1994
I'll Do Anything
Audience Research Captain
1994
Wayne's World 2
Handsome Dan
1993
A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out
Derek Smalls / Mark Shubb
1992
Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica
Derek Smalls
1992
A League of Their Own
Newsreel Announcer
1992
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
Fairy #3 (voice)
1992
Amnesty International's Big 30
Derek Smalls
1991
The Fisher King
Sitcom Actor Ben Starr
1991
Blood and Concrete
Sammy Rhodes
1991
Pure Luck
Julius Monosoff
1991
Oscar
Guido Finucci
1991
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
Hometown Boy Makes Good
Radio Announcer (voice)
1990
The Jackie Bison Show
(voice)
1990
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
Self
1990
My Stepmother Is an Alien
Carl Sagan (voice)
1988
Portrait of a White Marriage
Al Silvers
1988
Spitting Image: The Ronnie & Nancy Show
Johnny Carson (Voice)
1988
Plain Clothes
Simon Feck
1988
Martin Mull Live from North Ridgeville, Ohio
Robin Leach / Ronald Reagan / Nancy Reagan (voices)
1987
Spitting Image: The 1987 Movie Awards
Various Roles
1987
Down and Out with Donald Duck
Additional Voices (voice)
1987
Spitting Image: Down And Out In The White House
Various Roles
1986
The Hear 'n Aid Sessions
Derek Smalls [Spinal Tap]
1986
The History of White People in America: Volume II
Rabbi
1986
The History of White People in America
Rabbi
1985
This Is Spinal Tap
Derek Smalls
1984
The Right Stuff
NASA Recruiter
1983
Flicks
Narrator / Voice of Philip Alien / Voice of George Blik (voice)
1983
The Million Dollar Infield
Jack Savage
1982
Spinal Tap: The Final Tour
Derek Smalls
1981
Likely Stories Vol. 1
1981
One Trick Pony
Bernie Wepner
1980
Animalympics
Keen Hacksaw / Mayor of Animal Olympic Island / Burnt Woody / Mark Spritz (voice)
1980
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Murray Sports
1979
The Concorde... Airport '79
Jeffrey Marx
1979
The Chevy Chase National Humor Test
1979
Real Life
Pete - Cameraman / Radio Announcer
1979
Loose Shoes
Narrator (voice)
1978
American Raspberry
Trucker's Friend
1977
Cracking Up
1977
Serpico: The Deadly Game
Hippy
1976
Sick
Dr. Jerry Shuster
1975
Jaws
Crowd Voices (uncredited)
1975
The Egyptian
Boy
1954
The Robe
David (uncredited)
1953
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Second Boy (uncredited)
1953
You Don't Know Dick: The Comedy Mind of Richard M. Nixon
Spinal Tap at Stonehenge: The Final Finale
Derek Smalls