Harry Shearer
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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
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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100% | Love & Taxes |
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$26.9k | 2017 |
48% | Mascots |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Flood Streets |
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— | 2011 |
71% | The Big Uneasy |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Spinal Tap: Back from the Dead |
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— | 2009 |
80% | Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project |
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— | 2008 |
87% | The Simpsons Movie |
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$183.2M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | A Couple of White Chicks at the Hairdresser |
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— | 2007 |
52% | For Your Consideration |
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$5.5M | 2006 |
44% | Fired! |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Harry Shearer: Now You See It |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The A.C.L.U. Freedom Files |
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— | 2006 |
36% | Chicken Little |
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$135.3M | 2005 |
79% | The Aristocrats |
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$6.2M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition |
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— | 2004 |
87% | A Mighty Wind |
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$17.5M | 2003 |
0% | Teddy Bears' Picnic |
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— | 2002 |
82% | Gigantic |
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— | 2002 |
60% | Haiku Tunnel |
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— | 2001 |
25% | Haunted Castle |
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$12.4M | 2001 |
71% | Dick |
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— | 1999 |
73% | Encounter in the Third Dimension |
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— | 1999 |
64% | EDtv |
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— | 1999 |
48% | Small Soldiers |
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— | 1998 |
95% | The Truman Show |
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— | 1998 |
8% | Almost Heroes |
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— | 1998 |
15% | Godzilla |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun |
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$17.7M | 1997 |
73% | My Best Friend's Wedding |
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— | 1997 |
11% | Speechless |
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— | 1994 |
36% | Little Giants |
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— | 1994 |
61% | I'll Do Anything |
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— | 1994 |
60% | Wayne's World 2 |
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— | 1993 |
78% | A League of Their Own |
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— | 1992 |
84% | The Fisher King |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Blood & Concrete: A Love Story |
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— | 1991 |
12% | Oscar |
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— | 1991 |
9% | Pure Luck |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | The Simpsons: Family Therapy |
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— | 1989 |
19% | My Stepmother Is an Alien |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Portrait of a White Marriage |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Plain Clothes |
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— | 1988 |
11% | Club Paradise |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Flicks |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | The History of White People in America |
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— | 1985 |
95% | This Is Spinal Tap |
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— | 1984 |
96% | The Right Stuff |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | One-Trick Pony |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Animalympics |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Loose Shoes |
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— | 1980 |
81% | Real Life |
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— | 1979 |
32% | The Robe |
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— | 1953 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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85% |
The Simpsons
1989
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No Score Yet |
Independent Lens
1999
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No Score Yet |
Charlie Rose
2013-2017
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No Score Yet |
Outnumbered
2007-2014
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No Score Yet |
Conan
2010
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No Score Yet |
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
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No Score Yet |
Need to Know
2010-2013
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No Score Yet |
The Graham Norton Show
2007
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No Score Yet |
Colbert Report
2005-2014
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83% |
That's Life
2000-2002
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No Score Yet |
Dawson's Creek
1998-2003
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No Score Yet |
Just Shoot Me
1997-2003
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No Score Yet |
ER
1994-2009
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No Score Yet |
Ellen
1994-1998
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No Score Yet |
Murphy Brown
1988-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Golden Girls
1985-1992
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72% |
Miami Vice
1984-1990
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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No Score Yet |
Laverne & Shirley
1976-1983
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No Score Yet |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
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6% |
Bob Patterson
2001
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Quotes from Harry Shearer's Characters
Derek Smalls: | Rock and roll!!! |
Ned Flanders: | boys don't forget to thank The Lord for this valuable... (Bart slams on to window naked) PENIS! |
Ned Flanders: | Boys don't forget to thank The Lord for this valuable... [Bart slams on to window naked] PENIS! |
President Arnold Schwarzenegger: | It's like Christmas at the Kennedy Compound! |
President Arnold Schwarzenegger: | 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: | I was elected to lead. Not to read. |
Marty DiBergi: | 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: | 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: | So when you're playing, you feel like a preserved moose onstage? |
Derek Smalls: | Yeah. |
President Arnold Schwarzenegger: | "I was elected to lead, not to read. Number 3!" |
President Arnold Schwarzenegger: | I was elected to lead, not to read. Number 3! |
Newsreel Announcer: | And how about Marla Hooch? What a hitter! |
Skull: | Evil! |
President Arnold Schwarzenegger: | I was elected to lead not to read. |
President Arnold Schwarzenegger: | I was elected to lead, not to read. |
Ned Flanders: | 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: | 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: | Look at that, you can see the four states that border Springfield: Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky! |