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

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
100%	Love & Taxes	Actor	$26.9k	2017
48%	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
87%	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
36%	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
88%	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 NarratorNarrator	—	1999
64%	EDtv	Moderator	—	1999
48%	Small Soldiers	Punch-It	—	1998
95%	The Truman Show	Mike Michaelson	—	1998
8%	Almost Heroes	Narrator	—	1998
15%	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
80%	A League of Their Own	Newsreel Announcer	—	1992
84%	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
21%	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	—	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
81%	Real Life	Screenwriter Pete	—	1979
38%	The Robe	David	—	1953

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
85%	The Simpsons 1989	Dr. Hibbert Birch Barlow Reverend Lovejoy C. Montgomery Burns Kent Brockman Ned Flanders Principal Skinner Smithers Kang Lenny Leonard/Mr. Burns/Waylon Smithers/ George Bush Waylon Smithers Voice	2022 2021 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	Actor	2014
No Score Yet	Conan 2010-2021	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 2000
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	Actor	1994
No Score Yet	Murphy Brown 1988-2019	Actor	1990
No Score Yet	The Golden Girls 1985-1992	Guest	1990
71%	Miami Vice 1984-1990	Anderson	1988
No Score Yet	Saturday Night Live 1975	Performer Actor	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	The Bob Newhart Show 1972-1978	Voice	1972
No Score Yet	Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955-1962	Street Kid	1957
6%	Bob Patterson 2001	Dr. Tepnick

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!