Harry Shearer
Birthday: 23 December 1943, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name: Harry Julius Shearer
Height: 169 cm
Harry Shearer was born in 1943 in Los Angeles, California. His film debut was with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953), followed by The Robe (1953). Probably best know ...Show More
[criticizing the decline in quality of The Simpsons (1989)] I rate the last three seasons as among t Show more
[criticizing the decline in quality of The Simpsons (1989)] I rate the last three seasons as among the worst, so Season 4 looks very good to me now. Hide
I write about broadcast indecency with something of a pedigree. Although it's not widely known - sin Show more
I write about broadcast indecency with something of a pedigree. Although it's not widely known - since the comedy group I was part of was not widely known - I was party to the first broadcast utterance of the word 'twat.' Hide
[on which character in The Simpsons (1989) is hardest to voice] Burns requires lots of tea and honey Show more
[on which character in The Simpsons (1989) is hardest to voice] Burns requires lots of tea and honey. Hide
I have to say about [The Simpsons]: Something that I've learned from my six years of psychoanalysis, Show more
I have to say about [The Simpsons]: Something that I've learned from my six years of psychoanalysis, which is one mark of adulthood is that you can hold two conflicting emotions about the same thing at the same time, two things can be true at the same time. So it is true that, as an actor on an insanely successful TV series, I am, by any standard of the human species, obscenely overpaid. It is also true that, as an actor on one of the most insanely successful television series of all time, I am getting royally screwed. Both things are true! [...] It's nobody's fault, it's what happens when you think you know what you want and you are determined to get it. Hide
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer's FILMOGRAPHY
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Harry Shearer'S roles
Dewey Largo
Carl Sagan
Jonathan P.F. Ritt
President George H.W. Bush
Captain Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach
Derek Smalls
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