Harry Shearer
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 cowrote the film Real Life 1979 with Albert Brooks and worked as a writer on Martin Mulls television series Fernwood 2 Night Shearer was a cast member on Saturday Night Live between 1979 and 1980 and 1984 and 1985 Shearer cocreated cowrote and costarred 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 comedymusic 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 singersongwriter 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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